An Effective and Versatile Tool for Managing Grants, From the Submission to the Milestone Checks
January 05, 2023

An Effective and Versatile Tool for Managing Grants, From the Submission to the Milestone Checks

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Submittable

We use Submittable as a fundamental tool for handling the grant process. We use it for all the internal messages and the evaluation process. Also, for handling the underlying documentation, from the submission to the milestone review. It enables efficient focus on the personal task to accomplish and a broader view of the outstanding projects, thanks to efficient filters.

Pros

  • Notifications
  • Clear view of the overall process, from the submission to the approval
  • Efficient filtering for retrieving projects info

Cons

  • Notification of necessary action in order to proceed forward
  • Setting a deadline for answering
  • Setting a reminder when the deadline has passed
  • Faster response time
  • Have a bird eye view of the current status of the whole project
  • Retrieving similar projects through filter allows to enforce fair treatment by comparison
It is intuitive when following the overall approval process because you can quickly trace the responsible for a particular task. It is very easy to retrieve all the previous communication with the counterparties, on the weak side you have to manually set reminders to other colleagues in order to be effective.
Submittable helped our organization to track all the communications with our grantees and at the same time to organize the single project documentation. The possibility to apply labels enables the PMO to efficiently organize and see coherently different buckets and see who is in charge of the next steps.
Submittable is definitely more agile to adapt to your needs, and it has more parameters to choose from. On the other side, our current size of the grants is limited, so I don't know if Submittable can efficiently scale up.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Submittable go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Submittable again?

Yes

Submittable is a tool that is necessary if a company, especially a start-up with no clear structure, has to implement an approval process; for grants in our case. The selling point is that you can tune the different steps in the procedure according to your needs and it's properly integrated with a messaging system that enables you to communicate with prospective grantees. At the same time have all the relevant info available in one single place.

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