Buying process
BlackLine is sold through a sales process with pricing quoted per customer. Reconciles has three published plans, Starter, Growth and Scale, bought in your account by card.
BlackLine alternative for teams that want to start today
Reconciles is a BlackLine alternative for finance teams that need reconciliation without an enterprise buying process. BlackLine is a full close and reconciliation platform sold through sales with quote-based pricing and implementation projects. Reconciles is self-serve, with published prices, and shows real matches from your own files within minutes.
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An honest look at BlackLine and Reconciles
BlackLine is an established enterprise platform for financial close and account reconciliation. It is bought through a sales process, priced by quote and usually rolled out as an implementation project with configuration and onboarding. For large organisations that want one suite to run the whole close, that model makes sense.
Reconciles takes a different path. It focuses on the matching work itself: bank lines, processor payouts, marketplace settlements and invoices against your ledger. You upload two files, see the result and choose a plan on the pricing page. There is no quote to wait for and no project to plan.
We do not list BlackLine features here because we cannot verify every detail of their product and packaging. If you are evaluating both, ask BlackLine directly for their current scope and pricing, and try Reconciles on your own files.
How buying and starting differ
Time to first result
With an enterprise implementation, the first reconciliation follows configuration and onboarding. With Reconciles, you drop a bank statement and a second file on the home page and see matched pairs in minutes, before you create an account.
Setup
Reconciles needs no implementation project. You save matching rules as you go, connect sources on your plan and invite your team when you are ready.
Contract
Reconciles plans are monthly or yearly. Yearly costs 50% less, and you can cancel from the billing page at any time.
Reconciles vs BlackLine vs spreadsheets
The table sums up the buying and setup differences described on this page. For the current scope and pricing of BlackLine, ask BlackLine directly.
| Reconciles | BlackLine | Spreadsheets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you buy | Self-serve, bought in your account by card | Through a sales process | Already on your computer |
| Price | Three published plans, from $74 per month billed yearly | Quoted per customer | No licence, paid in staff hours |
| First result | Matched pairs from your own files in minutes | After configuration and onboarding | As fast as someone matches by hand |
| Setup | No implementation project, rules saved as you go | Implementation project | Formulas and lookups built by hand |
| Scope | Reconciliation and the exceptions work around it | Full close and reconciliation platform | Whatever the workbook owner builds |
| Reason for each match | A match reason and a confidence score on every pair | Ask BlackLine for current scope | Notes typed by hand |
| Contract | Monthly or yearly, cancel from the billing page | Ask BlackLine for current terms | None |
When BlackLine is the better fit
We would rather you choose the right tool than the wrong one. BlackLine is likely the better choice if:
- You are a large enterprise that wants one suite to manage the full close, not only reconciliation.
- You need close task management, certification workflows and close calendars across many departments and regions in one platform.
- Your company prefers a vendor that runs a formal implementation and long-term account management.
- Your volume and number of entities go well beyond what the Scale plan covers.
When Reconciles is the better fit
- You are a finance team at a company with tens to hundreds of employees, an ecommerce brand, a platform or an accounting firm.
- Your close stalls on matching: payouts net of fees, partial payments, duplicates and multi-currency lines.
- You want to start this month, not after a buying cycle.
- You want to see prices before anyone asks for your phone number.
- You need clear reasons for every match so your accountant reviews instead of redoing.
If that sounds like you, read how automated reconciliation works and the reconciliation software for controllers page.
What Reconciles does as a BlackLine alternative
- Matching for bank vs ledger, processor payouts, marketplace settlements and invoices, see bank reconciliation software.
- One to many and many to one groups, tolerances on amount and date, fee and currency awareness.
- AI suggestions for unclear pairs, each with a reason and a confidence score.
- An exceptions queue sorted into unmatched, partial, duplicate, amount difference and date difference, with assignment, comments, approvals and an audit log on Scale.
- Exports of the reconciliation report in XLSX and PDF and journal entries for QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite.
- SSO (SAML), SCIM, data residency in the US or the EU and a security questionnaire pack on Scale, see security.
- Integrations with the systems you already use, listed on the integrations page.
Published prices instead of a quote
Starter costs $74 per month billed yearly or $149 monthly. Growth costs $199 per month billed yearly or $399 monthly. Scale costs $499 per month billed yearly or $999 monthly, and includes 60 accounts, 100,000 transactions matched per month and 25 entities. Every plan is self-serve. The full comparison is on the pricing page.
BlackLine alternative questions
Not for every company. Reconciles covers reconciliation and the exceptions work around it. Companies that need a complete close management suite across a large enterprise are better served by a platform built for that.
Yes. Most teams start with the exports they already use for their spreadsheets: a bank statement and a ledger, invoice or payout file.
No. Every plan, including Scale, is bought and set up in your account. Questions go to [email protected].
See your own matches first
Upload a bank statement and a second file. Judge Reconciles on your data before you compare anything else.