General settings overview

Alex Bon Ami

Updated August 24, 2026 16:35

Award Force offers a multitude of options in the Settings menu of the Manage workspace that allow you to customise the platform to fit your organisation's needs.

Account

Location: Settings > General > Account

In this area, you can:

Update the name of your account
Change the domain/URL associated with account (see: Custom domains)
Add a Google Analytics tracking ID (see: Can I use Google Analytics?)
Assign a time zone for the account
Flip the order of the entry ID and category shortcode, if one has been assigned
Premier accounts can increase the minimum password length beyond the 12-character default

Languages

Location: Settings > General > Languages

From this section, you can:

Choose the language(s) that your program will support (see: Add multiple languages )
Select the formatting for dates within the system:
- English International: YYYY/MM/DD
- English United Kingdom: DD/MM/YYYY
- English United States: MM/DD/YYYY

Registration

Location: Settings > Users > Registration

Here you can:

Choose whether to request explicit consent to cookies from users and edit the text associated with the agreement to terms and consent to receive correspondence from your program
Toggle registration on and off
Allow for third party registration and authentication

You can learn more in our dedicated help article: Configure registration.

Entries

Location: Settings > Entries > Form settings

This tabbed area contains a multitude of configuration options to tailor Award Force to meet your program's needs.

Home options
- Select Display form on public home page when round is open to display the form on your program's home page.
Manage options
- Select Invitation-only access to allow only invited entrants to access this form.
- For programs with chapters, select the Allow chapter administrators to moderate entries to let chapter managers use the moderation feature to screen entries to their chapter only. Learn more: Moderation.
- If your program uses the duplicate entries feature, enter a value in the Duplicate identification, minimum similarity percentage field to set how similar entry names must be to be considered duplicates. Learn more: Manage duplicate entries.
Role visibility
- For programs with multiple entrant-like roles, choose All roles can start an entry or Some roles can start an entry. Learn more: Configure role-specific forms.
Entry options
- Choose your desired Form info box content block and Submission completed content block from the drop-downs if instructions or information vary between forms.
- Select Allow submitter to browse tabs before starting a submission to let entrants select a category and view the form before starting.
- Select Blank sample form PDF available for download to let entrants download a blank entry form to preview. Learn more: Can I print out an empty form?
- For programs using the API, select Allow API updates to submission fields whilst a user is editing the submission to allow API updates while the user is editing.
- Select Allow collaboration between multiple users to enable real-time collaboration on entries. Learn more: Collaborative entries.
- Select Enable editor for multi-line text fields to provide entrants with text editing tools to personalise their submissions.
- Select Display countdown to submission deadline to show entrants a countdown to their entry due date.
- Select Display entry ID to entrants to let entrants see the numerical ID number associated with their entry/entries.
- Select Form locked after submission to prevent entrants from making adjustments after submission.
- Select PDF of submission available for download to let entrants download a PDF of their entry for their records.
- Select Enable entry copy to let entrants create a duplicate of an existing entry.
- Select Allow entrants to choose thumbnail to let entrants choose a thumbnail image from uploaded files. Learn more: Entry thumbnails.
- In the Maximum entries per entrant field, enter a limit if your program wants to restrict the number of entries each entrant can create.

Notifications

Location: Settings > General > Notifications

Configure the messages your users will receive from this area. To learn more, see our dedicated guide: Ultimate guide to notifications.

Seasons

Location: Settings > General > Seasons

Edit the name of an existing season, start a new draft or active season, and more. To explore the functionality of this section, check out our guide: Ultimate guide to seasons.

Theme

Location: Settings > General > Theme

Apply branding elements--logos, colours, supporting graphics--that allow seamless integration between Award Force and you organisation's website. Growth accounts can see their theming options here. Pro accounts can do the same here.