Has the entry period of your promotion ended and do you know who the winners are? Then it’s time to assign the prizes manually!

Easypromos offers you a comprehensive tool to help you assign the prizes in a promotion or a contest manually. This way of assigning the prizes can be used for example to:

• Assign the prize to the user that has obtained the highest score in the Ranking.
• Assign the prize to the most voted user.
• Assign the prize to the user(s) that fulfill certain participation criteria.
• Assign the prize to a user that has been selected before a notary public.
• Assign the prize according to the decision of a jury.

Below, we outline all the steps you need to follow to manually assign the prize to one or more participants in your promotion:

1. Access the User Manager

2. Manually assign a prize to a user

3. Assign a prize to multiple users in bulk

4. Publish the winners

It’s time to assign the prizes manually to the winners and as you already selected “By manual assignment” when creating the prizes, you just need to follow some simple steps to carry out this action successfully:

Note: If you want to assign prizes manually but upon creating the prize you didn’t select this option, you can delete the prize and create a new one and selecting “By manual assignment” when selecting the type of the prize. Check out this tutorial that will guide you in all the steps to create your prize.

1. Access the User Manager

The first step is to access the User Manager, where all the users who have participated in the promotion are listed. From there, you can select and indicate which user or users you want to assign the prize to.

To do this, from the main promotion management page, click on the “Users” section:

2. Manually assign a prize to a user

Next, you need to locate in the user list the participant or participants to whom you want to manually assign the prize.

To do this, if you already have the participant’s email, for example, you can use the search tool to easily find them:

Next, click on the user to open their profile, and the option ‘Manually assign prize’ will appear.

By clicking, a pop-up will open where you can select the prize you want to assign, or create a new prize.

3. Assign a prize to multiple users in bulk

If the mechanics of your sweepstakes or contest is to select many winners, you can use the bulk action to assign prizes manually by using the different tools of the “Users” section of the main management page of the promotion.

To assign prizes manually by using a bulk action, you should follow these steps:

Step 1. Search, filter and arrange the participants

Among all the management tools that we find in the “Users” section, we have the tool to search, filter and arrange the entries which allows you to generate filters and advanced segments to obtain a list of participants that fulfill all the requirements to be winners. Select the filters according to the participation criteria of your promotion and you will obtain a list of the users that should win a prize.

Below we give you some ideas for filters that you can apply to the participants of your promotion:

• Example 1: Locate the 3 users who have achieved a higher score in the Ranking. The prize will be assigned manually to these 3 users.
• Example 2: You can use the star to mark the users that you want to award a prize and use the filter “Marked” to easily assign the prizes to the selected users.

Note: To know how to apply the most common filters and to know more about the tool to search, filter and arrange, see the tutorial of the Users Manager tool.

Step 2. Select the action to carry out and assign using bulk action

Once we know which users we want to assign the prize to, from the "User manager" tool we must locate these users in the list and then we can apply the massive action of "Assign manual prize"

Example: Next, we explain how we can assign a manual prize to the 3 users with the highest score in the Ranking, following these steps:

1. First we must locate the 3 users with the most points, ordering by "Score".

2. Once located, we mark them with the star icon.

3. We filter the list to obtain only the 3 users that we have marked.

4. Finally, we apply the "Assign Manual Reward" bulk action to this segment of users.

In the following video you will see the steps in detail:

4. Publish the winners

The final step is to publish the winners on your Winners Page and share the results with your community.

To do this, go to the Editor:

Next, go to the Pages > Winners section and follow these steps:

1. Publish the winners on the page: Click on the manually assigned prize and enable the option “Automatically display winners.”

2. Publish the Winners Page: If the Winners Page has not been published yet, click the “Publish page” button.

Finally, share the giveaway results with all your followers and get in touch with the winners.