Describe your categories, eligibility rules, judging criteria, and evidence requirements. Makeform turns the brief into an organized award entry form for entrants or nominators.
Route award entries to email, Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a complete prompt, adapt it to your program, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Companies entering a regional business awards program
Format
Category-based entry with evidence uploads
Prompt size
303 chars
Example form structure
Category-based entry with evidence uploads
Organization and primary contact
Which award category are you entering?
Evidence against the judging criteria
Upload supporting materials
Confirm eligibility and accuracy
Suggested routing tags
Eligibility review
Complete entry
Judge assignment
Ask for evidence against each judging criterion instead of one broad biography.
Step 1
Enter
entrant, nominee, category, and eligibility
Step 2
Support
criterion answers, outcomes, links, and files
Step 3
Screen
staff checks completeness and routes the entry
Step 4
Review
judges receive a consistent submission record
Why structured entries
A structured award entry form gathers facts, narrative, and evidence in a repeatable order instead of scattered email attachments.
Turn each judging criterion into a focused question so entrants know which evidence belongs where.
Collect project links, references, images, and supporting documents beside the answers they support instead of across an email thread.
Use category choices and conditional questions to show relevant criteria and support routing.
Flexible entry models
Choose the closest entry model, then change its categories, criteria, evidence, and acknowledgments.
Entrants present their own organization, project, creative work, or results and attach the materials judges need.
Nominators explain why another person or organization deserves recognition and provide contact details for follow-up.
A category selector can reveal tailored criteria, instructions, and supporting-material requests for each award.
Capture work details, statements, portfolio links, media, originality confirmations, and permissions.
Entry workflow
Build around your rules and scorecard, then test every category path before opening entries.
Name the categories, eligibility rules, criteria, evidence, deadline, and whether entries are self-submitted or nominated.
Use your published criterion language, add guidance, specify supporting materials, and mark required fields.
Preview different entry routes and confirm conditional sections and supporting-material instructions.
Publish, share the link, send confirmations, and route submissions for completeness and eligibility review.
Form vs documents vs email
The entry method must turn different stories and files into records staff can screen and compare.
Field guide
These six sections create a usable intake record. Adapt every requirement to your published rules.
Entrant or nominator
Identify the person responsible for the entry. For nominations, distinguish the nominator from the nominee.
Eligibility
Ask for eligibility facts staff can check against your rules, using structured fields instead of narrative.
Category
List the published categories with short descriptions. Conditional sections can show only relevant criteria.
Entry narrative
Break the story into a summary and criterion-level answers that request examples, actions, and outcomes.
Supporting evidence
Explain what each upload should demonstrate, how to name it, and whether judges will see it.
Confirmations
Place your rules near specific checkboxes, separating accuracy, eligibility, permissions, and contact choices.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for award managers preparing an entry or nomination process.
It is a structured application from an entrant or nominator. It captures contacts, eligibility, category, criterion responses, supporting materials, and confirmations so organizers can prepare entries for review.
Ask who is entering, what is entered, the category, and eligibility facts. Add a summary, one question per criterion, evidence requests, relevant references, and accuracy and permission confirmations.
Yes. Start with a self-entry or nomination choice, then show conditional sections. Nominators can see relationship, nominee contact, and permission questions while shared criteria remain consistent.
List the exact categories in a choice field and show tailored questions after selection. State whether one submission may cover multiple categories and add short descriptions to guide entrants.
Add uploads for documents, images, reports, or work samples and URL fields for portfolios or videos. Explain each request and preferred file naming so evidence arrives organized.
Mirror the scorecard with one labeled response per criterion, targeted guidance, and separate evidence. Consistent category, date, outcome, and contact fields also simplify preparation.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
Use concise acknowledgments for accuracy, authority to submit, publicity, image use, partner contact, or communication as applicable. The program owner should provide and review the wording.
Open entries with a clearer process.
