Blackbaud Integration
Connect Centage to Blackbaud
Automatically sync your Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT actuals with Centage for fund-level budgeting, grant tracking, and board-ready reporting.
How It Works
Connect
Authorize a secure connection between Centage and your Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT or Raiser's Edge environment.
Map
Map your Blackbaud chart of accounts, funds, projects, and grants to Centage dimensions with guided setup.
Sync
Actuals flow automatically on your schedule—daily, weekly, or monthly—with no manual exports or file uploads.
Analyze
Budget, forecast, and report by fund, grant, or program using always-current Blackbaud data inside Centage.
Integration Features
Everything you need to keep Blackbaud and Centage in sync.
Automated Actuals Import
Pull actuals from Blackbaud into Centage automatically—no CSV exports, no manual data entry, no version confusion.
Chart of Accounts Sync
Your Blackbaud chart of accounts maps directly to Centage dimensions, keeping your GL structure intact.
Fund & Grant Mapping
Map Blackbaud funds, grants, and projects to Centage for program-level budgeting and restricted fund tracking.
Historical Data Import
Import multiple years of historical actuals to power trend analysis, rolling forecasts, and year-over-year comparisons.
Scheduled Refresh
Set your sync cadence and let Centage keep your data fresh. Most organizations sync daily or weekly.
Project & Program Mapping
Map Blackbaud projects and programs to Centage dimensions for granular reporting across funding sources.
Donor & Revenue Sync
Sync revenue categories and donor data for fundraising revenue planning and campaign budget tracking.
Journal Entry Support
Import journal entries and adjustments so your budget-to-actual comparisons always match your books.
Why Connect Blackbaud?
No More Manual Exports
Stop exporting CSVs from Blackbaud and pasting them into spreadsheets. Centage pulls your actuals automatically, saving hours of tedious work every close cycle.
Fund Accounting Stays Intact
Centage respects your Blackbaud fund structure. Restricted, temporarily restricted, and unrestricted funds map cleanly so your budgets match your accounting reality.
Always-Current Data
Scheduled syncs mean your forecasts, variance reports, and board packages reflect the latest actuals from Blackbaud—not last month's numbers.
Blackbaud Integration FAQs
Centage integrates with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT. If you're using an older version of Financial Edge, contact us to discuss your specific setup—we've worked with many organizations through upgrades.
During setup, you map your Blackbaud funds, grants, and projects to Centage dimensions. This is a one-time process with guided assistance. Once mapped, new transactions sync into the correct fund and program automatically.
Yes. Because Centage maps your Blackbaud fund structure, you can build budgets and forecasts at the fund, grant, or program level—and track spending against restrictions in real time.
You choose the schedule. Most nonprofits and schools sync daily or weekly. On-demand sync is also available whenever you need the latest numbers before a board meeting or grant report.
Centage detects new or modified accounts in Blackbaud and alerts you to map them. Existing mappings stay in place, so changes are handled incrementally without disrupting your workflows.
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