--- description: Review of Fluxx Grantmaker Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Fluxx Grantmaker | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Grant Management Software](/directory/644/grant-management/software) > [Fluxx Grantmaker](/software/32548/fluxx) # Fluxx Grantmaker Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/32548/fluxx Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/32548/fluxx?page=2) > Fluxx Grantmaker is a cloud-based grant management solution. It caters to small, midsize, and large nonprofit agencies, government agencies, and corporations. Primary features include grant and application management, budget and finance management, relationship management, donor tracking, data and workflow management, and reporting. Fluxx Grantmaker provides grant, user, and relationship management features. It allows users to automate forms and workflows, track audit trails, and manage session timeouts. Other features of Fluxx Grantmaker include project management, contact management, contract and scholarship management, and award management. This solution offers integrations with Foundation Center, GuideStar, DocuSign, Salesforce, NetSuite, Intacct, QuickBooks, Lexis/Nexis Bridger, MailChimp, Google, Microsoft Office, and other applications. Fluxx offers mobile apps for Android and iOS devices. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 94 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 94 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Fluxx - **Location**: San Francisco, US - **Founded**: 2010 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate - **Pricing Details**: Fluxx Grantmaker's pricing model is unique and offers a competitive total cost of ownership to your organization. Our annual price includes unlimited users, application forms, workflows and volume of data. Additionally, Grantmaker is the most configurable system on the market: no need for costly developments when changes are needed, your team will be able to handle them itself. So Grantmaker will grow with you ... but its cost won't\! - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Accounting - Accounting Integration - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Administrative Reporting - Alerts/Notifications - Applicant Tracking - Approval Process Control - Audit Trail - Budget Control - Budgeting/Forecasting - CRM - Categorisation/Grouping - Collaboration Tools - Communication Management - Compliance Management - Configurable Workflow - Contact Management ## Integrations (18 total) - Docusign - Google Contacts - Google Docs - Google Drive - Google Maps - GuideSTAR - Mailchimp - Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Excel - Microsoft Outlook - Microsoft Word - NetSuite - QuickBooks Online - QuickBooks Online Advanced - Sage Intacct ... and 3 more integrations ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Grant Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/644/grant-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Grant Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/644/grant-management/software) - [Charity Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4280/nonprofit/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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I moved to the Big Island and retired from another career where I was a grant writer, among other duties, and managed everything from million dollar federal grants to small community grants. I understand nonprofit work and philanthropy from both sides of the table. I came back to my old grants management job part-time again in 2022 and had a one-day training in Fluxx. I already knew the grants management work. All I needed was to learn Fluxx and be able to work in the Admin panel. I had videos to watch and Fluxx Support. With that perspective, what I like and appreciate most about Fluxx is that you can literally build out anything you need to streamline or change up your workflow. So far Iʻve been able to quickly provide every Fluxx data query my bosses or program staff throw out at me. The queries are so easy. For grants management, the system is inclusive as your entire team uses the platform and sees each new action or transaction in the workflow. However, the best part is that we have been building RFPs for special projects. Most recently Fluxx support helped me build a locked dashboard that allowed us to spin-off our Youth Leadership Grant Program to a consultant in our community where we can supervise it while the consultant engages with the elementary through high school aged students who apply and do community service to earn funds for Project Grad events and neighbor island field trips. Fluxx can do what you are only now imagining and the support staff can help you learn to build out new workflows on your own. You can make the process easy for your applicants and grantees. Most of all you can rest easy in knowing that platform security is always on their minds. You work is secure with ongoing updates from some of the planetʻs most talented coders. Fluxx is just amazing. > > **Cons**: My own learning curve made me hesitant about asking for help with minor updates and fixes. I came in with some coding experience and needed to learn a new card-based platform. That is honestly what I liked least about Fluxx. I like to attack a problem and find the solution on my own. I was not so successful at first. : ) However, once I started watching the training videos, reading the support articles and submitting help tickets, my knowledge began to grow. Much of the work in the admin panel is intuitive after some training. Beyond that you have a wealth of written resources and a very responsive support team. With the larger builds I was asked to take on, I had working model themes to start with and learned through support tickets how to tweak the model themes to exactly what I wanted. Building out new forms for RFPS, reviewer scorecards, requests, reports, amendments and auto-email tickers is now in my tool box with support staff assistance. I even ask the support team for zoom meetings to help me with a portion of my latest build process. The power to build what ever you need is in FLUXX. For thinkers, this is an amazing thing. That is well worth the learning curve and, hey, some of the Fluxx support staff I count as friends. They get plenty of opportunity to interact and assist with my questions\! LOL. > > My overall experience has been a good one from the moment I started using Fluxx to meeting \[sensitive content hidden\] at PEAK and networking with the support team at FluxxCon, as well as connecting with other Fluxx users. It continues to be a journey of learning and growth in my work as grants manager. My program team is forward thinking, innovative, collaborative state-wide and just out-there in amazing ways in what they want to do. It is fun and challenging to create the builds they can imagine with help from Fluxx. I am an honest user who struggles with new stuff on my plate but Fluxx helps me find the solutions step-by-step and we get it done\! If you are considering Fluxx Grantmaking, I promise this, you wonʻt regret using Fluxx if you want to grow, learn and do amazing work in your realm of grantmaking. The tool is here. You just have to use it. Aloha and Mahalo, Elizabeth Naholowaa Murph Grants Manager Harold K.L. Castle Foundation Kailua, Hawaii ----- ### "Fluxx is a best-in-class GMS with an excellent customer experience team" — 4.0/5 > **Jessalyn** | *22 April 2025* | Philanthropy | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: On the user side (both staff and grantee), it is best-in-class - I haven't seen another GMS that allows for as much data as Fluxx does present things so simply, cleanly, and accessibly. The customization options are also very good, and Fluxx's customer experience staff do an excellent job. > > **Cons**: For admin users, the Admin Panel is much less clean and simple an experience than the grantee, reviewer, or even employee views. There doesn't seem to be a single written resource that addresses the system in its entirety, and there's too much detail for every element covered in the "Fluxx University" trainings for admin users to be fully retained forever once the trainings are complete. It feels like the system has been cobbled together over time, with things living in a variety of places and not always following the same logic. That disorganization comes through in the ad hoc reporting tool as well, where finding the correct fields to add to a report is incredibly difficult, even with a search function. > > Overall, I don't think there's a better GMS out there than Fluxx. It's user-friendly on both the staff and grantee sides for people who aren't confident database users, and it offers nearly unlimited ways of looking at data for staff who are. Fluxx's customer experience staff are responsive, supportive, patient teachers, and transparent when they can't find an answer. The system's DocuSign integration is light years beyond what I've seen from other platforms. The Admin Panel comes with its frustrations for admin users, but it also provides more customization options and ownership than just about any other system I've worked in. And as a former grant writer myself, Fluxx's Grantee Portal was my favorite to use, hands down. ----- ### "Let it Flow with Fluxx" — 4.0/5 > **Susan** | *12 February 2026* | Philanthropy | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: I like how Fluxx continues to evolve and incorporate new and exciting features based on user feedback. It's wonderful to make a suggestion in the Fluxx community and then see it slowly come to life in product updates. > > **Cons**: The Admin panel is a bit sensitive to manipulate and we would prefer something more user friendly (click and point). It takes a skilled hand to make certain changes on the backend but with practice it became somewhat easier. ----- ### "CFSEM Fluxx Review" — 3.0/5 > **Ryan** | *29 April 2022* | Nonprofit Organisation Management | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: That it's cloud based, and helped our organization modernize. > > **Cons**: The service, hands down. It takes days and weeks sometimes for tickets to be responded to. We've had tickets open for years that impact the usability and administration of the system. Tickets sent to engineering get lost in the void so much that its a common jest among the Fluxx user communities. I often have to reach a point of frustration where I am emailing our Fluxx representative before movement is made. And still, most often the response is that 'its with engineering'. > > The experience with iNet when we implemented in 2019 was less than ideal. After handing over the reigns to us, and we learned the administrative backend on our own, we quickly realized that the initial build of Fluxx was already unsustainable in the way it was structure. The documentation that was provided was less than ideal and was very little help. The training was also miserably lacking, as our whole staff would likely agree on. Fluxx was a step forward for us, as we have been using a legacy system may decades old, but the longer we used it, the more issues cropped up. The more I learned in the admin panel, the more I realized that the current setup was unsustainable and would eventually require a complete rebuild if we were to remain. We got very little help with that issue (about unsustainability) and little to no advice from Fluxx on how to proceed. We are getting by today, but as we add more programming we continue to struggle to fit things in our current setup. Not only is the setup an issue, the persistent issues with existing functionality, the bugs that arise and take a year to get fixed. Its been frustrating to say the least. ----- ### "Recommend Fluxx" — 5.0/5 > **Sarah** | *18 April 2025* | Philanthropy | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The system is very customizable. Our organization has specific data needs and we are able to meet these needs in a timely manner through managing and building in the system ourselves. > > **Cons**: There are times that pulling data into an Adhoc or Excel report can be difficult if you do not know the correct file path. It can be a guessing game of if a field pull is correct and a lot of trial and error when pulling data. > > We've been on Fluxx for almost 7 years. In that time staff has taken the time to learn and become admins which has been important for us. Having that inhouse knowledge of the system's best practices and structure has been imperative in building and maintaining a system that supports the ever changing needs of our organization. Similarly, we are able to depend on Fluxx (Management, CSM and Support) for assistance as needed for different projects and enhancements. It has been a good partnership. ----- Page: 1 / 5\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/32548/fluxx?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/32548/fluxx) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data