What is scholarship management software?

Scholarship management software lets schools, universities, foundations, and companies collect scholarship applications, screen them for eligibility, run committee reviews, and communicate decisions in one system — replacing the mix of web forms, spreadsheets, and email threads most programmes start with.

Who uses Dapple for scholarships?

Schools, universities, and foundations running scholarship, bursary, and fellowship programmes — often alongside other application rounds like admissions, prizes, or grants. Dapple supports multiple teams and programmes in one account with per-panel permissions.

Can committee members review anonymously?

Yes. Dapple can hide applicant profiles from reviewers so applications are scored on their content, which many scholarship policies require for fairness.

How much does it cost?

Plans start at $49/month with unlimited programmes on higher plans, no annual contract, and you can start free without a credit card. If your scholarship charges an application fee, payments go through your own Stripe account at 3.9% + $0.65 per paid application — though most scholarship programmes run free applications, which carry no transaction fees at all.

Can we run multiple scholarship rounds at once?

Yes there are unlimited programmes on higher plans, each with its own form, deadlines, committee, and stages, with combined analytics across all of them.

Does Dapple handle paying scholarship recipients?

Disbursement tooling — payment schedules, Stripe payouts, and progress reporting — is part of Dapple's grant management, currently rolling out. Application collection through to decision works today; join the grant management waitlist for the post-award features.

What is Dapple and who is it for?

Dapple is a submissions and workflow platform built primarily for the creative industries. It helps organisations collect, review, manage, and report on submissions, applications or entries in one place without relying on inboxes, spreadsheets, or outdated application tools. Dapple is for creative organisations such as art institutions, publishers, literary magazines, awards bodies, agencies, festivals, academic institutions and teams running open calls, contests, or applications. It's also designed with creators in mind, making submissions clearer and more transparent.

How does Dapple help reduce admin?

Dapple centralises everything—submissions, reviews, communication, statuses, and reporting—into one structured workflow. This removes manual tracking, cuts down on repetitive tasks, and saves teams hours of administrative work in the process.

Can multiple people review submissions?

Yes. Dapple supports collaborative reviewing with clear permissions, allowing multiple reviewers to assess submissions independently and remotely.

Is Dapple suitable for small teams?

Absolutely. Dapple is designed to scale with you—whether you're a small team managing a few hundred submissions or a larger organisation handling thousands.

How is Dapple different from other submission platforms?

Most submission platforms were built for generic workflows and bolted onto the creative world as an afterthought. Dapple was built from the ground up for organisations running awards, open calls, contests, and grants — and it shows in every feature. Where other platforms charge applicants fees just to submit their work, Dapple has no application fees. Payments go directly to your Stripe account instantly minus small transaction fees. Intuitive judging and visual kanban boards let your admin team move submissions through review stages the way creative teams actually think — not buried in spreadsheets or clunky list views. Combined with next-level filtering that lets you cut and sort entries by any field, attribute, or status, your team can go from hundreds of submissions to a shortlist in minutes rather than days. It's a modern, sleek platform that makes complex workflows feel simple. See how Dapple compares feature by feature on our competitors page.

Do applicants need an account to submit?

Yes, however, it's very quick and simple to create and can be done in a matter of seconds. When a creator opens a form, they will be prompted to create a free account. They can either use their Google/Microsoft account, or they will be sent a link via email to confirm. Once created, they will be able to use their account to track the status of all their submissions, any messages, payments made and download any attachments.

Can I communicate with applicants through Dapple?

Yes. Dapple has an inbuilt messaging platform enabling you to manage communication in one place, keeping inbound/outbound messages organised and linked directly to each submission. You are able to send single or bulk messages to multiple applicants, create message templates and configure whether an applicant can respond.

Yes. Dapple is built with modern security standards and role-based permissions to ensure submissions and data are handled safely and responsibly.

Is there a free trial?

You can create an account for free with no credit card details required. We allow this in order to try the system out, see how it works and set everything up in advance of setting your forms live. As soon as you want to make your forms active, you'll need to upgrade to a paid plan. Please note that there is a 'demo mode' feature enabling you to create different projects and workflows, make test payments and submissions without affecting your live data.

I'm stopping submissions for a while. Can I pause my account?

Yes! You have the option to pause your account on every plan. We'll keep your account on ice, keep your setup complete and data safe so you can come back later.

Scholarship Management Platform

Scholarship management that keeps every application, score, and decision in one place

Collect applications, screen eligibility, run committee reviews, and notify recipients — one platform from first application to final decision, without the spreadsheet stage in the middle.

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The scholarship cycle, end to end

From the first application to the final award letter, every step in one place.

Collect applications

Build branded scholarship application forms with multi-step sections, conditional logic, and document uploads — transcripts, references, portfolios, personal statements — in any file type or size. Applicants can save drafts and return, and automated reminders nudge anyone with an unfinished application before the deadline.

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Screen for eligibility

Put your hard requirements — age, location, enrolment status, required documents — at the front of the form so ineligible applicants find out early. Tag and filter incoming applications, and move them through customisable stages on a kanban board so committee members always know what's screened and what's pending.

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Review with committees

Set up review panels for your selection committee, with each member scoring, voting, and commenting through their own account. Hide applicant profiles for anonymous review where your policy requires it, and track reviewer progress — with one-click reminders for anyone falling behind.

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Decide and notify

See scores and rankings in one dashboard, move recipients to an awarded stage, and message groups in bulk — offers, waitlists, and regrets — using templates. Every application, score, and message stays on one record for your audit trail.

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Customisable application forms

Academic-based application forms can often be long, tedious and a real effort to fill out! Our forms are sleek, fresh and cater to a modern audience, used to current tech.

Pre-built templates: Academic applications ofter require lots of detailed information. Use the pre-built templates to save you hours of setup.
Modern: Increase your completion rate with modern, beautiful looking forms. Brand with headers and background images.
Flexible: Set up visibility, date ranges, unlimited customisable fields and conditional logic.
Attachments: Need multiple audio or video files? Large PDFs or high-res images? No problem - Accept any file type, any size and as many as you need.
Remove bias: Hide specified form fields from review panels for blind review.

Run multiple programmes

Need to accept applications for multiple programmes? Different requirements, timelines or application criteria? Run everything in one, easy-to-navigate dashboard.

Projects Hub: See all your programmes and their various details, submissions and analytics from one single dashboard.
Bespoke Forms: Create tailored application forms for each programme
Users and Teams: Create different teams, users and review panels for each programme, each with their own set of permissions to view the correct applications.
Advanced filtering: Filter by programme, tags, stages, status and even individual form fields and answers.

Create review panels

Send applications to specific panels of reviewers to get detailed feedback.

Multiple panels: Create multiple panels, each with specific sets of users and assign them to different programmes and stages within those programmes.
Scoring & votes: See reviewer scores, comments and decisions in real time in one intuitive dashboard.
Feedback: Customise the scoring/voting requirements of each individual panel.
Anonymous review: All applicant profiles are hidden from any reviewers accounts for blind review.
Transparency: Keep applicants updated so they know the status of their application in real time with updates in their accounts.

Easy application review

Cut the admin time with lots of different ways to both speed up the time it takes to review applications and then manage them through different stages.

Applicant list: See all applications in a single list view. Filter, tag, export or download in a single click.
Review at Speed: View or play attachments without the need to download. See scores, comments, previous submissions and move stages in one click.
Bulk actions: Send multiple applications to a stage, send them to a panel, add tags or send all those applicants a message template in just a few clicks.
Automate: Set up a number of automations to trigger when an application reaches a specific stage.
Draft reminders: Automate reminder messages to those with draft applications, nudging them to finish.

Safe and secure

Dapple is built on enterprise-grade security infrastructure, using industry best practices to protect data at every stage — from application to decision.

Permissions: With various different user permissions, make sure that your team members, managers and reviewers only have access to the correct data.
Security: Secure infrastructure with AWS data centres (SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, CSA compliant).
SSO: Single Sign-On (SSO) via OpenID Connect, supporting Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Auth0, and other OIDC providers.
Encryption: All personal data is encrypted and all payment information managed by Stripe (PCI Service Provider Level 1)
Audit trails: Every action taken within the system is logged to ensure full transparency, accountability, and traceability across all activity.

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