Grant management and research funding automation
Less time on paperwork. More time on discovery.
Researchers spend their time on the grant. Not the research.
A multi-year research project draws funding from four sources. Budget allocations live in a spreadsheet nobody trusts. Procurement requests go through a manual approval chain that takes two weeks. And when the auditor arrives, assembling the compliance record takes longer than the audit itself.
Complex multi-source fund allocation
Managing funding from government bodies, private donors, and institutional sources manually leads to accounting errors, misallocated expenses, and compliance risk.
Fragmented compliance tracking
Grant reporting requirements vary by funder and jurisdiction. Tracking them manually is resource-intensive, prone to gaps, and creates audit risk.
Administrative bottlenecks
Manual approval chains for payroll, procurement, and laboratory expenses delay research projects and consume time that faculty and researchers should spend on their work.
From grant award to compliance record. In Bonita.
Bonita digitizes the entire research grant lifecycle, from award notification and budget setup through expense approval, multi-source fund allocation, payroll processing, and compliance reporting. Every expense is charged to the correct budget line automatically. Every approval follows the governance rules of the funding source. Integration with financial and HR systems eliminates manual data entry. Researchers submit requests and receive approvals without chasing anyone, and auditors receive complete records on demand.
Accurate fund allocation
Every expense charged to the correct budget line automatically, per funder rules. No manual calculation, no misallocation risk.
Funder-specific compliance
Governance rules adapt to each funding source's requirements. The right approval path applies to the right expense, every time.
Faster approval cycles
Procurement, payroll, and expense requests route to the right approver automatically — no manual chasing, no two-week wait.
Instant audit readiness
Complete, timestamped records of all approvals and transactions. Audit preparation is retrieval, not reconstruction.
Meet the challenge with Bonita process automation
The capabilities that make research grant management accurate, compliant, and audit-ready across every funding source.
Business rules engine
Encode approval rules per funding source, expense type, and budget threshold. Governance rules apply automatically — no manual routing, no funder-specific compliance gap.
Multi-source fund tracking
Manage allocations from multiple funders simultaneously within a single governed process. Each expense is charged to the correct budget line per funder rules, automatically.
Financial and HR system integration
Connect to institutional ERP, HR, and payroll platforms through Bonita's connector library. Budget and payroll data flows between systems without manual transfer.
Low-code UI builder
Build researcher-facing request portals and administrator dashboards directly connected to process logic — without a separate front-end development project.
Full audit trail
Every supplier exchange, contract version, procurement approval, and delivery confirmation logged automatically. Full history available instantly for any order or supplier relationship.
Real-time monitoring
Finance and compliance teams track budget consumption, open requests, and approaching thresholds across all active grants from a single dashboard.
Main KPIs
"Bonita has allowed us to digitize complex academic and administrative processes, ensuring that our teams can focus on student success and high-level research rather than repetitive manual tasks."
Work that scales with your enterprise
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