Zealous

4.7 (47)
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Contest & awards management software (built to save time).

About Zealous

Zealous contest & awards management software makes you, your judges, and your applicant's lives easier with the following features:

Time-saving: Automate your entire process with one platform.

Money saving: Unlike other platforms, there are no hidden fees and you can cancel at any time with our flexible monthly packages. You won't be locked into year-long contracts here!

Multiplatform: Access submissions from any device; laptop, phone, tablet.

Real-time insights: With advanced submission tracking software.

Customisable applications: Easily design your entry form any way you like and allow users to upload their entries in any format, including, images, videos, text, documents, and 3D models.

Automated emails: Reduce communications overheads with automated emails sent to candidates at every step of the process.

Secure & compliant data handling: Zealous is custom-built to handle data securely ensuring we are CCPA & GDPR-compliant and secure.

Judges receive step-by-step automated emails with easy-to-follow instructions. They will be greeted with a visually delightful interface. They can process submissions in their own time, through multiple evaluation rounds. This is all done securely, with optional anonymity from any location on any device. You can even download PDF’s for offline judging (if required).

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Key benefits of Zealous

Start collecting contest entries in a few minutes.

Affordable monthly packages. (Cancel any time).

Customize the information you want from candidates including, text, images, videos, documents, 3D models and more.

Accept applications:

With optional and secure online payments.

Judge entries online:

Incremental automated emails to judges with simple and concise instructions.

Evaluate your selection:

Multiple evaluation rounds and anonymous criteria scoring.

Grow your impact:

Get real-time insights on your progress with our advanced submission tracking software.

Secure & Compliant:

Designed to uphold robust data protection standards, Zealous assures compliance with both CCPA in the USA and GDPR in the UK, safeguarding your contests and ensuring data security across all regions and territories.


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Overall rating

4.7 /5
(47)
Value for Money
4.6/5
Features
4.3/5
Ease of Use
4.3/5
Customer Support
5.0/5

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Kim-lin
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  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

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Reviewed on 2023/11/27

Really good customer service and support! A useful and affordable tool for managing photography...

Really good customer service and support! A useful and affordable tool for managing photography competitions.

Pros

Fantastic and quick support. It was great to be able to rank the photographs during the judging process, to be able to easily pull of CSV files and access photographer quotes and information. Looking forward to using the new features next year.

Cons

Unable to use batch commands when ranking long lists of photos but this has been fixed. Special characters in foreign language addresses not always working but this has also been fixed.

Katie
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  • Industry: Events Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Functional and usable but small changes could make a big difference

Reviewed on 2023/07/18

Overall our experience with Zealous was positive - the platform is easy to use, the low pricing...

Overall our experience with Zealous was positive - the platform is easy to use, the low pricing allowed us to forgive some of the (very small) annoyances and the excellent customer service throughout was also a strong bonus. We appreciate how welcoming they were of feedback and their desire to make improvements and changes to the functionality accordingly, so would definitely recommend Zealous and would be happy to use the platform again going forward. Our application numbers were up on the previous year.

Pros

Overall, Zealous was a good platform - it was relatively straight forward to set up and use and served it's purpose (in our case, collating entries for an industry awards event). The pricing structure was a huge improvement on the platform we had used prior which compensated for some of the features we lost by changing platforms. However, the best thing about Zealous is their customer service. Their team are very warm and friendly, no query is too much trouble and they are quick to respond to any queries. They also invite feedback in a way which made me feel that they really do want to continue improving, not just as a box-ticking exercise, and I have already been informed that some of our suggestions are being actioned which is really encouraging. It makes us feel valued as customers and makes it all the more likely that we will return year on year.

Cons

It would have been good to have been able to fully customise the forms - some of the language didn't really suit our audience (it is quite arts-centric) so we had to be creative in how we made the obligatory fields work for our applicants. It would also be great to have greater control over comms sent via the platform, i.e. reminders of application deadlines etc, which currently can't be sent en masse to those with applications in progress (they had to be done individually) and also can't be branded to our company. Both of these would be great features to have.

Siska Kristanti
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Zealous User Experience Review

Reviewed on 2022/07/03

Thankfully there was excellent customer support that helped our problems be resolved

Thankfully there was excellent customer support that helped our problems be resolved

Pros

The public voting feature is a great tool for competition organizers

Cons

Sadly that there were some bugs while the public voting is live

Lucy
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  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A useful tool for awards/ competition management

Reviewed on 2023/09/14

We have saved a lot of admin time using Zealous. It has streamlined our judging process and given...

We have saved a lot of admin time using Zealous. It has streamlined our judging process and given confidence to entrants who submit their work.

Pros

I like the fact that judges can view and score all of the entries in one place and they can be allocated to judge certain categories/ entries according to expertise. The level of customer support/ service is very high and was especially useful in our first year using Zealous. It has saved us a lot of admin time and stress compared to our previous system.

Cons

I would like judges to be able to add comments/ notes for each entry and it would be useful to be able to customise the email notifications that are sent out - I currently switch them off because they're not quite the right fit.

Rose
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A great product, working hard to become an even better one.

Reviewed on 2023/08/08

We love working with the Zealous team and admire their commitment to making the platform work best...

We love working with the Zealous team and admire their commitment to making the platform work best for their customers.

Pros

The Zealous customer service is second to none! [sensitive content hidden] has been our account manager for two years running and consistently goes above and beyond to support us. And when [sensitive content hidden] is unavailable, the rest of the team steps in as well. The platform is constantly evolving, and we were excited to see so many brilliant developments across the 12 months between using the platform for our Awards. The back-end is really simple to use and most sections have great personalisation options. And the price is really great!

Cons

We discovered some issues with the accessibility of the platform, specifically for entrants using screen readers. However, we know that Zealous are taking the issue seriously and working to implement changes to improve this. We'd love p be able to personalise the automated emails further (something else I think they are working towards). Finally, because we have some public-voted categories and some Judged, we have to set up lots of individual opportunities so it would be great to have a dashboard that would show the progress of each opportunity in one place - rather than having to swap between each one when we wanted to check entry numbers etc.

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Zealous offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: £29.00/month
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

First 6 submissions are free (no credit card required). Save 25% when paid annually

Zealous has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Zealous supports the following languages:

English

Zealous supports the following devices:

Zealous integrates with the following applications:

Stripe

Zealous offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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