Why Submittable? 
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Features
Collect any content
Quickly create online forms to receive nearly any file type and information.
Collaborate with your team
Streamline administrative tasks and communications.
Make better decisions, faster
Review applications and select the best submissions.
Report on results
Track your process from end-to-end.
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Application and submission management, simplified
Collect and review applications and any type of online content in one easy-to-use platform.
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Whatever your goal, we can help make it happen. Submittable manages millions of submissions for thousands of organizations just like yours.
Collect any content
Quickly create a branded applications portal and custom forms to receive nearly any file type.
Cut the clutter
Save hours of time by eliminating tedious workflows and manual administrative processes.
Choose with confidence
Collaborate with your team to review applications, manage communications, and select the best submissions.
Create a painless applicant experience
From grant programs and contests to awards and scholarship applications, Submittable’s intuitive and modern experience can serve countless application processes. Quickly create a custom portal and online forms that make it easy for applicants to review your guidelines and submit their work.
Easy-to-use tools
Drag and drop fields into your form, and easily move, add, and delete sections. Make your application portal unique with customizable settings, detailed instructions for applicants, and branded details.
Smart online forms
Create dynamic forms that automatically hide or reveal questions based on applicants’ responses. Choose from more than a dozen question types, including text fields, dropdown menus, and checkbox lists.
Flexible file uploads
Accept more than 50 different application file types, including text, images, audio, and video. View each submission directly in your browser without downloading any files.
Turn tedious tasks into time saved
Your time is important. Streamline application management workflows by keeping applicant materials, review notes, and system communications together in one central place. You'll never lose a submission or waste time on a manual data entry process again.
Workflow automations
Automate repetitive administrative tasks to move applications between review stages, send updates to applicants and team members, make team submission assignments, and more.
Bulk messaging
Accept or decline online submissions individually or in batches using our templates or by creating your own. Applicants don’t feel kept in the dark and you get fewer email queries—a real win-win.
Organization tools
Search for and group submissions by assigned team member, date received, review status, custom labels, and more. Access any submission content and history in one click.
Collaborate with your team
Seamlessly navigate the entire online review process with one system, keeping everyone fully engaged and notified of changes. You’ve all got the right version, and everybody’s on the same page.
Assignments
Choose from automatic or random team assignments, or manually assign submissions for review. Five unique permission levels make team management and judging easy.
Custom review options
Use a simple thumbs up/down review scale, or create a custom submission review form to ask exactly the questions you need. Auto-score responses and manage multiple review stages.
All in-one portal
View application materials side-by-side with review forms, team notes and comments, and submitter communications. No more downloads, printing, or endless email back-and-forth.
Powerful Support
Submittable’s software includes unparalleled technical support for your applicants, reviewers, and administrators. Get your application management process started quickly with personalized help from Submittable’s expert technical support, onboarding, and account management teams.
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Secure and reliable
Submittable is built on a modern cloud infrastructure with privacy and security features designed to ensure the safety of your data.
Valuable connections
Submittable’s application submission software offers hundreds of integrations with your favorite applications and tools, and a custom API, to help you do more with what you already have.
The Submittable application itself is really great for conducting a contest, judging it, sorting submissions, and bulk emailing submitters. Plus, we're probably only using 10% of what Submittable is capable of.
Tom Strelich, Owl Canyon Press
Contest Organizer and Judge
Submittable's understanding about competitions and challenges was really helpful—it took certain work off of our plate so we could focus on other aspects of the Challenge.
Karol Collymore
Nike Senior Manager for Community Impact in Oregon
There were a number of other similar or related activities that Submittable has worked with that reached our target audience.
Dave Okamoto
Senior Marketing Manager at AT&T
Our biggest challenge before Submittable was tracking applications, manually entering data, reviewing documents, and preparing for panel review with online forms that required printing. After this year, we’ll no longer need paper archives.
Ayoka Wiles-Abel
Brooklyn Arts Council Grants Director
With less time spent on managing touchpoints for applicants and reviewers, using Submittable we’re able to look at the global, holistic view of the program.
Heather Sobrepeña
Indian Country Programs Section Manager
If we’re putting something new up … I’ll have it done within an hour. Before Submittable it would have taken a couple days’ worth of planning.
Kit Shah
Co-Founder of the London Photo Festival
Submittable was much more affordable and more user-friendly. And the customer service has been incredible.
Meghan Modafferi
Nat Geo Education Program Manager
Because Submittable is such an industry standard, we made the decision to completely switch over from paper applications.
Lance Cleland
Tin House Workshop Director
Submittable helped streamline our processes, reduce redundancies, and increase efficiencies, specifically in the review process.
Justin Miller
Special Projects Administration Director
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