Product Review of Submittable
Submittable allows users to easily upload and access all the documents and paperwork required to submit creative work, apply for scholarships and grants, or search for companies requesting applications in fields such as film or writing. The website allows users to follow the entire submission timeline from uploading and organizing their documents to finding interested companies, publications, or festivals to apply to and receiving a notification when they have been selected.
Website: https://www.submittable.com/
What Users Love About the App
“Submittable is an excellent tool for accepting submissions for any project. Each submission portal is highly customizable, allowing you to change everything from the title to the submission cap to detailed submission guidelines.”
“The Submittable support team is always incredibly responsive. I use the Live Chat option any time I need help troubleshooting, and I have always been able to quickly resolve issues or questions.”
“The interface is clean and intuitive to use, both as the creator and for users. The drag-and-drop features make building forms incredibly easy and the finished product leaves lots of white space and a great look for applicants.”
“My nonprofit used Submittable for running a small grants program and we’re very pleased with the results. It was intuitive to use both for us and our grant applicants. I liked that we were able to create a simple landing page for our program within Submittable which made it easy to share with others.”
“Submittable has great collaboration tools, is very easy to use, and helps keep everything organized. As a publisher accepting submissions, it was the perfect tool for all our needs.”
What Users Dislike About the App
“This program can be very expensive. They also recently made changes to how their site and their plans work, so the support pages are frequently outdated.”
“I’ve had reviewers have trouble logging onto Submittable from Google Chrome. This is actually a pretty large issue, and I hope Submittable will work to make the platform accessible on Google Chrome in the future.”
“Our current package allows only 5 of our team members to have access to submissions. I could wish for more relaxed limits in that regard.”
“Limited functionality. I can’t really use it for anything personal. Only when I’m submitting work and the publisher/competition prefers this method. It would be cool if I could save workable, InDesign or Word copies for my own use.”
“I don’t like that some services are offered to certain levels of subscriptions and not to others. I’d rather have a good, fair price for the use of Submittable’s full functions.”