BUCS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

BUCS

4.8

(13)

Pricing

Starting at $4,000.00 one time

About BUCS

The BUCS, Budgetary Control System is a fully integrated, True Fund Based Accounting System designed to meet the specialized needs of government, nonprofit, and utility operations. The BUCS system is an easy-to-use system, that simplifies your everyday task, streamlines processes, and provides control, insight, and security that helps save you time and money—all backed by a level of service you can depend on.

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BUCS Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $4,000.00 one time

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$4,000.00

per feature, one time

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BUCS Features

Popular features found in Fund Accounting
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Bank Reconciliation
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Expense Tracking
Financial Reporting
Income & Balance Sheet
Partnership Accounting
Payroll Management
Real-Time Reporting
More features of BUCS
Activity Tracking
API
Audit Trail
Cash Management
Check Printing
Compliance Management
CRM
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Electronic Payments
Financial Analysis
Financial Management
Fixed Asset Management
General Ledger
Inventory Tracking
Invoice Management
Purchasing & Receiving
Real-Time Data
Receipt Management
Reporting & Statistics
Third-Party Integrations

BUCS User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

85%

15%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.7

Have you used BUCS and would like to share your experience with others?

Aaron J. K.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

Great for Mid to Large Governments

Overall, BUCS is a great software for mid-large sized governmental units. It is very user friendly, adaptable and has many features and modules to make work easier.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of setting vendors up to the ease of paying vendors via A/P. This software is very user friendly. I can be at times, difficult to navigate or find something that you want. But overall this is a great software!

Cons:

There are no base reports, everything is customized by the user. So you could potentially be missing something in your report if it wasn't built correctly or if you missed a step when making the report. Reports can be difficult to create.

Sandra T.

Verified reviewer

Human Resources

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

Highly Recommended and User Friendly

Overall, I do love using this system in conjunction with CHIPS. I believe it was a smart move on behalf of our company to invest in these programs. If there are ever any problems or concerns, they have some the friendliest staff to assist in a timely manner. This is by far my favorite software to work with out of any job I've ever had in the past.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

BUCS has been a life saver for doing Accounts Payable, Inventory, and Human Resources. I use this product regularly and don't know why everyone hasn't gone to this system. It is multipurpose and helps with keeping up with inventory, payments, and is user friendly for corrections as well. I also love that you can work in CHIPS and BUCS at the same time as well as have other programs pulled up and sometimes I will have Word, Excel, and the internet opened but it doesn't affect them from running efficiently.

Cons:

I don't like the limitation on users. We can have several people that need to be working in the system at the same time and it will lock us out and state that it has reached its maximum number of users. Then we all have to exit out and call in for a reset. It can take up valuable time to have to deal with this.

Ramona W.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

BUCS

Time management and ease with entries related to General Ledger Accounting were the biggest and most notable advantages. Once other modules purchased and again, the interface capability of the 3 we use. They all "talk" to each other!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We had purchased BUCS prior to a major flood event, in which we had to rebuild our entire General Ledger data. It was the first of three modules we purchased. After the flood, it took another clerk and myself 6 months to reconstruct the data. Once complete, it was very easy to use, saved so much time in data-entry and duplication of entries. Very user friendly. Streamlined the work load tremendously. Always learning something new.

Cons:

Just the nervousness of something new! Change!

Reasons for choosing BUCS

The program we had previous to the flood was a DOS program written by the IT person at the time. We needed to bring our GL into auditing compliances and streamline the accounting practices. User since 1998!

Shelley W.

Verified reviewer

Utilities

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2021

BUCS Review

My overall experience with BUCS has been excellent.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I like most about this software is how it works with CUBIC and CHIPS. I perform a lot accounting aspects for my job and this software makes it so easy to find just about anything and balance our books.

Cons:

The only thing I dislike with BUCS is where we do our occupational licenses. I believe the only reason though is because I haven't had the opportunity to do much work with these and I'm unclear on all of the steps.

Angie R.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

BUCS SYSTEM REVIEW

N/A

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the overall ease of maneuvering through loading invoices to printing checks and balancing bank reconciliations. Loading and keeping track of vendors and printing 1099's is also easy to use.

Cons:

I feel some of the reporting could be better and easier to use. It has been confusing for some of our other departments when running expense and revenue reports and getting different amounts using debits and credits verses expenses and revenues.

Yvonne G.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

BUCS Software

BUCS has been wonderful to work with, I first used it in Balcones Heights

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is very user friendly and inexpensive compared to a lot of softwares

Cons:

The add on's are so expensive, which more of the common ones were included.

Reasons for switching to BUCS

Horrible sofware

Cindi H.

Verified reviewer

Libraries

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

BUCS Review

This software works well for our needs. We are small, so this works for us.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is easy to use and easy to learn. The support team is awesome! I do wish they would go back to having annual conferences again.

Cons:

Some fields don't allow the needed characters at times. Have to use Caps when searching vendors.

Reasons for choosing BUCS

I was not working here when BUCS was considered or purchased, so I can't answer these questions.

Angie C.

Verified reviewer

Utilities

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

Great software, easy to use!

Easy to convert, easy to use, customer service will customize reports to suit your needs!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use & understanding. Customer service will customize reports for you!

Cons:

There are some changes I would like to make for vendors that like to get paid via ACH--but it is more of a personal preference, nothing that hinders getting the job done.

Reasons for choosing BUCS

Other products didn't seem to be as advanced as what we were looking for.

Julie L.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

Easy

Great people, easy to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very easy to use. I like how easy it is to print checks.

Cons:

Wish you did not have to purchase each module separately. The reports should be easier to create. It is very DOS like and I feel it could be simpler to make reports the way you want them.

Reasons for switching to BUCS

Was prior to my arrival

Gwen B.

Verified reviewer

Utilities

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed March 2021

I love Bucs it keeps up with everything that I do. Any report that I need it is avalable to print.T

The benefits with using Bucs is everything you do is stored in the system and it can be retrived.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The features in Buc are easy there and very easy to find. The program is very easy to use even for a new customer who is just starting out with the program.

Cons:

I have nothing that I don't like about Bucs.

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