OpenGov Budgeting & Planning 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

OpenGov Budgeting & Planning

4.6

(21)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About OpenGov Budgeting & Planning

OpenGov Cloud is cloud-based budgeting and planning software for governments and schools. It is designed for finance teams, budget analysts, and department heads who need an easy way to build and share digital budgets.

The software offers key features like collaborative budgeting, capital planning, online budget book publication, and workforce calculations. Users can create budgets together in real-time, plan and track multi-year capital projects, automatically generate and publish digital budget books, and calculate the costs and funding sources for personnel.

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OpenGov Budgeting & Planning Pricing and Plans

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OpenGov Budgeting & Planning Features

Popular features found in Budgeting
Cash Management
Chart of Accounts
Consolidation/Roll-Up
Forecasting
General Ledger
Income & Balance Sheet
Multi-Company
Multi-Department/Project
Profit/Loss Statement
Strategic Planning
More features of OpenGov Budgeting & Planning
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
API
Budgeting/Forecasting
Customizable Fields
Customizable Forms
Data Visualization
Financial Management
For Government
Process/Workflow Automation
Real-Time Updates
Reporting & Statistics
Self Service Portal
Task Management
Third-Party Integrations
Utility Billing

OpenGov Budgeting & Planning User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

57%

43%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.4

Cheri b.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

OpenGov User experience

So far it has been good. We try to use it as efficiently as possible!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Proposals, entry for budget. Workforce planning has been helpful this year

Cons:

Not having the ability to enter data in various formats… having to go into worksheets. Not having the ability to create scenarios and add to the budget that way

Reasons for choosing OpenGov Budgeting & Planning

The availability of modules and cost associated to B&P

Vendor Response

Thank you for being an OpenGov customer, Cheri! We really appreciate you sharing your experience with others and providing feedback on what could be improved. Fortunately, we are currently developing Workflow capabilities that will address the need to go into worksheets and build scenarios. Be on the lookout for our first Workflow release on 3/31/2025. While it won’t address all of your needs, it will enable you to build your budget process and calendar directly into your software. Please keep the feedback coming through your Customer Support Manager—we look forward to continuing to support your important work!

Replied March 2025

Merrell B.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

201-500 employees

Used other for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2021

Rock solid implementation methodology sets OpenGov apart!

OpenGov's project team and the product itself enabled the City budget to easily move to the 21st century. In addition, with their help the City was able to get the 2021 budget done in record time with high user acceptance from department heads. The project team also was careful to explore many of the other compelling features of OpenGov, even if deploying those will come in this year. Specifically, Open Town Hall, Stories and the Transparency Portal are compelling for engaging constituents and building trust with citizens.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The City uses Tyler Incode as its financial system of record but needed a robust budgeting tool that Tyler lacked and wanted to move away from labor-intensive spreadsheets. Being able to easily extract datasets from Tyler was key to project success. In a small City with tight resource constraints, launching a new tool in the midst of the pandemic might have been somewhat risky. I have worked in Tier 1 ERP software and related reporting tools for many years as an implementation consultant. Comparing project methodologies, OpenGov has a superior model. Week by week, our team of three easily stepped through product overview, training, then data extraction from Tyler, then building our own datasets for budgets. OpenGov optimized our time and got the job done on schedule.

Cons:

Initially, the standard reports in Budgeting & Planning were a little limited in scope, but OpenGov is clearly aggressive at pushing out new features. Their "NextGen" report tool came out early on in our project and has been a huge improvement.

Reasons for choosing OpenGov Budgeting & Planning

Budgeting & Planning module was the prime reason OpenGov was chosen. The City team had prior (indirect) experience with OpenGov at a County level and was comfortable selecting it based on past experience and then-current features. The OpenGov team had resources that knew Tyler Incode; without that, getting the Budgeting & PLanning module would have been much a more complex and drawn out process. It's exciting to see that OpenGov is expanding its feature set and going toe to toe with legacy municipal finance vendors like Tyler. As both vendors try to be all things to all people, the competition will benefit users. Judging from our experience, the project methodology that OpenGov offers may turn out to be a deciding factor as full-featured financial and reporting suites become the norm.

Mike R.

Government Administration

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

once navigated system easily performs.

ability to assemble multiple general ledger accounts easily.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

support group very helpful and software meshes well with our financial system providing instant visual of various funds and general ledger accounts--by department.. allows great tool for forecasting and budget implementation.

Cons:

some areas are difficult to navigate --you have to make some assumptions not mentioned in the instruction manual. the instruction manual too generic --does not present details for navigating that persons assigned to users end up having to contact support group for answers.

Amy R.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Local Government Use

Worked well for communicating budget information to Finance Commissioners and provides easy access to the public. Looking to use more of the functionality to stream line monthly dashboards for management review.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

OpenGov is very easy to use and is versatile. Users can easily view data in various graphical formats, drill down into and see more detail, download the data and more. It makes communicating large amounts of data fast and easy.

Cons:

Possibility for some users to misinterpret the data. This can be mitigated with dashboards and saved reports. A few times we have ran into glitches where updates don't load properly or chart of account changes don't save and had to rely on customer support which we have found to be very responsive and helpful.

Reasons for choosing OpenGov Budgeting & Planning

Ease of use and simplicity and the cost to implement and maintain was less

Kim M.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2023

Revolutionized our Budget Process

OpenGov has revolutionized our budget and reporting process. I could not have imagined how it would set the tone of our entire budget process. The entire agency has adapted to it from budget development, implementation to reporting. I often think about how I could not imagine the budget process without OpenGov, especially during the time of the pandemic. For a small budget office like ours, OpenGov is like having an extra member of the team!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There is an ease of use with the product that extends from those who use it only once per year to those who use it on a daily basis. It is always amazing to see how quickly people adapt to using the software. Additionally, the customer service is the best I have seen in over 35 years working in local government budget and administration. I know that whenever there is a question or issue, OpenGov will be there to help support and problem-solve.

Cons:

OpenGov is always improving on its products and implementing new features. Many times, they move ahead with improvements faster than we can keep up! As a result, there are many new features that I have not had time to experiment with, but I know as time permits, I can delve into them and implement on our time schedule.

Stephanie D.

Verified reviewer

Civic & Social Organization

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

OpenGov Suite review

This platform provides us with a way to provide information to the public in a unified and seamless way.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use and flexibility to customize the appearance and functionality of the dashboards is the biggest pro of this platform. We have a significant number of performance measures plus additional initiatives, and creating a seamless, integrated design to make it easy for people to move through the different measures and data. Open Gov has helped us figure out how to create some navigation that allows us to provide that level of usability without having to design a separate website.

Cons:

The main challenge we have is limitations on the ways we can visualize performance measures where the goal is to be less than something. OpenGov has been helpful for figuring out options and letting us know their road map for when new visualizations might become available

Chuck B.

Government Administration

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

We have used OpenGov for financial transparency purposes and the experience was very positive.

The time saved and the overall ease of producing information are major benefits from using OpenGov.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to track requests and also the ability to put the budget book together were two very positive attributes about the budgeting software. Ease of use and familiarity with there products was a huge deciding factor.

Cons:

Sometimes the transfer of data process has been challenging. Going from our ERP solution to the OpenGov platform has been tricky at times and required assistance from support.

Klarryse M.

Government Administration

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

This has been the best, most time-saving purchase for us! Customer service is outstanding!

Time, time, time!!! This has been such a time saver for our Finance staff AND for all of our department heads. We have not had one negative review from anyone involved in the budget process.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Love the efficiency of collaboration among all of our department heads. Love that we can access from the cloud so we don't have to be in the office to review the budgets or answer questions from our governing board. Also like the export feature & customizing reports. Can't wait to really delve into more of the nuts & bolts after our budget is adopted. I feel we have only just scratched the surface of what it can do for us.

Cons:

We are new users, but still need to train on when we add new codes in our finance system, how to get them into OpenGov. Wish it was automatically done, but we understand that it needs to be set up & linked properly. So I guess that isn't really a con. It is more of a training issue on our part. And all we need to do is reach out to customer support or review the great training videos, & they will get us trained up! So I really can't think of any cons!

Lauren K.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Making Budgeting Easier

I have used budget builder, book creation through Workiva. Our City has dashboards, reporting, workforce, and stories but we have not used them yet.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the fact that users can make changes on their own, view their historical data, and use dashboards for analysis while submitting their budget.

Cons:

Right now, the process for users is too absolute. I know that OG is working toward a more granular access listing, but we have not benefited from that as of yet. Right now there are only admin & user.

Kiara J.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used other for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Going from Excel to the Cloud

The customer service has to be the most impressing. From training our staff, to always answering emails with assistance, we have truly appreciated the level of service.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We were using excel workbooks to get Depts to submit their budgets and for our review. This took away from employee moral. We spent nights and weekends combining excel submissions whereas OpenGov has everything in one place.

Cons:

The implementation process had a few still gaps like the PCF that discouraged us a little but of course, OpenGov heard our cries.

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