The system is easy to use and straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a lot of moving parts that are dependent of each other making it harder to do last minute changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Online applications is a huge improvement over paper! Also, an online evaluation process gives our evaluators more flexibility in performing their role. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The reporting! I would love to be able to copy a report across programs, or even run the same report across a set of programs. Also, the formatting of the exports is not paper-friendly and needs some revamping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was user-friendly. I love the sorting options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Application completion time could be faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Ability to send mass messages

-Ability to edit individual students (ie. extend deadline for one student)

-App rules

-Easy to search for both active and inactive programs

-Common application function

-Very responsive customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Often runs very slowly

-Has crashed during peak moments in the past, creating issues and confusion for students

-Cannot copy or move questions in between different applications

-Evaluation interface is not easy--filters reset every time instead of sticking between evaluations, as one example

-Difficult to read and pull evaluation comments from evaluators

-Not currently able to pull higher level number reports (how many applications have been received by our org in a given time period, how many evals have been done in a given time period and/or by evaluator, etc.)

-Not able to easily embed links

-Not able to paste things from another place without resetting format

-Formatting doesn't always show the way it is input

-When you select the MM/YYYY date format, it still requires students to select a specific date, not just a month

-Program page times out when left open for a long time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That my employer supplies it for free to users. It's easy to create a link. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not incredibly user friendly for blind reviewing or automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple interface and easy to filter based on topic and content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not enough support documents when we couldn't find something Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Help us track and build our grants comprehensively. Easily customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Users would appreciate the abolity to jump back and forth in their applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Takes a learning curve coming from more advanced systems, but it's a good software for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall the features in SmarterSelect are not as advanced as other systems i've used; so going downward to a more essentialized software takes an adjustment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SmarterSelect helps us streamline our grants and awards programs, making it easy to collect complete applications, review them internally, and assign guest reviewers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So much about SmarterSelect is not intuitive. It can be confusing to figure out how to do the simplest things. Customer support has always been great, but for some reason, we can no longer receive help via chat as we could in the past, and I've never been able to figure out how to access "how to" information otherwise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've been using SmartSelect to accept and triage application for volunteering and scholarship positions for over 4 years now.

It's an easy-to-use solution, and requires little to no maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Price can be a bit high, especially for non-profits organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.