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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Submittable

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ASubmittable offers tools to launch, measure, and grow social impact programs, locally and globally. From grants and scholarships to awards and CSR programs, Submittable partners with users to make a difference. The vendor states Submittable has supported over 95,000 social impact programs, receiving nearly 20 million applications, and that teams save an average of 12 hours per week and launch in an average of 14 days.

    $10,000

    per year

    Totango

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ATotango is an enterprise customer success platform designed for B2B software and recurring-revenue organizations to manage customer retention, track account health, and automate lifecycle workflows. The platform consolidates product telemetry, financial data, support interactions, and CRM records into a central hub to give cross-functional teams visibility into customer adoption and expansion opportunities.N/A
    Pricing
    SubmittableTotango
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SubmittableTotango
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Each package gives teams a 360° customer account profile, customer health scoring, customer journey program templates (SuccessBLOCS), automated workflows (SuccessPlays), email campaigns, self-paced onboarding, and customer support.
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    Community Pulse
    SubmittableTotango
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    Submittable
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    Totango
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    74 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    183 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    61 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    124 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    184 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    61 Answers
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    96 Answers
    Features
    SubmittableTotango
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Submittable and Totango
    Feature
    Submittable
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.5
    182 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.5182 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Submittable and Totango
    Feature
    Submittable
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.5
    216 Ratings
    2% below category average
    API00 Ratings6.9149 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings9.5173 Ratings
    Integration with Marketo00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Submittable and Totango
    Feature
    Submittable
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.1
    247 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Product usage00 Ratings8.1243 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets00 Ratings8.2160 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Submittable and Totango
    Feature
    Submittable
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.1
    260 Ratings
    6% below category average
    NPS surveys00 Ratings9.4124 Ratings
    Sponsor tracking00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Customer profiles00 Ratings7.9251 Ratings
    Automated workflow00 Ratings9.1240 Ratings
    Internal collaboration00 Ratings7.7226 Ratings
    Customer health scoring00 Ratings7.5253 Ratings
    Customer segmentation00 Ratings8.7243 Ratings
    CSM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Submittable and Totango
    Feature
    Submittable
    -
    Ratings
    Totango
    8.3
    254 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Customer health trends00 Ratings8.4243 Ratings
    Engagement analytics00 Ratings8.8229 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting00 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.4237 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SubmittableTotango
    Small Businesses
    Blackbaud Grantmaking
    Score9 out of 10
    ClientSuccess
    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    ChurnZero
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Gainsight CS
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SubmittableTotango
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (83 ratings)
    9.1
    (261 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (79 ratings)
    8.6
    (95 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.7
    (93 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SubmittableTotango
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Submittable
    Submittable is great for grant management, grantmaking, and scholarship awards. It's a very useful tool also when there are multiple reviewers and committees involved in the assessment of the application. The table feature is helpful, but to download the information in a usable report is a pain. Overall a very useful tool for funding.
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    Totango
    for a CSM it´s marvelous, you have in one window everything,the agenda for your day by day work, the workload you have in a day,all the customers database and call history added by tasks and toutch points, the to do thing in each customer you know what to do next, with renewal you hace an digital engadgement with customers inform they need to renew in order to keep using the app.
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    Pros
    Submittable
    • Form-logic: Allows application forms to adjust based on answers to crucial questions (if-then-else) so that all applications don't have to see extended questions that may not apply to them or their situation.
    • Messaging Platform: This platform allows interactions with applicants or internal review teams to be associated with the specific submission, allowing for an easier, complete view of an application being considered and as an audit trail.
    • Good Voting/Polling Management: It makes it easier to record the latest vote/feedback from assigned team members and allows customization of the vote/feedback review as a form. It also summarizes the votes for easy review in a submissions dashboard view.
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    Totango
    • Enables us to easily send and collect NPS & CSAT scores regularly.
    • Syncs with HubSpot to bring in updated client data and deals automatically.
    • Allows us to manage clients based on health score which is multi-dimensional.
    • I can log touch points directly in Totango from Gmail so easily..
    • As we improve and develop our non SaaS business client experience, Totango continues to develop more functionality that we can benefit from.
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    Cons
    Submittable
    • We are some of the earliest users of employee volunteerism, so there have been some things to work out. However, because of that, we've gotten a lot of one-on-one support to help make minor tweaks to the system in a way that works for us.
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    Totango
    • Integrations -- in my experience, they constantly break and disconnect.
    • Implementation -- I feel it was a HUGE challenge to set-up our environment. It took over 200 hours and it didn't work.
    • Communication -- during implementation/onboarding, in my opinion, we were mislead on how to create some of our custom data objects and it ended up being a big waste of time since the approach we were instructed to use ended up being incorrect.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Submittable
    We use this software annually to help with our grant processes. Without it, I'd be so lost! Our team relies on the data from our past years to sift applications and we try to prioritize those who have applied and been a finalist but perhaps didn't win in years prior
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    Totango
    I personally believe Totango is the right Customer Success Tool for me, my team, and my organization. I couldn't find limitations until now, it's capabilities are on point and it's very scalable. of course, transitioning to another tool would mean a lot of hours and training, and would expose risks
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    Usability
    Submittable
    A submittable requires a great deal of thought to set up. It would be best if you really did an outline and flowcharting. Once you have a detailed plan and set up the system, you have to think of the process that you would manually do step-by-step to deal with the what-ifs; it’s beautiful. The ability to Clone events is invaluable. The onboarding can be complex, but the ease of use afterward is worth it.
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    Totango
    It is easy to use and understand, and simple to follow day to day. Logging notes and tasks is one of the key areas this is utilised along with tracking reports and accessing key data points for conversations with customers which is helpful. Mobile app helps too to access information on the go.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Submittable
    We have thankfully never experienced an outage nor been affected by a technology issue on Submittable's side that has delayed our grant process. We have instead been able to distribute over $6M in donated dollars to AAPI small business owners because Submittable is trustworthy and available
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    Totango
    I have yet to experience any downtime with Totango (knock on wood) so reliability has been really top tier since we were onboarded. Given that the support team has been really helpful so far, I can imagine should downtime every be the case, they'll be able to communicate proactively/effectively on the current state of the platform
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    Performance
    Submittable
    We've had a quick and efficient submittable experience that has always been easy to use. When we need a report it downloads within seconds, even the larger reports are 30 seconds or less to download. Pages are quick to load and reports complete in a more than reasonable time frame
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    Totango
    At times the integration sync can be really slow when it comes to touchpoints. I can't say the same for customer health syncing, but I do tend to notice the lag from email syncing, and in those cases, I will need to refresh the Totango page a couple of times or wait a couple of extra seconds/minutes for it to show up.
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    Support Rating
    Submittable
    I think that they are good at answering our questions and solving our problems. We occasionally get reports from applicants about problems the Submittable team has not solved, but I do not know what the applicant has done to get the problem solved.
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    Totango
    I give Totango a support rating of 10 because I can always get support whenever needed. If its a technical issue, I know I can email their support team for help. If it's a more in depth question with respect to our instance of Totango, I can reach out to our CSM and always get help in a very reasonable amount of time. I always look to Totango as the standard when I think of how to best communicate and support our own customers.
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    In-Person Training
    Submittable
    We have been using this for many years but my memory is that we had a
    human walk us through how to use basic features. We also used the
    resource library to learn about specific topics or issues as they came
    up.
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    Totango
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Submittable
    10/10 because we were able to meet virtually and still get all of our questions answered! Online was effective too because we could easily record the sessions and review them later. Since we had to onboard our reviewers virtually, it was actually convenient that this was the same method we learned how to use the entire program virtually too.
    Incentivized
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    Totango
    Our CSM did a great job of conducting the training so we understand, at the very least, the functionality that is directly relevant to us. This also allowed us to train our own new team mates when onboarding based on the training flow that was first presented to us. This was also conducted as a interactive sessions, as training are notoriously known to be dry
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    Implementation Rating
    Submittable
    I would say, provide Submittable as much detailed information on your planned use of the platform and your desires with the platform as possible, and the implementation will be tailored to accommodate your organization with minimal lag time and issues/problems.
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    Totango
    Totango has been easy for our team to integrate most of our new features into, which is great considering we have to factor in the customers' usage of the new features into all of the health and usage metrics we have. It has taken a while to integrate our second product however, which is why I would rank this a 7.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Submittable
    Submittable isn't in the same league as these other platforms. It's trying to get there but it's been a rocky road. Neither customer support nor the account people we've dealt with at Submittable seem particularly knowledgeable about how the product actually works for foundations and can't provide detailed recommendations for how to use the product more effectively. The decision to use Submittable was made before I came on board. We are moving to another platform next year, probably SmartSimple.
    Incentivized
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    Totango
    Pipedrive is a great CRM for Sales purposes but it doesnt give much tools for CX management. Totango is all the opposite, it is an excellent product for Customer Management . We currently use both platforms integrated with each other and it gives great results to both Sales and Customer Success teams
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Submittable
    I wish we could choose our own number of applications we want for the year and have the price be changed because we are in-between buyable numbers and always have to add more applications at the end of the year
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    Totango
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Submittable
    We have been easily able to grow. Not only are we able to process different applications, but Submittable makes it easy to add applications onto our plan. Additionally, their eligibility form before the application does a good job of screening applicants so we do not pay for extra applications.
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    Totango
    Information keeps missing and changing in totango . Because of that there is are lot of problems with it. We need to manually keep the backup in an another file. More over if in case we take the backup its so hard to track since its all in numbers. Totango can be much better if the cloud storage is working fine. My company is planning to discontinue due to this factor
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    Professional Services
    Submittable
    Very professional
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    Totango
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Submittable
    • Time is money! Submittable has eliminated many tasks I used to do manually, thus freeing my time for other work.
    • Decreased support calls and emails from applicants- Our applicants are able to successfully access and apply for our grants.
    • No internal IT support needed to use this platform. That team is able to focus on their larger business projects and needs.
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    Totango
    • Since using Totango we have seen our engagement numbers go up as we are better able to identify the groups that are struggling.
    • We have also seen an increase in retention as we are more consistent in messaging and not missing any data.
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    Screenshot of collaboration tools to manage a customer portfolioScreenshot of a 360° view of customer healthScreenshot of the dashboard to monitor customer metricsScreenshot of engaging in-app experiences and email campaigns to improve customer retentionScreenshot of integrated data in the Customer Data Hub