Features List

All the tools made available to you on Dapple to simplify managing submissions for all your creative initiatives.

Ditch cluttered inboxes, complex spreadsheets & presentations. We help you automate every step of your submission process.

• Automated Notifications Keep creators and reviewers up to date with your submission process.
• Built-in Payments Dapple links to your Stripe account giving you the opportunity to charge customisable entry fees for each of your projects and make payments to you directly.
• Workflow Management Automate repetitive administration tasks. Sort and filter applications, send notification messages, move submissions between stages and much more using manual and auto-tagging.
• Stages Visualise the submission lifecycle from initial submission to its eventual outcome using a Kanban board approach. Simply drag and drop the submission into the relevant stage to move it along the journey.
• Automations Setup rules based actions triggered when certain criteria are met.
• Multi Organisation, Team and User Add multiple organisations into one account and create multiple teams within each organisation. Add different users to different teams within each organisation, all with customisable permissions.

Tailored to You

Set up in literally seconds! Customise every part of your process to best fit your needs.

• Setup in seconds We’ll automatically create an industry account with pre-populated Projects, message templates, tags and some dummy submissions to start you off on the right track! See for yourself…
• Projects Configure and launch your opportunity for submissions, allowing you to create forms, set general guidelines, assign to teams, configure payments and manage the review workflow. Create projects from scratch or use one the pre-created projects to get started fast.
• Make Changes at Anytime Edit your projects on the fly to cover creators' frequently asked questions, even whilst applications are open.

Submissions

We've supported some of the biggest publications take thousands of submissions, and continually streamline the creator's journey to be as efficient as possible.

• Accept Any Media Text, Images, Videos, Audio. Creators can upload and embed almost any media to your submission.
• Creator Profile Build a picture of all your creators by adding to their creator profile. Access any previous submissions, message communication, attached tags and access their profile of social media links and biography giving you added context on every submission.
• Customised Tags Keep submissions organised with tags. Create your own industry/business specific tags and then use the filters to easily segment your submissions. Add tags to either individual submissions or to the creators themselves which will attach to their profile.
• Customise Questions Get the information you need as creators submit. Add questions to the application form during the opportunity if you need to.
• Real-time Progress Measure the success of your marketing efforts with our dashboard graphs.
• Take Payments Give creators a truly streamlined experience with secure payments and invoicing integrated directly into the submissions process.
• Favourites Quickly save your favourite submissions in one click, making them easier to navigate to or send to other users.
• Create Beautiful Forms No complicated coding or web design skills needed, our intuitive form builder means you customise your forms to build beautiful, own branded, fully mobile responsive forms in seconds.
• Creator Database Securely store all your creator information in one place. Use the enhanced search functionality or the various filters to access any creator profile easily.

Reviewing & Evaluation

Save your reviewers time, and allow them to focus on the content, not the process.

• Review Anywhere From the moment reviewing opens, team members can review, score and manage entries from anywhere – even on their mobile.
• No Overheads Don't waste time compiling presentations for reviewers; all information and media to score submissions is already available in the platform.
• Categories Assign submissions to different Teams and users. They will only see creators who submitted to their designated Project.
• Real-time Comments Discuss submissions in real-time with team members by tagging them in a submission.
• Quick Actions Trigger accept/decline automations with one click using dedicated buttons within each submission.
• Secure Online Evaluation Fully GDPR compliant. No more posting or emailing confidential information to external evaluation members. All communications kept securely within the platform.
• Role-based Permissions Provide granular, role-based permissions to your staff and external reviewers and maintain audit trails of all actions.

Submission Selection

Select submissions going onto the next stage of the submission journey at the touch of a button.

• Multiple Stages Create customised, multiple stages which users can move submissions into to visually track the progress.
• The Full Picture Make decisions quickly with all submission information, scores and comments from other users available to you in one place.
• Export your data Export your data in one click for reporting and analysis.
• Powerful Search Effortlessly find the submission you are looking for with our powerful search and filter functions.
• Filter Use any combination of filters to quickly segregate all your submissions into one required list.

Reporting & Analytics

Make informed decisions with comprehensive data insights.

• Custom Reporting Easily create custom reports to analyse applicant and evaluation data. Filter submissions by criteria to quickly identify the data you require.
• File Exports Easily share your data with others via CSV. Excel-ready exports for evaluation, making archiving, reporting, and auditing simple.
• Learn from Past projects Want to know how many people submitted to previous opportunities? Easily pull up the data of past projects using a combination of filters.

Integrations

Link Dapple directly with other services.

• Payments Powered by Stripe Whether you want to collect fees, allow people to register for a paid event, or sell services within your submissions, we've made it as easy as just asking a question, and with our partner Stripe, you'll enjoy PCI compliance and fraud protection.

Powerful & Secure

Our services are crafted on the most secure and scalable infrastructures available; giving you the reliability you and your stakeholders deserve.

• Highly Scalable Taking submissions is prone to last-minute surges. Our services scale based on your needs and provide you with very high uptime (99.8%).
• Secure Payments We don't store any payment information, our payment gateway Stripe does that for us. Stripe is certified PCI Service Provider Level 1, the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry.
• Authentication Dapple restricts access to data and functionality based on roles. This limits access to sensitive information based on whether users are creators, reviewers or admin.
• Data Ownership Creators give you the right to their information when they submit to one of your projects, Dapple only holds the data on your behalf. We do not, and will never, sell the data to external parties.
• Unlimited Projects Create an unlimited number of projects to accommodate a variety of requirements and seamlessly manage a few or a few thousand applications.
• Audit Trails Keep track of changes made to submissions by users in the platform for added transparency, accountability, and effective collaboration.
• Single Sign On Faster, safer, easier. Sign in using your Google or Microsoft accounts so that you can spend less time on usernames and passwords.