Organizing award events can be tedious, what with having to manage entrant submissions and coordinating judges at the same time. Fortunately, you can now do so via an online platform to bring most of the necessary processes together in one place, allowing you to easily manage and organize your award event.
Introducing Judgify, an integrated end-to-end online awards judging system that simplifies your awards management experience. This cloud solution easily compliments the events you organize on Gevme that have tie-ins with awards.
So how does it work?
1. Plan and publish
Set your own award rules, determine award categories, submission requirements, and payment mode – get all set to handle an international award judging panel!
Awards Landing Page
Manage your entry submission set up, design elements and endorsement options for entry submissions through the platform.
Award Categories
Create and manage an unlimited number of award categories for your contest. You can group them and also determine whether the clients need to endorse submissions for selected contest categories.
Backdoor Access
Backdoor access on the platform allows you to create a link for privileged submissions, even after the contest deadline is passed. Thus enabling a very flexible award and contest platform management.
Customize your Email Messages
Use any of the 5 pre-defined templates on the platform for registration acknowledgment, endorsement, judges invitation, order acknowledgment and order confirmation. You also have the option of editing these templates to customize your email messages during the course of your awards management.
Flexible Fees Configuration
Select your desired currency from 24 pre-defined currency types, with the option to apply taxation or early bird fees that incentivize early entrants for the contest. Determine your payment collection method (Paypal, Credit Card Online/Offline, Cheque and Telegraphic Transfer, etc.).
2. Collect Submissions Easily
Collect award submissions, view and track awards, order payments and filter for entrants using our submissions module.
Submission Collation
Judgify enables easy viewing, tracking and filtering of entrants. You can filter online submissions by categories, company name or status. Hence there is complete flexibility in both online awards submission and judging.
Payment Status
In the case of paid awards, track the payment status of each submission with our ‘orders module’, and follow-up with actions that maximize submission completion rate and the accompanying ROI.
View Entrants
Access and view all your entrants from a single dashboard, apply filters to view selected entrants for judging and export the list to Excel where needed.
Manage Submissions
Easily edit or withdraw award entries based on your entrants’ requests keeping your online submissions always updated.
3. Judging Anytime, Anywhere
Determine judging criteria and abstention rules, map judges to categories and enable online judging of industry awards, anytime, anywhere
Judging Criteria
Customize judging criteria by industry or award category and create your own award scoring formulas.
Judging Rounds
Set the desired number of judging rounds for all your industry awards and contests.
Judges Assignment
Select which judge to involve in a specific awards category, group and round. Send invitations and receive notification emails from judges upon confirmation of assignment.
Judges Abstention
Notice a conflict of interest between the judge and an entrant? Judges abstention allows judges to be abstained from voting for selected entries, thereby avoiding any issue
Judge Anywhere, Anytime, Any Device
Our online judging module is responsive, thus allowing judges to start their judging process online on any internet-enabled device, anywhere, anytime.
Judging Group
You can create online groups based on criteria such as industry, category, submission or entrant form fields, so as to assign judges based on groups, such as geography or the industry the entrant is from.
Judges Shortlist
Shortlist the online entries by individual rounds before you officially release the list of entrants to the judges.
4. Automated Scoring and Reporting
Customize your financial, scoring and submissions report based on your desired filters and get your scoring tabulated automatically
Financial Report
Tailor your financial reporting structure to view your awards ROI, such as revenue by country, entrant or payment status.
Score Report
Have the scoring of your judging rounds automatically tabulated based on the various categories created. Just select which category you need scoring for and export your customized report to Excel.
Submission Report
Customize your submission report by category, entrant or order and automate the scoring as per your internal reporting requirements.
Conclusion
With an online awards management software to support your award tie-ins for your events, you’ll be well taken care of. Rest easy knowing that your processes have been simplified and you can now just focus on the experience itself.
Ready to try Judgify? Check out their plans and find something that fits you.
Remember: Judgify is always free for free events.
