Limelight

Limelight provides planning and narrative reporting with Limelight AI, publishing direct integrations with Sage Intacct, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Blackbaud and QuickBooks Online, across non-profit, healthcare and other industries.

Naming the specific accounting systems it integrates with is the most useful thing on the page, and it should be the first question in any FP&A evaluation.

An FP&A platform is only as good as its connection to the ledger. If actuals must be exported and imported manually each month, the platform has automated the modelling and left the collection, which is where the time actually goes. Worse, a manual import is a monthly opportunity for the planning system and the accounts to diverge, and a variance report comparing a forecast against slightly wrong actuals is misleading rather than merely late.

Direct integration means actuals arrive automatically and match the ledger by construction, which is the foundation everything else rests on.

Blackbaud in that list is the notable inclusion, since it is the dominant accounting system in non-profits and is rarely supported by mainstream planning tools. Combined with the published non-profit focus, that suggests genuine provision for fund accounting rather than a general tool marketed at charities.

Narrative reporting is the other capability worth noting. Boards and funders do not read spreadsheets; they read a document explaining performance with figures embedded in it. Producing that by copying numbers into a Word file is how the version everyone quotes ends up disagreeing with the ledger. Generating it from the same source keeps them aligned.

Pricing is published on a pricing page but no figure was captured, so confirm current rates with the vendor.