Describe your giveaway, audience, requirements, and prize. Makeform creates an editable sweepstakes entry form with contact fields, eligibility confirmations, and optional marketing choices.
Send entries to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it, or send it to the builder. Each structure is editable.
Audience
Shoppers entering a brand promotion
Format
Short entry form with prize preference
Prompt size
233 chars
Example form structure
Short entry form with prize preference
Full name and email
Country of residence
Which prize bundle do you prefer?
I meet the stated age requirement
Optional promotional email choice
Suggested routing tags
Eligible entries
Needs review
Winner follow-up
Keep giveaway entry separate from optional promotional consent, so entrants can understand exactly what they are choosing.
Step 1
Describe
prize, audience, dates, and entry method
Step 2
Build
contact, eligibility, and preference fields
Step 3
Share
publish a link, QR code, or embedded form
Step 4
Review
filter entries and follow up with winners
A cleaner entry experience
Give every participant the same questions and separate required entry details from optional marketing choices. Your team receives structured submissions instead of scattered messages.
Ask entrants to confirm the age, location, timing, and other conditions stated in your official rules.
Give email or SMS signup its own optional control rather than blending promotional consent into the entry button.
Use dropdowns, checkboxes, and routing tags to sort prize preferences, campaign sources, locations, and entries that need attention.
Made for campaign formats
Start with the campaign closest to yours, then adjust the questions, rules acknowledgment, thank-you message, and internal routing.
Embed a compact entry form on a launch page with prize choices and a campaign-source field.
Collect contact and profile details through a mobile-friendly link instead of relying on public comments.
Turn a booth QR code into a tagged entry flow with event location and optional follow-up choices.
Accept photos or other files, descriptions, categories, and the confirmations required by your submission terms.
Giveaway workflow
Generate the foundation, match it to your rules, and route each submission to your campaign team.
Tell Makeform the prize, eligible audience, promotion region, and details needed to administer entries.
Edit confirmations to reflect your dates, locations, restrictions, privacy notice, and published rules.
Tag entries, send rows to Google Sheets, and notify a teammate when review is needed.
Show a thank-you message, send a receipt, and use contact details for winner follow-up.
Entry methods compared
A purpose-built form collects consistent participant details and explicit choices.
Field guide
The right fields depend on your campaign and official rules. Use this six-part guide to collect only what your team needs to validate, organize, and follow up on an entry.
Entrant identity
Collect enough contact detail to distinguish an entrant and reach them if selected. Keep a simple giveaway brief.
Eligibility
Mirror the age, residence, dates, and restrictions from your official rules as plain confirmations.
Rules and notices
Link to your official rules and privacy notice. Use the acknowledgment wording from your own campaign materials.
Optional choices
Present newsletter, SMS, and future-offer choices separately and label optional choices clearly.
Campaign details
Use structured fields to organize multi-prize or multi-location campaigns. Prefer dropdowns for known choices.
Submission handling
Set participant expectations and give staff a clean review path with confirmations, tags, and notifications.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for marketers building and managing an online giveaway entry flow.
It is the page a participant submits to enter a prize promotion. It collects contact details, eligibility confirmations, acknowledgment of the official rules, and any choices needed to organize the entry.
Begin with name, email, relevant location, and required eligibility confirmations. Add prize preference, campaign source, social handle, or an upload only when needed. Keep optional marketing choices separate.
Yes. Link to the full official rules and place the relevant acknowledgment near submission. Your organization supplies and reviews the campaign wording, eligibility terms, dates, and notices.
Yes. Add a file upload, then collect the title, caption, and category separately. State accepted formats and size expectations in the instructions.
Present each promotional choice separately, describe its messages, and leave it optional when entry does not require subscription. Route the recorded choice separately from entrant details.
Yes. Share the link in a post, use a booth QR code, or embed the form on a campaign page. Add a source field to compare entry origins.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and unlimited free submissions, including generating, editing, and publishing your entry form. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Entries appear in your Makeform inbox. You can send data to Google Sheets, notify Slack, or connect tools through Zapier. Use tags to record review and follow-up status.
Turn campaign interest into organized entries.
