Submittable vs. Zealous
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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Submittable | Score9.3 out of 10 | N/A | Submittable 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 |
Zealous | N/A | Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | Zealous was built to streamline the process of collecting, reviewing and selecting candidates online. The vendor states their platform has been used to simplify awards, competitions, residencies, exhibitions, grants, public commissions and creative jobs. Created specifically for any company seeking to select submissions, the Zealous process is described by the vendor as highly visual, easy to pick up and tailored to… | $0 per month Submissions |
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| Additional Details | — | Zealous plans are priced by the number of entries an organisation receives in a year. The price doesn’t depend on the number of users, judges or programmes, so every paid plan includes unlimited programmes, judges and categories. Each plan comes in several sizes. Starter, for example, is available for 75, 150 or 300 entries a year. Organisations can pay monthly with no annual contract, and can pause or cancel between cycles. Annual billing costs 33% less. There are no setup, onboarding or support fees, and unlimited support is included on every plan. When an organisation charges entry fees, the payments go straight to its own Stripe account. Zealous takes a commission on each transaction, which is one payment by a candidate and can cover one entry or several. The commission is 2.2% plus a fixed fee, capped per transaction, for example 2.2% + $0.25 capped at $3 in USD. There is no commission on free entries. Stripe’s own payment fees are charged separately. Commission on the Enterprise plan is negotiable. Prices are published in GBP, USD, EUR, CAD, AUD, SGD and HKD, and include VAT, sales tax or GST. Candidates can pay entry fees in any of Stripe’s 135+ currencies. The free plan is permanent and has no time limit. It covers one programme with up to 20 entries a year. | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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| Would buy again | ||
90% Would buy again 74 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
94% Delivers good value for the price 61 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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89% Happy with the feature set 73 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
92% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 55 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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90% Implementation went as expected 61 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
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| Small Businesses | Blackbaud Grantmaking Score9 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic |
| Enterprises | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
| Submittable | Zealous | |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | - |
| Likelihood to Renew | 10.0 | - |
| Usability | 7.9 | - |
| Availability | 10.0 | - |
| Performance | 10.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 10.0 | - |
| In-Person Training | 8.1 | - |
| Online Training | 10.0 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 10.0 | - |
| Configurability | 7.0 | - |
| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | 8.3 | - |
| Product Scalability | 7.0 | - |
| Professional Services | 9.4 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | 10.0 | - |
| Vendor pre-sale | 9.0 | - |
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| ScreenShots | Zealous Screenshots |


