The CyberGrants (Bonterra) alternative for CSR teams that can’t afford to waste time
Submittable is the easy-to-learn and quick-to-launch grants management and workplace giving alternative for CSR teams that want complete control over their programs.
Cybergrants (Bonterra) takes too long to implement
If you decide to go with CyberGrants, be ready for a long journey just to get to the starting line.
This journey starts with trying to understand what you’re purchasing. Cybergrants is now a part of Bonterra, which you can purchase as a bundle as Bonterra CSR, or separately as Bonterra Grants Management, Bonterra Giving and Matching, and Bonterra Volunteerism.
Overall, Bonterra reviewers on Capterra say that they:
- Have to adjust to Cybergrants (Bonterra)’s schedule: “It took a lot longer to implement than we had planned.”1
- Were no longer in the driver’s seat: “We needed support from customer service for most updates to our application form, which we were hoping to handle ourselves.” 2
- Find the platform difficult to learn and “not super intuitive.” 3
Cybergrants (Bonterra) might be a decent CSR package once you get it up and running but don’t expect that to happen any time soon.
Move on your timeline with Submittable
Submittable is intuitive enough to learn how to use it and launch quickly, yet robust enough to accommodate all your grants and giving needs.
Form and project builder that’s simple to learn
Create forms for your grant applicants and build giving programs for your employees in minutes on your own.
- Launch your program in days, not weeks or months with a drag-and-drop form builder.
- Give ERG leaders the ability to create their own giving campaigns in a matter of a few clicks.
- Make changes to your program on your own at any time–even after you launch it.
Engage employees from the start
Submittable has all the tools you need to meet employees where they are and give them multiple ways to participate in corporate giving programs.
- Tie giving to programs like wellness challenges with Everyday Actions in Bright Funds.
- Provide employees the ability to give when, how, and to who they want with a giving “Wallet.”
- Employees can choose from 8 million vetted nonprofits across 110 countries–the largest selection in the market.
Best-in-class customer support
Work with a team that cares as much about your mission as you do. Our customer service and implementation teams offer:
- One-on-one training to get your program up and running
- Thought leadership on best practices and the newest strategies for boosting engagement
- Support for employees and applicants in multiple languages
Cybergrants (Bonterra) vs Submittable: Capabilities at a glance
| Submittable & Bright Funds | Cybergrants (Bonterra) | |
|---|---|---|
| Grant application collection and review | ✔ | ✔ |
| Anonymized grant application review | ✔ | ✔ |
| Collaborative review | ✔ | ✔ |
| In-app communication | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automate review workflows | ✔ | ✔ |
| Funds tracking and disbursement | ✔ | ✔ |
| Database of vetted nonprofits | ✔ | |
| Employee volunteering | ✔ | ✔ |
| Dollars for Doers | ✔ | ✔ |
| Personal impact dashboards | ✔ | ✔ |
| Micro-actions and challenges | ✔ | ✔ |
| ERG and affinity groups | ✔ | |
| Giving and matching | ✔ | ✔ |
| Automatic matching | ✔ | ✔ |
| Comprehensive reporting | ✔ | ✔ |
| Fundraising and donation collection | ✔ | ✔ |
| Connecting giving to employee engagement programs (e.g. wellness challenges and kudos programs) | ✔ | |
| A persistent wallet for all of an employees giving dollars | ✔ | |
| Overall capterra rating | 4.7 /5 | 4.5/ 5 |
| Capterra customer service rating | 4.6/ 5 | 3.8/ 5 |
| Number of Capterra reviews | 165 | 6 |
Cybergrants (Bonterra) is more of a middleman than a partner
With its acquisition of CyberGrants, Bonterra has cobbled together a set of products under its Grants Management category that take too long to implement and keep you from being in the “driver’s seat.”
You can’t make changes to your program on your own with Cybergrants (Bonterra), inevitably leading to back-and-forths with their poorly rated customer service.
Implementation times were so long that one reviewer said they would’ve preferred if they “drastically reduced” the feature scope.1
The UX is not intuitive with one reviewer saying it “takes many ‘clicks’ to get what you want done.”4
Cybergrants (Bonterra) gets in the way–often playing a “middle man” between you and the software they sold you. Submittable makes CSR and grantmaking tools you can learn to use on your own in a day (often less) and a top-notch customer service team ready for when you need them.
Submittable is the agile Cybergrants (Bonterra) alternative
Here are a few more CyberGrants (Bonterra) alternatives
We encourage you to explore your CSR software options. Here is a competitor page for similar products to Cybergrants (Bonterra).
- If you’re considering Benevity, you can check out our Benevity alternatives page
- If you’re considering Deed, you can check out our Deed alternatives page.
- If you’re considering Groundswell, check out our Groundswell alternatives page.
- If you’re considering Uncommon Giving, check out our Uncommon Giving alternatives page.
- If you’re considering Fluxx, check out our Fluxx alternatives page.