Boardable is board management software built for nonprofit organizations but suitable for businesses and groups of any kind that want to improve engagement. The software is meeting-centric, helping groups schedule meetings, have online conversations, take part in polls, and organize and store documents. Board members can prepare for meetings remotely with the Boardable mobile app.
Started by nonprofit founders in 2016, Boardable's vision is to bring nonprofit boards the tools and talent to improve the board member experience, work more effectively, and amplify their impact in their respective communities. Boardable's ideal customer is a community nonprofit with 10-100 board members and another 20-30 volunteers that need a central place to coordinate and communicate. The Boardable platform is built to integrate with Google and Microsoft products, making it an intuitive and simple software for all users.
Pros
Boardable is a web portal designed to support the governance function of nonprofit boards of directors. By logging in, a board member can find all of their documents, prepare for meetings, engage in between-meeting discussions, co-write documents, assign tasks, schedule meetings and events and more. It is all in one location and very well organized.
Cons
Getting everyone from the team to log in, take some training, and start using it. Some people still resist, which creates extra work for everyone. I do not know what the software makers could do to improve this.
We are the business office for an Episcopal bishop. Boardable has revolutionized how we communicate with our governance bodies. All board members are volunteers. Many have full time careers. They appreciate the ease of use and efficiency of Boardable. No paper mailings, no postage , no worries about forgetting to bring your meeting packet, the ability to reference and view documents from a previous meeting, creating task lists and conducting polls for an unexpected urgent meeting have been invaluable to us. The majority of our boards fall under my purview as the bishop's executive assistant. I can't say enough about the amount of time it saves me managing all these various groups.
Pros
Boardable is an efficient, organized, and effective tool to manage governance bodies. Currently we are managing six separate governance bodies and expect to add several more soon. Best features include agenda builder, ability to write your personal notes and reminders in the agenda for your eyes only, meeting minute template, attaching documents directly in the agenda, pooling feature, and, most importantly, it serve as an excellent document repository. We've established "best practices" for administrators and end users. It has been well received and board members appreciate it's ease of use and efficiency. Tech support is extremely helpful and very responsive. The Boardable team is always open to our idea and suggestions.
Cons
One limitation for our use is the inability to have different titles and terms when a person serves on multiple boards. Having the ability to format our own documents would be helpful as well.
Pros
We work with a diverse range of 200 users from many backgrounds and experiences so a user friendly system was important. When researching different board management products, many were complicated. Boardable offered a great system at a great value that is easy for our users.
Cons
Sometimes there are quite a few clicks for an administrator to get items where they need to go.
The software reduced communications, hunting for documents and collecting Board votes for online voting. I like it a lot.
Pros
The Boardable platform is great for several things.
1. It eliminates the need to send emails and attachments to Board members in the hopes that they will get them all and read them all before the meeting.
2. It cuts down on problems a lot of Board members face at larger corporations with blocked file sharing tools like Box, Dropbox or Google Drive. This isn't an issue because it's out on a server.
3. It cuts down on so much wasted paper from Board packets. Rather than print things out and then toss them after each meeting, Board members can now be responsible for reading and accessing their own Board information.
4. It keeps a record of Board attendance, Board votes and Board meeting documents, all sorted nicely.
5. You can do online voting between meetings - known as polls.
Cons
I think there are some opportunities for some small design changes, and some opportunities to add in other tools that would make sense like screenshare, conferencing, committee communications, etc. Having said that, I like this tool enough that I have recommended it to other non-profits in the area, and do speak highly of it frequently. I think it's got legs to be something pretty great with a few more iterations.
Pros
Centralized communication has been key to moving our organization forward. It's helped with accountability and tracking, and allows us to communicate between board meetings. Polls are great for gathering feedback, etc.
Cons
I want to be able to use Boardable for my committee functions as well. We have started to do this, but find the feature set is limited. I believe this could be fixed by changing the way we look at member, observer, and administrator. In other words, I want my committee members to have member-level access but only within their defined group. As it stands, committee members can't assign meetings, upload files, etc. because they are limited by their user status. Also, file storage can get hairy. There should be more instructions on storing files, attaching them to meetings, access, etc.
10 users $49/Month
20 users $99/Month
40 users $175/Month
80 users $300/Month
Below are some frequently asked questions for Boardable.
Boardable offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: USD 49.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
10 users $49/Month
20 users $99/Month
40 users $175/Month
80 users $300/Month
Boardable offers the following features:
Boardable has the following typical customers:
Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
Boardable supports the following languages:
English
Boardable has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Boardable supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
Boardable integrates with the following applications:
Dropbox, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Outlook
Boardable offers the following support options:
FAQs, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
As a consultant who works with several nonprofits at a time, I really needed a way to stop the email madness. Too many of the boards I work with struggle with being responsive to each other and I am more and more convinced that the problem is more related to email than to people being too busy or over committed. Once it is built out, Boardable has everything a person needs to fulfill their board obligations in one location. It is well-organized and attractive to look at, allowing the board member to focus on their responsibility itself, rather than on just all the time generating and answering email. I convinced two of my boards to try it and it took quite a bit of effort to get everyone past their resistance and using the system, but with leadership from those who were eager to learn, we eventually got it working well. Another thing we had to do was to project the Boardable screen on the wall in the boardroom so others could follow along that way. Two thumbs up for the customer service team. They were delightful in chats, phone calls and trainings. Very helpful.