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Get started with the world’s leading awards software. Choose from our set SaaS plans or get a solution tailored just for you.

SaaS plan

Growth

For free to enter programs, with low entry volumes. Get organised, ready to grow.

Annual

  • Configurable entry process
  • All judging modes
  • Unlimited managers, users
  • Up to 10k annual entries
  • 10MB limit per file upload
  • And more— see below

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SaaS plan

Pro

For sophisticated, branded or multilingual programs. Maximise your time and thrive.

Annual

  • Everything in the Growth plan, and:
  • Branding + custom domain
  • Accept entry fees in any currency
  • Activate multiple languages
  • Email broadcast communication
  • Streaming HD hosted video
  • Unlimited file upload size / qty
  • Access to the integration marketplace + API
  • And more— see below

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Tailored solution

Premier

For uncommon needs, high submission volumes or multi-award requirements.

Custom quote

  • The pinnacle of awards management excellence. Everything in Pro, with options:
  • Exclusive features, including collaborative entries
  • Major submission volumes (10k+)
  • Enterprise-grade security with custom options
  • Enhanced awards services, including procurement support and non-standard contractual agreements between us.
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Support and application uptime SLA

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Onboarding service

The best way to maximise your investment in Award Force.

Data import

Making the switch to Award Force? Bring your awards data with you.

Talk to a consultant

Need to discuss your options or get a demonstration? Our friendly consultants can help.

Compare the set plans

No limits (almost) Growth Pro
Users / admins / managers Unlimited Unlimited
Entry form fields Unlimited Unlimited
File capacity
?Total data volume of all stored files.
Unlimited Unlimited
File size limit per upload 10MB Unlimited
Entries
?Submitted entries / applications.
10k entries 10k entries
Security, privacy, integrity Growth Pro
ISO/IEC 27001 certified security
Yes
Yes
MFA/2FA ready
Yes
Yes
Choice of supported data residency locations
Yes
Yes
GDPR, APP, CCPA compliant
Yes
Yes
HIPAA compliant
?We can sign a Business Associate Agreement.
Yes
Yes
Built-in cookies management + subscription preferences
Yes
Yes
Program management Growth Pro
Management dashboard
?At-a-glance overview of how everything in your program is tracking.
Yes
Yes
User management
Yes
Yes
Entry submission management, moderation and tagging
?Suite of sophisticated tools for organising and managing entries.
Yes
Yes
Content management including about pages and configurable terms
?Easily and intelligently update terminology system-wide to suit your program. Manage all informational content including translations quickly and easily.
Yes
Yes
Season, score set and entry archiving
?Archive all your awards data for historical record keeping.
Yes
Yes
Report / data exports, and bulk download of entries
?All your data is readily available with quick and easy spreadsheet exports (Excel or CSV) and bulk downloads.
Yes
Yes
Email notification— configurable triggered emails
?Set emails to be automatically sent for a variety of purposes, based on a wide selection of system events, such as an entry being submitted, user registering, moderation changed, etc.
Yes
Yes
Broadcast email communication / marketing
?Quick and easy engagement with your program participants through bulk email communication. Target your emails to different audiences based on user roles, activities, stages, etc.
Yes
Custom exports of entries / results / orders / users
Yes
Create and share customised admin views
Yes
PDF certificates and badges— configurable, generated on demand
Yes
Review flow— configurable multi-stage entry workflow
Yes
Manage duplicate entries / nominations
?Helps you automatically find and manage duplicate entries the right way— and fast
Yes
Multiple chapters
?Manage and judge your program by geography (e.g. state, region, city) or division (e.g. schools, departments, business units).
Paid add-on
User registration + login Growth Pro
Role registration forms
Social authentication
?Users can register and log in with Google, Facebook, X or LinkedIn
Configurable user roles
?Edit default user roles and create your own bespoke role/permissions.
Configurable user registration
Configurable user fields
SAML single sign-on (SSO) Paid add-on Paid add-on
Entry form Growth Pro
Drag-and-drop form builder
Form fields, 19 types including data tables
?Choose from 19 different question types, including specialised fields such as numeric, date, email, table, URL, country and more.
Form logic + conditional fields
?Use conditional fields in the entry form to display specific questions and fields based on the entrant’s answers.
Extra encryption protection for sensitive data
?Optionally configure higher levels of data protection on personally identifiable and sensitive data.
Entry categories
?Smart and highly configurable forms that adjust based on category selection.
Auto-save
?Entries continuously auto-save in the background as participants craft their submission. No risk of entrants losing work.
Entrants can edit their entry after submission until deadline
Auto-scoring
?Automatically score answers to questions on entry forms using your unique and predefined entry criteria.
Formula fields
?Save time and use common spreadsheet functions or custom formulas to calculate, format or transform information provided by entrants on an entry form, automatically.
Eligibility screener
?Automatically divert ineligible entrants from completing an entry form while allowing eligible entrants to proceed without additional effort.
Accepting entries Growth Pro
Entry record PDF download
Yes
Yes
Multi-lingual user interface with 30+ languages
?Make your program available in your choice of language.
Yes
Yes
Activate multiple languages at the same time
?Make your program available in multiple languages, let your participants choose their preferred language.
Yes
Packing slip to accompany physical entry materials
Yes
Entry resubmission
?Support a two-stage submission process by requiring resubmission of entries / applications, with additional information.
Yes
HD video hosting— streaming, private, unlimited file size— 100k video viewing-minutes included
?Users upload their video in any of a range of formats, with no size limit, even feature-length HD movies are supported. Award Force transcodes and hosts video securely and privately for streaming playback to your judges, directly in their browser. No need to download video files for playback. Ensure security for rights managed video content that cannot be hosted on public networks such as YouTube / Vimeo. Higher volume by quotation.
Yes
Judging Growth Pro
Advanced judge assignment
?Configure judging panels for automatic assignment of judges to entries, at volume. Manually assign judges if you need, or randomly assign judges in bulk.
Yes
Yes
Judging leaderboards
?Your judging dashboard for live, real-time calculated and tabulated results.
Yes
Yes
Monitor judging progress
?Monitor how far your judges are toward completion of their judging assignments.
Yes
Yes
Examine score breakdown matrix
?Examine scoring in detail, entry-by-entry, with a matrix view of all judges and a breakdown of their scoring input.
Yes
Yes
Unlimited judging stages
?Configure as many judging stages as necessary, over as many controlled time periods as you need, with discreet scoring results recorded for each stage. As simple or sophisticated as you need.
Yes
Yes
Slideshow view for live judging events
?Connect to a big screen and run through a controlled slideshow gallery of entry images and videos, with judges following along and scoring on their individual devices.
Yes
Yes
VIP judging mode— score-based evaluation
Yes
Yes
Voting judging mode— great for public engagement
Yes
Yes
Qualifying judging mode— pass/fail evaluation
Yes
Yes
Top pick judging mode— preferential voting
Yes
Yes
Enable judge comments
?Options for you to make comments optional, required, shared visibility, and available as feedback to entrants.
Yes
Yes
Provide judging feedback to entrants
?Easily provide all judges scores and/or comments as feedback to entrants, with only a few clicks.
Yes
Yes
Recuse judges, judge abstention + conflict of interest
?Proactively block judges from judging certain entries based on a known conflict of interest, or facilitate voluntary abstention— all toward decision outcomes with integrity.
Yes
Yes
Judging PDF download
?Judges can download a PDF of each entry for offline reference or scoring.
Yes
Detect plagiarised entry content
?Integration with Copyleaks automatically reviews and scores content submitted by program entrants to ensure originality. Additional costs apply for Copyleaks subscription.
Yes
Private, embedded streaming HD video— 100k video viewing-minutes included
?Users upload their video in any of a range of formats. Award Force transcodes and hosts video securely and privately for streaming playback to your judges, directly in their browser. No need to download video files for playback. Ensure security for rights managed video content that cannot be hosted on public networks such as YouTube / Vimeo.
Yes
Monetisation Growth Pro
Charge entry / submission / application fees
Yes
Discount codes, volume pricing and pricing rules
?Sophisticated options to set up prices, discounts, and later stage entry fees (e.g. for trophies), to suit your needs.
Yes
Accept fees in any currency
?Configure your prices in the currencies you'll accept, choosing from any currency (subject to your gateway).
Yes
15 supported payment gateways— payments direct to you
Yes
Activate sponsor / partner placements
?Provide your sponsors or partners with high-value visibility options, placing them front-and-centre in front of entrants and judges.
Yes
Promotion Growth Pro
Logo branding
?Upload your logo to display on page header
Yes
Yes
Social sharing
?Integrated social sharing buttons for all popular social networks. Features to promote your messages and brand with social shares.
Yes
Yes
Vanity domain— e.g. yourbrand.awardsplatform.com
Yes
Yes
Public galleries of entries and results
?Publish galleries of shortlists or winners for public visibility or invite-only access by e.g. media. Create galleries and make them live with no coding and only a few minutes effort.
Yes
Yes
Extensive brand theming
?Apply your corporate / program branding, colours, logos, imagery and design assets.
Yes
Sponsor / partner visibility
?Include sponsors and partners in communications sent from the system.
Yes
Custom domain— e.g. awards.yourdomain.com
Yes
Integrations + API Growth Pro
Google Analytics integration
?Track and analyse your users' behaviour by simply setting your Google Analytics tracking ID
Yes
Yes
Integration marketplace
?Integrate Award Force with software essential to your organisation directly from the Award Force integration marketplace. Pre-built integrations can be configured with a few clicks.
Yes
Copyleaks integration— requires your own Copyleaks account
Yes
Zapier / Make integration
Yes
Integration API
?Create custom integrations with your other business systems via the Award Force API.
Yes
Webhooks
Yes
Salesforce integration Paid add-on
Customer support Growth Pro
Help centre, support articles and video tutorials
Yes
Yes
Support, 24/5
Yes
Yes
Pre-launch check
?A popular and invaluable service to our clients— when you have finished configuration, request a pre-launch check. Our team will check everything is set-up correctly from a technical perspective, and we'll make recommendations to ensure your users have the best experience.
Yes
Yes
At the risk of being repetitive— all clients get our unlimited 5-star support
?That's by phone, email, support ticket, help centre, in-app help, video tutorials— you choose!
Yes
Yes
Onboarding service, additional cost, first year only
?Consultation service to best utilise Award Force features and capabilities to achieve your strategic outcomes.
Paid add-on Paid add-on

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