{"id":11962,"date":"2023-06-06T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T08:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/faqs-ts\/can-i-allow-a-free-submission-for-a-couple-of-participan-ts\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:30:36","slug":"can-i-allow-a-free-submission-for-a-couple-of-participan-ts-11962","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/faqs-ts\/can-i-allow-a-free-submission-for-a-couple-of-participan-ts-11962\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I allow a free submission for a couple of participants?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a part of your open call process, you may want to allow free or discounted submissions from a handful of submitters without allowing them for the rest of the applicants. There is a way to do this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> <span style=\"font-size: revert\">Ask your submitters to create their submission, but for them to leave it as a draft. This would mean that they work up until the payment step.<\/span> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <span style=\"font-size: revert\">Wait until your opportunity has closed.<\/span> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <span style=\"font-size: revert\">Once your opportunity has closed and no one else can submit, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/customising-the-submission-process\/submission-fees\/\">create a new free or discounted submission fee package<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert\">.<\/span> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <a style=\"font-size: revert\" href=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/managing-your-submissions\/locking-unlocking-entries\/\">Unlock the submissions<\/a><span style=\"font-size: revert\"> of the participants you are allowing to apply for a free or discounted price.<\/span> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> <span style=\"font-size: revert\">Let your participants know it is time for them to submit.<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of your open call process, you may want to allow free or discounted submissions from a handful of submitters without allowing them for the rest of the applicants. There is a way to do this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":11031,"menu_order":93,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11962","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14285,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11962\/revisions\/14285"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=11962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}