--- title: Award Force Reviews meta_title: 'Award Force Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 290 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Award Force works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.7 review_count: 290 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-04' parent_category: name: Vertical Industry url: https://www.g2.com/categories/vertical-industry --- # Award Force Reviews **Vendor:** Creative Force **Category:** [Awards Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/awards-management) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 290 ## About Award Force Award Force is the world’s leading awards management software, trusted by thousands of awards programs and millions of users worldwide. Purpose-built for awards, Award Force brings entries, judging, payments and reporting together in one secure, beautiful and intuitive platform, helping programs launch faster and deliver outstanding experiences for entrants, judges and program teams. Building on the essentials that made it the world’s #1 awards software, Award Force amplifies what teams can achieve, combining time-saving automations, private and secure AI tools, powerful integrations and award-winning service to extend capacity and improve outcomes — without adding complexity, compliance risk or security trade-offs. Award Force gives organisations the freedom to run awards locally or globally, seamlessly supporting more than 45 concurrent languages, any currencies and a choice of data residency options. Programs on Award Force grow entries by an average of 26% season-on-season, with all returns staying with our clients. Award Force never takes a percentage of entry fees, does not charge by seat and never compromises on your data privacy, security or control. For organisations that want awards to run smoothly today and stay ready for what comes next, Award Force is the obvious choice. ## Award Force Reviews ### 1. ALWAYS ASTOUNDING **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ethnic Business A. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The Award Force platform has consistently delivered for us. I have now been a subscriber for 2 years and working with the Award Force team is an absolute dream. They are always swift, professional and helpful. I love this platform so much. It is actually fun to work on, intuitive and it has been a resounding success with our nominees and judges alike. I can't speak more highly of this software and the incredible team of people who step up to help me when i need it. Award Force stands alone and I salute you all! **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Are you kidding - nothing! Maybe the only thing that i would think is that we don't get a discount being a not for profit. It would be great if there were discounts for charity organisations. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Don't delay. It is worth every penny. Amazing product. It has never ever let me down. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before Award Force we were mailing out word documents to nominees. It was dreadful. So much time spent searching through emails and never knowing if you had the most recent copy of the nomination, then having to photocopy everything for the judges. It was archaic. I knew there had to be something better but who would have thought we would find a beautiful Aussie made solution! Amazing! ### 2. Great Plattform and outstanding support 24/7 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin W. | Partner / Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** It was great to individualize every bit of the web interface intuitively and get the best tech support when needed. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Seriously I can't think of anything in particular - the problems I did run into were solved flawlessly by their fantastic support team **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** If you're looking for the perfect tool to host an AWARD, you just discovered the FORCE to make it happen! **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Awardforce created the technical backbone of the award we hosted, and we easily found ten winners within 1200 entrants. while using three different jury panels ### 3. Made our life and productivity so much better **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Craig W. | State Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Very intuitive and easy to use and navigate **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Nothing. It's great. So much better than our old archaic way of running competitions **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Go for it. It's totally worth it **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Productivity has increased substantially ### 4. CampusLink Awards 2021 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shah L. | Programs Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The support from the Awards Force team was amazing. No question was too difficult or too minor for them to attend too. Responses came in a very timely manner. Issues were consistently worked through until resolved. The platform is very user-friendly. We had a lot of positive feedback from our users, including judges. The copy feature is brilliant - this will save a lot of time for our Awards in the future. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** We were transferring an existing Awards platform to the Award Force platform which was quite a time-consuming process to set up all the functionality to meet our needs - having said that, the customisation and autonomy over the outcomes is the reason we went with Award Force in the first place! **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We converted an existing Awards platform over to the Award Force Platform. Some of the functionality was not the same but the Award Force team were hugely patient and knowledgeable in offering suggestions and solutions to problems that weren't an easy cross-over. ### 5. A must have for all awards organisers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The features and functionality are amazing, AwardForce seems to have thought of absolutely everything that an award organiser needs. It is very user friendly for both the organiser to set up (I don't have any experience building websites) and for the nominators to enter their submissions. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I have only just launched our awards campaign, so far there hasn't been anything that I have disliked. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** If you are interested in AwardForce then I highly recommend booking a time to do a walkthrough of the programme, once I saw all the features and how easy it was to use I was sold. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to use a different platform that still required a lot of manual work (e.g notifying nominees and nominators if they were successful or not), now everything is automated for us. I also like that there are more options for managing the judging which will make it simpler. Overall it is saving us time and allowing us to share information with colleagues, nominees, nominators and judges more easily. ### 6. Experience with Awardforce **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** amoolya n. | Lawyer and Subject Matter Expert, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The simple design, into which many different kinds of asks can be customized. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** So far I haven't experienced something I disliked. But we are yet to play out the judging piece of our awards plan. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** The plan we had last year for submissions was just people writing in willy nilly, with no specific format, sending in excel sheets. And there was a lot of scope for human error with the internal team assimilating entries, and sending them across to the judges - who had little structure to work with. This platform streamlines everything, and minimizes human intervention. ### 7. Extremely User-Friendly Software and Over-the-Top Customer Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura C. | Senior IT Project Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Definitely the ease of use in configuring the software to meet my organization's needs; but even more important is the instant support that is offered. If you can't find the information in their Help Center, filling out a form that gives you the option to choose the level of urgency is tops! Each time I've had to request assistance whether I was unsure of the process or needed a second look, there was no hesitation on my part to reach out for help. Their team of professional support around the globe is always on point in helping to assist and bringing a resolution to meet my needs. Sometimes it may not be the resolution that I want or have in mind, but they will always provide a workaround or other suggestions on how to go about getting the desired result. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** There's really nothing to dislike. There are times when I wish something would work this way or that way, but simply by requesting that change, the support team is always willing to send that up to their engineering team to have a look at to see if it's something they can incorporate. Having worked with Award Force on two different platforms over the past year, I've seen firsthand the progress that their engineering team is making to update and add features to their product. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Award Force has provided us the best-fitting software solution to meet our needs in the areas of grant applications and applications to be considered for a specific training environment with an attractive price tag. ### 8. Great customer service and appealing product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Award Force?** I love how prompt the client services staff are at answering inquiries and being willing to meet and provide tailored solutions. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** The learning curve for building a project with multiple modules can be a little steep but after you get the hang of it, it becomes straightforward. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We hold entrepreneurial classes and require students to submit their video pitches and one-pagers to get feedback/scores from judges. ### 9. Robust and Intelligent Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** It's a robust system with a ton of functionality for those of us doing awards. My favorite features (in no particular order) are: 1. The ability to broadcast emails and do so by the status of the submission. For example, you can send targeted communication to those who started a submission but have yet to complete it. 2. Online judging. Until we switched to Award Force two years ago, we sent nominee PDF packets to our judges. Now, our modernized process includes assigning judges to categories, seeing real-time scores throughout the judging period, and the ability for our judges to recuse themselves on the spot, right on the platform, if there's a conflict. A HUGE improvement. 3. The ease of extending nominee submission and judging deadlines because ALL of us in this space know that is a reality. 4. Uploading nominee headshots as a required element of submitting a nomination. No more chasing nominees to email a pic. 5. Intuitive dashboard and reporting. Additionally, customer support was friendly, timely, and successfully answered my questions. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** It's not necessarily a dislike, but the platform's robustness means there is a time commitment and a bit of a learning curve when setting it up for the first time. We opted for the training session add-on and it was absolutely worth it for us. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Award Force is way more efficient than our previous methodology for our annual awards, especially with the nomination form submissions and judging. As a non-profit with a small team and big aspirations, those efficiency gains are critical and we won't invest time and resources unless there's a great return on that investment. In addition to a more streamlined application/judging process, the Award Force platform makes our awards program look markedly more professional. ### 10. The help desk is so efficient **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Judy M. | managing director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Help desk and ease of platform to set up **What do you dislike about Award Force?** No much to be honest, it is very easy to use but addresses all requrements **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Definitely give it a go. Its the best awards platform I have used **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** No major problems, just have a new team learning the system ### 11. Wonderful platform and highly recommend! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Award Force has an incredible customer service team. Always willing and eager to respond in a timely manner - I've never had to wait for a response from their team for more than 24 hours. Everyone is extremely kind and helpful, usually sending accomodating links with easy-to-read directions within their emails. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I haven't run into any glitches or dislikes when it comes to the program! **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** I highly recommend using Award Force! **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Award Force is helping our team navigate a global award show that Johnson & Johnson is responsible for creating! We have been using Award Force for the last 3 years and we frequently talk to our clients about how wonderful this platform has been at keeping all of our submissions in one place. ### 12. A must-have for streamlining an awards program **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charlotte K. | Global Customer Marketing Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The platform was built with everything in mind to help streamline the process of managing an awards program, from managing submissions to managing judges, coordinating entries and keeping track of the overall program. The team are all extremely helpful, fun and very responsive. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I would like to see: - Customisable dashboards - Better permission management - Built-in marketing "tools" such as landing pages, etc. OR embed **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** If you are considering / or already managing an awards program, you definitely need to consider Award Force to help yourself, but also the people who will be entering for an award. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to streamline the management of our awards program (13 categories, 200 entries, 35 judges). We had managed the program manually before purchasing Award Force and it was a full-time job for a sub-par experience for both entrants, judges and most of all the program manager. We feel that our awards program is now on par with the experience we want to offer our customers and partners when entering. ### 13. Making Contest Organizer Life Easier **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The Simplicity of the Platform User Experience **What do you dislike about Award Force?** The degree of web customizations are limited **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Do reach out to the sales team up front as they are very friendly and helpful to help understand your business use case and provide you the right tier of service. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** One-stop platform for Contest Registration, Submission & Judging instead of traditional forms, mail merge and excel sheets ### 14. Deploying AwardForce is a no-brainer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Menno d. | Bestuursvoorzitter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** We have been organising our internal awards program for a number of years now and have always struggled managing all the submissions and organising the judging process. Deploying AwardForce solved all our challenges and we have now deployed a very professional, easy to use platform to manage our Awards program with a fraction of the time and costs involved before. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Implementing AwardForce in the organisation does take some time. However with the excellent onboarding support provided by AwardForce this is very easy. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now have one central overview of our awards program(s), got rid of all the Excel list, unstructured documents and so on. Our employees are very satisified with the user-friendly environment. We can even easily invite external judges and include them in our judging process. The time savings are huge and we also have a financial benefit. By using the sponsoring module, we have been inviting sponsor which cover the costs for the yearly fee for the AwardForce platform. I would say it is a no-brainer to invest in this platform!! ### 15. Great experience with Award Force onboarding! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** We recently launched our Award Force portal. The onboarding team, and especially Alex, was BEYOND helpful. They were extremely quick to answer our questions, going above and beyond when we had unanticipated issues. And, they were also very knowledgeable and patient. They were fantastic to work with! **What do you dislike about Award Force?** There wasn't much I disliked so far! There are a few small functionalities we would have liked, but I think the team is already working to integrate those. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Award Force to capture hundreds of stories from young people about their experience with STEM. It's acting as a one-stop shop for everyone taking part in the process. ### 16. Increased award submissions by 33% **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** It helps you organise all the award submissions freeing up time to focus on the things that really matter for the awards. It is much easier to explain the process and take users through it, which I believe helps increase submissions. Once you have created your first awards 'season' than the subsequent ones become even easier as you can copy your set-up just making a few tweaks if you need it. The Award Force support team is very responsive and you always get questions answered very quickly. All the judges we use for our awards have also been very happy with our switch to Award Force. They can very easily navigate the submissions that we ask them to submit and the scoring and criteria is displayed for them. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** The last time we used it the set-up sometimes felt like it could be easier. You have to change some settings in the 'back end' and then go somewhere else to see what that change has done. It is not a big issue and I think that Award Force have actually updated this. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Worth getting a demo and considering this software. Has been very beneficial for us. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Frees up a lot of time spent on the admin-type tasks for our awards programme. We have increased the amount of submissions received by 33%. The platform helps us organise all the information from the submissions that we receive. We now use that information to display entries as best practice/case studies on our website, which increases traffic to our website. ### 17. Positive experience with Award Force, delivering a prize for a national museum in the UK **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** I am a curator delivering a triennial award for artists at a national museum in the UK. Award Force enabled us to bring the process in-house - from the open call and application process, to longlisting, review and judging. The platform was almost entirely customisable to our needs, and is very straightforward to use. We included the on-boarding process in our package, which meant we could have tutorials on the different settings and ways of working. The Help and FAQs section of the site is pretty comprehensive too, so almost everything can be answered swiftly. And if I'm stuck, there is 24/7 support - I can send an email and get an answer within the hour if it's urgent! This was a life-saver more than once. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** There are certain elements of the interface it would be good to customise or change that are not yet possible - the dashboard layout, the order of the side bar, and so on. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before taking on Award Force we were spending considerably more money on an external team to facilitate the prize, which included an independent IT technician to run an email account and facilitate the application form. The Broadcast function on Award Force has streamlined all communication and enabled us to do everything directly at the museum. This year the pandemic prevented our jury from meeting in person to decide on the finalists. Award Force was a godsend - we could shift the judging process online, using the integrated Judging facilities, enabling scoring, commentary and a leaderboard before the final digital discussion. ### 18. Make award season easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** I liked how easy it was to set up basic award entry and review. We really like the features on data protection and setting up judging. Lastly, it allows us to have confidentiality agreements with the judges that they must agree to before proceeding. Also the little help videos were great. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Not much to dislike. Maybe adding the auditing feature into the lower end products. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Talk to them, get a demo, watch the videos but most importantly talk to them about the problems you need to solve **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Annual awards for our organization have been a nightmare of accepting awards into the committee and then parsing out the PDFs for every judge to read and tracking the voting. Award Force greatly eases that process. ### 19. Award Force = Dream Force! :) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joye S. | Awards Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Award Force is such a fantastic product. From ideation to execution, it's been a seamless process to implement and use. The product itself is beautiful, user-friendly for participants, judges, and administrators, and the support team is exceptional and does not let anything slip through the cracks. As our awards program grows, it's simple to scale and "take with us" on our journey. I recommend Award Force with the highest regard! **What do you dislike about Award Force?** My "dislikes" are few and far between. Aside from an occasional technical glitch, the product has been seamless and reliable. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** I highly recommend this product for any/all Awards and/or judging software needs. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not currently solving any problems with Award Force. The benefits of having a user-friendly platform that is reliable and easily replicable as our program grows across the country has been key. ### 20. Brilliant service and software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Awards Force is a brilliant software which does everything that I need for our awards. It is simple to manage the events and our judges/entrants never have any issues working out how to use it. Also the customer service needs a special mention - every issue I have ever had has been quickly resolved and the team has always been a pleasure to speak with. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** There are some aspects of setting up the events which aren't obviously intuative but there are helpful guides online and it's easy to speak to a member of staff. Once I'd done one, it was all pretty straight forward! **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Awards Force as opposed to manually collecting materials submitted by entrants has saved an incredible amount of time. It is also great that for both judges and entrants, they can ammend their submissions up until the deadline and without creating additional work for myself. ### 21. Well worth investing for the time it will save you **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The system was so configurable that any ideas we can up with the system could cope with those variables. All users were able to use it with no in depth guidance and absolutely minimal support queries. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** It did take a little getting used to and setting up however the help on hand to guide us through and check the process was correct made it much easier and gave us reassurance. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Think about the hassle and time you spend administering awards traditionally. With a little bit of time investment to set-up and learn the first time you will have a solution that saves you hours of legwork and headaches. And as a bonus awards submitters and judges have a pleasant and professional experience when using it. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** This solution has saved us lots of time by significantly reducing the amount of administrative work we have to do with all of the submissions. Time saved in one round of the awards justified the year one cost so certainly a value-add solution. ### 22. Outstanding customer support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** I love the service I receive from Awards Force! Seriously, I think its some of the best customer support around and I use a variety of third-party tools and portals. Love the knowledge library, the how-to dashboard set up, but more than that, I love that I can talk to you relatively quickly— in person. That's important to me because I am not the only person in my organisation who creates an award in the portal, but I am the one internal stakeholders come to when there are issues! In turn, sometimes I also need support :-) All your customer service people I have spoken with are helpful and have always fixed the problem or suggested a viable workaround. Really appreciate it. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** There are no downsides that I have found. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing various setup and submission issues for and on behalf of internal stakeholders. ### 23. Customer Service Extraordinaire **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeffrey R. | Publisher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** We are about to enter our fourth year with Award Force. I have been approached by several others to switch and I tell them why should I? The customer service is prompt and first rate and the interface is easy to use. Plus there are many FAQ's and videos to help. Looking forward to a great 2021 American Photography Open. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I still don't like the slideshows that show a thumbnail after each image **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Use it! You won't be disappointed. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saves time and is easy to deal with remotely from others involved ### 24. Fantastic Customer Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mary D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** What do I like best? Everything! From the ease for our members to submit their projects to our judges being able to log in remotely to complete the judging and the customer service. When you get an email late on a Friday afternoon saying that someone will get back to you on Monday with an answer to your inquiry, make sure that you check back. There is going to be a reply from one of the service reps long before Monday arrives. Top notch all the way. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I currently cannot think of one thing that I dislike about Award Force or that I would change. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had been using an antiquated system by having our members use a power point template to enter their submissions. These then had to be broken out to remove some information that the office needed from the judges so that they didn't see who the entrant was. And then a new document was created to showcase each entry to the judges. The judging panels then all had to meet in person across Canada, this took a lot of juggling by the panel coordinator. There had to be a space large enough to hold the judges, a screen large enough for them all to see the entries someone to read the design statements, floor plans printed out, budgets reviews. Now each category is ready to view by the judges as soon as the competition closes. Our judges sign in remotely no matter where they are in the country or the world for that matter and have two weeks to complete their assignments. Easy Peasy! ### 25. Conference Call For Papers - Unusual Use Case Maybe But A Great Fit! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lorraine P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** What your users see looks modern, clean, and professional. Award Force is highly configurable, and the more you dig the greater the possibilities. I didn't realize initially but review flow is fantastic. For our next conference we'd make greater use of that. On top of that, the support from the AF team is first class. Considered, fast, professional, and willing to help you find alternative approaches when the 'vanilla' product does not quite match your needs. The documentation and video training is excellent. If your use case is different, then you would benefit from having systems configuration experience to be able to visualize the possibilities. However, the AF team is there to help you, so don't let that stop you committing! After a very long career in IT, I don't hesitate to say that this relatively small company is one of the best I've encountered. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Nothing is perfect! The things that I don't like tend to be around my specific use case. Biggest takeaways: * Not being able to configure the columns of the judges' view. That would be really helpful and the coding/technology is already there somewhere as you can configure columns in the administrator/manager view * That the underlying model assumes a single interested party which means to have multiple people engaged in a submission (conference co-speakers) you have to jump hoops * Related to the above point, as a co-speaker, you can't login to an account and see the submissions that you are involved in. You can make 'something' work, but not using an account based approach. Finally, I would really have liked to have had the possibility to look at the 'back end' during assessment, but having used it now, I totally agree that I would have overlooked some key aspects of the product. So I understand that strategy even though during assessment it was a little frustrating! Award Force will spend time showing you the admin panel, it's just not a hands on experience. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Even if you have a slightly different use case but it looks as though this product fits the bill, don't hesitate to ask the Award Force team if they think the product will work for you. There's no benefit to them in telling you that it will work if it doesn't and you might be pleasantly surprised. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Standard events software tends to be weak on the call-for-papers support in my experience. While Award Force is not specifically aimed at the conference market, it was the best solution I reviewed by a long way. The conference is for open source technical folk and they ALWAYS have something to say about the solutions that you implement. For the first time ever, though, the only complaint was about the co-speaker access... and to be fair, right now the product is not set up to support that so it can't be called a fault. Apart from that, we had great feedback. ### 26. Easy to use software for research grant management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** As program manager of a scientific research program, Awardforce helps me to collect grant applications, invite reviews, and support decision making based on those reviews. As an online application, with role-based levels of access, there is no longer a need to shift any paper work around. Applicants and reviewers were very positive about transitioning to this software. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** The software is highly flexible in the definition of fields for applicants/entrants. I was a bit surprised that fewer options exist for defining fields for the judges/reviewers. Overall, it met my needs, but a minor issue was that currently all judging criteria in VIP judging mode need to be scored. Inviting comments is optional. I woud like to be able to invite one overall score, paired with detailed comments on specific review criteria. We resolved this by asking our judges to provide comments in a structured way and that worked actually quite well. Still we hope new features will be added in future releases. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to receive all documents pertaining to grant management (applications, reviews) via email and had to move the relevant documents around a lot (to reviewers, to meeting documents, to archives). Document management is automated now and this saves a lot of time and prevents errors. ### 27. Great customer service,easy to contact and answer any issues. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patricia N. | Media, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Great Customer Service, adapts to your needs. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Cannot think of anything that I dislike. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** A soups to nuts solution for your awards program. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Management of judging entries. A one stop solution. ### 28. User-friendly platform and exceptionally good customer service! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The one thing I found excellent is the 24/7, professional and friendly help. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I can't find anything specific that I disliked. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** I would recommend Award Force to anyone looking for excellent customer service, value for money and ease of use. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has enabled us to smoothly manage our grant. ### 29. Seamless experience using Award Force. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Support always available from the team at a minutes notice. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Honestly, nothing to complain about. Support always available when needed and guidance available on the site is always a great first response to any issues I've ever had. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Save yourself time and therefore money and resources by investing in Award Force. I would most definitely use for future award ceremonies and other appropriate events. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Award Force has saved my team so much time when it comes to filing award submissions, preparing files for Judges to review and applying Judges scores to find a winner in each of our 13 award categories. ### 30. Such a useful platform! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucy D. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** I like how simple Award Force is to use and how straight forward it is to find the answer to any queries. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Literally nothing! It's really user-friendly and simple to use. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can do entries, judging and payments all in the same platform. So simple! ### 31. Conrad Challenge **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Conrad F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Award Force serves as the ultimate HUB for management of our student competition. From User information access and data, entry submissions management and all judging! This platform has saved us in hundreds of labor hours that we used to incur from handling our competition manually! WE LOVE AWARD FORCE!! **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Our list of dislikes is very minimal. The system and customer support has allowed for us to do a lot of customization of our features to match many aspects of our competition. I do wish that the certificate customization had more options like a landscape version with full design upload vs. just a header and footer. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** You will not regret it! Best investment ever! Our team has streamlined our level of efficiency 100%. We have heard from all participants in our challenge from students to judges that they loved the online system and found it very user friendly and professional! Having a 3rd party team like Taoti Creative really helped us get up and running faster than if we did set up of Award Force in house. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** User insights and data has been a great benefit. Would love to see this area expanded in a user dashboard that would show specific statistics about our users. Locations, ages, genders ect. We can get this data by filtering exports ... but would be a nice feature if the system could arrogate the data into a customized dashboard. ### 32. Easy migration to updated awards platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kandice M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Award Force is easy to navigate from an administrator standpoint from setting up the entry process to judging and pulling reports. The quick response time and thorough tech support is beneficial for new users. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I wish there was an easier way to preview. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our last awards software platform was outdated and difficult to navigate. Award Force has a simple dashboard for users and administrators. ### 33. A first time user and a very grateful grants program manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeannette B. | Senior Program Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Both managers, applicants, and judges have all been extremely pleased with the product and have commented on how easy the grant process has become compared to previous years. What I like best about it is as a first time user (and not a very technically oriented first timer!) is that I was able to navigate the program and set up applications and judging parameters fairly easily thanks to the amazing online help. I often found the answers I needed with the content of the "need help?" tab but I did on occasion need more help beyond that. Responses from the technical advisers were fairly quick and thei assistance was given with great patience! I love the flexibility of the program even at the starter level we chose to purchase. I called numerous granting organizations to get suggestions for grant management programs and all of the suggestions we way out of our price bracket. It was a lucky day when I stumbled upon the Award Force website and after a live conference call with one of the AF representatives, me and my fellow staff members knew this was going to be the right program for our needs. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I wish the next level up wasn't so expensive, otherwise we would consider a version with more functionality. For instance it would have been nice to be able to do mass emails to applicants and judges which I thought would have been a very basic function for a program as such. Despite that, I can't complain about the entry level program since we are a small organization. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Take your time and read all the suggestions before reaching out for technical help because the answer is often right in front of you. The "sanity checks" were of enormous value to help work out all of the kinks in the set up process. Make sure you do multiple test runs for both judging and applications before launching a program. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Award Force has dramatically improved our service to both applicants and judges. It can be a real challenge to recruit judges because of the time commitment required in order to do a good job. I think judge retention for next year will be easier since using Award Force. The feedback I got from them is that all enjoyed the experience of judging and they felt is was a rewarding experience. For applicants, we had a greater number of people apply because it was so easy. This is particularly important for our organization since for many of the applicants, this was the first grant they have ever applied for. ### 34. Great service, great platform and always a fast response time to queries. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in International Trade and Development | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Easy to use system that looks professional and does what it's meant to do. Support staff are very easy to contact and reach and provide very useful information. Comparatively, Award Force also offers more functionalities than other award management platforms for similar or less costs. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Would benefit from a few more functionalities e.g. entrant polling functions. During the application entry stage, the ability to add images or videos as the entrant applies would also help to make things more engaging and keep the applicant interested. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to engage with our stakeholders in a professional way without making the process cumbersome or difficult. It's also easy to use the platform for different projects we run (we have 3 live AF platforms at the moment). ### 35. Great tool, great support and excellent feedback **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katherine M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The set up guide makes creating a nomination form intuitive and helps ensure we do not leave out any steps. Also the support we have had throughout set up and configuration has been excellent. Anytime we reached out we would normally get a response within an hour, with a resolution. Very refreshing. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** We struggled with the flexibility around certificates. There are minimal editing capabilities, and formatting options. But the other capabilities are excellent. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** One of our key requirements was SSO, and Award Force is one of the only tools of it's genre to enable this. A big tick for us. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having used SharePoint before to manage our company wide awards scheme, we found the admin post nominations painful and time consuming. Though we haven't quite got to that stage yet in our nomination process, we can already tell that through the judging capabilities it will save us a lot of time and a lot of printer ink. ### 36. Award Force makes everything easy from submission to review with outstanding customer service. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Writing and Editing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** We are currently using Award Force for an upcoming awards program with over 360 entries and multiple rounds of judging. Award Force helped to make the submission process easy and their support team walked me through everything I needed to start the judging process. They empowered me to be able to complete the process on my own. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** There are almost too many features and abilities that I find myself learning something new every time I contact the support team. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Award Force streamlined the submission and review process of the awards program. We are now able to have everything in one place and have access to prior year records at our figure tips. ### 37. Prompt online support, a great platform with various functionalities **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Grace W. | Events Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** I like how quickly the team respond to your queries. They are understanding, clear with their responses and offer 'easy-to-follow' advice. They're very supportive and if your query can't be fulfilled, they are always eager to improve their platform. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I don't like how you have to link everything up to get things to work on the platform as this can take quite a while to do, to ensure everything is linked up properly. Ie: fields, tabs, ensure things are displayed, field order, etc. It can be very time consuming and frustrating when things don't go your way! Although I understand that it allows you to have full control of the platform and arrange exactly how you want the entry platform to be, those who don't understand technology might struggle to understand and use this. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** If you're unsure about how things work, Award Force will help you quickly. The platform offers you various functionalities including stats for your own personal use, to use for comparisons of year upon year. Award Force is a great step forward in the right direction and I would encourage anyone who is unsure of an entry platform, to go ahead and proceed with trying this. From file uploads, to entry criteria, to data, it is ideal. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to find various pieces of data about our Awards: how many people enter; where they're from; how many submitted/created an entry in-between specific dates; payment being all in one place; promotional offers; judging. The benefits we've realised would be that you can literally hold the entire 'Awards entry' through this platform, including judges 'judging remotely'. Everything is easy to link with payments/banks and we try to utilise the majority of functionalities Award Force has to offer. ### 38. Robust Affordable software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lauren S. | Director of Events and Training, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Works great and is very user friendly. It is an affordable price and meets all of our needs. It has a fair amount of customization allowed. Our submitters had a pretty easy time submitting the material and our judges were able to review very easily. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I wish their was a little more robust ability to email from the software. Also, we used it for a call for presentations which worked mostly well but some things weren't ask great. I wish the software could communicate with all presenters not just the submitter. Sometimes the software also got a little buggy. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Do a demo to make sure it meets you need. It isn't hard but it does use markup language which is a little strange. It does take a little time to set up right (a day or two). It does require a submitter to make an account a little bit of hunting and pecking to find how to edit settings. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using for our call for presentations for our conference. ### 39. Excellent Cloud App for collaboration on reviews **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** S C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The app is very flexible in how it can be setup and the tech support is the best I have experienced. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** There can be a great deal of setting up for sophisticated configurations but that is to be expected and the support team went above and beyond in helping set it up **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing various reviewers to collaborate across different part of the world and for me to manage and monitor their progress easily. ### 40. Absolutely unbeatable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** clare r. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The assistance and expertise from the staff is unparalleled. I honestly could not believe how patient everyone was. They always responded very quickly and always explained things perfectly. The software itself is working beautifully for us and I am so happy we were able to work with Award Force. It makes us more professional and better able to engage with people who are entering our awards. I absolutely love Award Force. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Nothing. It is amazing. Price, support and everything is spot on. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We look much more professional. It saves me printing out word documents, it just streamlines the entire process. ### 41. Glad we made the switch **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The team was super helpful it was easy to load content Platform is widely used so industry is familiar **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Some of the functionality about how the awards moved through the stages and how the results displayed were not to my preference (would have like to see a score card for each judge without opening individual entries) (had to reject all the entries that didn't pass to the next round - would have like another mechanism to do this since it took AGES to reject all the entries in some categories and the system doesn't like to display more thank 10 entries at a time without timing out!) **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Service is beyond amazing. Team is always there to answer questions. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a platform that lent credibility and transparency to our awards program. AwardForce's reputation gave us that legitimacy awards. To increase transparency we enlisted multiple judges and all of them commented on how seamless the platform was. ### 42. Great Customer Service. Very Flexible System. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** I'm new to program management and inherited Awards Force from the previous admin. The new manager training they provided helped me get a good foothold on the system and avoid rookie mistakes that would've been easy to make. The knowledgebase has been really helpful in building out our program. The majority of the articles are very in-depth and take you step by step. When I've run into issues I can't solve on my own, the Customer Service Team has been super responsive - replying within the hour with a real solution. I love that I can schedule customer service calls for what works best for me (tons of availability) and they walk you through exactly what you need to do and why. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** There's a lot of parts to connect in the back end, and at first, it feels like you're learning a foreign language. It's great when you eventually understand the system because the choice is what allows for greater flexibility, but when you're just starting out, it can be pretty intimidating. If you haven't used a system like this before, like I hadn't, the learning curve is really overwhelming, especially if you're working against an aggressive implementation timeline. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** In previous years, the program manager only managed the application submissions in Awards Force, forcing us to use spreadsheets to track judging and scores. Now we're doing everything start to finish right within the system - less room for error and confusion. ### 43. Easy to use, great functionality for all levels **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angie C. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The AwardForce program is incedibly flexible and provides the ability for workarounds given any situation you may encounter with your Awards program. It is very easy to use. From the customer facing perspective it has been well received by our applicants and provides a very professional approach for all of our stakeholders especially our judges who were most impressed with the process and reduction in paperwork and time from their end. The applicants were also impressed with the ease of use. Our internal IT department found it very easy to work with and had quick responses from customer service to any queries he had. Our implementation and verification was very quick from start to finish. Even though we purchased the lower of the plans we were able to achieve everything we wanted within our budget which allowed us to achieve our goals to be fully autonomous across all our stakeholders for the 2019 program. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Depending on what package you choose you may be limited with colour pallets. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** If you are considering using AwardForce for your Awards Program do it - we have not looked back and wish we had implemented it earlier. The process was easy and from the first phone the customer service team were amazing. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduced impact on the environment through non existent paper warfare. Seemless process and direct line of communication to the judges for the entries. Ability to assist the entrants directly during the process should they require help. ### 44. Robust and user-friendly platform, excellent service. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The support staff at AwardForce was constantly available for help on everything.The setup guide was in-depth and very helpful. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Honestly, very little. The user interface is very user friendly, and for the few things I had confusion about, AwardForce support was there to help. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** The features Award Force offers may seem too good to be true, but they are not. I cannot overstate my satisfaction with the Award Force platform and the overall quality of the entire experience. Highly recommend. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** AwardForce met the need of a platform to handle an internal competition across a national company. This made everything so much easier from the past, where submissions had to be manually evaluated and organization was unheard of. With AwardForce, entries are sorted, evaluated, and managed with ease, even when dealing with various complexities and a large quantity of submissions. ### 45. Very good and user-friendly platform to manage awards and selection process **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bruno M. | Community Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** There are a lot of different things that we like about Award Force. The first one is that the platform is very intuitive and user-friendly, to all parts: programme managers, applicants and reviewers. Secondly and maybe the most important, the customer service is really good. Whenever we have a question or a problem, their customer support is really quick and helpful. Finally, as we use Salesforce as our main CRM, Award Force integration to Salesforce is very simple and easy to use, and whenever we have a need for a different type of function, they are very open to discuss and consider it for future updates of the platform. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** The broadcast function can be improved to allow different filters and selection of people. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing an awards process, from the application, review to the decision can be very time-consuming if the right platform is not in place, especially if the review process involves the engagement from people all over the world. Award Force gave us the ability to manage our Awards process very easily, almost fully automated. ### 46. “Money, time and resources well spent!” **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Everything! Especially the rep our account tech support manager. she was on hand 24/7 with not just support, but with solutions, and confidence building techniques to help me take charge of the growth of our work. The platform itself, is slick, very user friendly and a 100% reliable. It gave us the confidence we needed to launch our first annual HEAT awards. this has gone so well, we are already pencilling in next years campaign. Award Force have been the first and only platform I have used for this task, but I wouldn't dream of going anywhere else. In the grand scheme of things the cost was extremely good for all the benefits we obtained, and even though our event programme is over, we are still able use all the data for our analysis and personal development. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** In all honesty I have very little bad to say about the whole experience. If you really pushed me for a balanced review, I would have to say that on a couple of times and considering I emailed support up to 4 times a day in the build up of our launch. that if our designated manager was out of the office or had finished for the day. The person that took over sometimes was a little enthusiastic to come back with a response and not grasp how slow I was being. That's really nothing bad just maybe a pointer for the future that they get a summary of the clients habits and personal synopsis before responding to a query. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** Don't delay in even getting a demonstration! Knowledge is power in helping you help your stakeholders **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using a designated and bespoke product like AF, has taken out so much stress and uncertainty around getting the nominations in and judged remotely. we had over 1000 entries that needed to go through a very clear and strict judging process (in light of being fare and transparent ) We could let judging take place remotely and smoothly, with the confidence of our data security and personal reputational image being protected. ### 47. Award Force: A Superior Product with Outstanding Customer/Support Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Ease of use. Award Force is very user-friendly with features that are intuitive and relatively easy to set up and operate. It is also easy to customize and configure options to meet the needs of our awards program. The layout is simple and straightforward; our users had no issues navigating the system during the entry and judging process. Using a system that is so versatile and responsive for both our entrants and judges made the experience of administering the program a pleasant one. What makes Award Force superior, though, is its excellent customer/technical support service. The team members in customer/tech support are the best I have ever encountered with a software product. From sales to tech support, every team member I have interacted with are super friendly, knowledgeable, and ever-willing-to-help. Even though my needs seemed endless, the support team always responded to my questions with patience, humor, and goodwill. I love the Award Force customer/tech support team members. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** There is nothing about Award Force I dislike. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Award Force has made my job managing our awards program an enjoyable one. It allows me to create a platform for our awards program that is above-and-beyond the expectations of our entrants as well as our judges. We have received a lot of positive comments from users regarding the ease of use and polished design of the platform. This is our first year using Award Force, and I am confident that our awards program will only get better with such a powerful and intuitive software product. Moreover, there is no other software product with a better customer/tech support team than Award Force. ### 48. Fantastic product that has streamlined our annual business awards **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gavin S. | Head of Membership, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The simplicity, functionality and way that it interacts with applicants. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** When sending a recent broadcast after we had launched our awards, rogue images were pulled in for another Awards event that had no connection to us. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time is the biggest factor. Historically we used Excel to manage our awards event and now using Awardforce results in a professional piece of software that manages the entire process. ### 49. DFW Great 100 Nurses **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tracery M. | Founder and Managing Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Award Force?** The technical support, turnkey time and ease of use of the platform were above exceptional it was EXTRAordinary! Alex in Flordia and Megan in Canada/California YOU SO ROCK! **What do you dislike about Award Force?** I don't know of anything that I would change. **Recommendations to others considering Award Force:** UTSW Medical Center - Dallas, Texas I recommended the program to them. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** It would benefit us to have Pro next year to make the support and nomination process easier to manage. Next year I would like to use if for Awards, Scholarships and Selection Committees. ### 50. Easy to use and make selection and judging a snap! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philip B. | Webmaster, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Award Force?** Award Force is very intuitive, in setting up judging, submissions, and the overall process. Plenty of reports - including easily created custom reports. Completing the entries was easy for the judges, and as the person that set up the judging, I really liked the tab interface when setting up the fields for the application. Super easy to set up the fields and the ability to submit docs, etc...intuitive and clean. **What do you dislike about Award Force?** Two things I think could be better with Award Force - there was a little confusion with users when signing up whether they were signing up as a user, judge, submitter, etc. I think the system is fine, I just think maybe an intermediate page where it says "Are you a Submitter, Judge, Admin" etc would just clarify to people and assure them that they are in the right sequence for signing up. The other improvement I think would enhance AF greatly would be a random selection of Judges - so if you had 100 Applicants and 20 Judges, you just say "Assign 5 Apps to each judge randomly" and press a button. We are a small company and we're not dealing with thousands of apps, but it was still a little time consuming to assign judges...I can't imagine someone that has hundreds or thousands of apps and dozens of judges assigning each pairing. **What problems is Award Force solving and how is that benefiting you?** We ran an awards program where industry people nominated other industry participants for an award - we are an online-only company with a scattered workforce and judges that were all over the US so the software really saved us tons of time and energy over using email or print applications. ## Award Force Discussions - [Do you take a cut or commission on the entry fees we charge?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/payments) - 2 comments, 3 upvotes - [Is Award Force worth it for awards management?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-award-force-worth-it-for-awards-management) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How do I stop attachments in proposals from automatically being sent to my judge's downloads file?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-stop-attachments-in-proposals-from-automatically-being-sent-to-my-judge-s-downloads-file) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Our awards program is judged by state, with state winners going through to national finals. Is this possible to manage with Award Force?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/4372-judging) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [We have several evaluation stages. Can this be arranged with Award Force?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/4370-evaluation) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [View Award Force pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/award-force/reviews?page=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-06+14%3A59%3A03+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=dd3afa13-b2df-469a-82c6-82aa4b0b1167&secure%5Btoken%5D=b83ae2b6c0bf33d708bde830dd35dfb91311ec5b832ced34d6f41b736f7ee444&format=llm_user) ## Award Force Integrations - [Airtable](https://www.g2.com/products/airtable/reviews) - [DeepL Translate](https://www.g2.com/products/deepl-translate/reviews) - [Docusign](https://www.g2.com/products/docusign/reviews) - [Eventbrite](https://www.g2.com/products/eventbrite/reviews) - [Google](https://www.g2.com/products/google-google/reviews) - [Google Translate](https://www.g2.com/products/google-translate/reviews) - [HubSpot Marketing Hub](https://www.g2.com/products/hubspot-marketing-hub/reviews) - [HubSpot Sales Hub](https://www.g2.com/products/hubspot-sales-hub/reviews) - [Intuit Mailchimp Open Commerce](https://www.g2.com/products/intuit-mailchimp-open-commerce/reviews) - [Make](https://www.g2.com/products/make/reviews) - [Microsoft 365](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft365/reviews) - [Microsoft Teams](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-teams/reviews) - [Salesforce B2C Commerce](https://www.g2.com/products/salesforce-b2c-commerce/reviews) - [Salesforce CRM Connector](https://www.g2.com/products/salesforce-crm-connector/reviews) - [Slack](https://www.g2.com/products/slack/reviews) - [Stripe Payments](https://www.g2.com/products/stripe-stripe-payments/reviews) - [WordPress.com](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-com/reviews) - [WordPress Managed Hosting](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-managed-hosting/reviews) - [Xero](https://www.g2.com/products/xero/reviews) - [Zapier](https://www.g2.com/products/zapier/reviews) - [Zoom Workplace](https://www.g2.com/products/zoom-workplace/reviews) ## Award Force Features **Submission Management** - Form Builders - Countdown Timers - Landing Pages - Applicant Portal **Judging Management** - Judge Assignments - Multiround Scoring - Scoring and Voting - Submission Dashboards **Awards Administration** - Event Support - Applicant Communications - CRM - Reporting ## Top Award Force Alternatives - [Submittable](https://www.g2.com/products/submittable/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (167 reviews) - [OpenWater Application and Review Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/openwater-application-and-review-cloud/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (151 reviews) - [Evalato](https://www.g2.com/products/evalato/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (62 reviews)