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Submittable

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101 Reviews and Ratings

What is Submittable?

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.

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Who Buys & Uses Submittable

Submittable Reviews

What users are saying about Submittable.
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Satisfied with Submittable.

Incentivized
Jessica Vavra
Community Impact & Foundation Program Manager in Corporate at Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our Foundation uses Submittable to manage our grant administration processes for two external grant programs (and one internal program for our employees). Before using Submittable, our application process was manual, with a high administrative and IT support burden. Since making the switch to this platform, our efficiency has increased significantly.

Pros

  • Easy to use! Resulting in confidence and independence when using platform.
  • Exporting reports to Excel files makes internal data sharing a breeze.
  • Tech support for grantees frees administrators from resolving issues on their own.
  • Automatic and customizable communications with applicants and grantees.

Cons

  • I'd like to see applications that are in process but not complete.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Usability

Other Software Used

Tableau Public, SurveyMonkey

Submittable is great!

Incentivized
Matthew Storm
Film Office Manager at SC Film Commission (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for multiple things: grant application submissions, our state film incentive applications, and reporting needs. There are multiple grants opportunities and it keeps track of them in different folders, so it's easy to keep up with what we have going on and how many people have jumped in.

Pros

  • Storing video files
  • Integrating existing applications to an online process
  • Storing past and present project data for reporting purposes

Cons

  • Reporting can be a bit clunky
  • Personalized graphics on submissions
  • Requires all users to create an account...can be a bit annoying

Return on Investment

  • Faster acceptance times
  • Easy way to keep things organized

Usability

Submittable - very much enjoy and recommend.

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Josh KollerView profile
Director of Assessment at TBR (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Submittable to manage a portfolio of grant programs and projects that are used to fund innovative programming across Tennessee. These projects are focused on increasing student success and enhancing innovative practices in higher education. The projects have varying terms, objectives, scopes, and funding amounts. The Submittable platform allows for management, review, tracking, and archiving of these projects.

Pros

  • Drag and drop form creation.
  • Customer services.
  • Quest to update and provide the best experience.
  • Attentiveness to my perspective as a customer.
  • Ease of use and easy to adopt/learn the system.

Cons

  • Allowing of sharing of project across users.
  • The internal role differentiation could be more robust.
  • Changing/updating original submissions are not as intuitive as initial creation.

Return on Investment

  • I can get things inputted into Submittable fast - much faster than previous tools.
  • Our end users are reporting to very much enjoy the look and feel of the platform.

Usability

Other Software Used

QuestionPro, WebGrants

Submittable is your communication savior!

Incentivized
Emily (Wong Loi Sing) FuderView profile
Program and Marketing Manager in Marketing at National ACE (1-10 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Submittable to run grant projects with funding provided by our corporate sponsors. We needed a platform to distribute over $2m in funds in 2021, and Submittable was secure, organized, and easy to use for our needs. We wanted to have reviews be fair and impartial by concealing specific applicant information and having applicants submit forms to submittable instead of emailing our team repeatedly helped us orchestrate the grants seamlessly.

Pros

  • List sorting of winners/labeled groups.
  • Ease of application creation/question creation.
  • Template building for quick responses to applicants.

Cons

  • Labels shouldn't be an option for all reviewers, we had a reviewer for our Florida applicants create labels like "1" "2" "3" which confused my reviewers in California.
  • Running reports across multiple grant projects is tedious and clumsy. Our grant project had 15 regions but it was the same application, we had to compare applications across regions, but could only have a set amount of winners for each area. It would've been easier to create 1 application and 1 opportunity but have filters for the # of applications for each region instead of creating 15 separate applications.
  • Reviewers also found the review forms difficult. There should be an easier way to run a report on their pending reviews in an excel format, or just a better functionality to review. Even with onboarding, our reviewers were confused and didn't use the review function.

Return on Investment

  • Submittable allowed us to run a $2m nationwide grant project with only two team members. We wouldn't have been able to successfully run the grant application without Submittable building an infrastructure for success.
  • We were able to respond to every applicant's question within 24 hours because of Submittable's easy-to-use email templates.
  • Our applicants could immediately see if their application had been submitted or not without us having to use any employee time to send manual updates.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Google Forms

Other Software Used

Salesforce CMS, Mailchimp, Canva, Google Workspace, Sprout Social

Submittable is a Must for Grant Makers

Incentivized
Bethany Rogers
Director of Strategic Projects at Main Street America (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Submittable to run multiple grant programs that range significantly in size and application pool. We don't know of another platform out there that creates great online applications and then application review and scoring mechanisms that are also easily assigned to other partners/reviewers. Not only is it an efficient way to handle applications, it's secure -- since we ask for financial data with some programs, and there are also lots of reporting options with the platform that serve us well, especially for reporting to our funders.

Pros

  • User friendly interface for building grant applications and application review forms
  • Easy to securely involve partners in building and scoring applications
  • Helpful and responsive customer service representatives

Cons

  • I hope they are developing a feature where correspondance to applicants can come from our organization's website and not Submittable's
  • We'd like a more robust integration with DocuSign where forms can be populated with a range of fields and executed documents can easily be saved to the appropriate application file

Return on Investment

  • Submittable has improved the applicant experience because it provides such a clean and streamlined interface for applicants
  • Submittable saves us lots of time and stress, again, because we can easily assign colleagues or partners to applications to help score and review applications and because all the financial and privacy data we collect the platform are securely stored.

Usability

Other Software Used

DocuSign, Airtable

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