{"id":6418,"date":"2021-10-13T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spareidea.com\/help\/docs\/administration\/lifecycle-and-automation\/what-happens-when-submissions-open\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:27:13","slug":"when-submissions-open","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/lifecycle-of-an-opportunity\/when-submissions-open\/","title":{"rendered":"When submissions open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When submissions open, Zealous will automatically allow candidates to submit to your opportunity. They will be able to submit and edit their submissions until the submissions deadline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Submissions-open-1024x524.jpg\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During this time you can view all submissions and contact candidates directly. This allows you to catch issues early. You will also be able to keep track of progress from your dashboard and measure the impact of your marketing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judges invited to score the round directly after submissions close won&#8217;t have access to submissions until submissions end. This is as candidates can edit their work during this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a>Automated emails hosts will get during this time<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First submission received<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a>Automated emails candidates will get during this time<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zealous.co\/docs\/taking-submissions\/automated-emails\/communications-to-candidates\/submission-successful-email\/\">Submission confirmation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zealous.co\/docs\/taking-submissions\/automated-emails\/communications-to-candidates\/reminder-to-submit-email\/\">Reminder to submit<\/a> (2 days prior to submissions closing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udf80 Previous Step: <a href=\"http:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/docs\/taking-submissions\/lifecycle-of-an-opportunity\/before-submissions-open\/\">Before Submissions Open\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0                                                                 Next Step: <a href=\"http:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/docs\/taking-submissions\/lifecycle-of-an-opportunity\/when-submissions-close\/\">Submissions Close<\/a> \ud83d\udf82<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When submissions open, Zealous will automatically allow candidates to submit to your opportunity. They will be able to submit and edit their submissions until the submissions deadline.&nbsp; During this time you can view all submissions and contact candidates directly. This allows you to catch issues early. You will also be able to keep track of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":11134,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6418","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6418","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=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14172,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6418\/revisions\/14172"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}