End-to-end Approval Workflow

GrantsNow has flexible and fully self-configurable task management workflows embedded into the system:   

Internal Submission of Proposal  

  • Can be designed for every school or faculty with its own tasks to perform.
  • Specific Ethical related questions can be configured for workflow/notifications. 
  • Purchase cost limit specific items can be configured into workflow. 
  • Proposal specific stages can be included while workflow is in flight. 
  • Price / Cost Threshold limit workflow stage can be defined as part of workflow. 

Outline Proposal: Demand Managed external application can also have specific workflow to enable research office to restrict bids internally and allow only specific bid for full proposal creation. 
Workflow Module can be made independent if the institution would like to use for other processes. 
Contract Management follows similar workflow task manager for internal approvals. These can be catered as per institution needs.  
Award Management: Workflow is also for approval of budget creation for post award creation in finance systems. 

The entire process of workflow tasks is configurable for your institution’s needs without any further development. 
 
Templates: Templates for reports are again configurable, with a list of fields that can be used in the template from the business objects, and flexibility to add any kind of static text and formatting. Default templates would be provided in the application, which can be downloaded, personalised and uploaded back to the application which institution specific logos and watermarks etc. 
 
Notifications: System can be configured for specific notification with its own formatted text. The text can be amended by institution at any point in time Pre/post implementation. Notifications can be configured as per the business demand and can be disable/enabled as per the need.