Features

Smarter Entry is a web-based competition management system that is designed to handle all of your registration, submission, and jurying needs, so you can focus on running a successful call for entries, across the street or around the world.

Thanks to its ease of use and low cost, Smarter Entry is chosen by arts organizations for:

SMARTER EVENT SETUP

Smarter Entry enables you to effortlessly organize and manage juried events from start to finish without installing any software or relying on Smarter Entry staff. An internet connection is all you need to:

• Define the event title, description, categories, start and end dates, and juror assignments
• Set your own fee structure for single entries, portfolios, early deadlines, and additional submissions
• Customize the interface with your logo
• Promote one, or one hundred, events simultaneously

SMARTER ARTIST REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION

Smarter Entry provides a single, straightforward point of entry for artists to:

• Create their account and manage their images
• Upload images without masking requirements, modify or replace images, and add comments until the deadline
• Pay their entry fee with a secure credit card transaction
• Purchase additional submissions any time before the deadline
• Access context-sensitive help during the process

SMARTER JURYING PROCESS

Smarter Entry respects that your jurors’ time is valuable, so the juror module is designed to be intuitive, flexible, and efficient. Whether jurying individual images or portfolios, your jurors are able to:

• Access the portal with a unique login at any time and from anywhere there is an internet connection
• Choose how they want images to display in their browser: contact sheet, thumbnails, enlarge to show detail, or fit image to screen
• View all relevant image information, including image size, title and artist’s notes
• Use a simplified process of elimination to reach the number of required images
• Filter the higher quality work through a series of elimination passes
• Rank submissions on a weighted scale
• Easily select or reject multiple images in one click
• Participate as a single juror or  one of several

SMARTER ACTIVITY REPORTS FOR EVENT MANAGERS

Smarter Entry puts all the event information at your fingertips. With real-time activity reports, you can check on the progress of your event and make the informed business decisions that ensure a successful outcome. Smarter Entry administrators can:

• Check the quantity of submissions and review financial and income-related data
• Monitor the status  of artist registrations
• See the progress of both individual jurors and the overall jurying process
• Select numerous reports with the ability to filter and sort as desired
• Collect and export extensive event data

SMARTER DATA AND IMAGE EXPORT

With Smarter Entry you own all event data. The program’s extensive reporting capabilities allow you to seamlessly export various event data and empower you to:

• Analyze juror image selection
• Publish juried results
• Notify selected artists
• Build your contact database

SMARTER TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY

Smarter Entry offers a web-based technology solution that is secure, stable and capable of handling heavy traffic volumes, including the sudden surges associated with deadline activity. Server up-time is greater than 99%, and was designed with the following security functions:

• Administrator’s access to the organization’s data is protected with a username and password; artists and jurors have their own unique logins.
• Smarter Entry is PCI compliant and uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer)  encryption between the browser and the server
• Smarter Entry processes credit card transactions through TransFirst, an industry leader. SmarterEnty staff neither sees nor retains any credit information.
• All data is backed up daily.