Streamline your grant application process!
Updated May 29, 2024
Streamline your grant application process!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Submittable
We use Submittable to manage grant applications, training applications, site visit reports, and final reports. Submittable gives us a central system for multiple reviewers to access, review and vote on applications. These are reviewers both within our organization and those from outside of our organization.
Pros
- Easy system for people to apply for grants.
- Accessible way for people to access, review and vote on applications.
- Integrated ways for grantees and reviewers to report on grants.
Cons
- The level of customer service depends on what you pay -- I wish everyone got a real time chat or phone access.
- They have done a lot to help customize reports which is helpful.
- This saves us both time and actual expenses from paper applications.
- More people can access the applications and we can customize them each year to meet the needs of our applicants.
- Everyone's application from start to finish is now in one place including the reviewer's notes, site visit reports and final reports. Much more efficient.
We have always used Submittable.
Do you think Submittable delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Submittable's feature set?
Yes
Did Submittable live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Submittable go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Submittable again?
Yes
Using Submittable
25 -
Executive Director
Program Managers
Grant review panel members
Board members
We use this for grantmaking and program administration.
We are a small organization with only one employee so we don't have in-house support.
- Grantmaking for organizations
- Application for training programs
- Grantmaking for individuals
- Site visit reporting
- Site visit reporting
- Not sure.
Evaluating Submittable and Competitors
- Ease of Use
We have used Submittable for about 7 years so at the time it was our first shift to online applications -- ease of use was paramount.
I would look at the fee schedule and what is included at different levels. Submittable has added features since we joined which is great but not all are included at our subscription level and we can't afford to pay more. It is discouraging to hear all the cool new things and then at the end of the presentation, be told it would require an upgrade to access them.
Submittable Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Not sure - I don't understand the jargon of this questions.
- Setting up systems and applications the first time out had a learning curve but that is to be expected.
Submittable Training
Configuring Submittable
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
Submittable Support
Pros | Cons |
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Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Support understands my problem | Not kept informed Difficult to get immediate help Slow Initial Response |
No. We can't afford it. This subscription is a very large expense for us. Worth it but it is expensive for a small organization.
We didn't realize that we were hitting our application limit for the year on the same weekend we had a deadline. I wrote to my sales rep in a panic and they wrote back (on a Saturday) and added applications to my limit so the application portal didn't shut down.
Using Submittable
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Well integrated Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using | Lots to learn |
- Copying an application to update for the next grant cycle
- Using additional forms to ask for grant payment info and final reports - along with deadline and reminder options. I like the flexible deadline option.
- We conduct site visits before organizations apply and there is no way to link an internal report to an application that comes in later --
Submittable Reliability
Integrating Submittable
Relationship with Submittable
Discounted rate and multi-year contract at a fixed cost. This helped with our budgeting from year to year.
Negotiate!
Upgrading Submittable
- Not sure if we upgraded. I don't know what this would have looked like
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