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Challenged with the lack of accurate costings data in your Pre-Awards proposals?
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Challenged with the lack of accurate costings data in your Pre-Awards proposals?

Institutions often face challenges keeping up with the constant changes in transactional systems tha…

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Whitepapers

The Right Handover from Pre-Award
to Finance

When an award moves from pre-award to finance, the figures are keyed again and the line-by-line costing collapses into broad codes.

Managing Funding Applications Across Disconnected Systems

Your grants system tracks submissions, not opportunities. Capture pre-award activity early to improve planning, forecasting, approvals and reporting.

Cost calculation using a calculator - Manual Costing is time consuming research management

Overcoming Manual Costing
and Pricing Delays

Research offices cost grants manually in spreadsheets, then re-key them. GrantsNow applies funder rules inside the process, removing repeated recalculation.

Why do you need a separate reporting tool away from your GMS?

Grants reporting suffers when it relies on separate exports instead of live data. GrantsNow unifies the process so reporting stays current, accurate, and self-service, no developer needed.

Improving Collaboration
on Proposals

GrantsNow keeps proposal discussions, feedback, approvals and notifications connected, ensuring every decision remains visible, traceable and audit-ready.

The Right Response
 to a Proposal Correction

Discover how structured proposal corrections and rework workflows reduce delays, improve collaboration, and strengthen submission quality.

The Right Access for Each Role

Learn how role-based access gives researchers, administrators, and reviewers secure, personalised access to the information they need, improving collaboration, governance, and efficiency across the research funding lifecycle.

Managing bottlenecks in research funding administration

This whitepaper explores how a single, cloud-based platform can simplify the entire grants lifecycle and improve collaboration, governance, and efficiency.

Blog on Challenges faced in managing Contracts for Research Funding Awards - Grantsnow

Overcoming Challenges in Developing Complex Cost Models for Pre-Award Grants

Managing grant funding in academic institutions involves a multifaceted process that demands accurate and intricate cost models during the pre-award stage.

Delivering key functionality for K-12 schools to find additional Grants Funding

GrantsNow delivers key functionality for K-12 schools to find additional Grants Funding and ensure effective management and compliance with a Grant Funder’s requirements.