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BoardEffect

Cloud-based platform for managing board meetings

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BoardEffect - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: September 2026

BoardEffect overview

What is 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.

Starting price

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Pros & Cons

Meeting Book Creation

Board Meeting Organization

File Download and Upload

Customer Support

Document Management

BoardEffect’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

4.4

(127)

BoardEffect reviews

Overall rating

4.4

127

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend0.77/10

Rating distribution

Pros

“It fills our needs for a secure, easy-to-use platform for board and leadership meeting information, as well as a cloud-based back-up for emergency procedures, and the search functionality has made it much simpler to find previous reports quickly.”

Chelsea G.

Director

“It allows us to send board documents to our board members to review prior to the Board Meetings and keeps us all organized and informed.”

Audra L.

Executive Assistant

“The calendar is nice where you can see what meetings are coming up and I as the coordinator appreciate the RSVP button and the Teams link option as our board members sometimes have to join via Teams.”

Audra L.

Executive Assistant

Cons

“The work has piled up for me because they have been unable to fix this issue, and the lack of support has finally pushed me to the point where we will be looking to leave the platform when our contract is up. ”

Bonnie M.

“They have rolled out functionality that does not work and no one in support even knows about it or how to make it work and then tell you it is not actually included in your package as an excuse for that.”

Kim P.

Executive Admin

“The transfer to Diligent Boards - this was an automatic move from Diligent as it no longer supported its historic platforms (BoardPacks etc).”

Lauren B.

Project Team Lead

Who uses BoardEffect?

Based on 127 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Non-Profit Organization Management

Banking

Hospital & Health Care

Real Estate

Others

Use cases

Board Management

Online Meeting

Meeting

Portal

BoardEffect's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from BoardEffect users:

Document management

4.3

(52)

Agenda management

3.9

(27)

Access controls/permissions

4.2

(48)

Self service portal

4.0

(1)

Calendar management

4.3

(25)

Polls/Voting

4.0

(2)

Member directory

4.5

(2)

Meeting notes

3.5

(22)

Task management

3.5

(2)

Electronic signature

4.0

(3)

All BoardEffect features

Features rating:

4.2

(127)

Access controls/permissions

4.2

(48)

Action item tracking

4.0

(1)

Activity dashboard

4.0

(8)

Agenda management

3.9

(27)

AI summarization

(0)

Alerts/Notifications

5.0

(1)

Annotations

3.0

(1)

API

3.0

(2)

Approval process control

4.1

(9)

Archiving & retention

5.0

(1)

Attendance management

4.5

(2)

Attendee management

4.5

(2)

Audit trail

3.6

(8)

Automatic backup

(0)

Calendar management

4.3

(25)

Calendar sync

(0)

Chat/Messaging

(0)

Client portal

4.4

(5)

Collaboration tools

2.8

(4)

Commenting/Notes

3.3

(3)

Committee management

(0)

Communication management

(0)

Compliance management

3.8

(6)

Content library

4.0

(1)

Content management

4.4

(13)

Customizable branding

3.9

(11)

Customizable forms

(0)

Customizable templates

3.6

(7)

Data security

4.7

(12)

Document management

4.3

(52)

Document review

(0)

Drag & drop

5.0

(1)

Electronic signature

4.0

(3)

Employee portal

3.0

(1)

Event scheduling

3.7

(15)

File sharing

4.4

(8)

For healthcare

(0)

Forms management

(0)

For nonprofits

4.3

(3)

Generative ai

(0)

Host controls

4.0

(1)

Knowledge base management

4.3

(4)

Meeting management

4.2

(43)

Meeting notes

3.5

(22)

Meeting preparation tools

3.0

(1)

Member directory

4.5

(2)

Minutes management

3.5

(6)

Mobile access

4.2

(12)

Notes management

(0)

Polls/Voting

4.0

(2)

Reporting/Analytics

(0)

Reporting & statistics

4.3

(4)

Role-Based permissions

4.0

(1)

Scheduling

3.8

(5)

Search/Filter

4.0

(1)

Secure data storage

4.5

(39)

Self service portal

4.0

(1)

Single sign on

3.8

(12)

SSL security

5.0

(3)

Surveys & feedback

(0)

Task management

3.5

(2)

Third-Party integrations

3.0

(3)

Unified directory

(0)

User management

4.3

(3)

Version control

4.8

(4)

Video conferencing

3.7

(10)

Workflow management

(0)

BoardEffect alternatives

BoardEffect

4.4

(127)

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Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.3

Features

4.2

Value for Money

4.2

Customer Support

4.4

Easy Board

4.8

(80)

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Starting from

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.9

Features

4.6

Value for Money

4.8

Customer Support

4.9

Boardable

4.7

(128)

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Starting from

20.99

/user

Per month

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.7

Features

4.5

Value for Money

4.6

Customer Support

4.8

OnBoard

4.7

(1K)

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Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial

Free version

Ease of Use

4.6

Features

4.5

Value for Money

4.6

Customer Support

4.8

BoardEffect pricing

Value for money rating:

4.2

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan

Free trial

Subscription

Pro

No pricing info

Features included:

Boards: 1 Check
AI Board Book Summarization
Audit Log
Microsoft Integration
Survey Templates
Check SSO/MFA
Certifications: Unlimited

Plus

No pricing info

Features included:

Boards: Unlimited
Minutes
Messenger
Data Integrations
Market Insights

User opinions about BoardEffect price and value

Value for money rating:

4.2

(127)

To see what individual users think of BoardEffect's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

Chelsea G.

Director

“It allows us to send board documents to our board members to review prior to the Board Meetings and keeps us all organized and informed.”

Audra L.

Executive Assistant

BoardEffect integrations (7)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 127 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as BoardEffect integrations and how users feel about them.

Microsoft 365

Integration rating: 4.5 (2)

Microsoft Word

Integration rating: 4.5 (2)

Microsoft SharePoint

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Google Drive

Integration rating: 3.0 (1)

“The Google Drive integration is important because all my Docs are automatically stored and organized there. It makes it easy to find documents, manage folders, share files with different teams, and access everything from any device.”