Grant Holster Reviews

In the grant world, tracking deadlines and tasks is daunting. Some days, it's almost more difficult than putting together the proposal itself! Grant Holster takes the stress out of grant seeking. As a freelance grant writer, I'm able to depend on Grant Holster to manage not just deadlines, but all of the other pieces of grant seeking: tracking reports, pending requests, documenting conversations with funders, and storing completed proposals and grant documents. An added bonus? Grant Holster is home to a Vault to host organization information such as details on staff and volunteers, board members, budgets, organization documents, and program details.

I love Grant Holster! It's important to remember, like any good software, you have to use it to be effective. If you don't track due dates and grant tasks, they won't show up on your "to do" list.

Hi Jodi! Thank you so much for your review. We love the Review Title! We are happy to hear that Grant Holster is working so well for you!

They advertise that this was developed by grant professionals FOR grant professionals - boy, that's true!!! No other software "knows" the information I need every day. The reports are perfect - they have saved me days of work. The price is pretty painless - started at a lower tier and then increased as my needs increased. They have a one month free trial, so I had time to really play around with it. Also, when I needed help - they responded immediately and were so friendly and caring. The website and Facebook pages have lots of tools and tips for grant writers.

It is still a new application -- they are still working on making improvements. Considering the low price, though, this is not a big deal at all. The staff keep us informed about new features and get our feedback on what would help us more.

Thank you for your review! We are so happy to hear how much Grant Holster has helped you with managing your grant-seeking

The Vault is amazing! I like that this is a program designed with grant writers and their teams in mind.

To be a bit more client-centric with some features. Seems like a lot of data entry.

Thank you for your review, Marquetta! The Vault is one of our favorite features too. We know from experience that there can be a lot of data entry to get started, but we are currently working on a way to upload your data to Grant Holster! Thank you for trying Grant Holster!

I love how Grant Holster is developed by a grant pro and the grant process is central to the program, not a secondary function like a lot of other fundraising programs. It allows me and my clients to see the whole grant cycle, and to see where we are in that cycle as well. I consider Grant Holster to be one of the critical assets to my business.

I wish it was easier to add individual contacts to funders instead of creating a unique contact and then assigning it. Also, I started using it thinking about it as a client management or project management program, so it took a bit to get used to creating a funder and THEN creating a project and assigning it to a client.

Thank you so much for your amazing review! We are always looking for ways to improve and love getting your feedback about the Contacts. We do have that on our list of things to improve!

Implementing Grant Holster at my previous organization reduced the number of tracking documents we had for grant management from about 5 to 1. When I started my own business, I knew that this would be a product that would help me tremendously in managing multiple clients and multiple projects for each client.

Some of the data pieces have to be manually linked to each account and/or project, such as contacts. The system tracks a great deal of data, but if the points were able to be linked more easily then it would enhance functionality and ease of use.

Grant Holster is super easy to learn how to use.

Sometimes the interface will experience errors and will not load features. Would love it if it could interface with Outlook and Harvest!

Thanks so much for your review! We are working on getting those pesky errors cleaned up! Having Grant Holster work with Google, Outlook, and Harvest is on our list of wanted features as well and we hope to have this in a future update.

1) Seeing all deadlines with one click 2) Ability to copy a project from last year (although, to be fair, I haven't really used this yet because I'm coming up on one year of using GH). 3) Having the Vault where you can house all of the different programs and projects of each of your clients. 4) Estimated hours per project is a nice feature that I really need to start using!

Everything I say here, I realize there might be features I don't know about that could solve my problems!! 1) I feel like there could be a better system for scheduling reports, instead of calling them "Other" in the project type. 2) I don't love how reports look 3) More often than it should happen, I get an error message when I'm trying to save a new project, funder, or client. Sometimes the error message really doesn't mean anything and the entry is saved, and sometimes it really doesn't save. This one is probably the most annoying. 4) This isn't really a "con" but I wish the software would flag if you try to add a funder that's already in the system, instead of letting you create a duplicate. This is especially an issue when there's more than one user.

Thank you so much for your review! Many of your cons are things we have on our priority list to address, so you'll see your wishes come true in a future update!

It keeps me organized. I love the deadlines feature and having the ability to sort. I am able to stay on track using actions and able to see my progress and successes.

None of it is difficult. Some things may be a little time consuming to initially set up, but once it's in there it is easy to renew and track for the next year.

Thanks for your review, Nikki!

I liked that it was super easy to use, almost intuitive. I could read the tutorials and just start using it.

The main features I think it is missing is notifications for due dates and importing info, checklist, or data.

Thank you for your review! We are so happy to hear that you found the customer service and help articles useful!

Management of the funders with which I'm working

Difficult for me to start but personalized help assisted greatly.

Thank you so much for the review! We are happy to hear that managing your funders is easier with Grant Holster and that you found the personalized help useful!