Boardable

Vorteile

Layout is great, easy to navigate, easy to create agendas, upload documents, and assign speakers. Looks great on the screen.

Nachteile

I wish it was easier to scroll through each attached agenda item without having to create a PDF booklet. Minor thing though.

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Warum Boardable gewählt wurde

Vorteile

It was not even easy to set up. Support bots are ridiculous

Nachteile

Very difficult to implement. Video conferencing was horrible. Only half of our board members adopted it. Support is terrible

Vorteile

The way Boardable sets up different organization under one user makes it extremely easy to manage my membership/participation

Nachteile

I find it awkward to quickly share the documents....you have to tinker/adjust the screen

Vorteile

I like being able to attach meeting materials directly to the agenda. I like the ability to print a PDF board packet easily. The integrated minute taking function is wonderful. It makes it easy to take minutes as well as produce a consistent and professional product each time.

Nachteile

We've struggled with the quality of the integrated Spotlight application for remote meetings. Additionally we have some board members that can't access the meetings via Spotlight due to work computer restrictions. We've tried using Zoom or Teams but since they are directly integrated we've had challenges there as well.

Vorteile

We have been using Boardable for a year now. It is incredibly easy to use, and has a clean, uncluttered interface. When our CEO started using it to create meetings, agendas, and documents, I expected a lot of questions to help her through the process. Instead, she immediately was able to use it without help. It's that intuitive. Almost all of our board members signed up right away; they are now able to see meeting documents *before* they show up at the meeting. The phone app is still new, but so far I'm very impressed.

Nachteile

No complaints. Boardable does not have all the bells and whistles of some of their competition, but we're a local not-for-profit. We don't need those features (nor do we wish to pay for them).

Vorteile

Boardable team is very open to our suggestions for enhancements. They have been a great partner to work with to improve functionality of the app.

We explored many different volunteer management software systems but most were not affordable since we operate on a very tight budget. Boardable was priced right and is saving our team lots of time that used to be spent on a manual process preparing for Board and committee meetings.

Since starting with Boardable we have discovered a few other programs that easily benefit from using Boardable's functionality. Boardable is a great tool to use for collaboration with external partners.

Vorteile

Full version available for trial period.
Clean, Intuitive interface, easy to navigate.
Easy admin setup and functionality
I like that it is set up for non-profit organizations, unlike other portals designd for the corporate world.
Monthly billing option
Training videos available to help with implementation

Nachteile

Storage limited to files less than 250 MB. Requires external storage for our training videos. No ability to increase storage
No drag and drop file handling ability
No integration with MS Office to easily collaborate on documents. Must download, edit , and re-upload.

Vorteile

It's pretty straightforward and user friendly.

Nachteile

At times, our board members have had issues with the app.

Vorteile

I like the Calendar and ease to receive documents

Nachteile

Minute taker - I use standard wordprocessing for my minutes.

Vorteile

Boardable is the tool I use to build agendas, and organise meeting documents in just a single click. we are also able to conduct polls using this software.

Nachteile

The audio quality with the zoom integration is really bad. I wish this issue can be resolved.

Vorteile

All the features that Boardable incorporates for streamlining communication with our Board & Committees has been extremely invaluable. I love the ability to have personal profiles for everyone, the ease of scheduling meetings, discussions & document files in one place. Definitely has cut down on the amount of time once needed to search through email threads with attachments. I highly recommend Boardable.

Nachteile

This is not really a con, just a personal suggestion to fit our organization and to make Boardable more appealing...it would be cool to be able to put pictures into the Dashboard, Discussions & group descriptions. As they say...a picture is worth a thousand words.

Vorteile

This product has streamlined not only our board meetings and materials, but across the organization it has become a tool for internal meeting groups. The best thing about Boardable is that it is super user friendly no matter what the technology comfort level might be. Also, with a larger board, this product has made ease of access to information readily available without having to search through multiple files or reach out to request information.

Nachteile

There really is not a significant con as Boardable is always enhancing or bringing on new features.

Vorteile

I love the ability to create an agenda, ease of publishing meetings, the Document Center and the ability to create a Dashboard message. Although I haven't yet had the opportunity to use all the features, I feel the software is very user-friendly. The Academy is very helpful and the integration process has been fairly easy on the administrative end.

Nachteile

When editing People, rather than return to the main page, I would like the ability to move directly to the next person.

Vorteile

Storage of board documents, ease of use for our board members and staff, customer support has been excellent.

Nachteile

Things we would change if possible - limiting the features our board members have access to in a more customized way (only 3 profile types to choose from that don't exactly match our needs); messaging feature is only available in the Pro version.

Vorteile

This product was very easy to implement and for our users to navigate. We have several internal meetings that we use this product for as well as our monthly board and committee meetings. We have been able to customize it for our needs.

Nachteile

Everyone once in a while some glitches happen with meeting information that need to be taken care of by the programming department.

Vorteile

This was very easy to set up and use when we need to. I also liked that I could send private documents recently to a select group. Normally they are handed out in person but since COVID there haven't been any in person meetings.

Nachteile

Limited number of users for the cost of the product each month. would like maybe 10-15 more users without the cost going up.

Vorteile

I'm new to the software so I'm still figuring it all out - but what I LOVE so far is the customer service! I have found this year in the age of COVID, that customer service across the board has been less than stellar. You wait hours, even days, for someone to respond to an inquiry. But NOT Boardable - they have been amazing in their response time AND in their assistance.

Nachteile

Nothing I like least so far! I am fully enjoying it - but again, I'm only in the "loading data" stage and we haven't rolled it out for use yet to our board members.

Vorteile

It centralizes all of our board minutes, documents, etc and allows us to get away from a long trail of email for communication. We also really like the voting and scheduling features.

Nachteile

It took a while to figure out to use the document adding feature. Once I got it, it is very simple but did take a few tries to get it worked out.

Vorteile

I love that it is easy to use, easy to set up, and the customer service is amazing.

Nachteile

The software doesn't always remind you to save your work. I have been working on minutes and will make a change or leave the page and do not get prompted to save my work and have lost significant pieces of work.

Vorteile

This software is easy to use, understand and implement!

Nachteile

At first the initial emails were going to a spam folder for the invitations.

Vorteile

Ease of use. This is a simple way to communicate with your boards and committees - really any group of people you need to gather together for discussion!

Nachteile

The polling options need clarified a bit more - they are not as intuitive as the rest of the software is.

Vorteile

agenda builder that allows it to be an interactive PDF. Setting up different folders for document storage. Assigning tasks, scheduling on the calendar

Nachteile

Would love if the built in video conference system allowed for more than 16 people to be viewed at a time

Vorteile

I think the easy of use and being able to organize documents in a logical way. This is fairly flexible versus other programs that force you into their logic

Nachteile

Too many clicks. Seems like you have to click around to find things that should be opened in one click. It is difficult to tell if you have sent a message or posted a document that you want the rest of the Board to see. It would be nice if there was a data tag that said when and who the document was sent too.

Vorteile

It is pretty intuitive and user-friendly.

Nachteile

I haven't used the product long enough to find out if there is anything I don't like.

Vorteile

I like the straightforward, clean format which makes Boardable easy to use. Everything needed for a meeting is easily connected to that meeting and documents are easily filed after the meeting.

Nachteile

The only issue some of our users have with Boardable is the inability to make notations within a document. Also, as an administrator I would like to be able to rearrange documents in the Document Center.

Vorteile

Very easy to use and the functionality is top-notch. Cost is very affordable for the functionality you are receiving.

Nachteile

I wish there was some type of evaluation tools for the Board.

Vorteile

I love this program, it really helps get our board and meetings organized.

Nachteile

It's a newer system so it still has a few bugs.

Vorteile

Boardable has all the features we wanted and the pricing fit our budget the best.

Nachteile

We were a little concerned that support was only during daytime, EST hours, but when we went in to set things up, it was effortless. We did send in a couple of questions to support by email and they responded on the morning of the next business day. We are happy to hear Boardable is adding support on the west coast soon, so there will be longer support hours.

Vorteile

Ease of setup and use after initial setup.

Nachteile

Just getting used to its functions. I assume it will get easier over time.

Vorteile

We have users with a variety of computer experience and Boardable has been so friendly to use and the customer service has been awesome.

Nachteile

We are too new to know all the facets of Boardable, no cons as of yet.