ClearGov Budget Cycle
ClearGov Budget Cycle is cloud-based finance and budgeting software for public-sector agencies, including local governments and school districts.
What ClearGov Budget Cycle is
ClearGov Budget Cycle is cloud-based finance and budgeting software for public-sector agencies, including local governments and school districts. Operational Budgeting supports the process from baseline through adoption and amendments, with annual or biennial budgets, future-year forecasts, and year-end projections. Teams can collaborate on budget line items in real time, save versions, and attach justifications and supporting documents. An audit trail records adjustments and user actions, including account numbers, descriptions, amounts, and date changes. The software supports approval workflows, scenario planning, actual-versus-budget tracking, and multi-entity budgeting. Capital Budgeting offers request forms, scoring, scenario planning, dashboards, and spreadsheet or PDF report exports. Personnel Budgeting tracks filled and vacant positions, compensation, and multi-year staffing scenarios. Capital and personnel data can be imported into Operational Budgeting with automatic updates and duplicate detection. Digital Budget Book produces web, mobile, and PDF budget books with customizable pages and automatically generated content. Pricing is by quote; ClearGov says all-inclusive pricing includes support and product updates without per-seat fees.
Good
- Supports annual and biennial budgets
- Real-time collaboration with saved versions
- Capital and personnel planning modules
- Creates web, mobile, and PDF budget books
Watch out
- Pricing is by quote
- Cloud deployment only
- Demo required
Who it suits
ClearGov Budget Cycle suits local governments, school districts, and other public-sector agencies managing budgets across operating, capital, and personnel planning. It is for teams that need shared budget workflows and publication options.
Verdict
ClearGov Budget Cycle brings operational budgeting together with capital and personnel planning and budget-book publication. Buyers should request a quote and arrange a demo to understand the offer.
Plans and prices
From ClearGov Budget Cycle's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| ClearGov Budget Cycle | Priced on request | Pricing by quote; demo required · No per-seat fees · Support and product updates included |
The facts
Each one read from ClearGov Budget Cycle's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accounting integrations
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Actual vs budget
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Audit trail
- The audit trail records budget adjustments and user actions, including account numbers, descriptions, amounts, and date changes.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Budget publication
- Digital Budget Book produces web, mobile, and PDF budget books and includes customizable pages and auto-generated budget content.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Budget workflow
- Operational Budgeting supports the budget process from baseline through adoption and amendments.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Users can collaborate on budget line items in real time, save versions, and attach request justifications and supporting documents.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- cloudchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Forecasting
- Operational Budgeting supports annual or biennial budgets, future-year forecasts, and year-end projections.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Implementation and support
- ClearGov says implementation requires no systems integration, and its all-inclusive pricing includes support and product updates without per-seat fees.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Internal integrations
- Capital and Personnel Budgeting data can be imported into Operational Budgeting, with automatic updates and duplicate detection.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Multi-entity budgeting
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- ClearGov provides cloud-based finance and budgeting software built for public-sector agencies, including local governments and school districts.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- Operational Budgeting uses role-based permissions to control who can import personnel and capital scenarios into the operating budget.checked 7 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Approval workflows
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Money
- Capital planning
- Capital Budgeting provides request forms, request scoring, scenario planning, dashboards, and report exports in spreadsheet or PDF formats.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Personnel planning
- Personnel Budgeting tracks filled and vacant positions, compensation, and multi-year staffing scenarios.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Scenario planning
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Company history
- ClearGov says its story began in 2015 in Massachusetts; its listed headquarters is 2 Mill & Main Place, Suite 630, Maynard, MA 01754.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2015checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Maynard, Massachusetts, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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