Limelight 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Limelight

4.5

(38)

Pricing

Starting at $999.00 per month

About Limelight

Limelight is cloud FP&A software for finance teams to drive growth, agility and every critical decision their business makes.

Hundreds of CFOs across North America use Limelight to uncover the insights and models that lead to successful business plans - and greater influence, respect and recognition for their finance function.

For their finance teams, Limelight puts an end to struggling with spreadsheets and stereotypes. Replacing manual data collection with engaging work that impacts their business future. To deliver budgets and reports 75% faster with 100% accuracy.

We’re proud to serve leaders in sectors including not-for-profit, healthcare, higher education and manufacturing. Companies running on Sage Intacct, NetSuite and Microsoft Dynamics. And the most satisfied customers in the business.

Like most modern FP&A software, Limelight automates finance workflows and integrates with ERP and data sources. Our SOC compliance and controls deliver audit-ready transparency. With reporting and analytics to get the right insights to the right decision makers at the right time.

What really makes Limelight stand out are our:

• Measurable Ease of Use: software your users will learn in...

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Limelight Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $999.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Starter Plan

$999.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

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Limelight Features

Popular features found in Accounting
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Expense Tracking
Fund Accounting
Income & Balance Sheet
Multi-Currency
Payroll Management
Project Accounting
Purchase Order Management
Tax Management
More features of Limelight
Access Controls/Permissions
Accounting
Accounting Integration
Activity Dashboard
Activity Planning
Activity Tracking
Ad hoc Reporting
Alerts/Notifications
API
Asset Lifecycle Management
Audit Trail
Benchmarking
Cash Flow Management
Cash Management
Charting
Chart of Accounts
Collaboration Tools
Commenting/Notes
Configurable Workflow
Consolidation/Roll-Up
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Dashboard Creation
Data Extraction
Data Import/Export
Data Integration
Data Management
Data Visualization
Drag & Drop
Dynamic Modeling
Expense Management
Financial Analysis
Financial Management
Financial Reporting
Forecasting
For Investors & Traders
For Nonprofits
General Ledger
Goal Setting/Tracking
Grant Management
Graphical Data Presentation
Key Performance Indicators
KPI Monitoring
Mobile Access
Modeling & Simulation
Multi-Company
Multi-Department/Project
Multi-Location
Performance Management
Performance Metrics
Planning Tools
Predictive Analytics
Profit/Loss Statement
Progress Tracking
Projections
Project Management
Project Planning
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Sales Forecasting
Sales Reports
Sales Trend Analysis
Scenario Planning
Secure Data Storage
Self Service Data Preparation
Self-Service Reporting
Single Sign On
Statistical Analysis
Strategic Planning
Task Management
Task Progress Tracking
Template Management
Third-Party Integrations
Trend Analysis
Trend/Problem Indicators
User Management
Version Control
Visual Analytics
"What If" Scenarios
Workflow Management

Limelight Integrations

Microsoft Excel

Tableau

Dynamics 365

NetSuite

Paylocity

Salesforce Sales Cloud

See all 23 integrations

Limelight User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

58%

37%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.5

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.4

Kyle K.

Verified reviewer

Construction

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Best reporting solution for your budget!

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like how easy it is to use, create, administer and maintain all functions around the reporting. We find it a breath of fresh air with a dramatic leap forward from previous solutions and competitors. The people and service was truly the key as they tailored it to our liking. 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.

Sarah Y.

Verified reviewer

Sports

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed March 2025

Excellent Customer Service

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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!

Reasons for switching to Limelight

needed an easier to use product and more helpful customer service team

RODERICK A.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

Good but Expensive

There is a lot of potential but it doesn't work for smaller businesses due to the a la carte charges.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Creates a decent dashboard that captures all elements of a budget

Cons:

Cost is too significant when you want a customized report.

Arlene B.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2024

Medicinal Genomics Limelight Review

From implementation to full usage the experience with Limelight has been nothing short of Stellar! The Customer Service is far superior to any other company I have worked with in the past.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Customer Service and Ease of Use. The Implementation & Report Writing Team was nothing short of Stellar

Cons:

There was really nothing that I didn't like about Limelight

Reasons for choosing Limelight

Customer Service & Cost

Reasons for switching to Limelight

Ease of Use, Integrity of Data, Versioning, Direct link to ERP, Reporting

Sami N.

Verified reviewer

Media Production

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed January 2023

Excellent and Flexible Tool

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Reasons for choosing Limelight

I liked that the reporting was built similar to Excel, which helps a wide variety of people understand it and helps make the reports easier to build. You're able to restrict users to seeing only certain departments. Workforce planning was robust.

Jason M.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

A big upgrade

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. Now we have projection employee counts, accurate paid time (even during holidays and breaks) for nearly 2,000 employees

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Reasons for switching to Limelight

Actual product was IBM TM1, which is no longer supported or available.

Alex B.

Verified reviewer

Retail

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed April 2023

Limelight 3 Year Review

We had a great sales team, great technicians, and great sales customer service. Our only issue has been the technicians over engineering important pieces of our environment that has made it hard for me, the internal administrator, to navigate without help; but the limelight customer success team has been great and straightening this out for me.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Our most impactful feature is our forecasting process, and it has become the basis of all major decisions

Cons:

Our biggest issue has been over engineering. During the set up phase we had great technicians but they didnt quite seem to grasp the whole picture. Anytime i am trying to change my global variables or scenarios i have run into issues because of over engineering. We are working to get it fixed, and the customer service is great.

Reasons for choosing Limelight

Overall consistency with our past manual process and our ability to deeply customize the process flow. We also didn't need all the bells and whistles that were presented to us in our other meetings even though we told them we didnt need those features.

James R.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

201-500 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Reviewed July 2023

Limelight review

It's still relatively early, but so far so good.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Once set up API connectivity brings in balance data monthly with a lot of ease.Customer support has been great.There is a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it there is a good deal of flexibility with report building to represent many different kinds of calculations

Cons:

Excel upload is not standard. Each upload type would have to be built by them (at extra cost) rather than being able to just use a relatively standard template.Not their fault, but the API call for transactional data has no flexibility. All transactions have to be loaded which is a drag on API call time and size.In order to see the transactional line items you have to be at the lowest level of dimension. It would be nice if you could have a roll-up but still be able to see the transactional detail rather than needing to expand down however many levels.Building reports has an Excel feel, but not the flexibility. You have to actually type a cell reference rather than being able to use mouse or cursor to select a cell

Reasons for switching to Limelight

They changed pricing structure and it became way too expensive for us

Leah L.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2025

Limelight in Eye Care

I use Limelight daily to schedule patient appointments.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that Limelight gives patients the ability to schedule online without having to call the business.

Cons:

Sometimes Limelight has issues when multiple users are on one account. Can create issues like double booking or miscommunication.

Brittany D.

Verified reviewer

Events Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed July 2024

Excellent customer service but difficulties in modeling a complex workforce

I appreciated Limelight's ability to apply logic to benefits, merit increases and bonuses. I found the customer service team to be extremely helpful and responsive. We struggled to model a complex workforce with numerous seasonal positions working in both the beginning and end of the fiscal year. Exports of reports & templates to excel required manipulation to obtain the necessary information.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Responsiveness of customer service and data analytics / coding team

Cons:

Difficulty in modeling a non-traditional workforce

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