Drive budget transformation by creating a single source of data truth.
With Questica’s cloud-based budgeting software you have everything you need in one easy-to-access place. Now all departments have the latest figures and reports. Enable data-driven budgeting and decision-making, while increasing data accuracy, saving time and improving stakeholder trust. Our end-to-end budgeting software is used by local governments, non-profits, school systems, colleges, universities and healthcare organizations across North America. Planning for your organization’s financial future just got easier.
Efficient, accurate and collaborative budgeting in one.
REDESIGNED - Dashboards and Report Center
Advanced Calculation Engine
Questica Budget Book powered by CaseWare
OpenBook Project Explorer for capital budgets
Operating and capital budgets
Position, salary and benefit planning
Performance management
Multi-year budgeting and reporting
Workflows and approvals
Reporting and auditing
What-if scenarios and decision packages
Change control management
Statistical ledger
Staff planning/scheduling
Departmental transfers/allocations (chargebacks)
Financial Statements module
Integrates with Balancing Act's budget simulation tool
Questica Budget is public sector budgeting software product that enables you to improve and shorten your organization’s budgeting cycle by providing a collaborative and modern budgeting process.
Operating Module
Allows you and your organization’s departments to have visibility into the financials, along with the ability to control their own operating budgets. The easy-to-use program ensures the budgeting cycle runs smoothly and securely for every stakeholder involved in the process.
Capital Module
Create multi-year capital budgets that identify expenditures and funding sources, plus you have the capability to adjust along the way. Provides end-to-end Capital Improvement Planning (CIP), budgeting and forecasting. Construct your capital projects on an annual, quarterly or monthly basis.
OpenBook Project Explorer for Capital Budgets
The Capital Budget module within Questica Budget now seamlessly connects to OpenBook, our web-based transparency solution bringing the ability for organizations to display capital projects on an interactive map.
The OpenBook Project Explorer now allows organizations to display on a map every infrastructure project, including the budget, actual spend, funding sources, and accompanying documentation, images, video, etc. Organizations can also link related activities to showcase the depth and scope of capital projects that are happening in a city, region, state/province or country.
Personnel Planning and Budgeting Module
Accurately models and forecasts all costs associated with positions and employees. Allows you to develop budgets with new positions and all the connected financial impacts including wages, benefits, labor costs, union and contract expenses, and more. Budget at the employee level, job code level, or any level you choose. Allocate your positions to any number of departments or budgets.
Performance Management Module
Set the standards for your organization with a system of programs, measures and scorecards. Go beyond the financials and track an unlimited number of budget and non-budget key performance indicators (KPIs) with Questica Performance.
Advance Calculation Engine
Questica Budget now includes an Advanced Calculation Engine (ACE) that enables public sector organizations to create complex modelling for revenue, projections, and activity-based costing. Users can create formulas ranging from a single formula in a cell up to large scale mathematical models to do things such as forecasting expenses and revenue from drivers and historical data. ACE’s features are designed specifically for budgeting, which allows users to budget in a way that would be difficult in a traditional Excel spreadsheet system.
Financial Statements Module
This system-wide module for Questica Budget allows users to configure and generate all three major financial statements, including Income Statements, Balance Sheets, and Cash Flow Statements.
It includes a new set of accounts for assets, liabilities and equities. Together, these deliver a complete picture of your current financials and insights to help you make smarter decisions.
Questica Budget Book provides a direct integration from Questica Budget to CaseWare’s Working Papers allowing you and your organization to efficiently and cost-effectively create, collaborate, edit, approve and publish your annual Budget Book. Plus, our Budget Book provides the key content requirements to be compliant with GFOA’s Distinguished Budget Presentation Award.
Report Center
With Questica Budget’s Report Center you can spend your time analyzing data rather than compiling it. Easily assemble actionable data from anywhere in the system for analysis. Then view your data in a dashboard on screen in a View or Smart Report, or export it to a Print Report or Excel.
Better yet, share it with your colleagues to improve discussions.
Quick searches
Intuitive data queries
Scorecards
Combine budget performance metrics to create new KPIs and ratios
Views (ad hoc screen reports)
Smart Reports allow users to have the best of onscreen reporting using tables and data visualization chart options
Our reports include data security so users only see what they’re allowed to see.
All of our out-of-the-box Print Reports also all have a standard look and feel with the ability to add your own columns. As well, our advanced self-serve report templates allows standard headers, footers and logo. In addition, the our templates includes the ability to add new calculated columns and table features.
Dashboard
Integrated into Questica Budget, our dashboard shows all your critical data and other relevant information together in a visually rich and interactive interface. Completely configurable, your dashboard can be set-up for individual users and/or departments.
Uncover new insights, find trends and make fresh discoveries. In short be insightfully brilliant.
Easy-to-use drag and drop interface
Drill-down and drill-through capabilities
Contextual dashboards provide cost center and project specific details
Text, web page, count, scorecard, gauge, chart and image widgets
Rich interactive configurable charts
Ability to embed external content including connecting directly to Questica OpenBook data visualizations
Full security on menu and data access by user’s role
Our Approach
We take incredible pride in delivering an exceptional customer experience for every customer. Our goal is to get you and your organization up and running with little to no disruptions. Throughout the process, we listen, adapt and always uncover ways our tools and technologies can improve our customers outcomes and enhance our future offerings.
We’re proud to be recognized by Government Technology News on their annual GovTech 100 which showcases the 100 leading companies serving state and local governments in unique, innovative and effective ways.
Flexible Deployment
We believe in customer flexibility when it comes to purchasing. Questica Budget is deployable on your servers or in the cloud. Plus, no mass upgrades. We don’t force you to upgrade until your organization is ready. We’ll work with you to find the best model for your organization.
NEW - Balancing Act Integration
Questica Budget and OpenBook seamlessly integrate with Balancing Act’s budget simulation tool. Balancing Act is the leader in public sector participatory budget simulations and taxpayer receipt software.
Financial Systems Integration
Financials don’t wait for implementation and neither should you. This not only includes pulling data from your general ledger and payroll/human resources (HR) systems but also passing budget data back. We’ve developed our own integration tool “QIS” to facilitate and streamline the data integration process.
Our software has been integrated with over 35 different ERP systems, including:
ADP
Bellamy
Cayenta
Ellucian Banner
Ellucian Colleague
Dynamics GP
Dynamics NAV
Epicor
Infor CloudSuite
Infor Lawson
JD Edwards
Meditech
MuniWare
New World
Oracle Financials
PeopleSoft
Sage Intacct
SAP
Sparkrock
Tyler Eden
Tyler Munis
Vadim iCity
Workday
… and more
To ensure that users quickly reach the highest level of productivity and proficiency, a dedicated team of implementers and consultants are assigned to each customer for the duration of the implementation which can typically be completed in four months or less.
Training and Resources
Questica provides full installation documentation with every release, as well as implementation assistance, technical support and online help. Plus, we have complete training for administrators and general users through Questica Help, our online learning channel.
Customer Success
Our Customer Success team serves as your advocate within Questica. Working from onset, through implementation and ongoing usage, they are focused on maximizing your value from adopting Questica Budget.
Through regular business reviews and touch points, Customer Success will understand and address your changing organizational needs, objectives, goals and challenges ensuring you and your organization have a bright customer experience. Plus, there are opportunities to connect with other users via user groups and events.
Our team is full of fun and accessible technology experts, budget professionals and business specialists that are ready to show you how your organization can budget better. We can show you how Questica Budget works for your organization with a personalized demo or sign-up for one of our free monthly introductory webinars.
Connect with one of our Budget software experts.
Our team is full of fun and accessible technology experts, budget professionals and business specialists that are ready to show you how your organization can budget better. We can show you how Questica Budget works for your organization with a personalized demo or sign-up for one of our free monthly introductory webinars.
800+
customers across North America
$90B+
in annual public sector budgets managed
$5B+
in annual not-profit budgets managed
50
states, 12 provinces/territories
“Implementing Questica Budget has saved us over $85,000 in productivity savings annually.”
Walter Rossman, Former Director, Office of Management and Budget, Palo Alto, CA
“We’ve been pleased with how easy and logical the Questica Budget system is to use. We now have a powerful budgeting tool that enables all users to properly track and manage their own budgets, allowing the Finance team to spend more time on analysis and planning.”
Bryan Archer, CPA, Director of Finance, Arvada, CO
“Questica has streamlined and simplified our budgeting and reporting processes. They were responsive to our needs during implementation, and more importantly, continue to provide excellent customer service after the project ended.”
Roger Davis, CPA, CGA, manager, Planning and Analysis, Providence Care, Kingston, ON
“Version control was always a problem with our former Excel based budgeting. The centralized nature of Questica Budget resolves that issue by ensuring everyone is working with the same version of the budget.”
Sandy Croteau, Senior Finance Officer, Canmore, AB
"We love using Questica Budget! We have got tons of positive feedback. It was probably the best software implementation that we have had at the College since I came here over 7 years ago. In fact, some people who have been here forever said it was the smoothest ever. The business managers and I love the software!"
Renee Oszust, Director of Budget & Fiscal Planning, Oakland Community College, MI
Questica Budget’s Salary module has enhanced the City of Victoria’s ability to easily track and report on budgeted positions, salaries and FTEs.”
Susanne Thompson, Assistant Director of Finance, Victoria, BC
“Before Questica Budget our budgeting process extensively utilized spreadsheets, which required versions of files to be emailed back and forth. It was time consuming and prone to human error. Questica Budget reduces the possibility of error, streamlines the budget consolidation process, saving a significant amount of time, and provides real-time access to budget information.”
Sherri Senger, Associate Superintendant Business, Wetaskiwin Regional Public Schools, AB