SmarterSelect 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

SmarterSelect

4.4

(227)

Pricing

Starting at $2,000.00 per year

About SmarterSelect

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Smarter Select is an online application management system designed to help businesses build and share application forms with their respondents. It offers tools to create and share online forms and collect, analyze and evaluate responses. Links to forms can be embedded into websites or added to custom applications or shared via emails.

Smarter Select offers rule-based customization tools that help to set application deadlines, configure evaluation criteria, design scoring methodology and more. Forms come with dynamic workflows that change the sequence of questions based on previous responses submitted by users.

Form developers can use standard maths formulas as well as design their own custom formulas to calculate respondents' scores. A wide array of reports along with custom charts are available to view and analyze results.

Smarter Select is used across various industries including education, healthcare, association and government. The solution offers an annual subscription package that includes customer support via phone, email and web.

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SmarterSelect Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $2,000.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$2,000.00

per feature, per year

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SmarterSelect Features

Popular features found in Scholarship Management
Applicant Portal
Applicant Tracking
Commenting/Notes
Customizable Questions
Data Import/Export
Document Review
Forms Management
Grant Management
Recommendations
Scoring
Status Tracking
Web Forms
More features of SmarterSelect
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
Application Management
Audit Management
Communication Management
Compliance Management
CRM
Customizable Fields
Customizable Forms
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Deadline Management
Electronic Payments
Electronic Submission
Email Reminders
For Grantmakers
For Nonprofits
For Schools
Grant Application Management
Grant Award Tracking
Interview Management
Member Database
Multi-Currency
Preview Functionality
Progress Tracking
Ratings/Reviews
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Reviewer Management
Role-Based Permissions
Search/Filter
Single Sign On
SSL Security
Third-Party Integrations
White Label

SmarterSelect Integrations

Zapier

SmarterSelect User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

51%

42%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.2

Ashley H.

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Smarter Select Review

We are using Smarter Select for Scholarship Applications. It is a great system for this which stores all the applications and information for us until we are ready to process them. We have also branched out a little more this last year to use this software to collect the Scholarship Acceptance Forms, too. Very easy to print them (when necessary) and collect all the information we need to process the scholarship checks!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 3

Value for money

Previously 3

Customer support

Functionality

Previously 3

Pros:

The ease of copying a program to use again next year (with a few date changes, etc.) This is a great benefit and saves the user a lot of time!

Cons:

Sometimes it is difficult to find exactly where to change the wording on a section or page. I have to fumble through this every time but I eventually find the right section to click on to change the information.

Laura M.

Verified reviewer

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

Switched from emailed applications to SmarterSelect - saved us a ton of time!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Soooo streamlined! I love that I can customize the application to meet my needs. Students say it's a much better process on their end, and I get better results because the parameters of the app require them to upload certain file types, require answers to some questions, and flag if they miss any questions. A huge time saver on the administrative time for me - and there are reports I can pull throughout the application period to keep my finger on the pulse of things. Plus, my evaluators can quickly review the apps and rank them without needing to open and download lots of files - and again, easy to pull reports. Huge timesaver and brings us into the 21st century!

Cons:

The learning curve is there - it takes a while to get the knack of things. And setting up the application and revising it to be exactly what you want can be cumbersome. There's not a great way to test the application other than creating "fake" applications to ensure everything works smoothly. That said - it works very well for our needs and allows me to process more apps in less time with much less frustration for both me and our candidates!

Victoria R.

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Submitting a help request

Generally the product works fairly smoothly. I wish there was an easier way to find a student than clicking on applicants and ALL applicants have to appear before I can search for the one applicant I need. If there are many applicants, the process takes several minutes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 4

Value for money

Previously 4

Customer support

Previously 3

Functionality

Previously 4

Pros:

I did receive an answer fairly quickly. I don't know why I can't get to the next page of this review.

Cons:

It was difficult to find the help feature

Olivia C.

Verified reviewer

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

Beyond excellent, especially for a beginner!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SmarterSelect is so easy to use. If I can't figure something out by simply trying different things, I can quickly and easily find helpful tutorials in the library. If something is so hard that I still can't figure it out-- which I don't recall ever happening-- customer support is super fast and responsive when i put a ticket it.

Cons:

I wish I could archive deleted programs so that I don't have to sort through them, without losing the applications completely. I would just like to move the ones I know I will probably never need again out of the "disabled" section and only keep the ones from the past year or two in that section.

Verified

Reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

My daily go to

We use SmarterSelect for our grants and scholarships. It is easy to pull analytics, create applications, approve and share with evaluators.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

How easy it is to pull up reports and customize data

Cons:

Unable to search a single person across multiple grant applications.

Reasons for choosing SmarterSelect

n/a

Chris M.

Verified reviewer

Mental Health Care

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

SmarterSelect

Having applicants that can apply online and have all of their information readily available makes our lives so much easier.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very easy to learn even if you are not the most tech savvy individual. Being given the option of customizing applications is a great way to be able to get straight to the information that you are looking for in applicants. No more worries about manually inputting data for hours!

Cons:

When switching from one application to another, I sometimes find that it takes longer than it should. Other than this, I am completely satisfied with SmarterSelect.

Sara L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

User friendly platform that streamlines application management

It's a much easier to manage our EMERGE application process. It's easy for students to use and for staff to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's a professional, more streamlined way of managing applications, especially the review of applications.

Cons:

It can be difficult to know about all of the features. For example, on Google Forms, I can easily customize questions to take people to a different page based on a response. I don't know how to do that in Smarterselect, but I'm sure there's a way.

Vendor Response

Hi Sara, Thanks for your review! I'll have our Support reach out to you with info on how to use App Rules. Thanks, Robert

Replied November 2017

Darla S.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2020

Very easy to customize and great customer support!

I am very pleased with SmarterSelect. It saves us time by having the matching questionnaire that allows for scholarship matching.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked the free trial to set up unique programs with the help of customer support. All free set up work was saved and usable after purchasing the product. It is very easy to customize the unique programs and link to a common application. It allows for scholarship matching.

Cons:

I'd like it if unique program dates such as deadline dates could be synced with common application deadline dates so I would not have to edit all of the uniques annually.

Reasons for choosing SmarterSelect

More inexpensive.

Katie L.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Grants and Scholarships

We track, review/evalutate and export all of our grants and scholarship applications.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The exporting feature, and being able to compile all evaluator feedback.

Cons:

I wish there were some different features for viewing each application and being able to see each evaluator comment. It takes a lot of work after the export to compile all responses and would be nice to bring up each application and see the review from each evaluator on one screen without having to do the export.

Vendor Response

Hi Katie, Many thanks for your feedback! We like your suggestions regarding viewing application and evaluation data. We'll incorporate that in future releases. Regards, Robert

Replied November 2018

Angela H.

Verified reviewer

Philanthropy

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2017

One of the best decisions our Scholarship Program ever made!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Efficient, can be accessed from anywhere. The SmarterSelect online platform has made the work of scholarships far less cumbersome. I am able to streamline the process and app rules and matching has enhanced our ability to assist applicants and make their process easier.

Cons:

I honestly cannot think of anything I don't like other than as features have been added I need more time to catch up. However, they offer frequent online training and that helps a great deal. I hear from IPAD users that on occasion scoring doesn't show up later.

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