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Cloud-based platform for managing board meetings
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About BoardEffect

BoardEffect is a comprehensive board portal management software designed to empower governance leaders in mission-driven organizations, including nonprofits, higher education institutions, community healthcare organizations, and credit unions. The software provides the right tools, analytics, and insights to drive more efficient, transparent, and secure governance.

The intuitive and flexible board meeting management features of BoardEffect address the needs of directors, executives, and administrators, enabling better communication and collaboration. The action-oriented solution allows board members to securely access and manage board books, scheduling, approvals, surveys, tasks, and archives. The feature-rich design accelerates the preparation, collaboration, and review of critical board management materials, delivering a unified and seamless experience for board members to plan, act, and execute meeting management in real-time from any device.

Key benefits of BoardEffect

  • Action-oriented solution for the Board to securely access and manage board books, scheduling, approvals, surveys, tasks and archives with access to 24/7 support at your fingertips.
  • Intuitive, feature-rich design to accelerate preparation, collaboration, and review of critical board management materials.
  • Deliver a unified and seamless experience for Board members to plan, action and execute meeting management materials in real-time from any device.

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    4.5 /5
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    Value for Money
    4.5/5
    Features
    4.4/5
    Ease of Use
    4.4/5
    Customer Support
    4.7/5

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    amit
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    • Industry: Program Development
    • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
    • Used Daily for Free Trial
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Simplifies Board Meetings

    Reviewed on 2024/12/13

    It's an effective solution for organizing and streamlining board communications and meetings.

    It's an effective solution for organizing and streamlining board communications and meetings.

    Pros

    Preparing for board meetings was much easier as I could share documents securely and update agendas in real-time.

    Cons

    The app could use a more modern interface, but it’s still functional and reliable.

    Carey
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    • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
    • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Don't just think about what your board is doing now, think ahead to what the future may hold

    Reviewed on 2022/09/14

    Clear, consistent communications across all membership has been achieved as well as access to...

    Clear, consistent communications across all membership has been achieved as well as access to mission critical documents to help members support the organization.

    Pros

    Ease of set up, use, some flexibility to "customize" in the manner that you use it. Security, ease of building meeting books, events, and communicating to users through the portal. The reports feature is amazingly helpful.

    Cons

    Third party integrations and the ability to use Microsoft products does not exist at this time. As a nonprofit, can't afford to move over the ever evolving Diligent parent platform. The knowledge base is not helpful as it leaves those seeking information with more questions.

    Alternatives Considered

    Nasdaq Boardvantage and Board Intelligence

    Reasons for Choosing BoardEffect

    BoardMax was acquired by Diligent

    Reasons for Switching to BoardEffect

    Security, ease of set up, customer service, cost.
    Daniel
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    • Industry: Banking
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

    Absolutely Deficient for the Intended Purpose -

    Reviewed on 2025/02/26

    Could not be worse. Inferior programming design.

    Could not be worse. Inferior programming design.

    Pros

    After 12 years of BoardPaq, which was a superior product, we will be leaving BoardEffect. Any other software users would never rate this product as capable. Our Board has unanimously decided to leave this product after 4 months

    Cons

    Difficult to navigate, poorly designed. This software should be intended to publish board level agenda's with attachments and libraries. There should never be a descriptor as a "workbook" at a board level. This appears to be designed by programmers. I have recommended BoardPaq to several organizations for the past decade. Not one past referral is satisfied with this product.

    Charles
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    • Industry: Accounting
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

    Not Efficient Agenda Platform

    Reviewed on 2025/01/03

    Very poor. Would not suggest this platform.

    Very poor. Would not suggest this platform.

    Pros

    Ability to upload multiple documents, drag and drop features, uploading different doc types without having to convert to PDF. Platform could handle all documents.

    Cons

    Constant issues with platform bugs, customer service would answer to tickets but not fix issues, not easy for board to navigate, unintuitive document uploading to agendas, minutes integration ineffective and clunky, publishing agendas was a nightmare.

    Alternatives Considered

    iDeals Board and BoardSpot

    Reasons for Switching to BoardEffect

    Easiest to move to at the time since they were sunsetting the original program "BoardPaq" and replacing it with BoardEffect.
    Kelly
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    • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Saves Time and Eases Board Service

    Reviewed on 2020/09/08

    We have used BoardEffect for over a decade. Board Members love it. Support is excellent. There...

    We have used BoardEffect for over a decade. Board Members love it. Support is excellent. There are numerous webinars which remain available to assist. Helpdesk is responsive. While there are many new options that were not available when we selected Board Effect, they require much more work from the administrative side and do not have all the built in features available in BoardEffect.

    Pros

    BoardEffect was easy to set up and is intuitive to use. New Board Members are able to quickly orient themselves with minimal support. Handbook makes accessing essential documents easy and with administrator attention, the most current documents are at the fingertips of Board Members as needed. Meeting book is easy to organize and distribute.

    Cons

    emails don't look great. Can't format font, etc.

    Alternatives Considered

    Microsoft SharePoint

    Reasons for Switching to BoardEffect

    Ease of set up and maintenance for administrator. Ongoing product support.
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    BoardEffect offers the following pricing plans:

    • Pricing model: Subscription
    • Free Trial: Not Available

    Full pricing information is available on request.

    BoardEffect has the following typical customers:

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

    BoardEffect supports the following languages:

    Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish

    BoardEffect supports the following devices:

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

    BoardEffect integrates with the following applications:

    GoTo Meeting, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Okta, Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, Zoom Workplace

    BoardEffect offers the following support options:

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

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