# OmniStar Grants Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra

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OmniStar Grants

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Reviews of OmniStar Grants

Ease of use

4.4

Customer Service

4.7

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JM

Jodi M.  
Chief Operating Officer  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "OmniStar Grants for small research program management"

April 28, 2023

4.0

This is a good product that provides a grant and project management system, combined with a CRM. Very good and rapid customer support when needed.

Pros

The combination of out of the box features and configuration capability is very useful to ensure a tailored product that fits our needs. Have been able to solve all workplace needs.

Cons

Time required to review and implement new workflows and forms.

Reason for choosing OmniStar Grants

Combination of a grant management system with a CRM, integration capability with other systems such as MS Outlook and MYOB, and data security provisions. Being provided by a long running and well established company provided comfort that ongoing service provision will not be an issue.

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AM

Amanda M.  
Senior Project Officer  
Renewables & Environment  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Review"

November 28, 2022

4.0

Pros

The ability to customise the out of the box functionality of the system to algin to our specific grant program governance processes and framework. Pre award functionality provides for easy and efficient application submission. The ability to submit review and assess project performance reports, capture meeting outcomes and decisions. Record keeping!!!

Cons

A lot of detail to learn as a system Administrator

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MC

Michael C.  
CEO  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Customisable and adaptable"

March 7, 2022

4.0

OminStar Grants allows us to manage the project application process, assessments and approvals, contracting and then regular reporting and tracking. Each project involves multiple parties and all parties (involving both researchers and admin staff) are able to access and view as appropriate.

Pros

We have been able to take OmniStar Grants and customise and adapt it to align with the needs, processes and procedures of our business. Team members and researchers working remotely across Australia have been able to access OmniStar in real time, working in virtual teams to enter, review and update data seamlessly. It has made our work so much more effective and efficient, especially as we adapt to a hybrid working model, post-Covid.

Cons

It is good to have access to all the documents associated with different grants and projects, but sometimes the method of accessing them appears to be a bit convoluted and clunky.

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AN

Anna N.  
Research Development Senior Coordinator  
Philanthropy  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "OmniStar Grants Review"

December 2, 2022

5.0

Great training program, friendly service, however what seem to be comparatively simple glitches take a longer than expected time to fix.

Pros

Overall it's very accessible to users and administrators with clear processes to follow. It's also flexible allowing you to build your own forms, which are straightforward, and for which you don't need to understand code (although understanding code would be of benefit). Building our own forms required additional training (which was very good), and they took a reasonable amount of time to build, set up and tweak post implementation.

Cons

The automatically generated output documents containing application information, and used in our assessment process, is not well formatted, and doesn't provide the content in an easy-to-use manner. The dashboard and reporting options are not as accessible as we’d like, although we've found it easy enough to extract the data we need from the system.

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HK

Harjeet K.  
Executive Manager, Research Investments  
Research  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "OmniSugar Review"

December 16, 2021

5.0

Good

Pros

Dash Boards, Calendar, ease of milestone management

Cons

report designer is difficult to use. Even dashboard designer needs a fair bit of learning. They need to be made user friendly

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AG

Adam G.  
Head of Foundation  
Insurance  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "OmniStar is a great solution for grant management"

December 4, 2022

5.0

Very positive experience to date and we have not yet utilised all of the available functionality. The system has allowed to us improve our user experience and governance of the grant programs we run

Pros

Easy integrationGreat user experience for grant applicants and for the grant management teamFantastic support from the OmniStar team - very responsiveAnd end to end complete solution

Cons

There are several ways to do the same task and working out the most efficient way takes a bit of trial and error

Reason for choosing OmniStar Grants

Customer experience

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JM

John M.  
Manager  
Government Administration  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Omnistar Review"

February 3, 2023

5.0

Pros

Plenty of features to use to manage grants and grant processes

Cons

Can be complex to activate all features in-house

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