Choosing Leading Board Portals

choosing leading board portals

A board portal can be a useful tool to streamline meetings to reduce administrative burdens and improving communication. It’s important to choose the right software for your organisation. A lot of board portals are over-engineered and include features your nonprofit doesn’t really need. It is easy to use donor funds to purchase tools which don’t add value for your board.

This checklist can be used to assess possible providers for board portals. The questions below are designed to assist you in evaluating the most pertinent and important factors that should determine the final choice of provider.

Choosing Leading Board Portals

Choose a website that has an intuitive interface, which is easy to navigate and learn. Consider the performance of the customer support department of the company. If you require assistance setting up your new portal or resolving an issue the manner in which they respond could affect your satisfaction with the product and how well it is able to meet your needs.

Check out the security measures a company may have in place to protect the security of your data. Some sites offer two-factor authentication, secure encryption of data, and third-party penetration testing of the software. Some host their servers in data centers that are hardened and conduct regular security audits. Ask if the company is ready to handle a catastrophic recovery scenario.

Ask a prospective provider what they are planning to do to improve the functionality in the future of their board portal. Do they have a roadmap of future features? Are they able to alert users to any changes that could impact their experience in the near future?