Image upload with edit tool and optional Alt/Title text, caption and link URL
Competition restrictions and conditions include
Set usergroup permission to view, enter, create, open and publish competitions (e.g. make some competitions open only to more active members)
Set user criteria to Enter competition (e.g. minimum messages/trophy points)
Set user criteria to Win competition (e.g. new members can enter but they need to have a minimum of n messages before they can win)
Optional age restriction to enter based on member’s DOB
Optional country restriction to enter based on member’s IP
Optional opt in/opt out tick boxes with a marketing message to create a marketing list for the competition sponsor
Options include
Optional additional text entry field (to comply with legal requirements of some countries when running competitions).
Prioritise a competition in the widget (for when there are more competitions running than the maximum displayed in the widget)
Optional forum specified for the creation of an associated discussion thread
Optional user name for discussion thread starter (defaults to competition creator)
Enter customised terms and conditions (linked to from all competitions)
The cron
Opens published competitions on the start date
Closes open + published competitions on the end date
After closing a competition, the winners are picked at random plus the competition author is alerted of the end of the competition
As you know, Xenforo 2 addons have had to be coded from scratch, so Competitions for Xenforo 2 requires a new license to recoup the development cost.
The unbranded Xenforo 1 version was £50 + VAT.
This Xenforo 2 version comes unbranded and is also £50 + VAT.
Extended Product Information
Easy to set up competitions
Automatically close competitions on the end date, pick the winners and notify them by alert
Optionally create a discussion for a competition in chosen forum
Optionally have manual winner confirmation
Competitions list widget
Permissions to view/enter/create/open and publish competitions
Upgrade from Competitions 1.x keeping all existing competitions
Verbose error message support for territories. E.g. Eligible territories include: United Kingdom, France.
Verbose error message support for usergroup exclusion. E.g. You are a member of user group(s): Administrative
Verbose error message support for usergroup inclusion requirements. E.g. You are not a member of user group(s): Newsletter Subscriber
Admin toggles for verbose error message display.
Default allowed territories setting added in admin options.
Default minimum age setting added in admin options.
Complete Change Log
Improve the 'no permission' to enter competitions messages to give more information with admin toggles to show this or not.
Added default territory selection and minimum age setting.
The competition forum type needs to be enabled in a forum for a competition thread to correctly display tabs for the Competition and Discussion.
So we have added an admin option to automatically enable the competition type for a forum when a competition thread is created in it.
And we added the functionality to automatically enable competitions in forums on-the-fly when a competition thread is created there.
Admin is presented with an error if they try to create a competition where the thread's hosting forum does not have competition thread types enabled.
Complete Change Log
Xenforo 2.2 forum type compatibility update.
- Added automatic configuration for nodes to enable competition thread support on-the-fly (default=on).
- Added options toggle to prevent auto node configuration (defaults to enabled).
For GDPR purposes, it's arguably required to have the date and time of the signup to a mailing list. The addition of that into the opt-in spreadsheet list mitigates any potential GDPR issues.
Complete Change Log
Added date & time to the opt-in spreadsheet export
Separated out the permission to download competition opt-in CSV (on the archive page) from the general management permission to its own permission.
This enables the marketing team to download the opt-ins without giving them permissions to manage competitions.
A new update is available for Competitions by m2n.
Competitions 2.1.1
Update highlights
Major update introducing categories plus some very useful features for admin
Complete Change Log
New features:
Tabs on the competitions page to separate Open, Completed and (viewable with permission only) Unpublished competitions.
Categories. Admin can create categories and then assign competitions to a category. Users can then use a category filter to see the competitions in the categories of interest.
Filter also has options for users to sort competitions by different criteria.
Competitions meta description text admin option added for use in the competitions hope page.
EU countries option added to the list of allowed territories.
Option to show a small alert badge next to the competitions menu item showing the number of new competitions since the user’s last visit. It’s exactly like the number of new messages badge. This is cleared when the user visits any competition page.
Competition archive is now paginated.
Competition archive is now filterable by keyword.
Competition archive now contains a link to view a paginated list of the entrants for each competition. The list displays the text entry field (required by law in some territories) for each entrant.
Changes:
Territory (for competition entry eligibility) now determined via Cloudflare if available.
Removed obsolete list configuration option from the admin setup page.
Adjusted some phrases.
Bug fix:
Uploaded images (excluding the thumbnail which needs to be a specific size for correct display in the sidebar) retain their original aspect ratio.
