Exhibitions
Collect submissions, take entry fees, run juried selection rounds and keep artists updated, all in one platform. No more email chains, PDFs or Dropbox folders, and one flat monthly price however many calls you run.
Customisable entry forms
Customisable entry forms
Get up and running in minutes, *not months.* Use existing templates and tweak fields and for the quickest results.
- Pre-built templates: Exhibition-ready templates to duplicate or tweak.
- Beautiful forms: Add branding, headings and background imagery to make them look awesome!
- Details: Set up call dates, visibility and multiple entry fees where needed.
- Any file type or size: Accept any file type or size for high res, videos or 3D models.
Delight Judges
Delight Judges
Your judges must find the whole process as easy as possible. Simple, personalised review accounts enable remote judges to work through assigned submissions quickly.
- Personal accounts: Review accounts with assigned submissions in list views.
- Scoring made easy: Clear selection instructions, scoring, voting and comments from any device, anywhere.
- Real time updates: Check in on any real time updates to monitor review volume.
- Anonymous scoring: A hidden creator profile for anonymous judging.
Create judging panels
Create judging panels
Managing juries, panels, or curators can get chaotic fast. Dapple keeps things streamlined by enabling organisations to create multiple juried panels, each with its own set of rules and requirements.
- Multiple review rounds: Create multiple juried review rounds, with clear judging instructions.
- Scoring & votes: See judges scores, comments and decisions in real time in one intuitive dashboard.
- Stages: Assign juried panels to different stages of a call.
- Transparency: Keep artists updated so they know where they stand in the process with real time updates in their accounts
Manage the journey
Manage the journey
Once the reviews are in, it's easy to manage for your admin team. See average scoring, preferred votes and send your artists messages in bulk.
- Manage: There are filters, tags, ranking, average scores and voting.
- Export: Print any submission image and form details with a one-click PDF export.
- Download: Any images can easily be downloaded to any device.
- Bulk actions: Message thousands of entries in one go with with bulk actions.
- Draft reminders: Automate reminder messages to those with draft entries, nudging them to finish.
Multiple calls or projects
Multiple calls or projects
Dapple enables you to run multiple calls, categories or projects simultaneously from one single dashboard (without any extra cost). Customise the setup for each one and get a bird's eye view of all the analytics in one centralised hub.
- Multiple projects: Create multiple projects, each with different rules, dates, timings, judges and payments.
- Custom forms: Create custom submission forms for different categories.
- Pages: Display all your links on one single listing page.
- A single dashboard: Absolutely no coding required - leave that to us!
- Advanced filtering: Filter by category, tags, stages, status and even individual form fields and answers for sub-categories.
Visualise the journey
Visualise the journey
Monitor every step of the submission journey through fully customisable stages, each with its own set of rules and automations.
- Visual stages: Mirror your selection process with drag and drop and automations on a visual kanban style board.
- Stages: Create an unlimited amount of rounds from collection to exhibition end and create bespoke actions and automations for each.
- Beautiful images: See image thumbnails and toggle previews to display any attached images per submission.
Galleries
Galleries
Turn your selected works into a beautiful, public gallery page in minutes. Every card is built from what artists already submitted, so there's nothing to retype, and each work can link straight through to a sale or an enquiry.
- Built from your form: Pull the title, artist, price, dimensions and images for every work straight from the submitted fields.
- Live in minutes: Choose a stage and every selected work appears on the gallery automatically. Preview it, then switch it live.
- Buy or enquire: Add a button to each work that links to your shop, a payment page or a pre-filled enquiry email.
- Your design: Match the gallery to your submission form's branding or give it a look of its own.
- Full control: Reorder works, hide any piece, or adjust a title, summary or cover image without touching the original submission.
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Calculate Your RevenueFrequently Asked Questions
Exhibition management software lets galleries, museums, and arts organisations collect and review applications for exhibitions, residencies, fairs, and commissions in one platform — replacing email chains, PDFs, and shared Dropbox folders with a single organised workflow.
You build a submission form using exhibition-ready templates, then customise the fields, branding, and call dates. You can set visibility windows, add multiple entry fees, and accept any file type or size, including high-res images, video, or 3D models. When ready, share the call link on your website, socials, marketing channels and any discovery platforms.
Yes. You can create multiple juried panels with their own scoring rules and instructions, assign them to different stages of a call, and see all scores, votes, and comments in real time from one dashboard.
Entries move through fully customisable stages on a drag-and-drop kanban board, from initial collection through to exhibition end. Each stage can have its own automations, and you can filter, tag, and rank submissions, then message groups of artists in bulk.
Yes, you can run unlimited calls and projects simultaneously from one dashboard, each with its own rules, dates, judges, and fees, with no extra charge per opportunity — Dapple charges one flat monthly rate regardless of how many calls you run.
Yes, artists get real-time updates in their accounts as their entry moves through review stages, so they always know where they stand without needing to email for an update.