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Submission
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Collect submissions, manage reviews and make decisions. All in one platform.

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Powering creativity worldwide

Join organisations around the world managing their submissions on Dapple

Organizations that use Dapple

  • No Place Art
  • Thomas Keller Restaurant Group (TKRG)
  • SIETAR Europa
  • Palo Alto Online
  • Embarcadero Media Foundation
  • Starving Artists
  • Evermay, Embassy for the Future
  • The Birdsong Project
  • Louisville Film Office
  • Liberty London
  • Salon Awards
  • Collective Z
  • CLMP – Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
  • International Young Artist Concerto Competition
  • The Manchester Grammar School
  • Afritondo Media and Publishing
  • Parapod Awards
  • Kate Nash Literary Agency
  • Visual Arts Scotland
  • The French Laundry

A better way to manage submissions

Creative teams often receive hundreds or even thousands of applications for each opportunity. Trying to manage these across basic forms, email threads, spreadsheets and shared folders is messy, stressful and really time-consuming.

Learn how submission management software works

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Everything in its right place

Whether it’s awards, competitions, applications, or open calls, Dapple streamlines submissions across all programs into one simple dashboard.

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Tell us who you are

And we'll show you how Dapple can help streamline submissions in your industry.

Industry solutions

Dapple provides submission management software for open calls, awards, arts, contests and competitions, exhibitions, and academia. Full details are available on each dedicated solution page.

  • Open Calls: Running an open call can be complex. With different submission types, deadlines, fees, review stages, and panels of judges or curators, keeping every moving part organised is essential for a successful process and a strong applicant experience.
  • Awards: It’s awards season, something to be celebrated, not feared. Dapple makes it easy to run everything in one, easy-to-use platform, from creating an initial submission form to announcing the eventual winners. No more late-night panicked phone calls, questions, emails and clunky old software causing you a headache. Welcome to a sleek, fresh, all-in-one platform enabling you to both scale and relax. And the award for Most Chilled goes to…
  • Arts: Whether it’s music demos, festivals, casting opportunities, or performance calls, we champion anything creative. Streamline the whole process from start to finish with one easy-to-use centralised platform.
  • Contests & Competitions: Running contests and competitions in the creative industry can be beneficial for all parties. For organisations, contests build audience, attract high quality content, provide exposure, encourage community and offer the potential for an additional revenue stream. For creators, they provide the opportunity for industry recognition, portfolio development, networking, prizes, fame and fortune. Managing a contest with potential entry fees and multiple judges can be difficult without a dedicated platform to handle everything.
  • Exhibitions: Whether you run exhibitions, residencies, fairs or commissions, using Dapple for your calls is a stroke of genius. Complicated application requirements? Entry fees? Several external judges? Multiple rounds? Various open and close dates? No worries - we’ve got you covered. Streamline the whole process from call to show in one easy-to-use centralised platform allowing you to focus on the more important things.
  • Academia: Academia runs on ideas, rigour, and trust — but the tools being used by so many institutions to accept applications are often old, clunky and rigid in extremis. Dapple is built to support the more creative scholarly communities with a submission and review process that's structured, secure, and flexible to suit lots of different requirements. Whether you're managing research proposals, fellowships, conference submissions, or academic programs, Dapple makes it easy to collect applications, collaborate across committees, and move decisions forward without losing context or credibility. Less admin theatre, more time for thinking, reviewing, and advancing knowledge.

Why Dapple?

What if you could easily manage all your opportunities in one place, from start to finish, whilst also improving the experience of all your applicants? Submissions shouldn’t be complicated - Dapple makes it easy.

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Put your applicants first

A home for creators

They’re the beating heart of your enterprise. We help turn applicants into evangelists by making the final part of their creative journey, actually submitting their work, as easy as possible.

  • Beautiful forms and a branded listings pages
  • Save drafts, withdraw submissions, and manage profiles
  • Keep them in the loop with built-in messaging
  • Build trust with real-time submission status updates

A plan for all seasons

Built for you

Running opportunities shouldn’t be hard. With simple pricing, low transparent fees and lightning-fast support, whatever your needs, we got you.

  • Flexible, monthly plans - pause or cancel at any time.
  • Take payments? Low transaction fees - 3.5% + £0.49.
  • From hundreds to thousands of submissions - we scale with you.
  • Fast and available support team.

A seamless submission experience

Simple, sleek and easy-to-use

No clunky software here. With a clean, modern interface, Dapple is designed to be intuitive, fast and effortless so you can focus on your creator’s work, not figuring out the software.

  • One centralised hub
  • Toggle through submissions with ease
  • Visual tracking with stages boards
  • One-click actions

Create the workflows you need

Make it your own

Customisation is our middle name. From small teams to bigger organisations, build tailored workflows to suit your exact needs.

  • Customise projects, stages, reviews, payments
  • Create tags, filters and templates
  • Multi-user and team permissions
  • Multiple review panels

Set up in minutes, not months

Get started quickly

Dapple is a plug-and-play system, meaning you can sign up for a free account and trial the system until you’re ready to go live. Use another platform? We’ll help import your data for you.

  • Pre-built industry templates and projects.
  • Ready made tags and message templates.
  • Quick start guides, videos and product walkthrough.
  • Onboarding services and data migration on request

Your data. Safe and secure.

Industry-leading security

At Dapple, security is our highest priority. Our platform and hosting infrastructure have been designed with industry-leading security practices and safeguards built in from the ground up. Data is protected at every level—application, server, and network—so you never have to worry about its safety or integrity.

  • Secure infrastructure with AWS data centres (SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, CSA compliant)
  • Single Sign-On (SSO) via OpenID Connect, supporting Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Auth0, and other OIDC providers
  • Payment information managed by Stripe (PCI Service Provider Level 1)
  • Encrypted personal data
  • Extensive permissions for applicants, reviewers, and team members

How it works

Watch this quick video to see how Dapple works!

Frequently Asked Questions

We know you have questions, so we've put together some answers to the most common ones. If you can't find what you're looking for, please get in touch.

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