OpenConf

OpenConf

Zakon Group
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About

Known for its ease of use, clean interface, and outstanding support, OpenConf has powered thousands of events and journals in 100+ countries. OpenConf Professional Edition is an advanced system providing over a dozen modules of extended peer-review and event management functionality. In addition to the Plus Edition features below, the Professional Edition includes priority technical support and the ability to: customize forms, accept payment to make a submission, auto assign reviews on submission, submit review credits to ORCiD, check submissions for plagiarism*, accept multiple uploads per submission, create a program and publish it online for both the web and mobile devices, and other features to facilitate copyright collection for ACM and IEEE events.

About

Zealous is a multiple award-winning contest management solution! Save days of time and achieve peace of mind. Our platform is custom-built to dramatically reduce the amount of work required for administrators, judges and candidates. Automate your entire project with one platform to take submissions, make submissions and judge submissions. Customise your project to allow candidates to upload images, text, videos, documents, 3D models and much more. Automated emails are sent to candidates and judges at every step of the journey so everyone knows exactly what they are doing. If you're looking for the best contest software in the UK, look no further! Features: Contest Management | Entry Collection | Customisable Forms (Upload Any Type Of Content) | Accept Payments | Automated Emails | Anonymous Judging | Schedules & Multiple Round Publishing | Secure Data | Downloadable PDFs | Bulk Processing | Blind Judging | Judging Management | Custom Category Scoring

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Event Management solution for anyone

Audience

Administrators seeking a solution to collect, manage and review submissions to grow their projects

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$36 per month
Billed monthly or annually. (Try for free & cancel at any time).
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.9 / 5
ease 4.6 / 5
features 4.7 / 5
design 4.3 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • OpenConf is easy to use, affordable, with lots of features and great support (they even answered my email on weekends!)

Cons

  • None - their customization service allowed us to fully meet our requirements when we needed a specialized report developed.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Zealous has no competitors for our uses--accepting, managing submissions, shortlisting and judging for our Writer's Award. In terms of flexibility, price and accommodating us, they win hands down. Duosoma can't accommodate our data collection needs and Submittable is far too expensive. We've had around 5,000 service users submit through it and very rarely hear about people having any problems with it or complaints.
  • Support was available whenever needed although the site is very intuitive to use. There is flexibility in how you set up each opportunity and what you want to be automated, or not. The data remains ours and was easy to access. The judges found it easy to use and the ability to set up category tags and then filter saved a lot of time with final judging, allowing similar photos to be viewed together. We had very little negative feedback on the user experience, which is no mean feat for an international competition with a mix of ages and abilities. It was affordable for what we needed, as a charity this is really important.
  • The judges found the selection process really straight forward and lots of the work was automated (like sending emails out to candidates that were not progressing on), that was really helpful. Our Account Manager Diana was brilliant and spent lots of time with us on teams and email answering all our questions.
  • -very simple to use either uploading applications, scoring and judging -great communication from the get go -very reasonably priced -easy to contact team with any issues -comprehensive FAQ and website guide -great working system
  • - Ease of use - Time saved over competitor products - Excellent support via email, live chat and video call - Value for money

Cons

  • We do find loading submitted documents is slower than we'd like. The white-on-black design is sometimes hard on the eyes. The other portal we've considered offers the option of fee-free submissions, with no subscription fee, charging us only a percentage of donations made (which would beat Zealous on price). However, there's a basic question format they can't accommodate, so we're sticking with Zealous!
  • As we moved from a previous platform it will take time to build a new audience. There was a server issue on judging day but this has now been resolved so I'm reassured can't happen again. I was impressed with the support and communication when it did go wrong though, things can always be resolved whilst there are open lines of communication. As an already established competition there are certain features we would like but I couldn't find any platform that offered all we needed and Zealous did provide some work arounds. The set-up took a while but this is because it's new to us and we have lots of intricacies in the stages of our competition but now we have done it, it's great that we will be able to copy the existing set up for next time.
  • Sometimes the site could be a bit slow.
  • -small amount of lagging due to number of submissions -when uploading multiple submissions through one account, it autofills with the previous answers. Not ideal when manually submitting answers from multiple applicants
  • None, any issues we had were swiftly overcome by the support team.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Zakon Group
www.openconf.com

Company Information

Zealous
Founded: 2011
United Kingdom
zealous.co/about/

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Categories

Categories

Conference Features

Abstract Management
Attendee Management
Badge Management
Catering Management
Client Management
Registration Management
Social Promotion
Space / Room Setup
Speaker Management
Sponsorship Management
Surveys & Feedback
Ticketing

Event Management Features

Attendee Management
Badge Management
Conferences / Conventions
Exhibit / Vendor Management
Gamification
Room Block Management
Social Media Promotion
Sponsorship Management
Surveys & Feedback
Ticketing
Volunteer Management
Weddings / Parties

Accreditation Management Features

Collaboration
Compliance Management
Document Management
Higher Education
Requirements Management
Reviewer Portal
Self Assessment
User Access Permissions
Workflow Management

Admissions and Enrollment Features

Application Management
Assessment Management
Candidate Management
Colleges / Universities
Evaluation Management
Fee Management
Financial Aid Management
Forms Management
K-12
Recruiting Management
Scoring
Self Service Portal

Contest Features

Awards Management
Blind Judging
Entrant Management
Entry Fee Processing
Entry Management
Forms Management
Fraud Detection
Judging Management
Scoring
Skills Contests (Photo, Essay, Design, etc)
Social Media Management
Social Promotions
Sweepstakes
Timeline Management
Voting Management

Forms Automation Features

Approval Process Control
Archiving & Retention
Collaboration
Document Indexing
Drag & Drop
Full Text Search
Remote Document Access
Rules-Based Workflow
Text Editing
Version Control

Gamification Features

Badge Management
Collaboration Tools
Contest Management
Feedback Management
For Call Centers
For Developers
For Education
For Onboarding
For Sales
Goal Setting / Tracking
Leaderboards / Activity Tracking
Performance Metrics
Rewards Management

Grant Management Features

Compliance Management
Contract Management
Grant Application Management
Grant Award Tracking
Grant Opportunity Search
Self-Registration

Scholarship Management Features

Applicant Management
Applicant Portal
Commenting / Notes
Customizable Forms
Interview Management
Recommendations Management
Reviewer Management
Scoring
White Label

Integrations

Stripe
Xero

Integrations

Stripe
Xero
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