Lucanet
Lucanet is a cloud-based financial planning and management platform for organizations working across multiple entities.
What Lucanet is
Lucanet is a cloud-based financial planning and management platform for organizations working across multiple entities. It supports scenario planning, actual-versus-budget comparisons, rolling forecasts and approval workflows. Multi-entity budgeting and accounting integrations are also listed. Lucanet offers three named plans: Basic, Advanced and Professional. Basic includes Consolidation and Financial Planning, Extended Planning and Analysis, ESG Reporting, Disclosure Management, Lease Accounting, and Banking and Cash Management. The platform is web-based, and pricing is available on request. Lucanet, the maker, was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. The listed planning and reporting functions give finance teams several processes to assess, while the three plan names provide a starting point for discussing scope. Organizations considering Lucanet will need to request pricing and determine which plan matches their requirements.
Good
- Supports scenario planning and rolling forecasts
- Enables actual-versus-budget comparisons
- Includes approval workflows
- Supports multi-entity budgeting
- Basic lists six functional areas
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request
- Web is the only listed platform
Who it suits
Lucanet may suit finance teams planning and reporting across multiple entities, particularly those seeking scenario planning, rolling forecasts and accounting integrations. It is for organizations prepared to request pricing and compare the scope of its plans.
Verdict
Lucanet covers several financial planning and reporting functions, including multi-entity budgeting. Its pricing requires a request, so organizations will need to clarify plan scope and cost before deciding.
Plans and prices
From Lucanet's own pricing page, checked 21 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced | Priced on request | Basic features plus standard interfaces · GHG calculations and ESG tagging · lease exports · cash pooling and forecasting · minimum 12 months |
| Basic | Priced on request | core data collection, closing, planning and reporting · business-hours support · optional functional support · minimum 12 months |
| Professional | Priced on request | enterprise interfaces · enhanced workflows · dedicated customer-success representative · extended support hours · minimum 12 months |
The facts
Each one read from Lucanet'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
- Additional REST API
- A REST import API lets external systems push balance-sheet and profit-and-loss values into the Tax Data Hub.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Banking and cash
- Banking and Cash Management provides multibank payment processing and system integration; advanced packages add cash pooling and forecasting.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Lucanet reports ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance for its cloud services.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Consolidation
- The platform automates group consolidation, intercompany eliminations, currency translation and financial close activities.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Data Hub connectors
- Data Hub connections can target SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database and PostgreSQL through JDBC.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Lucanet offers browser-based cloud access while its Financial Client and server components can also be installed in customer infrastructure.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Disclosure and XBRL
- Disclosure Management creates reports, integrates with Excel and includes a built-in XBRL tagger, with layout and interface options by package.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The public knowledge base contains solution FAQs, configuration guides, glossaries, API-token documentation and release notes organized by product.checked 21 Oct 2026
- ESG reporting
- ESG functionality includes VSME and ESRS data collection, emissions calculations and reporting/tagging in higher packages.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Extensibility
- Lucanet supports scripts, apps, workflows, connections, Excel-reporting files and ETL processing through its directory structures and Script Execution Application.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Lucanet advertises more than 300 preconfigured ERP and accounting interfaces, Excel connectivity, database conversion and drill-down to posting documents.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Lease accounting
- Lease Accounting supports IFRS 16 processes, enterprise interfaces, third-party exports and configurable exports in higher packages.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The commercial software is proprietary; the licence terms separately cover included third-party open-source components under their own licences.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: Capterra users
- Reported drawbacks include dated appearance, difficult planning or forecasting setup, weak posting search and inconsistent Power BI or ERP connector behavior.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: G2 user complaint
- A critical G2 reviewer described the interface as clunky, implementation as slow and sales pressure as aggressive.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: Gartner reviewers
- One Gartner review says data-management views could be better and describes the product as extremely limited for its use case.checked 21 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Approval workflows
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Browser support
- The CFO Solution Platform officially supports current Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox versions.checked 21 Oct 2026
The company
- Company facts
- LinkedIn lists Lucanet as founded in 1999, headquartered in Berlin, with 501–1,000 employees and 900-plus staff described worldwide.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1999checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Berlin, Germanychecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Financial planning
- Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and multi-entity planning are provided in the consolidation and financial-planning solution.checked 21 Oct 2026
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