+ The lightweight FP&A alternative

Budget, forecast and report. Without the six-month rollout.

FOATT is planning software for finance teams that have outgrown spreadsheets but do not need an enterprise suite: a grid that works like Excel, actuals synced from your ledger, and pricing you can read on this page.

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How it compares

Between the spreadsheet and the suite.

Enterprise planning suites are capable products built for large finance teams. Most growing companies need a fraction of that, sooner.

Spreadsheets FOATT Enterprise planning suite
Time to a first budget Days of building and linking tabs Usually a couple of hours, self-serve Typically weeks to months, often with an implementation partner
Pricing Free, plus the hours Published, from $149/mo Typically quote-based
Contract None Monthly or annual. Cancel anytime, and annual plans carry a 14-day money-back guarantee. Typically an annual commitment
Who builds and maintains the model Whoever wrote the workbook Your own finance team, in a grid with Excel shortcuts and formulas Often a trained administrator or consultant
Bringing in the budget you already have It is already there Export the plan to Excel, paste your numbers, import it back Typically mapped into the vendor's model during implementation
Actuals Exported and pasted each month Read-only sync from QuickBooks Online or NetSuite, or import any ledger export Synced through configured integrations
Drivers, scenarios, dimensions, variance reports, scheduled delivery By hand, one tab at a time Built in. Dimensions and scheduled delivery are on Growth and Pro. Built in
Roll several companies into one report Manual Consolidated reports across your companies, without intercompany eliminations Yes, typically with eliminations
How you evaluate it Nothing to evaluate A 14-day trial on your own numbers. No credit card and no sales call. Typically a demo and a sales process
An honest fit check

The right alternative for some teams, not all.

FOATT fits when

  • One to a few people own the budget, the forecast and the monthly reporting pack.
  • Your books live in QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, QuickBooks Desktop, or any system that exports a general ledger.
  • You want plan versus actual by department, location or project, without rebuilding it every close.
  • You would rather start this week than scope an implementation.
  • You want to see the price before you talk to anyone.

Stay with an enterprise suite when

  • You need position-by-position workforce planning. FOATT plans headcount through drivers, such as headcount times average compensation, and not role by role.
  • You need multi-step budget approval workflows.
  • Dozens of budget owners submit into one model and you need to manage that process in the tool.
  • Your security team requires single sign-on today.
  • You need intercompany eliminations inside the planning tool.
From signup to a variance report

Connect. Plan. Report.

01

Connect your ledger

QuickBooks Online and NetSuite connect directly and bring in your chart of accounts, dimensions and twelve months of actuals. Anything else comes in as a general ledger export. FOATT reads your books and never writes to them.

02

Build the plan in a grid you already know

Type a number, write a formula, drag-fill across periods. Bring last year's budget in from Excel. Add drivers such as headcount or units when you want changes to ripple through, and fork a what-if scenario without touching the original.

03

Report plan versus actual

Drag accounts, dimensions and time onto a report. Variance columns come built in. Save the report, share it, and on Growth and Pro have it emailed to the people who need it every month.

Pricing

The price is on the page.

Every plan starts with a 14-day trial, no credit card. Annual plans come with a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Starter
$149/ mo

For solo finance leads getting their first budget online.

Growth
$349/ mo

For finance teams running real planning cycles across a few companies.

Pro
$699/ mo

Full toolkit for multi-entity finance organizations.

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FAQ

Questions from teams comparing tools.

Most often Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful, Vena, Anaplan, Prophix, Datarails, Cube and Jirav. Those are capable products, and several are built for much larger finance organizations than ours is. FOATT is for the team that wants budgeting, forecasting and plan versus actual reporting running this week, at a published monthly price.
Yes. Export a plan to Excel, fill it in or paste your existing numbers, and import it back. Every plan includes Excel export and import.
Most teams are planning against real numbers within a couple of hours: create the account, connect the ledger or import a general ledger export, and build the first plan. There is no implementation project and nothing to install.
Position-by-position workforce planning, multi-step approval workflows, intercompany eliminations and single sign-on are not in the product today. Headcount planning through drivers is included. If the first four are requirements, an enterprise suite is the better choice.
FOATT reads from your books and never writes to them, and you can disconnect an accounting system in one click. Everything is encrypted in transit, and stored credentials are encrypted at rest. Two-factor authentication is available on every account.

See your own numbers in it today.

14 days, full access, no credit card and no sales call. Bring your chart of accounts and your last few months of actuals.

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Workday Adaptive Planning, Planful, Vena, Anaplan, Prophix, Datarails, Cube and Jirav are trademarks of their respective owners. FOATT is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Descriptions of enterprise planning suites on this page are general to the category and do not describe any one product.