RQ PLATFORM COMPARISON
RESULTS FROM REAL PROGRAMS
“A time saver, staff saver, life saver.”
Capterra Review
Customer review
“Always available 24/7.”
Capterra Review
Customer review
“Our experience has been phenomenal.”
Capterra Review
Customer review
“Customer service has been outstanding.”
Capterra Review
Customer review
“We switched from OpenWater for the usability.”
Capterra Review
Switching experience
180% increase in applications. 244% increase in page visits.
RQ Platform Customer
Mirzayan Fellowship Program
A side-by-side look at what each platform delivers.
Information reviewed August 2026. See sources below.
Where RQ Platform Goes Further
AwardSpring offers scholarships, donor management, and fund tracking. Here's the rest of what the RQ Platform covers under one platform.
AwardSpring is explicitly positioned as scholarship, donor, and fund management for higher-ed financial aid, advancement, and enrolment offices; Awards, Grants, Mentorship, Scholarship, Nomination and Fellowships do not appear as named use cases on its site. RQ Platform runs all of these from the same system. [1][2]
A dedicated Mentorship product: mentor-mentee matching, goals and progress tracking, meeting logs, group mentoring, plus a built-in Alumni Directory. Neither appears as a named capability on AwardSpring's site. [1]
Self-service custom reporting. Several AwardSpring reviewers describe needing to contact AwardSpring's own staff to build a custom report, with one reviewer noting it can take several days to get back. [3][4]
Support for multiple concurrent application cycles, AwardSpring reviewers report difficulty running more than one scholarship cycle at a time, or overlapping cycles with different closing dates. [3][4]
Sourced from AwardSpring's own customers on G2 and Capterra
Multiple reviewers describe needing to contact AwardSpring's own staff to build a custom report one reviewer specifically noted this can take several days. One reviewer described exported reports as requiring manual cleanup, needing to delete hundreds of extra columns and rows to get the specific data needed. [4][3][4]
Reviewers report difficulty running more than one scholarship cycle open at a time, and note that overlapping application periods with different closing dates can be cumbersome to manage. [3][4]
Two separate reviewers requested a true API connection, noting that data currently has to be uploaded manually via CSV file. [4]
A reviewer at a small institution where staff wear multiple hats noted friction when the same person needs to be both a department admin and a reviewer on the same account. [4]
Comparison information is based on publicly available vendor information, third-party software review platforms, and the sources listed above. Product features and pricing can change. We periodically review these pages for accuracy.
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