Organizations

Your organization is your home on AwardKit. Every program lives inside it, your teammates get access based on their role, and the organization carries the things every program shares: the public handle in your URLs, your logo and brand color, your subscription, and your Stripe account.

Organization settings live under Settings in the sidebar, with five pages: General, Team, Programs, Billing, and Payments.

Your public handle and hub page

Every public page you publish sits under your organization's handle:

• awardkit.io/your-handle is your hub page. It lists your live programs with a badge for their state ("Open for entries", "Winners published"), keeps a Past editions section for archived programs, and shows draft programs to your own team only, marked "Not live".
• awardkit.io/your-handle/your-program is each program page. The entry form, gallery, and entry pages follow the same shape.

Set the handle once on General under Public handle. Pick it early: changing it changes the address of your hub and every program page in the organization at once, live programs included, and links you have already shared stop working with no redirect from the old addresses. Only owners and admins can change it, and the confirmation ("Change your organization handle?") spells out the consequence before it applies.

A program's own slug (the part after the handle) is edited on that program's Overview in the URL card. Program slug renames keep the old address working as an alias, so they are safer than handle renames. See Program page and dashboard.

Branding

Your brand is set once for the organization and applied to every public page of every program:

• Logo: replaces the initials avatar in the header of your public program pages. Use Upload logo (or Change logo) on the General page. With a logo in place, the Show organization name next to the logo switch controls whether your name renders beside it; turn it off if the logo already includes your name.
• Brand color: one hex color (for example #c1572f). Buttons, links, hovers, and highlights across your public pages derive from it, and text contrast is adjusted automatically so every combination stays readable. The Preview under the field shows the result; Reset to default returns to the AwardKit color.
• Organization name: appears beside your logo on public pages and on billing.

The one branding element that is per program is the hero image, because it is about the program, not the organization. It lives on the program's Entrant pages tab under Branding, next to a read-only view of your organization brand and an Edit organization branding link.

Team and roles

Invite teammates from Settings > Team: click Invite member, enter their email, and pick a role. The invitation email is titled "Invitation to join {your organization}", and the invitee joins with email or Google.

The Team page has three cards:

• Team members: change a role, remove a member, or leave the organization yourself. There must always be at least one admin, and an owner has to transfer ownership before leaving.
• Pending invitations: Pending and Revoked tabs, with resend, revoke, and delete actions. Revoking sends "Invitation to {your organization} revoked".
• Delete organization: permanently deletes the organization, its billing history, and removes every team member.

Creating an organization

Your first organization is created when you sign up. Most customers need only one: the subscription covers unlimited programs in it. Create a second organization when programs belong to different legal entities or need separate Stripe accounts (for example, a chamber of commerce and a trade publication under one parent).

Additional organizations are created from the program wizard: when you create a program, choose Create new organization in the organization selector. If you belong to several, switch between them from the Switch organization control on the Settings pages.

Managing programs

Settings > Programs lists every program in the organization with its entrant and entry counts and its close date, active programs first and an Archived group below. The row menu holds the lifecycle actions.

Duplicate a program for the next season

Awards recur. Duplicate program copies a whole program into a fresh draft so the new season starts from last season's setup:

• Carries over: categories, groups and entry fees; entry form and questions; judging rounds and criteria; awards and prizes; pricing tiers and discount codes.
• Starts fresh: timeline and judging dates; entries and entrants; judges, scores and results.

The copy starts in Test mode with no dates set, so you schedule the new season and review pricing deadlines before going live. If the program name carries a year, the suggested New program name rolls it forward ("Design Awards 2025" becomes "Design Awards 2026"). Duplicate works on archived programs too, which is usually exactly the one you want to start from.

Archive, restore, delete

• Archive program once a season is over. The program becomes read-only: the organizer dashboard stops accepting changes until you restore it, the public program page is replaced by a "Program Archived" notice, and it cannot be taken live. Entrants and judges keep access to view their own entries, certificates stay valid, and the program is listed under Past editions on your hub page.
• Restore program reopens it for editing at any time.
• Delete program permanently removes the program and all of its entries, judging, and results. You type the program name to confirm. Prefer archiving unless the program is a draft you never launched.

Only owners and admins can duplicate, archive, restore, or delete programs.

Everything else a program needs lives next to the work it affects: dates on the program Overview, fees and tax on Categories, the entry form and hero image on Entrant pages, and judging on Judging.

Billing and payments

• Billing holds the organization's subscription and invoices. One flat plan covers unlimited programs; see Plans and billing.
• Payments is where you connect the Stripe account that receives entry fees; see Stripe Connect setup.