Submittable vs Electronic Form Solutions

Fluxx Grantmaker

MonkeyPod

RQ Platform

Fluxx Grantmaker provides the most complete set of features designed solely for grantmaking - collaboration tools, budgeting and forecasting, grantee engagement, reporting, storytelling, and more - all out of the box to help  drive impact for funders and their grantees.

MonkeyPod is an all-in-one platform to manage nonprofit accounting, donor management, grants management, CRM, email marketing, online fundraising, and more. Add unlimited users, CRM entities, email subscribers, online fundraising pages, pipelines, and more at no additional cost.

RQ Platform is an all-in-one Application and Review software platform for streamlining and simplifying your entire program, designed for Awards, Scholarships, Grants, Fellowships, Mentorships, Volunteer Recruitment and more.

Program Officer

The support staff is very responsive and helpful whenever I cannot figure out how to do something within the system on my own.

Inspire Olympia Senior Program Specialist

From the implementation support to, to regular product updates, it just keeps getting easier to use.

Submittable is the modern grant management platform empowering organizations with powerful, user-friendly tools for seamless program administration. Purpose-built for organizations of all types—from corporations and foundations to nonprofits and government agencies.


Access Controls/Permissions

Accounting

Accounting Integration

ACH Payment Processing

Activity Dashboard

Activity Tracking

Address Validation

Ad hoc Reporting

Administrative Reporting

AI/Machine Learning

Alerts/Notifications

Applicant Portal

Applicant Tracking

Application Management

Approval Process Control

Assignment Management

Attendance Tracking

Audit Management

Audit Trail

Autofill

Awards Management

Billing & Invoicing

Biometrics

Blind Judging

Budget Control

Budgeting/Forecasting

Budget Management

Calendar Management

Campaign Analytics

Campaign Management

Categorization/Grouping

Chat/Messaging

Collaboration Tools

Commenting/Notes

Communication Management

Compliance Management

Compliance Tracking

Configurable Workflow

Contact Management

Contract/License Management

Contribution Tracking

Credit Card Processing

Customizable Branding

Customizable Fields

Customizable Forms

Customizable Questions

Customizable Reports

Customizable Templates

Dashboard

Data Import/Export

Data Security

Data Verification

Data Visualization

Deadline Management

Document Management

Document Review

Document Storage

Donation Disbursement Management

Donation Management

Donation Matching

Donation Tracking

Donor Management

Drag & Drop

Due Date Tracking

Electronic Forms

Electronic Payments

Electronic Signature

Electronic Submission

Email Management

Email Marketing

Email Reminders

Email Templates

Employee Database

Employee Engagement

Employee Profiles

Employee Recognition

Entrant Management

Entry Fee Processing

Entry Management

Event Management

Event Scheduling

Expense Tracking

Feedback Management

Financial Management

Financial Reporting

For Government

For Grantmakers

For Higher Education

For Marketers

Forms Creation & Design

Forms Management

For Nonprofits

For Schools

Fraud Detection

Fund Accounting

Fundraising Campaign Management

Fundraising Campaign Tracking

Fundraising Management

By industry, Submittable reviewers are most commonly professionals in non-profit organization management (29%). The most frequent use case for Submittable cited by reviewers is grant management (46% of reviewers).

Users and use cases

Some users say Submittable offers reasonable pricing for small organizations and non-profits, and reviewers appreciate flexible plans and included integrations. However, some reviewers find it pricey, especially with steep tier jumps and extra fees for added users or features.

Value for money

Submittable is a grant management program with key features that include grant application management, customizable forms, and more.

Submittable

Web-based

iPhone

iPad

Android

Good Grants

SurveyMonkey Apply

Little Green Light

Grant Lifecycle Manager

Jotform

OpenWater

AwardSpring

Blackbaud Award Management

Corporate Social Responsibility Platform

Grant & Application Management Software

Enterprise

Program Manager

The messaging component can glitch, as I've sent messages to people who did not get them sent to their inbox, and vice versa. Since I communicate with applicants primarily through messages, it can be frustrating to find that messages were not delivered.

Director of Creative Strategies and Arts-Based Initiatives

The platform makes it significantly easier and faster for our team to create new projects, track submissions, and manage workflows.

Senior Program Manager

Submittable representatives were extremely thorough and helpful in guiding us in how to create an application (in our case, for a Fellowship program) in Submittable and use different kinds of forms within the platform.

Submittable also provides improved data access and reporting tools that help us evaluate impact and make stronger decisions.

Submittable has proven to be an exceptionally user-friendly platform for both our artists and grant applicants, who consistently report that the submission process is clear, intuitive, and stress-free.

Associate Director of Experiential Learning

We receive approximately 200 applications and coordinate a review team of 12 people to award in the ballpark of $100,000 a year.

Programs Coordinator

I find it incredibly user friendly (for both admin and front end users) and value the workflow and reporting I can track all in one place!

Senior Marine Scientist

We are currently running a large multi-year grant funding competition and needed a system that could meet our needs for proposal collection, application review, reporting, and other elements of grant management.

Operations

The flexibility the tool provides for building each stage of the process and the ease with which the admins can update, change or fix issues.

Judicial Program Manager

I LOVE that I have the freedom to modify my forms quickly and as often as I'd like.  

Director of Grantmaking

The customizable workflows have allowed us to tailor the system to our unique needs, which we believe will result in enhanced efficiency.

Applicants consistently praise how easy it is to submit materials, and our review committees frequently tell us it is the best scoring interface they’ve used.

Program Director

We like the all in one aspect of Submittable, especially the reporting capability.  

I wish there were a way to set a deadline for reference forms to be received.

I especially like the visuals of the platform, as it makes it easier to keep projects organized.

What I appreciate most was the intuitive dashboard menu, which will allow our organization to effortlessly track and manage our grants.  

Director

However we encountered an issue with receiving certain notifications for applicant messages and the tech support team was never able to resolve them which has proved very challenging to work around.

Executive Director

We're just on the finishing end of launching our database, transitioning out from another database provider we've used for the past 7 years.   While that provider required learning the liquid coding language or contracting with their team to make any changes, WizeHive offers incredible flexibility and ease of use.  

It's not overly complicated and you can figure out how to use most tools on your own.

Writer, author, graphic and web designer

Also, writing short stories (entered into competitions).

More efficient communication and collaboration

Author

I like the way it organizes my contests, I no longer forget which and where I submit them to, and the great thing is I'm also able to track the feedbacks for those contests instead of rummaging through my emails about forgotten or non-existent results. But the best thing is I can find way more contests through Submittable, and filter them the way I want to, from entry fees to genres.

Performance Management Analyst

Our WizeHive implementation lead worked with us to understand how to set up the system to best meet our needs and customized various forms and processes within the system to meet those needs.  

Extension Program Specialist

We started using Submittable to help us manage a sizable photography contest, and have since been finding ways to migrate other activities/contests (like public speaking, leadership applications, and videography to name a few) into this platform.  

Associate Director of Summer Enrollment 

We have used Submittable to collect forms for auditions and I like that the faculty and coaches are able to review and evaluate the student in the platform.

Associate Manager

My favorite features including autoemails set up, mass editing/deletion of records, and mass data import/export.

Scholarship and Grant Administrator

Everything lives on the platform and it's very intuitive for everyone involved.

Assistant Director

Meaning, a user has to log into multiple different portals to view different grant options rather than all of our foundations grant applications being listed as options when the user logs into their profile.

Using the system seems like it will be pretty seamless from both an administrator and grantee perspective, but we will find out once it is put into use in a few weeks.

Grant Manager

Having all the information that we needed for this grant housed in one place made is super easy and efficient for me to keep my 300 plus applications, that were in various stages of the grant process, organized!

The system functions as advertised and it has enabled our youth development program to administer what has historically been in-person events and activities into a digital format.  

Right now, Profile information can be mapped to any form within a submission portal, but additional forms cannot be mapped to each other in that same portal.

Center Director

The programmable portals for grant submission and reviews are excellent, and will be critical to the success of our new initiative to solicit applications for sub-grants.

Communications & Engagement Manager

WizeHive is a very flexible application and allows administrators to realize critical needs for grant management that we could only imagine before.

For our grant management/reimbursement process, we had an extra level of complexity to what we needed the system to do given how we reimbursed our grantees.

Compliance Manager

We are easily able to send emails to clients regarding their application and can send messages to a client's case worker within the agency.

There are a few features and layouts on the admin side that aren't intuitive but I'm still learning.

Electrical-Electronics Engineer

It is difficult to identify a time and this causes missing submissions sometimes.

Currently, an organization is limited to one username/password to access their application portal. Unless the organization shares that username/password with others within their agency, this means that they are limited to only one particular individual having access.

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Contracts and Grant Manager

Adjustments to forms or applications can take mere seconds.

During our application acceptance period, no applicants reported having any issues with the WizeHive system.

Communications

We're able to create customized reports and export the data easily, although there is a bit of a learning curve to set up the reports.

Submittable vs Electronic Form Solutions Comparison (2026)

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