Awardify

What Awardify is

Awardify is a web-based awards management platform for organizations that need to coordinate a program from nominations through judging and winner publication. Its submission tools include custom categories and entry forms, nomination handling, entry tracking, saved progress, reminders, and file uploads. Judges can evaluate entries against configurable criteria, add comments, and follow progress through reports and leaderboards; organizers can also offer anonymous judging and public voting.

Awardify provides a customizable public website for sponsor visibility, event pages, galleries, and winner displays, with ticket payment features. It accepts payments through Stripe for entry fees, gala tickets, and sponsor signups, and also supports invoice payment. Entries and public-voting data can be exported to CSV, with an API described for data extraction. Named integrations include Google Analytics and an integration API; CRM connections are considered individually. Awardify says it hosts awards sites on its private server and manages their performance and security. The platform is designed for mobile access by administrators, entrants, and judges. Support includes phone, email, and video, along with onboarding, daily database backups, and a pre-launch check. The annual subscription requires a separate one-time setup fee.

Who it suits

Awardify suits associations, chambers of commerce, and other organizations running structured awards programs with submissions, judges, and public-facing event pages. It is also relevant to organizers that need online payments, configurable judging, and support for entrants and judges using mobile devices.

Limits

The annual subscription requires a separate one-time setup fee. Entrants cannot duplicate their own entries, although administrators can; administrators can set an entry maximum, with no limit by default.

Getting started

1. Visit the Awardify website.
2. Arrange the one-time setup service, priced at $379, paid once.
3. Use the setup support for website content overview and personalized theming and branding.
4. Subscribe to the annual plan at $1,979 a year to access the full feature suite.
5. Complete onboarding and the pre-launch check before opening the awards website.

Verdict

Choose Awardify if you need a web platform for managing submissions, judging, promotion, and payments within an awards program. Its broad program tools and support are the main reasons to consider it. Look elsewhere if you need a free plan or entrants must be able to duplicate their own submissions.