⚖️Contest Settings

Voting Options

Must be logged in to Vote

This setting will force the user to login before submitting a vote. If toggled to 'No', anonymous voting will be allowed.

Must be logged in to Submit Entries

This setting will force the user to sign in to submit an entry into a contest. If toggled to 'No', anonymous submissions will be allowed.

Enable Cancel Vote

This allows a user to cancel their vote, but it only works when ip, cookie, or user account tracking is enabled.

Vote Tracking

This setting determines how votes are tracked in terms of personally identifiable information when the user is not logged in. You can choose from IP, cookies, email verification, IP + email verification, or user account tracking.

Voting Frequency

This setting allows you to control the users voting frequency limits by day, category, hour, or allow unlimited voting. Think of this in terms of 'X votes per Y time period'.

User Can Vote For

This setting determines how the votes available may be cast. Single means that votes can be cast only for a single contestant. Multiple Exclusive means that votes can not be repetitively cast for a single contestant, rather you must spread your votes out if you have multiple available. Multiple Split means that if you have multiple votes you may choose to cast them all on one contestant, or across several like in multiple exclusive.

The below figure is a table that represents the different possible combinations of settings which determine the structure of how contests work in production. Understand there are multiple ways to achieve the same results. This table is to demonstrate how these concepts could work in practice and therefore includes configurations that may be rare.

Single

Voting Frequency	Frequency Period	Result
1	Per Calendar Day	Allows the voter to cast 1 vote per calendar day for a single contestant. Voter may vote for the same or a different contestant the next calendar day.
2	Per Calendar Day	Allows the voter to cast up to 2 votes at the same time per calendar day for a single contestant. Voter may vote for the same or a different contestant 2 times the next calendar day.
1	Per X Hours	Allows the voter to cast 1 vote per 'X' hours for a single contestant. Once the period of 'X' hours passes, the voter may cast another vote for any contestant, including the same one as before.
2	Per X Hours	Allows the voter to cast up to 2 votes at the same time per 'X' hours for a single contestant. Once the period of 'X' hours resets, the voter may cast another 2 votes for any contestant, including the same one as before.
1	Per Category	Allows the voter to cast 1 vote per category for a single contestant. Once the vote is cast, the voter cannot vote again in this category. This is a fairly straight forward standard type contest.
2	Per Category	Allows the voter to cast up to 2 votes at the same time per category for a single contestant. Once both votes are cast, the voter cannot vote again in this category. This is a fairly straight forward standard type contest, except that we are voting in multiples of whatever the voting frequency is at.
1	No Limit	Allows unlimited voting for a single contestant. You can literally keep clicking vote.
2	No Limit	Allows unlimited voting for a single contestant, by twos. You can literally keep clicking vote.

Multiple Exclusive

Votes	Frequency	Result
1	Per Calendar Day	Allows the voter to cast 1 vote per calendar day for each contestant. You cannot vote for the same contestant twice in one day, but you can vote for everyone once a day. If there are 100 different contestants spread across 10 contests, you could cast a maximum of 100 votes per calendar day. However, it is important to understand if you have voted for a contestant in a category, and they also have an entry in another category, you cannot vote for them again until the calendar day has passed.
2	Per Calendar Day	Allows the voter to cast 2 votes per calendar day, 1 vote per contestant up to 2 votes. Cannot vote for the same contestant twice in a calendar day. If there were 100 contestants across 10 contests, you could cast a maximum of 2 votes to 2 unique contestants per calendar day. However, it is important to understand if you have voted for a contestant in a category, and they also have an entry in another category, you cannot vote for them again until the calendar day has passed, but you may vote for any other contestant in the same or any other category.
1	Per X Hours	Allows the voter to cast 1 vote per 'X' hours for each contestant. Cannot vote for the same contestant twice within 'X' hours. If there are 100 unique contestants spread across 10 contests, you could cast a maximum of 100 votes to 100 unique contestants per 'X' hours. However, it is important to understand if you have voted for a contestant in a category, and they also have an entry in another category, you cannot vote for them again until 'X' hours have passed.
2	Per X Hours	Allows the voter to cast 2 votes per 'X' hours, 1 per contestant. Cannot vote for the same contestant twice within 'X' hours. If there were 100 contestants across 10 contests, you could cast a maximum of 2 votes to 2 unique contestants per 'X' hours. However, it is important to understand if you have voted for a contestant in a category, and they also have an entry in another category, you cannot vote for them again until 'X' hours have passed, but you may vote for any other contestant in the same or any other category.
1	Per Category	Allows the voter to cast 1 vote per category for each contestant. The voter cannot vote for the same contestant twice in the same contest category. This means you could vote for John Doe in each and every contest he entered once, but never 2 times in the same category. You can also do the same thing for several or even all contestants, and you may also choose to vote in only some of their contests.
2	Per Category	Allows the voter to cast 2 votes per category, 1 vote per unique contestant up to 2 total votes in each category. Once both votes are cast, the voter cannot vote again in this category, but they can vote in any other category up to 2 times. This means you could vote for John Doe in each and every contest he entered one time, and for each of those contests you could vote up to one more time for anyone except John Doe. Simply put, 2 votes per contest and you can't vote twice for the same person in the same contest, but you can vote for them again in other contests and the same 1 vote per contestant per contest concept applies.
1	No Limit	Allows unlimited voting for all contestants. You can literally keep clicking vote.
2	No Limit	Allows unlimited voting by 2’s for all contestants. You can literally keep clicking vote.

Multiple Split

Votes	Frequency	Result
1	Per Calendar Day	Allows the voter to cast 1 vote per calendar day for each contestant. You cannot vote for the same contestant twice in one day, but you can vote for everyone once a day. If there are 100 different contestants spread across 10 contests, you could cast a maximum of 100 votes per calendar day. However, it is important to understand if you have voted for a contestant in a category, and they also have an entry in another category, you cannot vote for them again until the calendar day has passed.
2	Per Calendar Day	Allows the voter to cast 2 votes every calendar day in any combination, across any contest categories, 2 votes for the same contestant or 1 vote for 2 contestants. Simply put, 2 total votes per calendar day, spent any possible way you want.
1	Per X Hours	Allows the voter to cast 1 vote per 'X' hours for each contestant. Cannot vote for the same contestant twice within 'X' hours. If there are 100 unique contestants spread across 10 contests, you could cast a maximum of 100 votes to 100 unique contestants per 'X' hours. However, it is important to understand if you have voted for a contestant in a category, and they also have an entry in another category, you cannot vote for them again until 'X' hours have passed.
2	Per X Hours	Allows the voter to cast 2 votes every 'X' hours in any combination, across any contest categories, 2 votes for the same contestant or 1 vote for 2 contestants. Simply put, 2 total votes per 'X' hours, spent any possible way you want.
1	Per Category	Allows the voter to cast 1 vote per category for each contestant. The voter cannot vote for the same contestant twice in the same contest category. This means you could vote for John Doe in each and every contest he entered once, but never 2 times in the same category. You can also do the same thing for several or even all contestants, and you may also choose to vote in only some or all of their contests.
2	Per Category	Allows the voter to cast 2 votes for the entire duration of the contest in any combination, 2 votes for the same contestant or 1 vote for 2 contestants. Once the both votes are cast, the voter cannot vote again in this category, but can vote two times in any other categories.
1	No Limit	Allows unlimited voting for all contestants. You can literally keep clicking vote.
2	No Limit	Allows unlimited voting by 2’s for all contestants. You can literally keep clicking vote.

Voter Details

Grab Name Before Voting

This setting will allow the admin to choose whether the name field must be filled out by the user before voting.

Grab Country Before Voting

This setting will allow the admin to choose whether the country field must be filled out by the user before voting.

Grab Zip-code Before Voting

This setting will allow the admin to choose whether the zip-code field must be filled out by the user before voting.

Contest Options

Title Truncation Grid View

This setting will allow control over the number of characters shown on the contestant grid view.

Auto Approve Contestants

This setting will allow you to auto approve the contestants when they make a submission. If 'No' is selected, they will go to a pending state where the admin will have to approve the post before it goes public. Only select 'Yes' if you are not worried about content which may be inappropriate being posted live.

To Be Started Description

This allows you to set the description displayed for contests to be started.

Closed Description

This allows you to set the description for a closed contest.

Entries Closed Description

This allows you to set the entries closed description.