Judgify Reviews & Product Details

We use Judgify for our annual awards program, and it’s been a very smooth experience year after year. I love that we can easily copy the previous year’s event setup with minimal adjustments — it saves a lot of time. The platform is intuitive for our members to submit their entries, and the judging process is straightforward and well-organized. It’s also great that we can include images with submissions, which makes entries more engaging. The system itself is very reliable, and while support responses can sometimes be delayed due to time differences, the team is always helpful and works hard to resolve any issues quickly. Overall, Judgify is a dependable and efficient platform that simplifies managing our entire awards process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main challenge I’ve experienced with Judgify is that the platform can sometimes be slow to respond. It can also be a bit confusing to ensure that judges are properly connected to the correct entries, especially for those new to the system. There’s a bit of a learning curve when setting up the judging assignments and training new users, as it takes some time to make sure everything is linked correctly. Once it’s set up, though, it runs smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Used Judgify for the Academy of Chocolate awards for awards management in the past 3 years. Good onboarding process, and the support from professional services team has been excellent. When there's a problem or issue identified, the response is fast and the issue gets resolved very quickly - even at weekends! Also the Judgify team has been helpful to figure out workarounds with us when something cannot be easily done in Judgify (due to the complexity of how the awards need to be run, rather than any major shortfalls in Judgify) The user interfaces for entrants and judges are intuitive and easy to use - we have received positive feedback from the judges on the user experience. The judges like to see the selected information on the entry and the scoring fields on the same window. Very useful to be able to have payment integration (and that's not difficult to implement), and also create different submission forms and scoring forms for different categories. Good to be able to download various data (including filtering of the data fields) into CSV files easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike but there are a few potential areas for improvements:

(1) In the submission form, if the entrant changes from one category to another, and the set of questions are different, then the mandatory questions can be left blank when the submit button is pressed rather than not allowing the submission to go ahead because it's a required field.

(2) There's no way to track any partial refund of the submissions, or withdrawal of an order that has cancelled payment.

(3) Would be useful to be able to save reports with a subset of data fields in particular order, so we don't have to re-select the fields when we need to run different reports.

(4) Would be useful to have some further real-time status reports to allow the organiser to see the progress, without having to resort to exporting the data into CSV files and generating the status reports in another software. Or if there's API or scheduled download available to allow integration with a reporting/BI software.

(5) If the judging rounds can be applicable by category or group of categories, rather than across all categories. eg we have different start/end periods for different categories, and so the round 2 of one category may overlap round 1 of another category, and currently there's no way of having 2 different rounds running concurrently on Judgify even though they are different categories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about Judgify is how it elevates the entire awards entry process, making it look and feel more professional. Before using the platform, we handled everything manually, which was very time-consuming. Judgify has helped us streamline the process, making it easier for entrants to submit, for us to manage, and for our sponsors to judge their categories. Also, sometimes when you use platforms, they don't always quite meet all of your requirements, whereas this one did. Everything I needed the platform to do, it could do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I found some parts of the platform harder to use and understand. However, I did contact customer support, and they guided me in the right direction, and I got there in the end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are organizing a B2B event for the event industry, and participating companies submit a few dozen competition entries. With Judgify, submitting an entry is easy. From the judges’ perspective, it is also simple to evaluate the entries using Judgify. The system saves time, which makes it good value for money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In an ideal situation, we would like to create different forms for the various categories of our competition. However, this does not seem to be possible—at least not with our version of Judgify. Because of that, the submission form requires a bit of tweaking, but the end result is still good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used Judgify for 6 years. I like that it is customizable. I like that it is one platform for our participants to submit their nominations and for the judges to review the submissions and enter their scores. The integrated payments also makes it easy for our participants. I also like that our awards program can be cloned so I don't have to set it up from complete scratch each year. Their Support is also responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It felt a little complicated at first, but now we are familiar with the platform so it's not really an issue. The online Help is useful and they have good Support if you have questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used Judgify several times, initially on the Audio Production Awards (run by AudioUK) and more recently for the Feedback Interview of the Year, organised by an independent radio production company for the BBC. It has always provided everything we needed for my clients, a simply way to submit and process entries, a straightforward process for judges, and what I always found to be pretty good Support when I did have questions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like more clarity about the 'onboarding fee' when presented with the various plan options. Whatever the product or service I just want straightforward prices, no hidden or negotiable extras, especially compulsory ones! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to navigate

While some technical issues may require support from the tech team, the project manager, Joseph Nathan, has been very helpful and responsive throughout the process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reporting features are somewhat limited and pulling individual reports can be time-consuming

- the raw data reporting could be improved. For example, when a paper is reviewed by multiple judges, it currently appears in separate rows. Combining these into a single row with an averaged score would make analysis much easier

Experienced issues with system-generated emails ending up in junk folders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We find Judgify is a cost-effective solution for running the Aviation Week Photo Contest. The back end of the system works well for us. It's pretty easy to set up a contest. Most photographers are able to upload their photos with little difficulty. It integrates well with PayFlowPro, the commercial version of PayPal that allows entry fees to be routed to our company. Customer support is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We have chosen not to use the judging portion of the system because the large images take 15-20 seconds to display. Our judges review about 300 finalists each year, which would mean taking more than an hour just to have the images download and display on their screens before they can begin judging the photos. Our workaround is to have Judgify provide Zip files of the photos, which we then rename to match the entry number using a script. The judges can then download the entries for review on their computers, which is a much faster process.

We previously used another judging application that allowed me to download the photos at my convenience. I would like to see Judgify offer this as an option. I made the switch to Judgify for other reasons, but this is a feature that I miss.

I like to be able to download entries fairly early in the contest period so that we can offer an "Early Entries" photo gallery in order to encourage more entries and then to download all entries when the contest is over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its easy to use, our judges love it, and it streamlines all of our awards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

would love to see a more detailed analytics dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up the judging process was smooth and seamless. I was also impressed by how quickly any queries were addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I found the reporting quite tricky and was pleased that I did not have to set up the entry forms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.