Features – Overview
Good Grants software features
All the features you need to be more efficient, make good grant decisions and minimise your grantmaking risks.
Purpose-built for managing the entire grantmaking lifecycle
Pre-award
Whether your grants are open, closed, competitive, formulaic or a combination of approaches, Good Grants can help you affordably accept, manage and review applications.
Award
Centralise the process of awarding opportunities using built-in tools to formalise the grant agreement, manage funding and keep track of it all via a customisable grants dashboard.
Post-award
Maintain the momentum of grant programs with streamlined tools to solicit grant reports, securely track and manage disbursements and keep everyone up to speed and on track.
Interested in a specific feature?
Review our non-exhaustive feature index to learn about a specific feature in Good Grants.
For grant lifecycle management
Application management
Track, manage, tag, filter, star, search and report on grant and funding applications in real time.
Management dashboard
Take advantage of the at-a-glance overview of how everything in your program is tracking. See what’s been submitted, what’s in progress and more.
Manage duplicate applications
Automatically find and manage duplicate applications to keep your applications tidy and organised.
Filter and search
Customise the search filters with your own fields. Use filtering to narrow down a list of results to include only those that are relevant for a particular purpose.
Broadcast email communications
Send bulk email communications targeted to specific program participants based on roles, activities and more.
Triggered email notifications
Send emails to system users automatically based on triggered events, such as application submitted, user registered and more.
Multi-lingual interface
Use Good Grants in one of more than 31 professionally translated languages.
Activate multiple languages
Configure Good Grants to use multiple languages at the same time. Perfect for multilingual regions or programs with a global presence.
Content management
Present information about your grants program in-context with application and review processes. Directly update and manage content immediately, including contextual information about your program.
Configurable terms
Easily update terminology system-wide to suit your program, and create about pages to provide additional, contextual information about your program.
Configurable user roles
Create the user roles you need with highly granular configuration options.
Action flow
Configure a multi-stage workflow to automatically move applications through the grant lifecycle. Perfect for application approval, nomination acceptance, in-depth review rounds and more.
Built-in cookie notice and consent
Give your users the option to select their preferred cookie consent option by displaying a cookie consent selection message. Good Grants users can change their cookie consent option at any time.
Non-disclosure agreements
Make it easy for your reviewers to sign and agree to your confidentiality terms. Set your non-disclosure agreement and protect sensitive data while allowing the exchange of ideas and feedback.
Agreement / contract signing
Use the built-in contracts tool to solidify your agreement. Both you and the applicant have easy access to the signed contract for record-keeping.
User management
All your participant details available and searchable in one place. Easily exported.
Archiving tools
Keep applications from previous seasons and years organised and archived, but accessible. Quickly start a new season by copying all configurations of a prior season to save time and resources.
PDF certificates
Configure certificates within Good Grants and have them automatically available for download by applicants.
Grant status
Track the progress of grant projects after funding has been awarded. Track how many grant projects are active, how much funding they’ve received and whether they’re on track.
Grant reporting
Keep funding on track and grant performance in check by soliciting programmatic, financial, KPI or other pertinent grantee reports, at any time and as often as required.
Funding management
Configure multiple fund budgets, create funding allocations and schedule and track payments all in one place.
Data exports and bulk downloads
All your data and reports are readily available with quick and easy spreadsheet exports and bulk downloads of applications and other relevant data.
Configurable user registration
Collect the user information you need. You can configure additional fields to collect even more user profile information beyond the default minimum required fields.
Document templates
Generate, store and provide secure, convenient access to grant documents directly in Good Grants. Create personalised or generic documents from a template you build and share them with both applicants and grantees alongside their application or awarded grant.
Form features
Form builder
Easy to use yet incredibly powerful form builder. WYSIWYG interface. Drag-and-drop enabled.
Form fields
Choose from 19 different question types, including specialised fields such as date, email, table, URL, country and more.
Formula field
Build formulas to automatically calculate, format or transform information provided by applicants or grantees on a form.
Application categories
Use categories to group applications with similar requirements into organised silos, which allows for more detailed and specific data collection.
Extra encryption protection for sensitive data
Optionally configure higher levels of data protection on personally identifiable and sensitive data.
Form logic and
conditional fields
Use conditional fields in the application form to display specific questions and fields based on the applicant’s answers.
Copy form
Duplicate forms and their associated elements. Once copied, the form can be edited according to the opportunity’s requirements.
Invitation-only forms
Restricts access and visibility of a form to invited applicants only. Perfect for restricting access to closed opportunities or for open opportunities with a sophisticated workflow.
Auto scoring
Automatically score answers to questions on application forms using unique and predefined criteria.
Eligibility screener
Automatically divert ineligible applicants. The eligibility screener can be deployed in two ways: As a standalone eligibility screener or as a gatekeeper for the rest of an application form.
For opportunity promotion
Logo branding
Upload your logo to display on page headers.
Complete brand theme
Apply your organisation branding, colours, logos, imagery and design assets for a consistent and branded application experience.
Sponsor / partner promotion
Provide your sponsors or partners with high-value visibility options in the application process and emails, placing them front and centre for applicants, reviewers and, optionally, the public.
Promote content on your home page
Promote grant opportunities and content pages to users directly on the home page.
Send invitations to applicants and grantees
Send personalised invitations to known applicants or grantees directly from the platform, ideal for soliciting applications for closed opportunity grants or requesting supplementary information from participants.
Social sharing
Promote and share your messages and brand on all popular social networks using the integrated social sharing buttons.
Public galleries of results
Publish beautiful galleries of shortlists for team or public visibility or invite-only access.
Vanity domain
Your program account gets a customised address, such as yourbrand.grantplatform.com, through one of our white-label domains.
Custom domain
Personalise the web address of your program by using a subdomain of your own website. For example, apply.your-company-domain.com.
For applicants and grantees
Auto-save
Applications continuously auto-save in the background as participants craft their submissions. No risk of applicants losing work.
Edit application after submission
An applicant can update a submitted application right up until the deadline by default. Or, if you wish, you can prevent editing a submitted application.
Resubmission
Support a two-stage submission process by requiring resubmission of applications, with additional information.
PDF download of completed application
Download a PDF of each application for offline reference or scoring.
Sample form PDF download
Applicants can download a blank application form for offline viewing.
Provide feedback to applicants
Easily provide all review scores and/or comments as feedback to applicants, in just a few clicks.
Accept attachments of any kind
Allow applicants/grantees to upload any kind of file to Good Grants, or specify exactly what you’ll accept and what you won’t. Audio, image and video can be viewed/heard directly within the system without download.
HD video hosting
Users can upload video in any format, in any size, even feature-length HD movies. Video is transcoded and hosted securely for direct streaming to your reviewers’ browsers. No download required.
For grant review and decisions
Reviewing fast start
Use the reviewing fast start feature to simplify the setup of your program’s reviewing by following a few easy steps.
Scoring review mode
Your expert review panel scores applications individually based on highly configurable scoring criteria. Results are calculated and available in real time.
Top pick review mode
Based on the Single Transferable Vote (STV) calculation method widely used in elections, reviewers rank their favourite applications. For large panels of reviewers, this is an excellent method for determining consensus.
Crowd voting review mode
Invite your entire organisation, the public or a select group of reviewers to vote on their favourite grant applications. Simple and effective, the configuration options available for crowd voting are virtually limitless.
Qualifying review mode
Take pass/fail decisions effortlessly. Ideal for shortlisting applications before moving to more comprehensive review rounds.
Advanced review assignments
Assign applications to reviewers quickly and easily using the review panel. Engage small or large audiences, even public guests, to evaluate applications using any review mode.
Decision progress
Monitor the progress of your reviewers in their assigned applications.
Decision score matrix
Examine scoring in detail, application by application, with a matrix view of all reviewers and a breakdown of their scoring input.
Decision results leaderboard
Your review dashboard for live, real-time calculated and tabulated results.
PDF download of completed applications
Download a PDF of each application for offline reference or scoring.
Reviewer comments
Easily provide all review scores and/or comments as feedback to applicants, in just a few clicks.
Recuse reviewers and reviewer abstention
Proactively block reviewers from specific applications based on a known conflict of interest or facilitate voluntary abstention— all toward decision outcomes with integrity.
Streaming video
Users can upload video in any format, in any size, even feature-length HD movies. Video is transcoded and hosted securely for direct streaming to your reviewers’ browsers. No download required.
Integrations and API
Integration API
Create custom integrations with your other business systems via the Good Grants API.
Webhooks
Trigger actions between Good Grants and third-party applications. Webhooks extend the functionality of your program so that you can create automations with other software tools.
Copyleaks integration
Our integration with Copyleaks automatically reviews and scores content submitted by applicants to ensure originality. Your own Copyleaks account required.
Google Analytics
To track and report on the traffic that your program receives, you can use Google Analytics.
Salesforce integration
Facilitating native data exchange, Good Grants allows you to choose what information is exchanged from Good Grants to your Salesforce account. No developer effort is required either.
SAML single sign-on (SSO)
Use Single Sign On (SSO) to integrate login with your corporate identity management system via SAML.
Custom single sign-on (SSO) support
We’re happy to support a custom SSO method should you need it. Get in touch to discuss.
WordPress / Drupal
Good Grants can be accessed via a Single-Sign-On (SSO) feature for popular CMSs like WordPress or Drupal, which does not require registering or logging in.
Zapier / Make
Use Zapier or Make to easily pass information between your favourite applications and Good Grants with almost no technical expertise.
Program integrity, privacy and security
Audit log
Ensure your program compliance with the audit log. It allows you to maintain a detailed and searchable record of all user activity within your Good Grants program.
Built-in cookie notice and consent
Give your users the option to select their preferred cookie consent option by displaying a cookie consent selection message. Good Grants users can change their cookie consent option at any time.
Extra encryption protection for sensitive data
Optionally configure higher levels of data protection on personally identifiable and sensitive data.
Multi-factor authentication
Add a second verification method that uses either an authenticator app or SMS as a means of verifying your users’ identity, increasing the security of your program to a great extent.
Non-disclosure agreements
Make it easy for your reviewers to sign and agree to your confidentiality terms. Set your non-disclosure agreement and protect sensitive data while allowing the exchange of ideas and feedback.
Plagiarism detection
Leverage plagiarism detection to detect and prevent plagiarism in your grant applications, thus maintaining the credibility of your grant program.
Recuse reviewers and reviewer abstention
Proactively block reviewers from specific applications based on a known conflict of interest or facilitate voluntary abstention— all toward decision outcomes with integrity.
Secure user registration and access
Use email, social or SSO options to secure registration and access, as you see fit. Registration is verified using a 6-digit code for added peace-of-mind.
Granular user permission control
Sophisticated and powerful, user roles and permissions can be configured to provide access to specific views and functionality. You decide who sees what and what they can do.