Product Features
Audience & Use Cases
Digital Financial Reporting (DFR)
Competitive Positioning
Sandler/Voss Selling
100

This newly released tool helps Finance Directors manage multiple infrastructure initiatives in one place.

What is Capital Project Tracking?

100

This user type benefits most from Position Control and Mid-Year Position Change.

Who are Business Managers?

100

This is the most detailed financial report and includes MD&A, audit opinions, and a statistical section.

What is the ACFR (Annual Comprehensive Financial Report)?


100

This competitor’s tool includes GASB rules and statement builder, but lacks collaboration or interactive web output.

What is Tyler?

100

After a demo, instead of asking “Do you have any questions?” this Chris Voss-inspired question invites objections and shows empathy.

What is “What’s the biggest thing holding you back from moving forward?”

200

Which feature allows assigning multiple jobs—like coach and teacher—to one person with distinct compensation?

What is Multiple Positions Per Employee?

200

This role often struggles with formatting and tight deadlines in financial report creation.

Who are Finance Directors?

200

This ClearGov DFR feature replaces scattered emails and docs by enabling secure, real-time teamwork.

What is Collaboration?

200

Gravity lacks this accessibility feature unless purchased separately.

What is ADA Compliance?

200

In Sandler, we never enter a meeting without this— AND end a meeting without this... it's how we confirm the prospect and rep are aligned.

What is a Up-Front Contract AND Next Steps?

300

This feature allows clients to freeze a document from both content and data updates.

What is Document Locking?

300

Civic organizations often need this reporting upgrade to manage roads, utilities, and buildings.

What is Capital Project Tracking?

300

This pain point involves the tedious work of moving numbers by hand across reports

What is Manual Data Entry

300

This competitor includes AI-assisted content generation but lacks interactive report web views.

What is Workiva?

300

A rep finishes their demo and says, “It seems like this might not be something worth prioritizing this year.” This is an example of what Sandler/Voss move?

What is a Negative Reversal?

400

What feature ensures users don’t over-budget for staff who retire before year-end?

What is Employee End Dates?


400

ClearGov’s Digital Financial Reporting tool was built to support which prestigious reporting award?

What is the GFOA Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting?

400

The simplified report designed for the public, often using infographics, is called this.

What is the PAFR (Popular Annual Financial Report)?

400

Unlike ClearGov, these competitors fail to offer this collaborative and stakeholder-friendly delivery format.

What is interactive web format?

400

If you could automate even just half of the reporting process, how would that affect your team’s ability to hit deadlines?”

What is a Need-Payoff Question?

500

Which enhancement shortens large PDFs by allowing users to control levels in the table of contents?

What is PDF Settings (Table of Contents Controls)?

500

Which user group in ClearGov benefits most from Expand & Collapse Blocks and PDF Fit to Width features?

Who are Editors?

500

This ClearGov feature helps clients build professional reports with no design experience needed.

What is Automated Formatting with Templates?

500

this feature included in ClearGov’s ACFR solution supports scaling and GFOA alignment

What is the ACFR Checklist?

500

“What’s been the impact of having to manually enter data for every audit cycle?” is what type of SPIN question?

What is an Implication Question?

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