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Grant round portal
A grant round portal is where community groups apply for funding, each reviewer files their own score on every application, and the program officer awards or declines with a reason. Applicants follow their own application's status instead of emailing to ask.
Pattern: RequestsDescribe it to Pory
“We run a small-grants round for community groups. Groups apply online, three volunteer reviewers score every application, and our program officer awards or declines each one.”
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In plain English
What is a grant round portal?
A grant round portal is where community groups apply for funding, each reviewer files their own score on every application, and the program officer awards or declines with a reason. Applicants follow their own application's status instead of emailing to ask. It follows the Requests pattern: someone submits, someone decides, it moves through statuses. Pory generates it from a plain-English description, with a login for each role (applicant, reviewer and program officer) that shows only what that role should see, and flat pricing with unlimited applicants.
What it does
Community groups apply in one form instead of a Word attachment
Applications used to arrive as Word documents in three different templates, and someone retyped each budget figure into a spreadsheet. In Pory a group fills in the project, organisation, focus area, amount and its case for funding, and the application goes straight to the review panel with their name on it. Nobody chases a missing budget line by email again.
Forms to submit a recordDone by: Applicant
Each reviewer's score sits on the application under their own name
Reviewers used to fill in copies of one scoring spreadsheet, and last round two of them saved over each other. In Pory each reviewer opens an application and files their own review: a score out of 5, a recommendation and notes, kept as a separate record on that application. The program officer opens it and reads each reviewer's view in turn.
Notes & scores on a recordDone by: Reviewer
Awards and declines carry their reason on the application itself
Decisions used to live in board minutes and a follow-up email nobody could find by March. The program officer opens an application, reads the reviews, and awards or declines it with the reason written onto the record. When a group asks why they missed out, the answer takes one click, not an afternoon in the inbox.
Approve / reject with a reasonDone by: Program officer
Applicants watch their application move from review to a decision
Every round used to bring a week of "just checking you got our application" emails. Each applicant signs in and sees only their own applications and where each one stands: In review, Shortlisted, then Awarded or Declined. The program team gets that week back and spends it reading proposals.
Status tracker for the submitterDone by: Applicant
The parts every portal is built from
Pory generates a portal from these pieces and wires the permissions between them. The same parts run a grant round, a help desk, and a tenant portal — only the names on the pages change.
Collect
Forms
Signed-in or public, with typed fields and file uploads. A form files a record; it doesn't start an email thread.
Public pages
An application page, a notice board, an open directory — pages and forms anyone can use without signing in, on your domain.
Self sign-up
People create their own account and land in the role you chose for them.
File attachments
Upload and view files on the record they belong to — not in a folder named FINAL v2.
Decide
Approve / reject with a reason
Decision buttons for whoever may edit the status. Who decided, when, and why stays on the record.
Status tracker
“Where's my request?” answered as a progress bar on the submitter's own page.
Board by status
Cards in columns. Drag a record to move it along.
Checklists
Task lists ticked off per record, with progress — onboarding runs, inspections, opening duties.
Assign to a person
Name who a record is for and it lands on their list, and nobody else's.
Notes & scores
A reviewer's score, a coach's feedback, a clinician's note — kept on the record it belongs to, never lost in a thread.
Reminders by date
Renewals, expiries and overdue work, in an in-app inbox and by email.
Share
Tables
Search, filters, sorting, inline add and edit — the spreadsheet, minus the sharing accident.
People directory
Portraits, names, and roles from a table, shown only to the roles allowed to see them.
Calendar
Records on a month or week view, by date.
Gallery & image grid
Records as cards or photos.
Record pop-up & linked records
A shareable pop-up with a record's details and what's linked to it. Edit, change status, or add a linked record from there.
Notices & info pages
Check-in details, benefits, updates — a page for a role to read.
Counts, totals & averages
Live figures over the rows a viewer is allowed to read.
Control
Role & row access
Own, assigned, managed, and team rows; hidden fields per role. Generated from your description, not configured field by field.
No-Password Doors
A sign-in link by email, by default. Password sign-in if you'd rather.
Your brand
Your domain, your colours, your logo. Members see you.
On purpose
Four things Pory won’t do
A portal runs a program, a service, or a process. These jobs belong to tools built for them, and Pory keeps the records around them instead.
Take payments
Pory tracks who owes what and who has paid. It doesn't collect the money — keep your payment tool for that.
Book time slots
Availability, capacity, time zones, and reschedules are a whole product. Pory holds what happens after the booking.
Host the conversation
No feeds, threads, likes, or polls. A note on a record, yes; a forum, no. Where members talk is another tool's job.
Plan routes
Pory keeps the service record, not the map.
Frequently asked questions
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