Let’s get you open for Entry.
“Hands down, Acclaim is by far the easiest and most flexible entry system out there”
It all begins with an idea. Then the reality of running an awards competition or a portfolio of awards programs is all around you.
There’s more entries than you imagined. More telephone calls.
Judges to recruit. Judging sessions to prepare. Did we mention deadlines?
You’re running an awards business and you need the management systems to help you do it.
Acclaim Awards is relied upon by agencies, corporations, publishers, governmental organisations, trade associations, and association management companies around the world, to deliver some of the world’s most successful awards competition programs.
Here’s how we can help
First step - make contact with Acclaim Awards.
Whether you’re working on an idea for a new awards competition, you’re already up and running and want to manage things in a smarter way, grow your awards program or move into new markets, start a conversation with us.
Talk us through your plans - for today and into the future.
We'll let you know the best way to use Acclaim Awards to deliver an awards competition that's everything you want it to be , and then some.
We’ve been helping Awards competitions recognise outstanding professional achievement for over 20 years, Big and small. National and International. That’s a lot of experience and a lot of learning to share with you in the conversation.
Getting to “and the winner is …”
We'll help set you up for Entry. Answering questions about categories, entry form design and entry pricing. And just so you know, you can relax if time isn’t on your side. We’ve setup awards competitions and opened them for entry in a single phone call that lasted less than an hour.
We’ll also give your management team the training they need to run an awards competition with Acclaim Awards. We do this with busy-person-friendly web-sessions.
Going forward you can book refresher training sessions as you need them and we’re here with help and support if you need us.
Then we’ll help you get setup for Judging.
Rounds, Scoring Criteria, Sessions and Judges. We’ll even sit with you as you post your first set of results. And the winner is …
And finally, we’ll review your awards competition with you. Help make any changes you want to make and get you set up to do it all over again. Gotta love it!
Yes, all awards competitions are different
With Acclaim’s Flexibility you can add extra capability as you need it by choosing from a library of Acclaim Extensions. We’ll even develop new Acclaim tools and custom reports and processes if you need them.
And yes, there’s global support 24/7
We’re on hand to support you 24/7 anywhere in the world.
Head over to support. Take a look through the knowledge base and ask us a question if you can’t find an answer.
Go further with Acclaim Priority Support. Tailor your entry and judging support requirements to exactly what you need. Think “total peace of mind” for entry deadlines, judging sessions and results posting.
Acclaim Awards Essentials.
From £3,390 in the UK.
From $3,490 USA and Rest of World.
Entry.
Live Entry Home
Everything your entrants need to know about their entries, updated in realtime.
Realtime Status Dashboard
Your consolidated management view across all entries and categories. Monitor your award competition's key entry and revenue targets with real-time information.
Smart Entry Forms
Fast single or multiple category entry with intelligently adaptive and beautifully simple online entry forms reducing the time it takes to enter.
Progressive Saves
Making sure no entry information is lost as entries are made or updated.
Credits - people and organisations
Credits are entered once, re-used as needed. Credit where and only when credit's due.
Entry Preview & PDF Print
Preview entries on-demand, edit and revise entries easily Integrated.
Extended Entry Information
For custom information collected with an entry but not scored.
Uploads
Entrants upload digital media from every part of the entry form. Revised as many times as needed.
Digital Asset Preparation
Now your entrant's uploads are automatically optimised for entry approvals, judging and then available for awards show production.
Barcoded Shipping Labels
Here's the barcoded labels you need for what you're shipping.
Materials Receipt
Record the receipt of assets with a simple scan of a barcode with your phone and status automatically updates for your entrants.
Mobile Device Apps
Management support for apps being submitted for entries.
Realtime Management
Update entry forms, categories, entry and price deadlines anytime you need to.
Email Communication
Entrant communication with individual messages or with pre-defined recipient lists.
Sales.
Real Pricing Flexibility
If you charge for entry then Acclaim 4D pricing gives you pricing flexibility across all your competition categories.
Entry Spot Pricing
Free or priced categories, entry incentives if you want them. Additional up-sell items spot priced at checkout.
Integrated Credit & Debit Card Payments
Seamlessly integrated card payments with PayPal® or Stripe® all paid directly into your own accounts.
Invoicing
Detailed single or multiple-company invoices automatically generated and printed on demand.
Credit Notes
Correctly account for negotiated price reductions or refunds.
Sales Documentation
Invoices and credit notes all emailed automatically and can be downloaded and/or emailed again as needed
Realtime Sales Status
Monitor revenue, cleared funds, key participation and performance statistics.
Pricing Incentives
Multiple entry and deadline by deadline pricing.
VIP Pricing
Apply client specific pricing and generate the invoice.
Cheque and Bank Transfers
Manual settlement to record the payments.
Payment Receipts
Automatically emailed as soon as payment cleared.
Reporting
Current, defined period and year-on-year sales reporting. With Acclaim your need-to-know business-critical information is right where you need it, constantly updated in real-time.
Judging.
Acclaim StreamScore™ Judging
Deliver the results everyone is waiting for with unrivalled optimised online voting.
Integrity Assured
Protect and enhance the integrity of your competition. Eliminate voting distortion.
Compliance
Review and stage entries for judging with Compliance for additional management control of entry quality.
Disqualification
Entries can be removed from competition for non-payment and non-compliance with other specified conditions.
Acclaim in Confidence
Judges enter scores that only they can change. When you call a result scores are set in stone forever.
Outstanding Judging Flexibility
Judges judging anywhere in the world: Open or specialist juries, with automated results tabulation and round posting.
Managed Entry Exhibits
Barcode entry asset identification for venue-based judging.
Planet Carbon Friendly
No more time-consuming, expensive carbon-unfriendly travel.
Hybrid & Offline Judging Fallback
Total assurance that valuable venue-based judging days will never be compromised by loss of internet.
Simple Judging Preparation
No more duplication, photo copying or multiple exhibit requests or judging packs - unless you need them.
On Demand Judging
Online judging round-by-round with exhibits streaming to your judges as and when they need them wherever they are.
Slipstream Judging Management Control
Monitor scoring progress round by round, open and close single and multiple rounds; call results progressively category by category.
Acclaim Awards Extensions.
Add any of these premium extensions to your Acclaim Awards Essentials subscription as and when you need them.
Additional Materials Requests (AMR).
Gather additional information from your entrants as their entries move through the rounds in your program. Only getting entry materials and information from your entrants as you need it keeps entry focused and efficient.
Entry Compliance.
Managed review of entries before they go into judging with threaded in-line 2-way messaging with your entrants that are stored with the entry, all supported with screenshots inserted to assist.
Event & Category Sponsorship.
With sponsor campaigns, logos, sponsor tiers, click through for your premium sponsors and scrolling logo ribbons on all entrant-facing Acclaim pages.
Winners’ Gallery.
Embedded Nominee and/or Winner entries in any web page on any website with publishing controlled from within Acclaim. Includes configurable entry information with hero asset support and publishing controls.
Hybrid & Offline Judging.
Total peace-of-mind for judging sessions to ensure scoring continues regardless of onsite web connection issues during venue-based judging sessions.
Shop - Acclaim Shopping Cart.
Sell gala tickets, association memberships, books and other items independent of, from within an entry form and/or conditional on a submitted entry.
Entry Asset Production Sharing.
Distribute entry assets as named collections internally (example: editorial or marketing teams) or externally (example: to production companies for awards gala support materials). Shares are automatically kept up to date with any changes to entries in real time.
Pages.
Author web pages that can be included in your awards competition’s navigation or referenced from within the wording on screens seen by entrants and judges.
Acclaim Reporting Management.
Expand or modify the predefined management reports with the Acclaim Custom Report Designer. Includes Access Permissions and Publishing Controls for additional data and information security.