Submittable

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Launch, manage, and measure your social impact programs

About Submittable

Submittable powers you with tools to launch, manage, measure, and grow your social impact programs, locally and globally. From employee giving, volunteering, and corporate social responsibility programs to grants, awards and scholarships, we partner with you so you can start making a difference, fast.

The start-to-finish platform makes your workflow smarter and more efficient, leading to better decisions and bigger impact. Easily report on success, and learn for the future—Submittable is flexible and powerful enough to grow alongside your programs.

Submittable has the tools you need for your social impact programs, from community investment to employee engagement.

For community impact programs:

Launch: Launch quickly and collect applications through an accessible, intuitive online portal.

Manage: Automate tasks and coordinate with your team and applicants with versatile tools. Evaluate fairly, from anywhere, and make great decisions as a team.

Measure: Using Impact and Advanced reporting tools, drill deeper into your data while aggregating qualitative and quantitative data from program beneficiaries to tell the whole story of your impact.

Grow: Understand your impact through data and customer stories and use this to expand your program's reach year over year.

For employee engagement:

Launch: Find the causes and opportunities that really matter to your employees through open and honest conversations. Build volunteer events and giving campaigns directly in the product that align with the values of your organization and employees.

Manage: Form strong bonds with your ERGs and democratize the processes so everyone’s voice is heard. Give ERG leaders and other employees the ability to create opportunities on their own, expanding the platform's power.

Measure: Easily track the number of opportunities that your employees can participate in and how many employees are participating.

Grow: Continue to facilitate democratization with your organization to drive participation and ROI.

Submittable has powered over 145,000 social impact programs, receiving nearly 25 million applications. Teams save an average of 3.4 hours per week per admin and 2.6 hours per week per reviewer, and over half of Submittable customers launch in 14 days or less—no wonder 95% of customers report they are happy with Submittable.


Key benefits of Submittable

Run your entire program, from start to finish, on Submittable’s all-in-one platform.

Easy to use for everybody:
Make it easy to do good with a modern, intuitive platform. Submittable’s drag-and drop form builder is easy for everyone to understand—no code or tech expertise required. Administrators, reviewers, applicants, and employees all benefit. Two-thirds of Submittable customers say the platform is easy or very easy to use.

All your programs in one centralized platform:
Submittable’s complete suite of social impact products makes it easier to manage all your programs through one system. Submittable’s Give and Volunteer products are built within the same ecosystem, allowing for seamless integration and collaboration between the products. And Submittable’s Grants Management tool simplifies and improves processes for everyone involved in carrying out your mission. Reducing administrative work and increasing your impact with grantmaking and community investment programs that are efficient, flexible, and simple to manage and report on. Submittable even delivers funds.

Create a positive and equitable experience for applicants and employees. Submittable’s ease of use benefits your applicants and employees as well. They’ll benefit from accessible, equitable platforms offering tools that help them be successful, including auto-save and mobile-friendliness. Plus, with just the click or two of a button, employees can sign-up to participate in volunteering and giving opportunities. 95% of grant applicants say they would recommend Submittable to grantmakers.

Move quickly, be responsive and agile: With Submittable, you can launch your social impact programs within days or weeks, not months. Whether you’re building your grant-making process or launching volunteering and giving opportunities, you can get started fast with the confidence that as you learn what is working best, it’s easy to make changes that go into effect in real time. It all helps you be authentic and responsive in your communities as needs and priorities evolve.

Democratize your employee engagement: Give your employees and ERG leaders the ability to find and create impactful volunteer events and giving opportunities that resonate throughout your organization. Democratizing the process frees up your time as the CSR leader and offers employees the opportunity to participate more in making sure programs align with their values.

Up your program integrity: Submittable’s sophisticated fraud prevention tools mean that you can ensure funds go to those who deserve them. And with end to end reporting and audit-preparedness, you can ensure that you’ll fulfill your compliance needs.

Automate tasks and save time: It all helps you save time. Submittable alleviates tedious administrative and time-wasting tasks, from start to finish. Administrators save on average 3.4 hours of work per week per admin, and reviewers save 2.6 hours per week per reviewer. As your programs scale, so do your time savings—Submittable’s automated reviewing capabilities mean you can leave tasks such as document verification to AI. Claim back your time so you can focus on your mission.


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Submittable Software - Measure and report on impact with automated aggregation of quantitative and qualitative data.
Submittable Software - Screen applicants for eligibility, including their IRS EIN number, before they get to your main application.
Submittable Software - Stay on budget and on schedule with Submittable's Funds Tracking and Distribution capabilities.
Submittable Software - Analyze your data to report on success and learn for next time with on demand reports and built in charts and graphs.
Submittable Software - Gather follow up information to measure impact.
Submittable Software - Display applications in an online gallery with optional public or private voting.
Submittable Software - Use the inutitive drag-and-drop form builder to create forms with many question types, incorporate logic, and accept file uploads.
Submittable Software - Submittable's Funds Distribution capabilities let you trigger a quick and secure payment to awardees with the click of a button.
Submittable Software - Take bulk actions, create email templates, and use in-app messaging.
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Submittable Software - Measure and report on impact with automated aggregation of quantitative and qualitative data.
Submittable Software - Screen applicants for eligibility, including their IRS EIN number, before they get to your main application.
Submittable Software - Stay on budget and on schedule with Submittable's Funds Tracking and Distribution capabilities.
Submittable Software - Analyze your data to report on success and learn for next time with on demand reports and built in charts and graphs.
Submittable Software - Gather follow up information to measure impact.
Submittable Software - Display applications in an online gallery with optional public or private voting.
Submittable Software - Use the inutitive drag-and-drop form builder to create forms with many question types, incorporate logic, and accept file uploads.
Submittable Software - Submittable's Funds Distribution capabilities let you trigger a quick and secure payment to awardees with the click of a button.
Submittable Software - Take bulk actions, create email templates, and use in-app messaging.

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Brian
Brian
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  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

We've used Submittable from the early days of its inception and absolutely love it.

Reviewed on 2017/10/05

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Pros

The software is intuitive and saves us tons of time. Customer support is always there quickly when we need something or have a question. We literally could not run our journal without it. It allows me to manage a large and complex team and hundreds of submissions at a time in pretty simple form.

Cons

Trying to view and work with the submission on the iPad is a little more clunky than I would like, but not a show stopper. I mostly use the desktop.

Steffanie
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  • Industry: Government Administration
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great for automating our application for services!

Reviewed on 2023/07/24

Submittable has enabled our application to be deployed via our website. We are able to keep a...

Submittable has enabled our application to be deployed via our website. We are able to keep a digital copy of a client "file". We are easily able to send emails to clients regarding their application and can send messages to a client's case worker within the agency.

Pros

Easy for clients to access. Can handle our complex application. Able to use the same forms over all projects.

Cons

I had hoped we would be able to correct/add information to the client's application. Our application is quite complex and when we need to make changes, it takes forever for the form to load and to make those changes because it is so "big". Forms do not print very well.

Alternatives Considered

Google Forms

Reasons for Choosing Submittable

Submittable has more features, better database. We can keep a client "file" in 1 place - upload forms, etc. Works ok with DocuSign.

Switched From

Google Forms

Reasons for Switching to Submittable

Google Forms no longer met our needs because our application is quite complex.
Bernice
Bernice
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  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Good for external reviews.

Reviewed on 2019/12/27

I use this whenever I submit poems or manuscripts to publishers. It's really easy to use and it...

I use this whenever I submit poems or manuscripts to publishers. It's really easy to use and it stores your old content which means that you never lose anything. I only use it when I have to. I've never used it for my own reasons. It's always when the publisher/competition requests its use. I have no reason to use it beyond that.

Pros

You never lose anything because it saves it for you as a PDF.
A full history of everything you have submitted and whether it is processing or whether its been accepted or declined.

Cons

Limited functionality. I can't really use it for anything personal. Only when I'm submitting work and the publisher/competition prefers this method.
It would be cool if I could save workable, InDesign or Word copies for my own use. If I have to download a PDF then I have to use another software to make the text editable which is always a hassle.

Alicia
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great and easy to use, does a lot

Reviewed on 2023/02/02

Great. Easy to use, user friendly. Good solutions for our company. Help desk gets back to us...

Great. Easy to use, user friendly. Good solutions for our company. Help desk gets back to us promptly, if we have questions.

Pros

It is easy to use and implement. User friendly for the applicant and for the administration.

Cons

There is no way to edit an email address for a recommender if the applicant put it in wrong, unless you open the whole application for editing. We don't run into this issue often, but it can create problems. But, the benefits outweigh the cons.

Alternatives Considered

Formstack Forms and SurveyMonkey

Reasons for Choosing Submittable

It does not allow an applicant to start work on a form, save, and come back to complete. It also does not allow recommenders to upload their recommendation directly to a specific application, like Submittable.

Switched From

Wufoo

Reasons for Switching to Submittable

Has all the features we needed at a good/reasonable price.
Cierra
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Submittable for Regranting Programs

Reviewed on 2022/09/20

Generally, I really like it! It definitely makes my job easier and is a very organized space for me...

Generally, I really like it! It definitely makes my job easier and is a very organized space for me to keep track of hundreds of artists and their information .

Pros

As an administer of grant funding to artists, this software works great for tracking, reporting and collecting data from artists who apply to our programs.

Cons

A lot of the times I'm unable to edit the content if needed when an application is live already. Which is understandable however. I have to duplicate and make additional forms which takes longer. It's also hard to assign team members or jurors and help them use the software when I can only see it from an admin's point of view so it's hard to let them know how to navigate the software.

Alternatives Considered

Google Forms

Reasons for Switching to Submittable

I was trained on the software when I started the job. Previous coworkers had already been using the product.
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Submittable offers the following pricing plans:

  • Pricing model: Subscription
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Submittable has the following typical customers:

2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Submittable supports the following languages:

English, Spanish

Submittable supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Submittable integrates with the following applications:

Gmail, Google Drive, Mailchimp, Salesforce Platform, Slack, WordPress, Zapier

Submittable offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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