SmarterSelect Pricing Plan & Cost Guide

Award More.
Work Less.

SmarterSelect is an online application management solution for scholarship, award, and grant providers to collect, analyze and evaluate online applications. We help organizations to award more and to work less.

SmarterSelect

Basic

Overall, it has been a good experience and the price has been reasonable for our small office. Even with the price increase it is understandable.  I just want to make sure we are using what is available to us as changes to the software are made and our grandfathered price increases.

Affordable

Exceptional!!! Bottom line this software is excellent​! And the customer service is by far first rate.  



Great Value & Top Notch Support

Hi Alex,
Many thanks for your review!  Regarding the parent situation, just have the applicant/parent click My Account to change the First and Last Name to the student's name.
Thanks again!
Robert

SmarterSelect has been an effective tool for scholarship management and tracking.  The online training forums move very quickly. I can usually find posts of similar issues when troubleshooting which is nice to resolve and move on. 

Great for the value - cumbersome to learn. 

It's been a very beneficial experience. We've seen an increase in our grant and scholarship applications after moving to an online system. The Smarter Select team is always quickly available to help if we have an issue or question. And simply having an online application system makes us appear to be an advanced organization that meets our community's technological needs. 

Smarter Select Provides Value, Function, and Efficiency

Hi Mike, Many thanks for your feedback and comments!  We appreciate the opportunity to serve you and your team.
Regards,
Robert

SmarterSelect has allowed us to easily move from paper applications to a robust on-line process. It's a great value!

Very happy with SmarterSelect 

We've been using Smarter Select for probably 10 years and have been super happy with it.  The team is always adding new features that make managing our scholarship program easier.  The pricing is also competitive.  

Great tool for managing a scholarship program

Very positive experience.  The program handles our needs very well.  Is is very good and strong attention from support.  Ease in crafting applications and doing evals.

SmaterSelect Survey

Excellent features, if you need them

It's easy to make custom applications and export the data from those applications, which saves time doing boring data entry work. The custom options help me offer tools to our review committees, which makes their partnerships with us more meaningful. It also has turned our application process nearly paperless, which saves us printing and paper costs, and makes looking up historical information easy. 

Great software. Great support. Great value.

Hi Katrina,
Many thanks for your review!  Our support team will contact you shortly with info on how applicants can view apps they need to complete.
Regards,
Robert

We are able to begin and end our grants management procedures within the same system. This has been a huge time and cost saver for our foundation. The board members and grants committee members have been more than pleased with the ease of reviewing and evaluating submitted applications. 

Great Grants Management Program, But Not Necessarily for Beginners.  

Our Rotary club has benefited from this program. We will be able to grow our program with this tool. (Please note that your demographic questions at the outset of this survey do not include appropriate responses for a service club, e.g., there are no employees, but rather members, and you do not include "service club" or a similar response as a business type option.)

Scholarship Application Program Review

Great product for the price

We were building a grant program from scratch and needed the applications to be simple enough that anyone could fill them out, while still covering all the information we needed to be compliant with the US Treasury dept. SmarterSelect allowed us to set up the programs we needed quickly and easily.

There is nothing better at this price, and this software is better than packages at higher prices

It was rather simple process. At times  though do to the change over in my office my partners have trouble watching the videos and learning how to utilize the program.



Two years and going strong!

I am the SmarterSelect power-user at my organization and my experience with the tool and customer support have been overwhelmingly positive on the whole, but not without the occasional hiccup. I like how easy it is to get the hang of using the tool, and how responsive support is when something breaks (and this rarely happens).  Our applicants and reviewers alike find our app better than most, which is great. However, there are features available that seem more beta/not fully thought out than ready, and issues which required weeks of back and forth, but none that are dealbreakers. Compared to the competition, I like how this tool has a good blend of customization and ready-out-of-the-box feel, with good mass communication  features; most of the other platforms out there only do well on two of those.

Robust yet simple to use, and at an excellent price point

Hi Jackie, Many thanks for your review!  FYI, earlier this year, we added a dedicated software Quality Assurance person because "even rarely breaks" is not good enough for us.  Also, we have some Single Sign-On CRM integrations and are planning for more.

You can't go wrong with SmarterSelect

Over the past year, the team at IAAQLI was able to successfully build out the grant request platform with 6 different application forms for Round 1 of our inaugural grant awards which yielded more than 140 applications. With SmarterSelect, we were able to receive requests and embed evaluator scores; additionally, the platform allowed my small team to sort and review critical data quickly. The SmarterSelect platform was essential to our allocation of nearly $22 million during Round 1!

Effective and  affordable platform!

It works

Helps you work more effectively and efficiently

I've used this for 5 years and the experience has been excellent. Unlike other programs, the price is terrific for the quality of the program and ease of use. They have only expanded their features.  While lacking a bit in the matching side, they have so much that can be implemented behind the scenes.  

Great Price to Quality

SO GLAD that we don't have to paper applications and send copies to reviewers.  This has streamlined our process immensely.

Excellent value for grant and scholarship application program 

We were looking for a cost effective online software package that would be easy for our users (students applying), evaluators and administrators.  This software provides what we were looking for.  Once the product was introduced, we have been tweeking it to fit our needs and make it a better user experience for both those applying and those reviewing the applications. SmarterSelect has been very responsive to our needs and worked with us to find solutions to most of our requests for assistance.  

Get Bang for Your Buck

Hi Joanne, Thanks for your feedback!  Stay tuned for aggregate reporting coming soon.

The customer service has been great and I was able to get my now program up and running quickly.

Love it!!

It has improved our operation exponentially 

Save time! Secure your applicant  data! Perfect package! 

Excellent product for the price!

scholarship director

I've used this for 5 years and the experience has been excellent. Unlike other programs, the price is terrific for the quality of the program and ease of use.

Executive Director

Finally, we are able to choose the level of program we need based on the price that works best for our size organization.

Create, Enhance (most popular), and Enterprise levels available.

SmarterSelect Pricing (2025)

Pricing overview

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