ImpactMEL
ImpactMEL is monitoring, evaluation, and learning software for organizations running programmes and projects.
What ImpactMEL is
ImpactMEL is monitoring, evaluation, and learning software for organizations running programmes and projects. It supports logframes, theories of change, and results frameworks that can span multiple projects. A form builder offers fifteen field types, including participant pickers, map-based administrative-unit selection, and evidence uploads. Token-secured public links let partners submit information for a specific indicator and period without accounts. Submissions can move through draft, submitted, returned, approved, and locked states, while revisions retain the author, timestamp, and previous value. The platform assembles branded donor and programme reports for PDF, Word, and Excel export. Integrations include CSV import, DHIS2 connectors, and an API. Customers can choose managed cloud or their own infrastructure and can export their data, according to the company. ImpactMEL has no free plan or self-serve trial, and says it has not been audited against a security standard. Cloud Organization costs $219 a month, billed annually at $2,628.
Good
- Supports multi-project results frameworks
- Fifteen field types in form builder
- Partner links require no account
- Tracks submission states and revisions
- Exports branded PDF, Word, and Excel reports
Watch out
- No free plan or self-serve trial
- Offline data capture unavailable
- No security-standard audit reported
- Cloud Organization costs $219 a month
Who it suits
It is presented for NGOs, donor-funded programmes, government programmes, and funders needing outcome tracking, forms, approvals, and reporting. Organizations should assess its offline and security limitations against their requirements.
Verdict
ImpactMEL brings programme frameworks, partner submissions, controlled approvals, and branded reporting into cloud, self-hosted, or API-enabled deployments. Its pricing, lack of offline capture, and stated security-audit status deserve review before adoption.
Plans and prices
From ImpactMEL's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud Organization | $219 a month | up to 20 internal users · managed hosting and backups · full platform · external read-only viewers excluded from seat count · $2,628 billed annually |
| Cloud Enterprise | $549 a month | up to 100 internal users · managed hosting and backups · full platform · external read-only viewers excluded from seat count · $6,588 billed annually |
| Organization-Hosted Standard | $18,500, paid once | up to 100 users · customer infrastructure · one integration · three training sessions · administrator documentation · 12 months support · $3,700/year from year two |
| Organization-Hosted Enterprise | $32,500, paid once | up to 500 users · customer infrastructure · production and staging · up to three integrations · five training sessions · source-code handover under agreed licence terms · $6,500/year from year two |
The facts
Each one read from ImpactMEL's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Approvals and audit
- Submissions can move through draft, submitted, returned, approved and locked states, while revisions retain the author, timestamp and previous value.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Approval workflow
- Submissions move through draft, submitted, returned, approved and locked states, with configurable approval counts, review tasks, threaded comments and retained revisions.checked 15 Oct 2026
What it does
- Audience
- The product is presented for NGOs and donor-funded programmes, with use cases for national and international NGOs, government programmes and funders.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- Documented authentication uses verified email and password, optional Google sign-in and rate limiting, with external collaborators invited into organisations.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Dashboards and maps
- Configurable dashboards provide live roll-ups from framework to organisation, while location-based aggregation supports map views.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data collection
- Its form builder has fifteen field types, including participant pickers, map-based administrative-unit selection and evidence uploads.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Disaggregation
- Sex, age band, urban/rural and disability are seeded dimensions, and custom dimensions can apply to values, numerators or denominators.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The maker lists quick-start, getting-started, role, programme, project, framework, indicator, forms, review, sign-off, donor-report, dashboard and administration guides plus video guides.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Evidence and audit
- Evidence files attach to submissions, while audit events retain actor, action and full before-and-after record state; access logs record views.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Form builder
- Forms provide fifteen field types, including indicator-value, participant, administrative-unit map-pin and evidence-upload fields that write directly into indicator reports.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Frameworks
- It supports logframes, theories of change and results frameworks, including programme-level frameworks spanning multiple projects.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- Customers can use managed cloud hosting or deploy ImpactMEL on their own infrastructure, with data ownership and exportability in both models.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting and data
- Customers can choose managed cloud or their own infrastructure, and the company says organisations own and can export their data in either model.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Indicator management
- Indicators can store definitions, units, data types, aggregation methods, formulas, data sources, collection methods, verification means and responsible people.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- ImpactMEL documents CSV import, DHIS2 connectors and a generic API connector with field mappings and run histories.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence and source handover
- The enterprise self-hosted tier can hand over source code under agreed licence terms, but the maker does not name an open-source licence.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: security assurance
- A buyer requiring SOC 2, ISO 27001 or an independent penetration-test report would not meet that requirement from the controls publicly stated by ImpactMEL.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: self-hosting responsibility
- For self-hosted deployments, the customer is responsible for the server, operating system, network, backups and patching.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Capterra listing plans
- Capterra lists a Team Plan at $199 per year for up to 10 team members and five active projects, and an Organization Plan at $499 per year for up to 30 team members and 20 active projects.checked 15 Oct 2026
- GetApp listing price
- GetApp lists a starting price of $199 flat rate per year and shows no user reviews.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn lists the headquarters as Gasabo, Kigali, Rwanda.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists IMPACTMEL as having 2–10 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company type
- LinkedIn classifies IMPACTMEL as privately held and in Data Infrastructure and Analytics.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- LinkedIn lists IMPACTMEL as founded in 2025.checked 15 Oct 2026
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