The real Shelfy ballot, shown with demo data.
A Best Of is a yearly event your audience looks forward to. These are the parts that make it worth running again.
Put sponsors on the ballot and results pages, and show them how many people clicked through.
Voters can tick a box to join your newsletter. You export every opt-in with the wording they agreed to.
Publish results backed by confirmed votes. On Campaign Plus and pilots, winners and finalists get a badge that links back to your results page.
Anyone can refresh a free poll and vote again. Nominees notice, losers dispute the result, and the whole thing stops being something people want to win.
A vote stays pending until the voter opens the email and presses Confirm my vote. Unconfirmed votes expire after 48 hours and never count.
One vote per email per category, enforced by the database. Address tricks like dots and plus signs are normalized, and disposable inboxes are blocked.
Nobody sees the tally while voting is open, so there is no bandwagon effect and no live scoreboard for anyone trying to game it.
A campaign is an ordinary Shelfy collection with voting switched on. Your links become the nominees.
Name the campaign, add your categories, set the voting dates and the wording of your opt-in box.
Add nominees from your collection links. Each one gets its own share link so you can see who brings voters.
The ballot is live. Counts stay hidden, and anything suspicious waits in your review queue.
Voting stops, unconfirmed votes expire, and you clear the review queue.
Publish the results page and share it. Your subscriber list exports as a CSV.
Your categories and nominee cards that pull in a photo and description from each nominee's own site. A "How votes are counted" page is linked from every ballot, so the rules are public before anyone disputes them.
Every nominee gets a personal link. Your dashboard shows which of them is actually bringing voters in.
An unticked box that names your newsletter. We store the exact wording each voter agreed to, and it never affects whether their vote counts.
Suspicious voting, like a burst from one network, is flagged for you rather than blocked, because offices and cafes share an address. You void what you decide is not real, the reason is logged, and you can export an audit of every decision.
Download every opt-in with the wording and the time it was given, plus a full vote export for your records. The list is yours, and Shelfy never emails your voters.
Publish results when you are ready, then share one link. Winners tend to link back to it all year, which keeps sending people to your campaign long after voting closes.
Readers Picks: the best cafe, bakery and pub in town.
New subscribers, a yearly tradition, and something sponsors want to be part of.
Best tools of the year, voted by your members.
An engagement spike, and new members arriving from the nominees who share the ballot.
Let members pick the next talks, or run a people choice award.
You know what people want before you book speakers, and your list grows while they vote.
Best-of campaigns for a council, a business precinct or a festival client.
A deliverable you can run every year and bill for.
We are running the first campaigns free, in exchange for a short call afterwards and permission to share the numbers. Paid plans below are what we intend to charge after that, once per campaign rather than per month. Voting on ordinary collections stays free.
$49
Per campaign, up to 1,000 confirmed voters
$149
Per campaign, up to 5,000 confirmed voters
Running something bigger, or several campaigns a year? Talk to us and we will quote it.
Tell us your categories and your dates. We will set the campaign up with you, handle the verification, and hand you the subscribers it brings in.
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