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Black Mountain School Accounting
The company is headquartered at 110 Main Street, Suite 3, Polson, Montana.
What it is
Black Mountain School Accounting is a web-based school finance offering within Black Mountain Software's government accounting and ERP solutions. Its school tools cover payroll and teacher benefits, annual reporting, student accounts, and reconciliation with a County Treasurer's office. Fund Accounting handles accounting, budgeting, and procurement, including general ledger, accounts receivable, and cash receipting. The Student Accounts application manages student activity funds and supports accounts payable, receipt printing, purchase orders, and purchase processing. The school solutions were originally designed for Montana and Alaska; the company invites schools in other states to discuss their needs. Cloud deployment is available through BMS Cloud, which the company says can be accessed wherever there is an internet connection and includes nightly backups and disaster recovery. The vendor describes hosted applications as SOC 2 Type 1 certified and says implementations receive a dedicated team, configured plan, and timeline. Online training is included at no extra cost, with monthly online and on-demand classes. Clients can receive unlimited phone, email, and online support during stated weekday hours. Pricing is available by customized proposal based on population size and applications needed.
For and against
For
- Includes fund accounting, budgeting, and procurement.
- Student Accounts supports purchase orders and receipt printing.
- Online training is included at no extra cost.
- Company says cloud service includes nightly backups.
- Clients can receive unlimited phone, email, and online support.
Against
- Pricing is available only by customized proposal.
- School solutions were originally designed for Montana and Alaska.
- Support hours exclude most federal holidays.
The verdict
Black Mountain School Accounting brings school finance functions together with student account tools and implementation support. Its proposal-based pricing and original focus on Montana and Alaska make a discussion with the vendor a useful next step for schools elsewhere.
Who it suits
It suits schools seeking integrated accounting and student-fund tools, especially those needing reconciliation with a County Treasurer's office. Schools outside Montana and Alaska can contact the company to discuss their needs.
Plans and prices
Customized proposal
Based on population size and applications needed · no per-user, usage, or hidden fees · implementation and data-conversion costs included in quote
Read 21 Oct 2026 · blackmountainsoftware.com
On the record
- Asset management
- Asset Manager tracks inventory and assets and can create depreciation, acquisition, and disposal schedules with journal entries.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Availability
- BMS Cloud documentation states a guaranteed 98% uptime and identifies a weekly maintenance window from 11 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday Mountain Time.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Backups and recovery
- The hosting service performs automated nightly backups seven days a week and provides disaster-recovery processes.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- BBB standing
- BBB gives Black Mountain Software LLC an A+ rating and says the business is not BBB accredited.bbb.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- Budgeting
- Budget Preparation is integrated with General Ledger for collaborative expenditure and revenue budgets without exporting or importing external files.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Cloud deployment
- Black Mountain offers BMS Cloud, a hosted service for Black Mountain applications that is accessible wherever internet service is available.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Cloud hosting
- The company says its BMS Cloud is hosted by Amazon AWS and provides access wherever there is an internet connection, with nightly backups and disaster recovery.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Cloud infrastructure
- BMS Cloud uses Amazon Web Services, encrypted connections from approved sources, and backup redundancy across three physical locations.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Company legal identity
- BBB identifies the business as Black Mountain Software LLC and lists Black Mountain Software Inc. as an alternate name.bbb.org · read 21 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists the company size as 11–50 employees, while the vendor’s About page says it has more than 50 employees.linkedin.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- County Treasurer integration
- School solutions integrate with a County Treasurer’s office for account reconciliation.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- SourceForge lists documentation, live online, in-person, and video training, plus phone and online support.sourceforge.net · read 21 Oct 2026
- Double-entry accounting
- The system automatically generates double-entry fund accounting from the configured chart of accounts and blocks unbalanced entries.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Financial reporting
- The school ledger advertises compliant TFS reporting, budget-versus-actual reports, cash and bank reconciliation, claim reports, and vendor and budget queries.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Fund accounting
- Fund Accounting supports accounting, budgeting, and procurement, with functions including general ledger, accounts receivable, and cash receipting.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- General ledger
- The school ledger supports personalized governmental charts of accounts, payable processing, vendor records, 1099 information, compliant reports, and drill-down analysis.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 21 Oct 2026
- Implementation
- The company says each implementation gets a dedicated team and a configured plan and timeline, and that it can convert data from formats including text, Excel, CSV, and Word files.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 3 Oct 2026
- Integration
- The school solutions integrate with a County Treasurer’s office for account reconciliation.blackmountainsoftware.com · read 3 Oct 2026
