ClearGov

ClearGov is a cloud-based finance platform for local governments and school districts. It brings together strategic planning, capital-project tracking, operating, personnel, and capital budgeting; budget-book publication; financial reporting and disclosure; and financial engagement. The product is designed as a connected finance-cycle workflow rather than a stand-alone spreadsheet replacement. ClearGov reports that more than 2,000 local governments and school districts use the platform and that it manages $540 billion in budgets.

Operational budgeting supports annual and biennial processes from baseline creation through adoption and amendments. Teams can collect department requests, edit line items and sub-line items, manage versions, attach supporting materials, hold conversations, control permissions, and retain audit trails. It also surfaces actual, budgeted, over-budget, and forecast figures.

Personnel budgeting adds position control, compensation and benefit calculations, vacancy planning, wage schedules, upload checks, and scenario analysis. Capital budgeting adds request forms, centralized review, funding source and cost analysis, attachments, project pages, and request-to-approval workflows; approved work can continue into project tracking.

ClearGov supports multi-year budgeting, future-year forecast collection, end-of-year projections, and cash position planning. Personnel teams can model dollar or percentage adjustments and vacancies, while capital teams can compare multi-year capital improvement plan scenarios.

For publication and reporting, Digital Budget Book produces editable, collaborative budget books for web, mobile, and PDF formats. Financial Reporting supports ACFRs, PAFRs, and recurring reports with structured data, linked statements, charts, narratives, version history, audit trails, and in-platform publishing. Financial Engagement adds public visualizations, spending drill-downs, notifications, polls, surveys, comments, and engagement analytics.

ClearGov connects Personnel Budgeting and Capital Budgeting to Operational Budgeting so approved scenarios can move into the operating budget under editor-controlled permissions. For external ERP and accounting environments, the core budgeting approach is ERP-agnostic import and export rather than API integration. Operational budget reports can be exported for ERP use.

Financial Reporting can import budget, actual, and supporting data through ERP connections or structured uploads. Buyers that require real-time, API-based ERP synchronization should validate the necessary handoffs during evaluation.

ClearGov is best suited to municipalities, counties, special districts, and school districts that need to coordinate operating, personnel, and capital budgeting with reporting, budget books, and public transparency. Likely users include finance directors, budget managers, department heads, planning and capital teams, report preparers, elected officials, and community engagement staff.

It’s a particularly relevant option for agencies looking to replace spreadsheet-heavy budgeting and publication processes with connected cloud workflows. The combined business also positions its offerings for state agencies, especially around reporting, disclosure, and grant-related needs.