OpenWater Awards

Review of OpenWater platform

What do you like best? The Awards and Prizes team at the Institution of Engineering and Technology operates several awards, prizes and scholarship schemes, all with different entry and reporting requirements. The team has been using the OpenWater platform for over one year now and the flexibility and functionality of the platform has led to many improvements and efficiencies in how IET awards are run. The support from the OpenWater team has been excellent, enabling the Awards team to get ...

Chapter Awards

What do you like best? The platform was super easy for my chapter leaders to use. This was our first year and I received little to no questions about signing up or using the program. What do you dislike? The growing pains with setting up the program. But, that comes with using a new product. The customer service was great and even though some days were a pain Josh was patient and very helpful. Recommendations to others considering the product: Working with OpenWater was awesome. ...

Simple and straight

What do you like best? I would say organizing everything in a single place is the best thing with OPenwater making it easy for the people to browse through the various entities. What do you dislike? The most frustrating thing with openwater is that it made hard for the developers to contribute to the project other than contacting the support. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Website management, Awards management, content creation

Robust submission software

What do you like best? OpenWater has a lot of customizable features that allow our company to sun up to twenty programs a year and keep track of all finances and submissions. What do you dislike? I wish there were more webpage customization options. Recommendations to others considering the product: This is a very robust system that allows you to customize the submission process and allows for easy export either via API or by downloading the submitted data. It streamlines the ...

Unique platform that meets our event planning and judging needs

What do you like best? I love that OpenWater incorporates student registration, scheduling, and real-time judging all into one system. I searched for several months for the right system for our institution and this is the only one of its kind that I found. I also like that it is user-friendly enough that I can customize it on my own to meet our needs. Above all, the customer service is OUTSTANDING! They are always available to answer any questions. What do you dislike? There are a ...

Amazing Customer Service

What do you like best? Flexibility when setting up forms and email contact automation features. What do you dislike? Some things are not intuitive. Cannot apply bulk commands in every view. Recommendations to others considering the product: Price points are more inclusive than other similar products. Not forced into a higher price point to get one or two features offered there. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? The account rep ...

Best multi-function association software in the market

What do you like best? The best thing about OpenWater is that it is easy to setup, easy to use, and you can use it for everything from awards management, governance, event registration, call for presentations... everything! What do you dislike? The scoring process for our awards program is very unconventional - so we've had to set up a few work-arounds to make it work in OpenWater. No other system can be adapted to our process either, so this is not an issue for me. Recommendations ...

Amazing Customer Service

What do you like best? Flexibility when setting up forms and email contact automation features. What do you dislike? Some things are not intuitive. Cannot apply bulk commands in every view. Recommendations to others considering the product: Price points are more inclusive than other similar products. Not forced into a higher price point to get one or two features offered there. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? The account rep assigned to ...

YAZ's review

What do you like best? The user experience, super easy to navigate the system. What do you dislike? The lack of customization abilities. I would like to use more color and more branding opportunities. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Easy and convenience of running an awards program. Management of nominees and information.

Customizable, Great User Experience

What do you like best? This can be as simple or as complex as you’d like it to be. The settings and ability to really customize your program are endless. New features are being added and improved all the time. What do you dislike? Sometimes terms are very technical and maybe not as easy to understand for the common user. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? End user experience has improved ten fold. Ability to easily accept payments and have ...