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OpenWater - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

OpenWater overview

What is OpenWater?

OpenWater streamlines program management with its end-to-end solution for accepting and reviewing applications, awards, grants, scholarships, proposals, and abstracts. OpenWater’s secure, all-in-one platform makes navigating the review process easy with its user-friendly features. Empower your program administrators by automating time consuming administrative tasks, collecting high volume submissions, and driving data-proven decisions through custom reporting and analytics.

Starting price

5100 /
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Pros & Cons

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Customer Support

Bugs and Issues

User Interface

Navigation

OpenWater’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

OpenWater pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
 
1-2(1)
3-4(26)
5(46)

What do users say about OpenWater?

The limitations and bugs have been a bit frustrating, but their customer service is fantastic and it seems they are willing to fix things.

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Who uses OpenWater?

Based on 73 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Non-Profit Organization Management
Entertainment
Education Management
Management Consulting
Others

Use cases

Contest
Grant Management
Scholarship Management

OpenWater's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from OpenWater users:

Applicant portal
Scoring
Customizable questions
Data import/export
Document review
Applicant tracking
Forms management
Grant management

All OpenWater features

Features rating:

Access controls/permissions
Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Administrative Reporting
Alerts/Notifications
API
Applicant portal
Applicant tracking
Application management
Approval process control
Awards management
Blind Judging
Budget control
Categorization/Grouping
Collaboration tools
Commenting/Notes
Compliance management
Configurable workflow
Contact management
CRM
Customizable branding
Customizable fields
Customizable forms
Customizable questions
Customizable reports
Customizable templates
Data import/export
Deadline management
Document management
Document review
Due date tracking
Electronic payments
Electronic Submission
Email reminders
Email templates
Entrant Management
Entry Fee Processing
Entry management
Financial reporting
For grantmakers
Forms management
Fraud detection
Grant application management
Grant award tracking
Grant management
Impact measurement
Interview management
Judging management
Labeling
Monitoring
Payment tracking
Polls/Voting
Progress tracking
Promotions management
Recommendations
Reminders
Reporting & statistics
Reviewer management
Role-Based permissions
Scoring
Search/Filter
Single sign on
Skills Contests (Photo, Essay, Design, etc)
Social media integration
Social promotion
SSL security
Status tracking
Third-Party integrations
Web forms
White label
Workflow management

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OpenWater pricing

Value for money rating:

Starting from

5100

Per year

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Free trial
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User opinions about OpenWater price and value

Value for money rating:

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

“Judges are now able to enter all of their scores and we can use OpenWater to calculate and weight things as needed versus having to do all of this manually before!”
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Danielle A.

AVP

“Even though we don't use it for scholarship management, we use it for a conference focused on human rights and technology.”
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Luis M.

RightsCon Senior Program Coordinator

OpenWater integrations (20)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 73 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as OpenWater integrations and how users feel about them.

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

Connect with my Billing system

JD

Jesus D.

Administrator

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iMIS

Integration rating: 4.5 (2)

This allowed registrants to flow from iMIS to EventMobi so we could check them into the show. It was mainly used for our online registration system before the conference.

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Jared L.

Systems and Communications Specialist

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

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Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Integration rating: 3.0 (1)

We use both platforms to track and align sales.

Setup takes some time but allows easy creation of Leads and Campaign members from form submissions.

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Michelle U.

VP of Operations

1/2

OpenWater customer support

What do users say about OpenWater customer support?

Customer support rating:

We analyzed verified user reviews to identify positive and negative aspects of OpenWater customer support.

A significant portion of users praise OpenWater's customer support for being highly responsive and quick to address issues.

Frequently reported by users, support staff are knowledgeable, friendly, and consistently provide expert guidance and solutions.

Widespread user sentiment highlights the ease of contacting support, with dedicated reps and multiple channels making help readily available.

Support options

Phone support
Chat
Email/help desk
Faqs/forum
Knowledge base

Training options

Webinars
In person
Documentation
Live online
Videos

To see what individual users say about OpenWater's customer support, check out the review snippets below.

“The limitations and bugs have been a bit frustrating, but their customer service is fantastic and it seems they are willing to fix things.”

JK

Jenna K.

Education Systems Program Specialist

“Open Water representatives help us build presentation applications and help us come up with solutions when any issues arise. ”

AR

Amanda R.

Education Administrator

“There have been several times where my team has needed to set something up and it isn't in a place that we would think it would be in. ”

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Danielle A.

AVP

OpenWater FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of OpenWater?

OpenWater has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Small Business, Mid-size Business

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Q. What level of support does OpenWater offer?

OpenWater offers the following support options:
Phone Support, Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base

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