--- description: Review of Limelight Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Limelight | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Charity Accounting Software](/directory/415/accounting-software/software) > [Limelight](/software/402471/limelight) # Limelight Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/402471/limelight Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/402471/limelight?page=2) > Many FP\&A tools claim to replace spreadsheet chaos but still require your team to work inside Excel. That means you are still managing files, add-ins, broken links, conflicting versions, and manual consolidations. Limelight is different. It is a modern, Excel-free FP\&A platform built for finance teams that want faster planning, clearer reporting, and better answers. You keep what people like about Excel: familiar formulas, flexible models, and an intuitive grid. But everything runs from connected, controlled data in one cloud platform. Connect your accounting data Limelight connects with leading accounting systems and ERPs, including Sage Intacct, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365, QuickBooks Online, Blackbaud, Epicor, and more. Actuals flow directly into Limelight. Your team spends less time exporting, cleaning, uploading, and reconciling data before the real work can begin. Build budgets and forecasts faster Create annual budgets, rolling forecasts, long-range plans, and what-if scenarios around how your organization operates. Plan revenue, operating expenses, cash flow, capital expenditures, allocations, and key business drivers across entities, departments, locations, projects, products, or grants. Change one assumption and see the impact across every connected model and report. No rebuilding spreadsheets. No updating the same number in multiple places. Plan your workforce in detail Model headcount and compensation by employee, role, department, entity, or location. Plan salaries, benefits, bonuses, payroll taxes, vacancies, transfers, and future hires. Every workforce change flows into the financial plan, helping finance and business leaders understand the full cost before making a decision. Turn data into answers Create financial statements, management reports, dashboards, and variance analysis using the same connected data behind your plans. Compare actuals against budgets and forecasts. Filter results instantly. Drill into the details behind every number. Reports stay current as your actuals and plans change. Create board-ready Narrative Reporting Bring financial tables, charts, commentary, and supporting information together in one board-ready report. Narrative Reporting stays connected to your financial data, so finance can share management and board packages in real-time. Use AI to analyze faster Limelight’s embedded AI helps finance identify trends, surface anomalies, create narrative commentary, and find relevant answers within the platform. Why choose Excel-free FP\&A? Excel is a useful analysis tool. But it was never designed to run budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, reporting, and collaboration across an entire organization. Limelight gives you the flexibility finance values in Excel without making Excel the operating system for FP\&A. The result is simple: faster plans, fewer errors, current reporting, stronger collaboration, and more time for finance to help the business make better decisions. > > Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 38 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 38 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Limelight Software - **Location**: Toronto, Canada - **Founded**: 2011 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate - **Pricing Details**: Why pay for more complexity—or get charged every time your team grows? Limelight offers two simple plans designed to deliver value now and scale with you later. Starter Everything a growing finance team needs to budget, forecast, plan headcount, report, and analyze performance. Includes all core FP\&A capabilities for up to five users. Unlimited Bring Finance, budget owners, report users, department leaders, and executives into one connected platform. No per-user limits. No rising software bill every time adoption grows. Start with the right-sized plan. Scale when you are ready. Never compromise on capability. - **Target Audience**: 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Chromebook (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Canada, United States ## Features - "What If" Scenarios - AI - AI Copilot - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Accounting - Accounting Integration - Activity Dashboard - Ad hoc Reporting - Adjustments - Alerts/Notifications - Asset Lifecycle Management - Audit Trail - Bank Reconciliation - Billing & Invoicing - Budget Hierarchies - Budget Periods - Budgeting - Budgeting/Forecasting - Cash Flow Management ## Integrations (13 total) - Acumatica Cloud ERP - Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT - Dynamics 365 - Dynamics 365 Business Central - Epicor Industry ERP Cloud - NetSuite - Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP - PLEX - QuickBooks Online - Sage 100 - Sage 500 - Sage Intacct - Sage X3 ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Charity Accounting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/415/accounting-software/software) ## Related Categories - [Charity Accounting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/415/accounting-software/software) - [Accounting Software for Small Business](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/506/small-business/software) - [Business Budgeting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/265/budgeting-forecasting-software/software) - [Financial Reporting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1904/financial-reporting/software) - [Enterprise Accounting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4001/enterprise/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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They are truly a partner that listened and executed well to fulfill our vision. > > **Cons**: There are only minor enhancements that we would like for the software however, the limelight team listened well and already have those improvements in the roadmap in the very near future. > > Limelight has been a tremendous partner that we are extremely grateful for. They listen, execute and advise on best practices to fulfill our reporting needs and goals. ----- ### "Excellent Customer Service" — 5.0/5 > **Sarah** | *27 March 2025* | Sports | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The customer service has been great, and the ease of use of the product. > > **Cons**: Initially it ran extremely slow, but it's been resolved\! > > We've had a very positive experience through the implementation and use of Limelight. Any time we have questions or need an update, they are always there to help. ----- ### "FlightAware" — 3.0/5 > **Eric** | *16 January 2023* | Airlines/Aviation | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: The data import from our ERP and timely and accurate, and the reports generated for financial statements and internal reporting are critical to our monthly financial review. > > **Cons**: Report building is a little complicated, but the trade-off is the support staff is very responsive in helping you trouble shoot your report building problems. > > Unfortunately our business needs changed during implementation due to acquisition but we were able to adjust during implementation to suit our new FP\&A needs from our parent company. ----- ### "Excellent and Flexible Tool" — 5.0/5 > **Sami** | *12 January 2023* | Media Production | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The automatic import of data from our accounting system is invaluable for reducing work and human error. The flexibility of this software for building reports has helped us automate much of the manual reporting we were doing. > > **Cons**: For more complex reports, the load time can be slow, especially if you have a lot of people in the system. > > While our implementation had been a bit rocky, I have been very pleased with Limelight since they. They continue to add features to the product and make it more valuable. Their customer service has been very responsive any time I do have an issue. Our \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] also loves being able to see the reporting by just logging in. ----- ### "A big upgrade" — 4.0/5 > **Jason** | *25 May 2021* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The workforce planning tool has been the biggest improvement to our processes, providing insights and projection accuracy that we didn't have previously. We're able to get both employee counts and paid time historically as well as projected values through our projection period. > > **Cons**: While the workforce planning module has been the most useful tool to us, it's also been the most challenging to set up and run. This was a new process for us, and we have 35+ end-users in limelight. Most of our challenges have been creating an environment with intentionally limited input options so users don't "break" the calcs. Limelight's support team has been very responsive, even after go-live implementation, in helping solve our data input and template challenges. One other item that has been a blessing and a challenge is the report books function. While this has been improving even in the first 6 months since implementation, the process for setting up a report book, identifying errors when the book fails, and outputs to excel are still a little challenging, and not as user friendly as much as the rest of the system. This is an area where I can see opportunities for big future improvements. > > As our single largest expense item, workforce planning is critical. Limelight has helped us gain more accurate projection capabilities into our workforce, utilizing employee-specific data, linked with actual payroll data (from ADP) and the ability to see historical paid hours and project specific hours by employee into the future. Often our prior projections involved carrying forward current month actuals, maybe including new hires we knew about, but often inaccurate. 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