Award Force
About Award Force
Award Force is an online awards management system offering users tools to manage entries, take payments, promote their awards, and manage judging. Entries can be submitted online 24/7, with continuous auto-save meaning that no work is lost if an entrant loses connection to the website. Users can then review, moderate, track, tag, search, and filter entries in real time. Payment gateway integration allows entrants to pay any entry fees online, and users can set fees and accept payment in multiple currencies, with additional options for variable fees, such as early bird or late entries, offering discount codes, and configuring VAT/GST.
Award Force includes four different judging modes: Qualifying is used to determine, through consensus, which entries should qualify for following rounds of judging; Top Pick gives each participant a single transferable vote (STV), allowing them to rank their favourite entries in descending order; Voting enables entrants to share their entry on social media to gain votes; and VIP Judging draws on the knowledge and experience of invited judges to score entries. Judging can take place in multiple rounds, and users can manage judges and panels for each round and mode of judging. Results are available in real time, with leaderboards of entries and judges rankings, which can be sorted and filtered. Judges’ feedback can also be automatically delivered to entrants.
Award Force includes a vanity domain for each award account, and users can customize their domain with a color palette to match their brand, alongside brand assets and logos. Sponsors can also be given visibility throughout the awards process. Users can also export data and download reports on multiple aspects of the awards process, including entries, payments, judging progress, scores, comments, judging leaderboards, and votes leaderboards. All entries and results from each season are stored in an online archive, which can be referred back to at any time.
Pricing starting from:
€2,000.00/year
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Key benefits of Award Force
Entries can be submitted online 24/7, with users able to manage, track, tag, search, and filter entries in real time.
Each awards account is given a vanity domain, and users can customize it with their own brand assets, logos, and color palette.
Spreadsheet reports including entries, payment transactions, scores, comments, judging progress, judging leaderboard, and votes leaderboard can be exported.
Four judging modes include: qualifying, with crowd consensus on which entries should qualify; top pick, using the single transferable vote (STV) system; voting, to engage participants with social sharing; and VIP judging, leveraging the knowledge of experienced judges.
Results from each stage of judging are presented on a leaderboard in real time, with the ability to sort and filter results.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Pricing starting from:
€2,000.00/year
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Award Force: 92
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- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Having used Raisers Edge I found changing over to AF so much easier and more intuitive to use.
Reviewed on 2018/04/30
I can bring all my information together and export to Excel. I have the opportunity to learn as I...
I can bring all my information together and export to Excel. I have the opportunity to learn as I go or with a consultants assistance and the software is very responsive to my particular award needs.
Pros
Processes are relatively easy as is replicating seasons. Pulling reports is an absolute joy compared to asking the database the right questions as you do in RE and any queries or challenges you may face are quickly fixed by the team of consultants. They're happy to show you, teach you or do it for you. I also really like the ability to choose what you can see.
Cons
It can be tricky at times like all software however, by working slowly through the problem and with the assistance of the consultants, the majority of challenges can be worked through
- Industry: Events Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
The perfect software for running custom awards!
Reviewed on 2018/12/12
Our old system for managing online entries and giveaways was clunky and timeconsuming. We knew it...
Our old system for managing online entries and giveaways was clunky and timeconsuming. We knew it was a weak area for our marketing efforts but were unsure of the right way to implement a solution. One of our teammembers found Award Force and we implemented it almost immediately. It's streamlined our efforts so much and allowed us to run giveaways much more efficiently!
Pros
Award Force is extremely user friendly, while also providing a robust and feature filled platform. The system walks you through every step of what you need to run your custom award program. The layout is clean and organized, while simultaneously ensuring that the functionality of the platform is not dumbed down. You will find it is very sophisticated and able to be highly customized for your organization's needs. For our organization, we loved the ability to customize the site to use our brand's assets, without needing to bring in an outside designer or developer.
Even better, the vast online guides and reference materials are awesome. They're a huge resource when you're onboarding Award Force for your organization. If you need any answers, they're just a minute away.
Cons
I would like to see better sorting and better reporting. Our owner is a report fiend and sometimes we struggle with not being able to export exactly the reports we need for meetings and check ups. Overall not a huge problem, but something we would like to see addressed in the future.
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Review for Award Force by Den Barrault
Reviewed on 2017/01/07
I enjoy using Award Force, and in general find the platform easy to use, and quite polished in the...
I enjoy using Award Force, and in general find the platform easy to use, and quite polished in the way it is presented. My users also support this opinion.
For an administrator, I do find it frustrating that certain features are not present:
- not having a record of notifications
- not being able to copy anyone into notifications
- not being able to contact collaborators in an application (only main applicant gets results)
- not being able to use the fields in all areas of the application
- not being able to do negative selections in the search windows
- review flow is quite complicated to set up, and impossible to visualise in an easy way - would be nice to have a way of easily visualising which applications are where
- setting up judging is a bit tricky too - it is hard to visualise easily if it has been set up correctly
I would also like to get a regular update on what you have planned in terms of feature updates. Especially as my site is up for renewal soon.
I have also previously sent some feature suggestions to the support team, it would be nice to see some of these implemented.
Many thanks and best wishes
Den
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Response from Creative Force
Thanks for the lovely review and feedback Den. As you know, we're regularly adding improvements and features¿ we do need to get better at communicating those though!
You'll be pleased to know that there are further improvements coming to broadcasts (notifications) that address some of your requests, and some other grant-specific features that I think you'll be interested in¿ an email is coming your way with details :)
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great all in one awards tool
Reviewed on 2020/10/09
Overall a great tool with a lot of capability and customization. Could still use a few programming...
Overall a great tool with a lot of capability and customization. Could still use a few programming tweaks to just make it easier to use and a bit more intutive.
Pros
Customization of both the nomination process and judging. Allows you to really tailor the questions and judging process to your specific needs. I like that you can create different juding rounds as well to help narrow down finalists and winners when there are a lot of entries.
Cons
Some learning curve to navigate the tool. For example I wanted to change the name of a certain field but instead of just editing the title I had to edit how that field displayed in the system. Would like a little more cusomtization on data merges as well where you can merge the name of the cateogry into a question for example vs creating duplicates of the same question with conditions. Also the text areas use markdown formatting which take a bit more time.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Effective Plug and Play Award Solution
Reviewed on 2022/12/12
Overall what stands out the most about Award Force is it's help desk and the ability to ask...
Overall what stands out the most about Award Force is it's help desk and the ability to ask questions 24/7.
Pros
I like the ability to have the history of my award easily in one place and to be able to quicky pull status updates on my entries and voters.
Cons
Knowing where to start can be difficult, though there are helpful help forms.
Award Force FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Award Force.Q. What type of pricing plans does Award Force offer?
Award Force offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: €2,000.00/year View Pricing Plans
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Three plans available; Growth, Pro and Enterprise.
Q. Who are the typical users of Award Force?
Award Force has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Award Force support?
Award Force supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Q. Does Award Force support mobile devices?
Award Force supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Award Force integrate with?
Award Force integrates with the following applications:
Google Analytics 360, Meta for Business, PayPal, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Stripe, Twitter/X, WordPress, Worldpay for Enterprise, authorize.net
Q. What level of support does Award Force offer?
Award Force offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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