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Centage + Blackbaud Integration

Connect Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT® with Centage to automate budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. Trusted by nonprofits and higher education finance teams.

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Centage and Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT® integration

Integration Overview 🤝

Centage integrates directly with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT® to help nonprofits and higher education institutions automate their budgeting and forecasting process.

Sync your GL data, manage multiple entities, and eliminate manual spreadsheet consolidation — all within Centage

Integration Summary

Capability Description
Data Source Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT®
Integration Type API-based data sync
Data Flow GL accounts, actuals, and dimensions import automatically
Update Frequency Scheduled or on-demand refresh
Use Cases Budget creation, variance analysis, consolidated reporting
Audience Nonprofit & higher-ed finance leaders

How It Works (Step-by-Step)

Connect your Blackbaud account securely through Centage’s integration hub.

Select the dimensions (funds, programs, departments) you want to map.

Schedule automated refreshes of GL and actual data.

Build, forecast, and report — with your Blackbaud data always current.

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Benefits & Use Cases

For Nonprofits

  • Build mission-based budgets directly from your accounting data.
  • Report across programs and funds automatically.
  • Reduce manual consolidation and version errors.

For Higher Education

  • Simplify department-level budgeting.
  • Automate grant tracking and variance analysis.

For Finance Teams

  • Maintain control while enabling collaboration.
  • Free up time to focus on impact, not spreadsheets.

"We’re excited to partner with Centage as part of our ongoing commitment to helping customers enhance financial operations and drive mission impact.”

Elizabeth Price
Vice President of Global Partners, Blackbaud
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"It has just cut down so much on the time I spend building our annual budget because everything is automated and the formulas are built, and everything carries over year to year… It’s a phenomenal tool for budgeting."

Renee Sherman

CFO, The Wildlife Gallery

The largest tannery for the taxidermy industry in the United States faced challenges with time-consuming and error-prone budgeting processes using Excel, QuickBooks, and NetSuite. Transitioning to Centage streamlined their annual budgeting process, cutting it in half. NetSuite integration ensured secure and accurate data transfer, eliminating manual data entry errors.

Read more in the case study

“All I need to do is press refresh, and Centage pulls all the data from relevant sources and populates the report. Back when we used QuickBooks this took me days, but now I can produce them all in an hour. It’s a huge time saver.”

David Carlisle

CFO, Amwaste

A full-service waste and recycling company operating across multiple states uses Centage to streamline budgeting across multiple entities. Centage's purpose-built approach for driver-based budgeting enabled quick and easy adjustments to operating costs and forecasts, reducing the time needed for these tasks. The ability to create rolling budgets with a focus on the next 18 months, coupled with monthly forecasts that take just an hour, enhances Amwaste's agility in day-to-day operations.

Read more in the case study

"It has just cut down so much on the time I spend building our annual budget because everything is automated and the formulas are built, and everything carries over year to year… It’s a phenomenal tool for budgeting."

Renee Sherman

CFO, The Wildlife Gallery

The largest tannery for the taxidermy industry in the United States faced challenges with time-consuming and error-prone budgeting processes using Excel, QuickBooks, and NetSuite. Transitioning to Centage streamlined their annual budgeting process, cutting it in half. NetSuite integration ensured secure and accurate data transfer, eliminating manual data entry errors.

Read more in the case study

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