How does Zealous benefit societies managing member programs?

Zealous helps societies delight members while reclaiming administrative sanity by providing a single intuitive platform to accept, score, and select submissions for any program. The platform banishes the anxiety of merging spreadsheets, eliminates clunky systems, prevents weekend work, and frees societies from annual contracts by increasing capacity through a flexible, customizable unified process.

How can Zealous help societies grow their membership?

Zealous helps societies grow membership by making programs accessible to everyone through removing submission barriers, following best practices, and guiding members through an intuitive, enjoyable process that respects the time of candidates and judges. The platform's sleek submission, scoring, voting, and administration journeys enable even non-tech-savvy users to participate fully in society programs.

Can societies scale their impact using Zealous even with limited resources?

Yes, Zealous helps societies scale their impact even when resources are tight by allowing them to focus on what matters while reducing staffing costs. Societies can save hundreds of hours of administrative work by streamlining programs with automated emails and schedules. Unlike other platforms, Zealous offers transparent pricing with no per-application fees, no annual contracts, and no mandatory onboarding fees—just flexible monthly subscriptions that can be adjusted as needed.

Delight members & reclaim your sanity managing entries to your programs

Q: How does Zealous improve the judging process for society programs?

Zealous creates transparent and fair selection processes for society programs by respecting judges' time with automated emails and slick navigation across entries, with rich media displayed directly within the browser where possible. The platform helps societies select the best candidates through a robust selection process featuring multiple criteria scoring and round selection to refine decisions.

Bring joy to your candidates, judges, administrators and budget. Accept, score & select submissions for any program from a single intuitive submissions management platform.

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Bring the joy of running programs back into your life & claim back your time

Banish the anxiety of merging spreadsheets, clunky systems, working weekends and annual contracts.

Zealous increases your capacity with a flexible and customizable unified process suitable for any of your programs. Our intuitive platform, paired with video help files and support from a real person who cares about your success will get you started in no time.

Grow your membership & make your programs accessible to everyone

Remove the barriers for applicants to submit. Follow best practices and guide them through an intuitive and enjoyable process that respects the time of your candidates and judges.

Get even the most non-tech-savvy users to participate in your programs with our sleek submit, score, vote and admin journeys.

Create a transparent and fair selection process which respects your judge’s time

Guarantee judge participation with automated emails and slick navigation across entries and rich media displayed directly within the browser where possible.

Select the best candidates for your needs with a robust selection process with multiple criteria scoring and round selection to refine your decisions.

Scale your impact even when resources are tight

Spend your time on what matters and reduce staffing costs. Save hundreds of hours of admin by streamlining your program with automated emails and schedules.

No scary price per application.
No annual contracts.
No “required” on-boarding fees.

Transparent pricing with monthly subscriptions you can trim down or upgrade to run as many programs as you need.

Zealous has saved us days’ worth of time which has allowed us to expand the scope of our prizes

Georgina Angus
Sovereign Art Foundation

For all of your programs

Run as many programs as you want and save hundreds of hours growing and engaging with your members.

Hosting our competition on Zealous was a revelation. It is incredibly easy to use at every stage of the process.

Imogen Bakelmun
UCL (Fellow At Centre For Gender And Global Health)

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A unified process from the moment you think about your program, to announcing your selection.

Launch in minutes (we mean it)

Don’t wait for a demo or waste time negotiating insanely expensive fees. Our fees are transparent and joining Zealous is as easy as creating an account. No onboarding is required, we’ll support you with on-page tours and help files, and for Pro members, we’ll do a quick audit of your program before you launch it to give you that additional peace of mind.

Customisable to your needs

Change the submission process to fit your exact needs. Create application forms, request files for quick visual reviews, set fees (if you have them) and ask them to confirm they have read your guidelines. Switch off and move any step to suit your exact needs.

Capture stories, not just data

Go beyond simple forms, with embedded images and media directly into your submissions. From a single image to a full portfolio, get the information that best enables your candidates to tell their full story so you and your judges can make robust decisions on who best to pick for your programs.

A fair and transparent selection process

Whether your judges are miles away or in the same room, Zealous creates a robust and transparent process that gives your jury the confidence to make decisions quickly through criteria scoring, round selection and commenting. Automated emails reminding them to score means less work for your admin, and a higher chance of judge participation.

Pay for what you need

We started Zealous because we wanted organizations to be empowered to create more opportunities for their members. Our services do not require annual contracts and grow and shrink based on your needs. We aim to save you time and cut on staff time to help you unlock resources to scale your impact supporting your members.

Case Studies

Discover how Global Health 50/50 doubled entries celebrating gender globally

Global Health 50/50 received above a thousand entries empowering them to celebrate the richer diversity of stories entered to their competition.
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See how SAF saved days of admin supporting their art prize run across Asia

Discover how the Sovereign Asian Foundation has grown the scope of their prize and increased exposure of artists across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Delight members & reclaim your sanity managing entries to your programs

Bring the joy of running programs back into your life & claim back your time

Grow your membership & make your programs accessible to everyone

Create a transparent and fair selection process which respects your judge’s time

Scale your impact even when resources are tight

For all of your programs

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Case Studies

Discover how Global Health 50/50 doubled entries celebrating gender globally

See how SAF saved days of admin supporting their art prize run across Asia

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