Get everyone to understand the great work your city, agency and state is doing using Questica's budgeting, performance, transparency and engagement software solutions.
Government
Make this year’s budget cycle shine.
Questica’s local government and public sector budgeting software allows you to ditch time-consuming spreadsheets. Our operating, salary and capital multi-user budgeting system allow for multi-year budgeting and unlimited what-if funding scenarios, plus it can seamlessly integrate with your financial system. Our public sector budgeting software is used by hundreds of government agencies across North America. The ease of use and ability to consolidate data for financial reports makes Questica unique.
Say hello to accurate and collaborative budgeting.
Advanced Calculation Engine
Operating and capital budgets
Multi-year budgeting
What-if scenarios and decision packages
Staff planning/scheduling
Financial Statements module
OpenBook Project Explorer for capital budgets
Position, salary and benefit planning
Workflows and approvals
Change control management
Departmental transfers/allocations (chargebacks)
Questica Budget Book powered by CaseWare
Performance management
Reporting and auditing
Statistical ledger
NEW - Integrates with Balancing Act's budget simulation tool
Our Advanced Calculation Engine (ACE) enables agencies to create complex modelling for revenue, projections, and activity-based costing.
Our annual summary grid provides budget roll-up with historical context and year-to-date actuals.
With our Personnel module, you can allocate positions by either FTE, percentage, quantity or hours. Each costing center can belong to a department or fund.
OpenBook Project Explorer for Captial Budgets allows governments to display capital projects on an interactive map including budget, images, video, documents, and more.
Spend your time analyzing data rather than compiling it. Easily assemble actionable data from anywhere in the system for analysis in our Report Center. Then view your data in a dashboard, Smart Report or export it to a Print Report or Excel.
Questica Budget is a comprehensive, streamlined budgeting software product with easy-to-use web-based interface for budget entry and development, forecasting and analysis, workflow, and amendment tracking. Plus, it includes fully integrated performance measures and reporting.
All in One Place
With one database housing all the budgets from various departments, changes are easier to make – the impact can be seen immediately. With automatic notifications, you’ll always know what’s happening with your budget. That means you can plan, even with changes – and keep track of everything that’s going on automatically.
Operating Module
Allows you and your 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 smoothing and securely for everyone involved in the process.
Capital Module
Allows you and your 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 smoothing and securely for everyone involved in the process.
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 local governments to display capital projects on an interactive map.
The OpenBook Project Explorer now allows cities, counties, agencies and states to display on a map every infrastructure project, including the budget, actual spend, funding sources, and accompanying documentation, images, video, etc. Governments 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/budgets.
Performance Management Module
Set the standards for your city, county, agency or state 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.
NEW - Advanced Calculation Engine
Questica Budget now includes an Advanced Calculation Engine (ACE) that enables government agencies 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. For example a city, state, town or county could determine the expenses to resurface a stretch of road based on its type and length.
Financial Statements Module
This new 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.
Each of these statements include both a current statement and the ability to look forward using your projections. Plus, it includes 11 new out-of-the-box reports. With a new set of accounts for assets, liabilities and equities, this new module helps give a complete picture of your current financials and the road ahead.
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.
Analytics
With Questica Budget 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 or export it to a report or Excel. Better yet, share it with your colleagues to improve discussions about new services, funding changes, staffing levels and more.
Quick searches
Intuitive data queries
Scorecards
Combine budget performance metrics to create new KPIs and ratios
100+ out-of-the-box standard reports
Ad hoc reporting
Dashboard
Integrated into Questica Budget, our dashboard shows all your critical data and other relevant information together in a visually rick 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.
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 and scorecard widgets
Rich interactive configurable charts
Ability to embed
Full security on menu and data access by user
Our Approach
We take incredible pride in delivering an exceptional customer experience for each of our customers. Our goal is to get your city, county, agency or state up and running with little to no disruptions. Throughout the process, we listen, adapt and always uncover ways our tools and technologies can improve your organization’s 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 city, county, agency or state.
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 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 to 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 city, county, agency or state 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, we are focused on maximizing your value from adopting Questica Budget. Through regular business reviews and touch points, we strive to understand and address your changing organizational needs, objectives, goals and challenges ensuring you and your city, county, agency or state have a bright customer experience. Plus, there are opportunities to connect with other users via user groups and events.
Connect with one of our Local Government and Public Sector Budget experts.
Our team is full of fun and accessible technology experts, budget professionals and business specialists. We’d be happy to show you how Questica Budget can work for your city, agency, or state with a personalized demo or sign-up for one of our free information sessions. The next one’s on March 2, 2021.
Connect with one of our Local Government and Public Sector Budget experts.
Our team is full of fun and accessible technology experts, budget professionals and business specialists. We’d be happy to show you how Questica Budget can work for your city, agency, or state with a personalized demo or sign-up for one of our free information sessions. The next one’s on March 2, 2021.
750+
customers across North America
$65B+
in annual public sector budgets managed
35+
different financial systems integrations
50
states, 12 provinces/territories
“Questica Budget has proven to be a reliable, flexible and easy-to-use budgeting solution that has allowed us to consolidate our budget information and present it to Council more effectively. I would (and have) recommend Questica Budget to other users, especially to those who still use spreadsheets for building their budgets.”
Andrew Hicik, Manager of Finance, Sidney, BC
“Questica Budget is a user friendly program that has greatly enhanced our budgeting cycle.”
Colleen Wessels, Accounting Manager, Grande Prairie, AB
“Having Questica Budget has given our team more time to focus on managing the budget now that we spend less time assembling it.”
Ann Sheridan, Budget Manager, Sound Transit, WA
“Questica Budget allows us to spend more time on Budgeting and Analysis and spend less time linking spreadsheets and reviewing data for clerical errors.”
John Di Battista, Senior Financial Analyst, Hamilton, ON