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Submittable Overview

What is Submittable?

Submittable powers you with tools to launch, manage, measure and grow your social impact programs, locally and globally. From grants and CSR to awards and scholarship programs, 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, distribute funds, prevent fraud and learn for the future—Submittable is flexible and powerful enough to grow alongside your programs. Submittable is used by more than 11 thousand organizations, from major foundations and corporations to governments, higher education, and more, and has accepted over 25 million applications to date.

Submittable Details
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Product Description

Submittable is a highly flexible submission management and collaboration system for grants, film festivals, contests, scholarships, publishing, and more.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Corporations, government, foundations, non-profits, and organizations of any size, anywhere in the world. Power your community investment and employee engagement programs with Submittable.

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.


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Company Website
Year Founded
2010
HQ Location
Missoula, MT
Twitter
@submittable
24,715 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
228 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Submittable is a cloud-based submission management platform designed to streamline the process of accepting, reviewing, and managing submissions for various organizations. It caters to businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions, offering tools for application management, grant submissions, content curation, and more. With features such as customizable forms, collaborative review workflows, and analytics, Submittable aims to enhance efficiency in managing submissions and improve the overall experience for both submitters and reviewers. For more information, visit their website at [submittable.com](https://www.submittable.com).


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B. Lynn G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Good customer service available"
Submittable keeps track of the submissions to Writer Advice's Contests. Their people have been very helpful when I couldn't get things to work.
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Easy to use for workflows!"
I like the ease of building forms, and building workflows. Being able to plan and structure step-by-step processes for work is extremely helpful wh...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy to use for both staff and applicants"
The back end is very intuitive and easy to adjust as needs arise. Help for grantmakers and applicants is responsive and easy to find. Getting proje...
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Submittable Media

Submittable Demo - Collect grant applications
Submittable's intuitive form builder provides you with the tools to create custom forms to gather the information you need from applicants.
Submittable Demo - Review with ease
Collaborate with reviewers and stakeholders and keep all application materials and communications in one place.
Submittable Demo - Report on your success
Advanced reporting tools allow you to manage data, create graphs, and report on metrics to relevant stakeholders.
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General Demo and Overview
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Demo
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CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Demo

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Submittable Pros and Cons

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Ana C.
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Submittable?

I like the filters and the tags I can add to the projects which makes is easy to find various projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

I don't like how the settings are difficult to locate and changing anything on the site takes forever. Whenever I fix something I can never do it again or show my coworkers because it is so convoluted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

There wasn't an option that captured well how my compay uses submittable. My company uses it to receive blog submissions and manage it on our platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alyssa N.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Submittable?

We've used Submittable for so long, it was called Submishmash when we first started using it. We have seen Submittable through so many transformations, and each update they do has only enhanced the site and made our lives easier. We have an annual competition that we run through Submittable and it makes it so easy to tag, review, and vote on manuscripts. We can't imagine using anything else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

There is not much that we dislike. It might be nice to have even more ways of sorting labels (as we use labels a lot), but that is not a negative thing. If the labels stayed the same, it would be absolutely fine, too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used to print out each manuscript (over +1200 of them) and vote on them manually. Using Submittable has saved us so much time and energy that we can't imagine using anything else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Writing and Editing
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Submittable?

A very easy to use system for customers and the staff team. Helps save us 100's of staff hours every year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

Would be great for people to make multiple entries more quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

A easy system for us customers to use and make the management of customer submissions quick and simple Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Philanthropy
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Submittable?

Submittable is really simple to use. Efficient and extremely clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

When reviewing applications there are often small technical issues like if you click on a video to begin watching and try to expand it, it will automatically close the entire video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reviewing large quantites of grants efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Submittable?

User-friendly interface (for applicants, staff, and panel members)

Advanced reporting capabilities and a number of automated features to reduce staff times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

Some internal processes aren't intuitive, it doesn't allow ranking in the survey/application form Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing the grants and call for artist process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TR
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Submittable?

Submittable is easy to use, intuitive, and customizable. The customore implementation team was knowledgeable and responded quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

Submittable export reporting features were not available when I used the system, but it may be available now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

I engaged Submittable services for a non-profit, grant-funded project with a tight timeframe and limited budget. The customer service team provided outstanding support and the system was easy to understand, customizable, and fully met our needs. I highly recommend Submittable! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Submittable?

Submittable is used to house all of our applications and is the reviewing process of our annual cycle. For what we need, it fits us perfectly! I am able to change and update the applications and items on the fly as needed. I can even walk my reviewers through simple technical help myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

Some of the updates have reset my settings without my knowledge. I've only found out when something stopped working correctly and had to troubleshoot. Also, not knowing the pricing and setting up the pricing is quite agravating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

All of the data gathered in the applications is easy to download in a spreadsheet. Which in turn saves me so much time. Everything is completely customizable! Without having to contact anyone else, it saves me time and quite a bit of money. Our review process can take place on the platform as well, and with three reviewers to an application, it can be a bit to handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
AE
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Submittable?

We use it as a workflow for managing prof dev requests. It is helpful to be able to make edits to the application or configuration rather than having to go through local IT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

We are not able to sort at a more granular level RE: status completion of some of our additional forms. The report export function is also not very intuitive. It offers many options but after much tinkering, they don't produce the desired results. We will likely need to purchase dedicated programming time from Submittable support to get customized report exports that work for is.

Also, we have several separate licenses in offices across our larger organization, and it would be great if, taken together, we were able to receive an additional org-level discount based on the total accounts/business we have with Submittable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has provided us a more modern application format with strong workflow, but certain features (like reporting) are still not ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
AN
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Submittable?

Submittable is intuitive and user friendly. I found it easy to navigate and had minimal issues finding solutions to meet our organization's needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

The product is pricey for our small nonprofit and we only need the platform for part of the year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping our submissions organized and professionalized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
AE
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Submittable?

I like that everything is accesible and you can keep organized records. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

There is a learning curve to work with Submittable. At first is not that easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Submittable solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps us to create a file for each student we have and continue adding forms to the specific students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.