# Blue Wren GRM Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Blue Wren GRM Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Blue Wren GRM

## What is Blue Wren GRM?

Cayuse's grant management software supports research administrators responsible for tracking pre- and post-award information. Our solutions meet all research teams' needs, from minimizing risk and maximizing efficiency to optimizing planning and empowering data-driven decision-making. Our grant management software includes robust reporting and best-in-class customer support.

## What is Blue Wren GRM used for?

[Grant Management](https://www.capterra.com/grant-management-software/)

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Overall rating

Based on 8 user reviews

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Starting price

$6500

Per Year

Free trial  
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## Compare with a popular alternative

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### Blue Wren GRM

4.8 (8)

VS.

[4.3 (94)](https://www.capterra.com/p/146625/Fluxx-Software-for-Grantmakers/reviews/)

Starting Price

$6500

Per Year

Starting Price

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Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.9 (8)

Ease Of Use

3.9 (179)

Value For Money

4.8 (6)

Value For Money

4.1 (168)

Customer Service

5.0 (7)

Customer Service

4.0 (171)

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## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Activity Dashboard

4.0 (1)

0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Compliance Management

1.0 (1)

0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Financial Reporting

5.0 (1)

0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Generate reports to assess the financial performance of an organization

Monitoring

5.0 (1)

0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

Reporting & Statistics

3.0 (1)

0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Search/Filter

2.0 (1)

0.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

Blue Wren GRM 12 features

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Track, store, and access client contracts or licenses

Store, manage, and track all electronic documents in a centralized location

Generate reports to assess the financial performance of an organization

Track grant submission requirements, deadlines, and financial documentation for awarded grants

Collect data to measure/track the positive impact an organization, nonprofit, or program has on social, environmental, or other groups.

Observe and track the demand, usage, progress or quality of a system, product, or user

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

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Features

4.6 (8)

4.6

Based on 8 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.8 (6)

Basic

$6,500

Per Year

Value for money

4.8 (6)

4.8

Based on 6 reviews

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

5.0 (7)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

5.0 (7)

5.0

Based on 7 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.8

Based on 8 reviews

Filter by rating

5(6)

4(2)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

RR

Raylynn R.

Electronic Research Administrator

Higher Education

### "Electronic Research Administrator "

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

3/10

October 23, 2024

Its not bad, my company is still waiting on an update.

Pros

I know it as Cayuse and I like the academy where you the the system the most.

Cons

I didnt like that everything has to be done by admin. Every little change in authorization.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

JR

Joseph R.

Proposal Processor

Higher Education

### "Grant management made easy"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

February 14, 2019

Pros

It's a great way to centralize your data during pre-award phase of grant management. Sponsor information, proposal status, etc. all easily accessible in one place.

Cons

UI is a bit archaic and not always new user friendly.

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

SG

Stacy G.

Administrative Secretary

### "My experience has been positive and productive."

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

September 27, 2017

Pros

I like the ease of moving around in the software. I find the bar on the left makes it easy to jump from one screen to another quickly. I also like the look of the product. It is appealing to the eye which is important when you are looking at a page for long periods.

Cons

I would like some more user options in reporting. I would like to be able to create custom reports that I can use over and over. The information I need is available but not in the format that I require. I spend extra time exporting and reformatting.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

DD

Desiree D.

Sponsored Projects Specialist II

Non-Profit Organization Management

### "A real game-changer for my institution!"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

September 27, 2017

Immediate benefits include easily customizable and exportable reports, easier tracking of grant records and grant personnel, customizable fields that my institution can implement and also report from.

Pros

I love that this software is super intuitive, very easy to use, and has already made my job so much easier! Coming from a grants management process which heavily relied on Excel spreadsheets, the Blue Wren software is a real game-changer for my department and my institution. We now have the capacity to seamlessly report on and project out our entire grants portfolio, whenever our board/leadership needs an updated overview of accounts. The software also allows us to quickly answer to Federal and non-Federal requirements including Other Support (employee effort) data; fiscal, calendar, and grant year data (current and previous periods), and a ton of exportable, individually-customizable reports and options. I'm serious, this software is amazing! Not only is the software incredible, the software development team - who is incredibly patient with institutional processes - are awesome at implementing, training, and quickly assisting with any questions or concerns from trainees. I recommend this system to any institution, especially an up-and-coming Non-Profit research institute like my own. It's awesome!

Cons

We have not encountered any issues this product that the software development team hasn't almost immediately solved! We've seen a few small glitches involving pulling data into a report during our conversion period (pulling previously tracked data from the older software/system), and those glitches were always fixed within a 1-2 day window. There really aren't any cons!

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

DG

Dana G.

Director, College of Medicine Grants Office

Higher Education

### "We have had a very positive experience with the implantation for the Blue Wren grants software. "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

September 26, 2017

We are working toward using the grants software as our central repository for all grants information and documents. We are able to retrieve information quickly and report back to our sponsors (other support in particular) in a timely manner.

Pros

We been working with the implementation team at Blue Wren for almost five years. My office started out doing the post award grants support for a research center with the OSU College of Medicine and that is when we first startup working with the software. In the past four years, we have grown from 8 academic/clinical departments to over 40. Our primary focus was getting the financial reporting system up and running. The company has been very accommodating and has been able to fluidly reprogram the software in order to accommodate our growth. We are in the early stages of populating data into the grants software module, but I like that it will allow us to keep all of our grant related information in one place as a central repository and I LOVE the ability to create NIH other support documents. I have one FTE devoted to progress reports and NIH JIT requests, so this function allows us to work much more efficiently.

Cons

With the financial software, we are able to do minimal data entry because we upload our financial and personnel date directly into the software. There is more many data entry and maintenance with the grants module, but that really is more a nature of the ever changing nature of grants management as new awards come in then it is a problem with the software.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

JS

Jonathan S.

Sponsored Programs Administrator

Research

### "Best bang for your buck I've ever encountered in Grant Management"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

September 25, 2017

Pros

There are 3 categories that really make this software great; 1. Superb implementation and post-purchase support: who has been extremely patient and helpful in helping me through a new implementation process as well as very responsive to requests for customizations? 2. Tailored product for Grant Management: Often as research administrators, we try to jam software created for other purposes into the role of Grant Management, which sometimes works but is always time-consuming and cumbersome. It's refreshing to work with software that's actually created to do Grant Management. 3. It's constantly getting better: I've only been using the software for about a year and a half, but in that time there have been really major upgrades to almost all aspects of the software. There is also extensive testing so that you know that when you do get an upgrade you know it will work. I wholeheartedly recommend Blue Wren software to other folks looking for Grant Management Solutions.

Cons

It's still software. As with other pieces of software things are becoming massively interconnected, so there are still glitches if one piece of the puzzle isn't correct. Overall though, this is really a problem that's less about this particular software, and more about the software ecosystem in general.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

LW

Lisa W.

AVP Research & Sponsored Programs

Higher Education

### "Blue Wren GRM review"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

September 21, 2017

Quick and accurate performance metrics for reports.I purchased , installed and used it at my previous university. I am working hard to get it up and running at my new and current university.

Pros

The team is extremely responsive and knowledgeable in both software design and research administration. Ideas for additional features and functionality are readily accepted and quickly added.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

DP

Dawn P.

Financial Administrator

Education Management

### "The product does what the sales team said it would and meets our needs well! "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

September 20, 2017

It makes grant tracking and reporting so much easier than our previous way of tracking!

Pros

The customer service provided by Blue Wren is top of the line. They have a very knowledgeable staff and implementation team that have always provided very timely support when needed. This product allows us to have quick access to our current and pending funding stream. It also allows us to efficiently access other grant data by using the search and reporting capabilities. The GRM product has an email notification system that notifies our faculty when reports and other items are due. It has helped to significantly improve our turn around time on these items and taken the burden of reminders off of our staff.

Cons

The system does not do electronic submissions to grant.gov. However, we work around that effectively by using the grant.gov workspace.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

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