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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.

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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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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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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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"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 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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Calvin  E.
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Executive Director
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Submittable?

My team just started using submittable and so far we love it for a fellowship application we are developing. So far it is intuitive to use and the customer support is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

Can be be seen as maybe alittle expensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Submittable:

I recommend submittable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Receiving applications for a program from the public. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Damion W.
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Quality Advisor
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Submittable?

Submittable was not only the most affordable of the platforms we were considering, but it was by far the most user friendly. Additionally, the folks we worked with were knowledgeable about our field, which made the design of our forms easier. The staff was also very helpful in helping us make some last minute adjustments before we went live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

It is difficult to design a platform that is everything to everybody. With that in mind, there were a few features that were specific to our organization that would have been helpful. Some of those things are coming out in a later version. With the other things, the submittable staff helped us create workarounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Submittable replaced an archaic application system that saddled us down with a lot of paperwork. We have streamlined our application and selection process tremendously. Saving time and reducing the stress around our process has been the most valuable part of this experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I like the fact that I can track the progress of my submission and edited after I sent it. I can create my forms in a very easy way and customized them as I see fit. Their customer support is very fast and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

I would say that they don't have a Title option. Sometimes I would like to add just a title but I have to select the one that comes with the text box included. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Submittable:

Submittable is a very easy and effective platform for any business whether you want to do a survey, a grant, a competition or just any type of application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Submittable I'm able to have all the submission data in one place. It is easier to contact the submitter as well as the team members to do the review.

The points system in the review section has been a revelation. Truly helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My team appreciated how centralized the system was. The on-boarding team, especially Dakota, was such a pleasure to work with and had a great way of unpacking the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

Based on the number of users we had (for us number of panelists reviewing applications) and the number of submissions, the price tag was higher than anticipated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to track and manage applications for grant programs. Great to have application assessments in one place with actual application and additional forms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ST
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Submittable?

I love having everything in one organized place. I can go back to each submission, never having to worry about missing a portion of their submitted project or proposal. The ability to make questions mandatory has made it so that our submissions are 100% complete. That eliminates manually contacting applicants regarding missing information. Before Submittable i accepted submissions via email. Inevitably someone would get lost in the shuffle, not anymore. We just utilized the Gallery View for the first time and I think this is a game changer for our graduate student poster contest. The gallery was so well received that we are planning to utilize this feature each semester. My sales team through the years has been terrific. Ashley Widtfeldt was instrumental in helping us get our gallery off the ground during a very stressful time for the university and our students. We love this product and the company support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

I would like to search by "additional forms" and I'd like a red color to show when they have submitted an additional form. The current color is too close to the original to really differentiate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

organization

ability to enforce submission dates

no proposal or poster "misplaced"

flexibility with file types for specific submission requirements

the Gallery View gave our institute the visibility of the entire university, more than a face to face event could accomplish Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fairly easy to stand up a program. Great team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

Important parts of the grant management process are not automated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Submittable:

Determine the process you want and need before jumping in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Grant management portal. Product provided a central location for the work but did not automate the process, which is what we needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is user friendly and so efficient for our needs! We have moved all of our submissions to the Submittable platform, including our class forms and grants submissions. Also, our account representative and everyone we have talked to that works there have all been great. They are so accommodating and efficient and lovely to work with. They are also so responsive to new ideas and ways to improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

There are a few other features that would help us, and being able to implement those quickly would make our lives easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has made our work flow so much more fluid! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The scoring/reviewing experience with the split screen. The cleanness of the UI. How intuitive it is to create and edit forms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

For us to continue using submittable, we need some key features to be added:

- a more powerful view/home dashboard that shows applications along with key responses and lets you sort and filter. Wizehive does this much better

- An ability to do multiple rounds of review and scoring, down-selecting to smaller sets of applications each round

- An ability to assign reviewers to concept notes based on certain criteria - for example, a reviewer would have expertise in a certain geography and would get matched to applications that are focused on or from that geography Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Submittable:

Only use submittable if you have a very basic open call for proposals process with only one round of review, and are willing to do most analysis and sorting offline in excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We run annual open call for proposals process - submittable allowed us to receive applications from hundreds of organizations, and run a review/scoring process with a panel of ~30 reviewers. Submittable helped makes this process much less manual Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I like the out of the box review features. Allow for grading within the app and controlling permissions is why we chose Submittable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

The application maker is very basic. I don’t like how linear the application is and there lack of formatting ability in the questions. Other form software like FormAssembly has advanced features and wish for an upgrade of the form editor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Submittable:

It’s the best option available and would recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We had a hard time with doing reviews for our grant application. It was manual and tedious and paper based. Submittable streamlined that process for us. We also like how applicant progress is auto-saved. We have had fewer technical issues to resolve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The layout is very user friendly. It's easy for me to find the application I'm looking for and to create detailed searches. It is also easy for applicants to fill out and submit an application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Submittable?

I wish there was a dashboard or a homepage to give an overview or snap shot so I don't have to conduct multiple searches. Moving applications into the archive sometimes makes it hard to search for later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our previous system was not quick or easy and we spent too much time accepting and rejecting applications. Submittable makes that process much quicker and simpler. We are able to give applicants quicker answers and can easily contact them through Submittable with questions. There are never any worries of applications getting lost. The review process is much more in depth and the labels are great for visually identifying specific applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.