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SignUpGenius simplifies the process of organizing events and volunteers by providing online sign ups for nonprofits, schools, sports, faith groups, colleges, businesses and organizations.
Community foundations, private foundations, education foundations, associations, higher education organizations, corporations, etc.
I like it’s ease of use and think it’s a great tool when trying to organize people’s availabilities. Ve found it helpful for social situations like study groups or potlucks.
My only problem was when logging in, I had to enter my account and password and that usually drove me crazy because I could never remember it.
SignUp Genius is incredibly easy to use and so effective. Even the free version is incredibly powerful and seamless to integrate.
My biggest complaint would be using it on a mobile device can be annoying, sometimes you can't see all the information available.
I love how easy it is to use SignUpGenius. And I love how minimal advertisements there are, which is not very distracting for those who are using it.
It confused some of the people who signed up. If I bought the version, I know there would be no ads.
I really enjoyed this software because it is a great concept. It is a great way to keep track of signups for anything that you need to schedule slots for.
The only complaint I have about SignUpGenius, and this is just me being picky, is the fact that you have to login to use it anytime someone sends a schedule out.
I love the ease of being able to work with applicants and evaluators in an easy way. Communication, documentation, and management is easy through SmarterSelect's software.
It is not until the email is opened that the recommender sees that Anthony is the actual person applying for the scholarship. This is often confusing for the recommenders.
It's easy, functional and a good value for the money. It's also great for several audiences to use, such as young teenagers and older adults who aren't too comfortable using technology.
There have been issues with individuals accidentally creating admin accounts rather than applicant accounts.
It's easy to use, customer service is fabulous, I really like that we can make changes/revisions to our application, does not require IT help.
Any issues have to be dealt with via email/chat. Sometimes it is a lot quicker/easier to explain a problem by talking rather than writing.
There are a lot of great things about this software. I enjoy the ability to customize the site easily, even for those without any sort of web-design knowledge.
We ALSO added references as a required part of the application. This cut down on time we spend on the phone tracking down references and writing them.
Tyler: My name's Tyler. I'm an assistant pastor at Audubon Drive Bible Church. We're a small church with a small staff of about five people or less. And I would give SignUpGenius a five star rating. We have small group ministry at our church and I typically will use SignUpGenius to coordinate volunteers, it's been really helpful for doing that. So for example, if we've got a party or we've got something that we're planning and we need people to bring meals, I'll create a SignUpGenius, send it out to the congregation and ask them to volunteer for a spot, volunteer to bring a meal, and then it coordinates with me. And then SignUpGenius also allows, they will send an email, a reminder email to the people who signed up. So that takes a lot of the administrative work off me of having to remind people because I know they're going to get that reminder email anyway. It's been really helpful for me. One of the things I like about SignUpGenius has been you don't have to be incredibly technologically savvy to be able to work with it. I don't consider myself a technological guru, but it's actually taken off some of the administrative work off my plate when it comes to coordinating volunteers for different things at our church. And it will even do some of the work for me of reminding people what they volunteered for and it's really user-friendly. So we have a congregation where there are some older folks as well, and it's been good to know that it's user-friendly on both their end and on my end as the one creating the signups in the first place. The only thing that I would say that I dislike about SignUpGenius, and it's really only because I've been using the free version, which has been super helpful for us, but within the free version there's a lot of ads. Which can be expected, but it can be also kind of cumbersome when you're scrolling down to try to sign up and you get ad after ad. I'm sure that would be alleviated if we didn't have the free version, but that would be the one knock that I'd have against it.
Darla: Hi, I'm Darla. I'm the Executive Director of a nonprofit and I give SmarterSelect a four out of five. We were using online papers for our scholarship application process, and we wanted to go online. So we had also reviewed Academic Works when I was also reviewing SmarterSelect, and Academic Works was more expensive and didn't quite have everything I was looking for. We are a small staff of two, so that means we wear many hats on a daily basis. And as you can imagine, saving time and efficiency is very important for small non-profits, so SmarterSelect offers the Scholarship Matching Questionnaire feature. This 20 question feature allows our applicants to be matched to more than 80 scholarships that we offer. So this was a very valuable tool that really attracted me to SmarterSelect. As you can imagine, matching those students manually was very time consuming. So that was one problem that SmarterSelect helped solve. Another problem that we have is, reaching our college students consistently. They're not very good about replying to emails, so SmarterSelect has the messaging feature. Not only does it offer the email messaging, it has the option for us to text message our students and reach them more quickly. So that's huge for us to make sure we're able to stay in communication with them. And another problem that SmarterSelect solved was, as we were wanting to go online with our application process, and especially during COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to have the students apply online for the scholarships. And as our staff was working remotely, we were able to review and process and communicate with the students. One thing I liked about SmarterSelect was, they offered a free trial. So I enrolled for that and was immediately connected with a technician, I believe his name was Roger. Roger was so helpful. He talked with us. He helped us with the online preparation of our unique programs, helped answer our questions, and the integration of taking our application from paper to online was very customizable. And their customer support really helped us in the initial stages and even throughout. This is year four for us using it and each year it seems like we have different questions and they're always able to help us through that. So the integration has been wonderful. Most scholarship programs are very unique in their own programming and the nice thing about SmarterSelect is that it's very customizable and you can develop the application however you need it to be. You can ask whatever questions that you need to ask and having the Matching Questionnaire as an option to help in the process of matching the student to specific scholarships was a huge selling point for me. And I would highly recommend that if you are in a scholarship program and you have several different scholarships to award with all different types of criteria, SmarterSelect is very workable, very customizable and very affordable.
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