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Mark Silver Entries as Paid

Forwarding

Unlike the fee paid when the entrant submitted their entry, forwarding fees are not paid within the OpenWater system. The forwarding fee ...

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Finalize and Complete Entrant Checkout as Admin

Submissions

Finalize an entrant's shopping cart from the admin portal to mark In-Cart entries as Complete.This can be done with or without payment.ST...

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Set Up a Confirmation Email

Emails

It is possible to send an email to the entrant when their entry has been completed successfully. It is also possible to include other ind...

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Create Your Own Entries Report

Reports

If you need something more than the reports shown under Entries >> Reports, this is how to create your own custom one.STEP 1: Acces...

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Set Landing Page Content

System Setup

STEP 1: Click Manage next to the active program you are interested inStarting from your dashboard, in the Active Programs box click Manag...

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My entries are all in! Now what?

Program Setup

Getting the entries in is the hard part, so congratulations on completing that step! You're probably now wondering what the next steps ar...

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FAQ: Forwarding Silver and Gold Winners

Forwarding

Forwarding is the step that involves moving an entry and all its uploaded content to the next tier of the competition. Once a local club ...

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Approve or Disapprove an Entry

Submissions

This will show you how to approve or disapprove an entry if you have enabled "Require all Entries to be approved..." under "Advanced' in ...

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Managing Coupons

Program Setup

You can use the coupon feature to create coupon codes for your entrants and create discounts and promotional pricing. An example of this ...

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View Fee Details for a Paid Entry

Billing

If your program has fees, there will be times that you will want to see which fees were triggered for a particular entry. This is most us...

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Scoring Sheets and Wall Sheets

Judges

If you combine online and offline judging you are able to download and print out scoring sheets to pass out to your judges, and wall shee...

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How to Mark Entry Materials as Received

Submissions

One you receive all required materials from the applicant, you want to mark his submission as "Materials Received" to have this question ...

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Test Public Portal as a Judge

Judges

Before this step, make sure you have:Completed a few test entriesAdded yourself as a judgeAssigned yourself those test entries to judgeST...

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Generate a Winners Voice Script

Reports

STEP 1: View Your CompetitionsFrom your OpenWater Dashboard, find and click the Competitions tab on the left side navigation barSTEP 2: M...

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Assign / Unassign Specific Entries to a Judge

Judges

If you need to assign submissions to a judge, or unassign submission from a judge, follow the steps below to accomplish that.STEP 1: Find...

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Generate a Winners Book

Reports

STEP 1: View Your CompetitionsFrom your OpenWater Dashboard, find and click the Competitions tab on the left side navigation barSTEP 2: M...

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Configure Scoring Ranges

Results and Winner Assignment

Scoring ranges make it possible to automate the appointment of winners based on their scores.STEP 1: View Your CompetitionsFrom your dash...

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Emailing Entrants Using The Email Wizard

Emails

OpenWater provides a convenient way to send blast emails to entrants through our Email Wizard feature. Some examples of email blasts incl...

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Export Entries to Excel

Reports

This will show you how to download entries.STEP 1: View Your CompetitionsFrom your OpenWater Dashboard, find and click the Competitions t...

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Manually Add an Entrant

Entrants

This will show you how to manually add an application as an administrator.STEP 1: Access the Entrants Drop-DownFrom your OpenWater dashbo...

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Upload Your Organization Banner

System Setup

STEP 1: Go to Club Banner under System SettingsFrom Dashboard, open the System Settings drop-down on the left and select Club Banner item...

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Adjust an Invoice

Billing

This will show you how to apply an adjustment to an invoice.STEP 1: Click Manage from DashboardClick on 'Manage' on the competition you w...

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Assign Winner Status and Forward to Next Round

Results and Winner Assignment

When judging is complete for the entries you want to manage, follow the steps below to set their winner status.STEP 1: View Your Competit...

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Emailing Judges Using The Email Wizard

Emails

You may need to email judges during you competition, to inform them judging for a round has started, or to remind them to finish judging ...

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Mark an Entry as Paid

Billing

This will show you how to mark an Entrant's entry as paid.STEP 1: View Unpaid InvoicesFrom your OpenWater Dashboard, click on the "Invoic...

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