# The Season overview > From FilmScorecard Help: https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-overview The **Season overview** is your season's landing screen from the day it is created: one page with everything worth knowing about it — what needs a person, how far judging has come, where submissions stand, what scorecard sales have brought in, and every import the season has taken. Nothing on it can be edited; every number links to the screen where the work happens. **Every season gets this same page, in every state.** A season still being set up shows it with two extra blocks — the **Finish setting up** strip above the cards and the **Open judging** card below them, both covered in [Finishing setup](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/finishing-setup.md) — and loses both the moment you [open judging](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-judging.md). **Until then the cards between them are Import batches and, until somebody makes it, the one-time choice of [how filmmakers hear from you](#how-filmmakers-hear-from-you)**: Needs attention, Judging progress, Submissions and Revenue appear when judging is opened. **Until then, too, a banner runs across the top of this page and every other screen of the season** — "Judging hasn't started. Judges see no films until you open judging.", turning amber once the opening date has passed — see [Opening judging](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-judging.md#until-it-is-pressed). Every figure is read fresh when the page loads. The line under the title — "Judging underway. Season data as of Aug 19, 2026 at 2:41 PM." — is the moment the page loaded, shown in the season's own time zone. Reload to bring everything up to the minute. **The one thing that moves on its own is a first import in flight** — see [A first import finishes on its own](#a-first-import-finishes-on-its-own). ## Finding the screen It is the **Dashboard** row of the left navigation — the first row of the season block — and it is the season's own address, with nothing after it: ``` /org/// ``` Across festivals, your organization's [Overview](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/overview.md) opens this screen too: a festival's name in its Festivals table, or **⋯ → Open dashboard**. There is one address and one screen: whether the season is being set up, being judged, finished or archived, this is what it serves. An archived season keeps serving it at its old address — with the pill reading **Archived** and the line starting "Season archived." — so a finished season's figures stay readable forever. See [Archive the season](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/season-actions.md#archive-the-season). ## The line and the pill Both are worked out from the season's state, and a draft season splits in two depending on whether it is ready to open: | The season | The line begins | The pill | | --- | --- | --- | | Draft, something still outstanding | "Judging is closed until you open it." | **Judging closed** (quiet grey) | | Draft, all three requirements met | "Everything is ready." | **Ready to open judging** (green) | | Judging open | "Judging underway." | **Judging open** (indigo) | | Completed | "Judging closed." | **Completed** | | Archived | "Season archived." | **Archived** | **The green pill reads readiness, not whether you were still being reminded.** Dismissing the setup strip stops the prompts; it never stops this pill telling you the season is ready to open. ## Who can open it Everyone in your organization who can open the season, festival admins, coordinators and read-only viewers included. Nothing here can be changed by anybody, so there are no greyed buttons and no read-only banner. (The two controls a draft season adds — **Dismiss** on the strip and the **Open judging** button — are the exception, and both need permission to change the season. So is the choice of [how filmmakers hear from you](#how-filmmakers-hear-from-you), which is drawn only for people who can edit festival settings.) **One card is not on everybody's page.** The **Revenue** card, and the Export CSV button inside it, need the *View revenue and payouts* permission on this season: - **Organization owners and org admins always have it**, and so do **festival admins** by default. - **Coordinators, programmers and viewers do not**, by default. - **A per-person tick box moves it either way** on [Festival access](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-access.md) — including for a viewer, who can be given revenue and still change nothing. Somebody without it sees the page with **no Revenue card at all** — not a greyed one, not a "you do not have access" line. The Import batches card moves up into its place, beside Submissions. There is nothing on their screen to say a card is missing, so if a colleague describes figures you cannot find, this is why. The revenue figures are not merely hidden: they are never read, so they never reach the browser. The same permission decides three other things: whether the **Payouts** section appears in the left navigation at all — the season's judge-pay ledger and its payments log, see [Paying your judges](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/paying-your-judges.md) — whether you see the [payout banner](#the-payout-banner) described next, and whether a submission's drawer carries its **Scorecard access** card, see [Selling scorecard access](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/selling-scorecard-access.md). Judges see none of it. The overview, and both CSV addresses, answer a judge's account — and anyone outside your organization — with an ordinary "page not found". No aggregate on this page ever reaches a judge's screen. ## The payout banner One amber banner can appear **above everything else on the page**, before the Needs attention row — on a draft season, only the choice of [how filmmakers hear from you](#how-filmmakers-hear-from-you) sits higher: > ● **Scorecard sales are paused until payout setup is finished** — > **Open Payments settings** - **It appears when two things are true together**: this season has a price on its scorecards, **and** your organization's payout account is not fully enabled — not started, half-finished, waiting on Stripe, or paused. See [Connecting payouts](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-payouts.md). - **Every season carries a price**, so in practice the second condition is the only one that decides it: the banner sits on every season's dashboard until payouts are enabled, and leaves all of them at once when they are. - **It is not drawn while a draft season's setup strip is up.** That strip's own **Connect Stripe payouts** row is asking for the same thing one card higher, and two prompts for one action teach a reader to ignore both. Dismiss the strip with payouts unconnected and the banner returns as the one remaining nudge — see [Finishing setup](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/finishing-setup.md). - **There is no way to dismiss it.** Finishing payout setup is what takes it away; a dismiss button would leave sales off and this screen silent about it. - **One banner per dashboard**, however many seasons the festival has. - **You see it if you hold *View revenue and payouts***, owner or not — coordinators with that permission are the people watching this screen, and the banner is the only place the cause of switched-off sales is stated. - **The button is not for everyone the banner is.** **Open Payments settings** appears only for organization owners and org admins, because Organization settings answers everybody else "page not found". Anyone else reads the line and knows what to ask for. - **It can lag by a moment.** The banner reads the payout status Stripe last sent us, rather than asking Stripe as the Payments tab does, so it can still be up for a minute after an owner finishes onboarding. Reload and it goes. **A scorecard already unlocked stays unlocked** while the banner is up. What is paused is new sales, and nothing else. ## How filmmakers hear from you Each filmmaker's first email from your festival is the link to their submission page. **A season sends none of them on its own until somebody decides how they go out**, and this page asks once, in a card headed **How should filmmakers hear from you?**: - **Email each one as it arrives** — from then on, each new submission's filmmaker is emailed within minutes of the film arriving, once it is in a category. Films an import or a FilmFreeway sync brings in are picked up as soon as it has written them; a film that arrives with no category is emailed once it is given one. - **I'll send them myself** — nothing is sent on its own. You send them from the Emails tab of Settings when you are ready. - **Preview the email** shows the email filmmakers get. It chooses nothing. **Where it sits.** On a draft season, directly under the setup strip — under the page head once the strip is gone — above every other card. Once judging is open, it is the first card in [Needs attention](#needs-attention). **Who sees it.** People who can edit the festival's settings — you hold *Edit festival settings and team* on this festival and can write to this season — on a draft or open season nobody has decided for yet. Nobody else sees it, and a completed or archived season never shows it. **Choosing saves at once**, with no confirmation, and the card is replaced by a note with **Open Settings → Emails →** and **Dismiss**: | You chose | The note reads | | --- | --- | | **Email each one as it arrives** | "Each filmmaker will be emailed as their film arrives." When films already in the season are in a category and have not had the email, it goes on: "12 submissions already here in a category haven't had the email. Send now on Settings → Emails sends them." | | **I'll send them myself** | "Nothing will be sent on its own. Send the emails when you're ready." | | Either, after a colleague chose first | "This choice was already made." Nothing of yours was saved; their choice stands. | - **Only films that arrive after you choose are emailed on their own.** The films already there are left alone — that is what the note's count is for. Send them with **Send now** on the Emails tab. - **On a draft season whose Judging opens date has passed**, new arrivals wait until you open judging — see [Opening judging](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-judging.md#what-it-does-not-do). - **Dismiss** takes the note away. The choice stays made, and the card does not come back on this season, for anyone. - **To change your mind later**, use **How it sends** on the Emails tab of Settings — see [Inviting submitters](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/inviting-submitters.md). - **If the choice cannot be saved**, the card stays up with the reason under its buttons — "You do not have permission to change this festival's settings." or "The change could not be saved. Try again." — and nothing changed. ## Your public page Under the page head — and under the setup strip, the choice of how filmmakers hear from you and the payout banner when those are up — a card headed **Your public page** points at your festival's [public page](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/public-festival-page.md), the page filmmakers and judges see. - **Customize your page** opens it. You edit it right there, section by section, whether it is switched on or not. - **The switch** beside it, reading **Live** or **Off**, makes the page live or takes it down the moment you press it — the same setting as **Public festival page** on the Festival tab of Settings. If it cannot be changed, it moves back and reads "The page could not be switched. Nothing changed. Try again." **You see the card if you can edit the page**: you hold *Edit festival settings and team* on this festival and can write to this season. When the page's state cannot be read, the card is drawn without the switch. ## Needs attention The top section is the season's open work — at most three work cards, each one a link to the screen where that work is resolved — and, beside them, up to two amber warnings about whether the judging can be done at all, and one about your organization's mailing address: | The card | Counting | Opens | | --- | --- | --- | | **"3 issues reported by judges"** (amber) | Open rows on the Review Queue's Issue tab, **still unresolved** — films judges skipped because they could not play them, and issues judges reported while keeping the film. **Its mark is the count itself, in amber** — the same number as the amber count beside **Review Queue** in the navigation. The second line reads "A judge reported a problem with a film. Read what they sent." and adds how long the oldest has waited — "Oldest waiting 3 days.", or "Oldest arrived today." Its link reads **Open the Issue tab**. | [Review Queue → Issue](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/screener-problems.md) | | **"2 flagged feedback in review"** (amber) | Filed scorecards a coordinator flagged for a wording decision. | [Review Queue](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/review-queue.md) | | **"6 scorecards awaiting coordinator approval"** (neutral) | Filed scorecards nobody has approved, returned or flagged yet. The second line counts the submissions they sit on: "Across 4 submissions. Approval happens in the queue." | [Review Queue](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/review-queue.md) | | **"2 submissions are only waiting on a technical scorecard"** (amber) | Submissions whose creative scorecards are all approved and which have no technical scorecard filed yet — one filed and not yet approved is on the card above instead. **While [creative judging waits for technical approval](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md#creative-judging-waits-for-technical-approval) is on**, it counts every submission that needs a technical scorecard and has none filed yet, whatever its creative scorecards say, and reads "4 submissions are waiting on a technical scorecard before judges can score them". Its link reads **Open Submissions**. | [Submissions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md), filtered to Partly scored | | **"Not enough eligible judges"** (amber warning) | One line for each place your roster could never fill. See [Two warnings about judging](#two-warnings-about-judging). Its link reads **Open Judges**. | [Judges](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/judges.md) | | **"4 submissions on hold"** (amber warning) | Submissions you have kept out of judging. Its link reads **Open Submissions**. | [Submissions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md#holding-a-submission-out-of-judging), filtered to On hold | | **"Add your organization's mailing address"** (amber warning) | Your organization has no mailing address yet. The second line reads "Emails that offer scorecards or promo codes can't be sent without one." Shown only to organization owners and org admins, the people who can add it. Its link reads **Open Organization profile**. | [Organization settings → Organization profile](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/organization-settings.md#organization-profile) | | **"3 submissions are judged and ready to release"** (amber) | Fully judged submissions whose scorecards nobody has released yet, on their own or with the season. Shown only to somebody who can release a submission's scorecard. Its link reads **Review and release**. | A confirm on this page — see below | **The ready-to-release card releases from here.** Pressing it opens **Release 3 scorecards?**, listing the films, with "Email each submitter their scorecard link and code" ticked; the button reads **Release 3 and email**, or **Release 3** with the box cleared. It cannot be undone. Each film is released as its own **Release scorecard** would release it — see [Releasing one submission's scorecard](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/releasing-one-scorecard.md). If some could not be released, the dialog stays open and says so: "Released 2. 1 could not be released — open it from Submissions." On a season brought in from Film Festival Circuit whose organization has no mailing address, the dialog also says, while the email is ticked: "Your organization has no mailing address, so submitters who haven't unlocked their scorecard won't get this email. Add one in Organization settings → Organization profile first." The release still goes ahead; only those emails wait for the address. **Until an owner of your organization agrees to the Festival Host Agreement**, it releases nothing and answers "Running festivals is paused until an owner of *your organization* accepts the Festival Host Agreement." — see [Until an owner agrees](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/terms-and-privacy.md#until-an-owner-agrees). **The issues card is a worklist, and it reaches zero.** It counts skipped films of only the two reasons a coordinator can act on — *Screener will not play* and *Other* — and every report a judge sent, and only the ones nobody has settled yet, so every film you hand back or dismiss, and every report you mark resolved, takes the number down by one. A judge who declined a film for a conflict, their expertise or the deadline is **not** in it: there is nothing to fix and nothing to clear. **The oldest-waiting line reads the oldest open row of either kind.** Each new one is also emailed to the season's staff — see [The emails staff are sent](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/screener-problems.md#the-emails-staff-are-sent). A queue with nothing in it shows no card, and the label on the right — "2 open work queues" — counts the queues that have anything in them. **The warnings are not counted in that label**: they are not work queues. When all three queues are empty and no warning has anything to say, the section collapses to a single quiet card reading **"Nothing needs attention"**; a warning on its own replaces that card rather than sitting beside it. The section itself never disappears once judging is open. **The choice of [how filmmakers hear from you](#how-filmmakers-hear-from-you) is not a work queue either.** While an open season is still waiting for it, it is the first card in this section, above everything else, and it is not counted in "2 open work queues". When it is the only card here, **"Nothing needs attention"** is not drawn beside it. A season still being set up has no Needs attention section at all — its warnings sit on the [Open judging](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-judging.md#the-two-warnings) card instead. **What is never on these cards:** the judge's own words, the flagged wording itself, and any judge's identity. All three wait for you in the Review Queue. The judge warning names categories and scorecards, never a judge. ### Two warnings about judging While the season's judging is open, two warnings can join the cards above. Both are the same two the [Open judging](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/opening-judging.md#the-two-warnings) card carries before you open, and both **warn and do nothing else** — nothing on this page, or anywhere, is held up by them. **"Not enough eligible judges"** lists one line per shortfall: - **"Documentary needs 1 more judge"** — fewer active judges with the creative role have this category in their scope than the season's **Judges per category** asks for; the figure is the gap (here, two eligible against a panel of three). With no active judges at all it is the whole panel: "Drama needs 3 more judges". Every category with at least one live submission in it is checked. - **"(1 invited)"** on the end of that line — invitations still waiting for an answer, to judges who would have the creative role and the category in scope, would close the gap once accepted. It is added only when it would. - **"No technical judge yet"** — no active judge with the technical role can reach a category using this technical scorecard. With more than one technical scorecard in use, the line names it: "No technical judge for Film Technical yet". **On a season where [creative judging waits for technical approval](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md#creative-judging-waits-for-technical-approval)** — the default — the line ends ", so creative judging is on hold": nobody can file that review, so no judge is offered the creative scorecard in the categories using it either, until a judge who can file it joins or your own team [fills it in](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/filling-out-a-scorecard.md). - **"3 films short of judges for their own reasons"** — their categories are covered, but too few of those judges could ever take these particular films: the judge's format scope, the judge being the film's own submitter, FilmFreeway access switched off for a FilmFreeway-only screener, or a judge having already skipped, declined or had a card voided on the film. It asks whether your roster **could ever** score the season, not how the work will be shared out: a covered category can still be slow if its judges are. A judge who is paused, invited but not yet answered, or removed is not counted as eligible. Films on hold are counted, because they will need judges once you set them Ready; withdrawn and disqualified films are not. **"4 submissions on hold"** counts the live submissions you have put On hold — see [Holding a submission out of judging](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md#holding-a-submission-out-of-judging). A held film is offered to no new judge, so it will not move through judging until you set it Ready. **Each warning goes when there is nothing to say**, and both are read when the page loads, like everything else here. **A completed or archived season shows neither.** If the figures behind them cannot be read, they are simply left out; the rest of the page is unaffected, and they still draw when the three work queues' own figures could not be read. ## Judging progress The left panel of the big card, headed by a **Submissions →** link. - **The big number** is the season's submission list — the same count as the [Submissions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md) screen, so withdrawn and disqualified submissions are not in it. The two screens read one list and cannot disagree. **Submissions on hold are in it** — a hold keeps a film away from judges, not off your list. - **The percentage** is how much of that list is fully judged, rounded down — "34% fully judged", with "41 of 120, each with every required scorecard approved" underneath. - **The tick bar** is a picture of the three buckets below it; the legend carries the real numbers. At 44 submissions or fewer, each tick is one submission; above that the bar splits proportionally, and a bucket with anything in it always keeps at least one tick: | Bucket | Meaning | | --- | --- | | **Fully judged** | The full panel of approved creative scorecards — or no creative scorecard to file — and the technical review approved, or none to approve. | | **In judging** | Something filed — approved or still waiting for approval — and not yet fully judged. | | **Not started** | No creative scorecard and no technical review filed yet, approved or not. | These are close to the Submissions screen's own **Scoring** buckets under this screen's names — Fully judged is its "All scores in", In judging is its "Partly scored" — with one difference: the Submissions screen counts approved scorecards only, so a film whose judges have filed and nobody has approved yet is "Not started" there and **In judging** here. See [The three Scoring buckets](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md#the-three-scoring-buckets). **The press kit is not counted in any of them.** A film whose press-kit card is still to be filed reads **Fully judged** here, whatever the subline says — and a season set to release **When every submission is approved** still waits for that card. See [When a film is fully judged](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/how-scoring-works.md#when-a-film-is-fully-judged). **A scorecard on a category the film has since left counts toward none of this.** When you remove a category from a submission, any creative scorecard a judge had filed or started under it stays with that judge and can still be approved and paid, but it no longer belongs to the film's panel — so it neither moves the film into *In judging* nor counts toward it being fully judged. See [Editing a submission's categories](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md#editing-a-submissions-categories). **This panel is also how you read every score in the season.** A submission's score is what its approved work has banked so far, so a film in the *In judging* bucket is carrying less than it will finish with — see [Overall is points banked, not a forecast](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md#overall-is-points-banked-not-a-forecast). ## Judge completion The right panel, headed by a **Judges →** link. Its own subline says what it is: "Season figures only. Per-judge detail lives on the Judges screen." - **The big number** is your active judges — the roster rows whose status is Active on the [Judges](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/judges.md) screen. Invited-but-unanswered and paused judges are not in it. - **"Scorecards filed, season to date"** — a bar and a percentage, rounded down: creative scorecards your judges have filed, against the season's full workload. **The workload is Judges per category**, from [Settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md#judges-per-category), **times every category each submission competes in** — so a film in two categories counts twice, because it needs a full panel in each, and a submission attached to no category counts nothing. It tops out at 100% even if a mid-season settings change leaves more filed than the current arithmetic expects. - **Median days to complete a scorecard** — from the moment a judge took (or last re-took) a film to the moment they filed, the middle value, one decimal. An em dash (—) until something has been filed. - **Scorecards filed in the last 7 days** — a plain count. **The workload used to count each film once.** A film in two categories takes two panels of creative scorecards, so its filings could carry the bar to 100% while films were still waiting for judges. Counting every category is what keeps the bar honest; expect it to read lower on a season with many multi-category films than it did before. Scorecards that festival staff filed themselves (see [Filling out a scorecard yourself](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/filling-out-a-scorecard.md)) are left out of every figure in this panel — it measures your judges, not your team. **One consequence to expect:** a creative scorecard a colleague files takes one of its category's places, so no judge fills that place, and it is not counted here either. A season where your team has filled places in can finish with this bar short of 100% by roughly that many scorecards. ## Submissions by category and status The wider card of the middle pair. The top half is one row per season category with its submission count and a bar sized against the biggest category. A submission competing in three categories counts in all three, so these numbers add up to more than the season total whenever anything multi-competes. A season with no submissions yet reads "No categories with submissions". A long list scrolls inside the card, and each row is a link to the [submission list](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md) filtered to that category. The bottom half is the status grid — three groups, and each group's numbers sum to the submission list's total: | Group | Statuses | | --- | --- | | **Operational** | **Ready** / **Issue** — Issue counts submissions with an open issue a judge raised by skipping them (the screener will not play, or another problem), and turns amber when it is above zero. | | **Judging** | **Not started** / **In judging** / **Fully judged** — the same buckets as the progress panel above. | | **Selection** | **In consideration** / **Selected** / **Not selected** — the same statuses you set on the [Submissions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md) screen. | The line under the grid says the thing worth internalizing: "Groups are tracked separately, so a submission holds one status in each group." **The grid's Ready is not the Submissions screen's Ready.** Here it means "no open issue"; a submission On hold for judging is still counted as Ready in this grid if no judge has raised an issue about it. Whether a film is held is the Submissions screen's **Judging** column, and the hold warning above. **The grid's Issue row and the issue attention card count the same thing**, per submission rather than per issue: a film whose screener a judge could not play is in both until you send it back from the Issue tab, and then it leaves both. A judge who declined a film for a conflict or because it is outside their expertise does not put it here — the film simply goes to another judge. A judge's issue **report** counts on the card but not in the grid, because a judge who reports an issue keeps the film. ## Revenue The narrower card of the pair, and **the one card that depends on your permissions** — see [Who can open it](#who-can-open-it). Everything on it is in dollars and cents. **Scorecard sales** — six lines: **Scorecards available**, **Scorecards sold**, **Gross**, **Platform fee**, **Processing** and **Host net**. **Available** is every approved scorecard there is to unlock, one per category a film is judged in, sold or not — the same figure Conversion divides by. **Sold counts unlocked categories, not submissions**: a scorecard is sold one category at a time, so a film judged in two categories and unlocked whole counts as two. Free unlocks and comped ones are included; a refund removes its sale from the count and its money from the other four lines. - **Gross** is what submitters paid — **$29.99 USD for a submission's first category and $22.49 for each one after it**, or less on a sale where one of your organization's [promo codes](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/promo-codes.md) was used. A free unlock or a comp counts as a sale of $0.00, and so does an order made with a Free unlock code, or an earlier order a promo code left with nothing to pay. - **Platform fee** is the platform's own part of each sale, added up as each sale was actually charged — not re-figured from today's terms, so a renegotiated rate never rewrites what a past month earned. It is your rate on what was paid — or on the full price, if FilmScorecard has set your organization up that way — and no paid order is charged less than $2.00 of it unless your rate is 0%; see [The platform fee line](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-payouts.md#the-platform-fee-line). - **Processing** is your share of Stripe's processing fee on those sales — estimated at 2.9% + 30¢ of what each order paid, at your organization's share, and kept back with the platform fee. Sales made before this line existed show none. - **Host net** is Gross minus Platform fee and Processing: your share, and the figure to reconcile against your Stripe payouts. **Sales detail** — a second block under the six lines, reading the same purchases a different way: - **Conversion** is how much of what there was to sell has sold: unlocked categories as a share of the season's **approved scorecards**, one per category a film is judged in. The line under it spells the fraction out — "9 of 74 approved scorecards unlocked." — and the percentage is rounded down. With no approved scorecards yet, the line is left out. It counts approved scorecards whether or not they are released yet, so before release it reads 0% of a real number rather than nothing. - **Paid** and **Comped or free** split the sold count by whether money changed hands: a Stripe checkout on one side; a coordinator's comp, a season priced at $0.00, a Free unlock code, or an earlier order a promo code left with nothing to pay on the other. - **Average paid sale** is Gross divided by the paid count, to the cent — comps and free unlocks are left out of both sides. It reads "—" until something has been paid for. - **Discounts** is what promo codes took off the sales still standing — including the whole price of an order a code made free. - **Refunds** is the count of refunded categories and the money that went back, "2 · $90.00". Refunds are made in Stripe, not here, so the line appears only once one has happened. Nothing else on the card includes a refunded sale. **Your standing terms are stated in one place, and it is not this card**: the platform fee line on the Payments tab of Organization settings — see [Connecting payouts](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/connecting-payouts.md#the-platform-fee-line). That is the percentage and your processing share; this card is the dollars they came to on this season. What is being sold, and what has to be true before anything sells, is [Selling scorecard access](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/selling-scorecard-access.md). **View orders**, beside the card's Export CSV, opens the organization-wide [Orders](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/orders.md) screen already narrowed to this festival — every unlocked category as a row, refunds included, with the buyer, the receipt and a resend button. **The link is drawn for everyone who can see the card, but the screen behind it opens only for owners and org admins**; a festival admin or a coordinator with revenue permission gets "page not found" from it. **Judge compensation** — a payable figure with its arithmetic spelled out: "Across 86 approved scorecards this season, at $0.00 each. Tracked here, paid manually outside the platform." The count is your judges' approved scorecards (staff filings earn nothing) — including a scorecard filed under a category the film has since left, which is still approved and paid. **This block does not read the rates on the Categories tab.** It multiplies that count by a separate single figure per season, which no screen sets, so it keeps reading $0.00 however you have priced your categories — see [Judge pay](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/judge-pay.md). FilmScorecard does not pay judges either way; the block is a running tally for a payment you make outside the platform. **The real judge-pay ledger is a different screen.** The **Payouts** section's Ledger tab sums what each approved scorecard actually recorded, judge by judge, and its Payments tab lists every payment you have logged against it — see [Paying your judges](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/paying-your-judges.md). The two are worked out differently, so do not expect this block to match it; the ledger is the number to trust. ## The two CSV exports Each of those two cards carries an **Export CSV** button. Both are plain downloads — press one and the file arrives; nothing is emailed, and nothing runs in the background. The files are named after the moment you pressed: - `--submissions-2026-08-19.csv` - `--scorecard-sales-2026-08-19.csv` **The submissions file** is the Submissions screen's list, one row per submission, in title order: **Title**, **Categories** (comma-separated), **Status** (the record's own status word), **Judging progress** (Not started / In judging / Fully judged), **Selection**, **Approved scorecards** (a count), and **Score** — the same approved-scores-only total the list shows, left blank until a submission has one. Withdrawn and disqualified submissions are not in the file. **The Score column is what has been banked so far, not a finished score.** It is the Overall figure from the list, and it counts only approved work: each judge on a film's panel earns a share of the creative part, so a film waiting on two of three judges exports a fraction of what it will end on. **A file exported mid-season is therefore not a quality ranking** — sorting it by Score puts the films that are furthest along at the top. Read it next to the **Judging progress** column in the same file, or export once the panels are complete. See [Overall is points banked, not a forecast](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md#overall-is-points-banked-not-a-forecast). **The scorecard-sales file** is **one row per category unlocked**, newest first, refunded purchases left out: **Purchased at**, **Receipt** (the `SC-` code from the submitter's receipt), **Submission**, **Amount**, **Platform fee**, **Processing**, **Net** and **Currency**. Amounts are plain two-decimal numbers with no currency sign, so spreadsheets read them as numbers, and **Net is a column rather than a formula you have to add** — it is Amount minus Platform fee and Processing, worked out the same way the card works it out, so Platform fee, Processing and Net add up to Amount on every row. **Processing sits straight after Platform fee**, which moves Net and Currency one place to the right: a spreadsheet that reads those by position needs remapping once. A sale whose submission FilmScorecard can no longer show you prints an em dash for its title rather than inventing one. **A submission unlocked in two categories is two rows** — same title, two receipt numbers, the second at the 25%-off price. **This file does not name which category** each row unlocked; the file that does is the [Orders](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/orders.md) CSV, which carries a Category column and is for owners and org admins. **Amount is what was paid**, so a sale that carried a promo code shows the discounted figure. **This file names no code** — the code and what it took off are on [Orders](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/orders.md) and in its CSV, which are for owners and org admins. **Neither file carries anything about skipped films or judges' reports**, and neither carries what a scorecard was worth to a judge. What a judge reported is on the Issue tab and nowhere else, and judge pay is not exported anywhere — there is no CSV of the ledger and none of the payments log. In either file, a title or category name that begins with `=`, `+`, `-` or `@` is written with an apostrophe in front of it, so a spreadsheet shows it as text instead of running it as a formula. The figures are never changed. An empty season still downloads a valid file — just the header line. **The two downloads are guarded differently, and the difference is the point.** - **The submissions file** is open to anyone who can open the overview. - **The scorecard-sales file needs *View revenue and payouts*** — the same permission as the card it sits in. Somebody without it gets "page not found" from the address, exactly as if the season did not exist, so a link pasted into a chat is safe: it downloads for the colleagues who are allowed the figures and refuses everyone else. Anyone who cannot open the overview at all gets "page not found" from both. ## Import batches The full-width card at the bottom: the season's import history — the same record the [Imports](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/imports.md) screen keeps, up to the 200 most recent batches, newest first. The header line sums the history: "132 submissions imported across 3 batches". Rolled-back batches keep their count in that sum, because it describes what was imported, not what the season still holds. Five columns — **Date** (when the batch finished, in the season's time zone), **Source** (the file name), **Imported**, **Duplicates**, **Status**: | Pill | When | | --- | --- | | **Complete** (green) | The batch imported cleanly. | | **Complete, 6 duplicates** (amber) | Complete, but some rows were skipped as duplicates at import. | | **Failed** (amber) | The batch failed and was rolled back — nothing from it is in the season. | | **Canceled** | The batch was stopped and rolled back. | | **Rolled back** | You rolled it back after the fact — or, on a **FilmFreeway sync** row, **Undo sync** took the sync's films out. Replaces whatever the pill was before. | Before the first import the card reads "No imports yet."; **All imports →** opens the Imports screen either way. On a narrow window the table scrolls sideways inside the card rather than stacking; the Date column and the header row stay put while the rest slides under them. ### A first import finishes on its own **While a season still being set up has its first import running, this page watches it.** The setup strip's **Import submissions** row reads "Import queued, 0 of 58 rows processed" or "Importing, 24 of 58 rows processed" — see [Finishing setup](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/finishing-setup.md#the-three-required-steps) — and behind that row the page asks after the import every few seconds. - **The row's figure does not tick up.** It is the count as of the moment the page loaded, and it stays there while the import runs. - **The moment the import finishes, the page redraws itself once**, as if you had reloaded it: the row turns green with its imported count and the requirement is met, this card gains the batch's row and its header line counts it, and the as-of line under the title moves to now. Nothing needs pressing. - **A failed import redraws the page the same way**, and the row then reads "Your last import failed. Start again from Imports." in amber. **It is only the first import, and only while the strip is showing.** Once the season holds submissions the strip's Import row is finished, and a later import running in the background shows nothing on this page until you reload — its progress is on the [Imports](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/imports.md) screen. A strip you have dismissed watches nothing either. ### Roll back batch — a hand-off, not the act A **Roll back batch** button sits on exactly the rows the Imports screen would let you roll back: imported from a file, completed, not already rolled back, and inside the 30-day window. **A FilmFreeway sync row never has one** — a sync's films are undone together from the FilmFreeway tab of Settings; see [FilmFreeway syncs are undone from Settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/imports.md#filmfreeway-syncs-are-undone-from-settings). Pressing **Roll back batch** does not remove anything — it opens an amber strip at the card's foot that names the batch ("Roll back the Aug 8, 2026 batch?"), states its real cost ("This removes the batch's 148 imported submissions. 6 duplicates were skipped at import and never became submissions."), and says where the act lives: **"Rollback is confirmed on the Imports screen, not here."** - **Continue in Imports** takes you to the [Imports](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/imports.md) screen, where the real Roll back button and its confirmation dialog are — see [Rolling a batch back](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/imports.md#rolling-a-batch-back). - **Cancel** closes the strip. One strip is open at a time; pressing another row's button replaces it. Nothing on this dashboard ever performs a rollback. **Rolling a batch back takes its films' Issue tab rows with it** — skips and reports alike — because those records hang off the submissions being removed. On a season that has not opened yet, rolling back your only batch also puts the **Import submissions** requirement back to unmet. **A batch judges have started scoring cannot be rolled back at all** — the Imports screen refuses it; see [A batch judges have scored is refused](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/imports.md#a-batch-judges-have-scored-is-refused). ## When a figure is unavailable Each card reads its own numbers, so a hiccup in one never blanks the page: the affected card keeps its heading and shows one line — "This figure is unavailable right now." — while everything else renders normally. Reload to try again; nothing is cached. **That is not the same as a missing Revenue card.** A card that is *there* and says a figure is unavailable had a hiccup; a Revenue card that is not there at all is a permission, and reloading changes nothing. See [Who can open it](#who-can-open-it). **The payout banner errs the same way, but silently**: if either of the two figures behind it cannot be read, no banner is drawn rather than an alarming line drawn on a guess. **So do the two judging warnings**: a read that fails draws no warning rather than a guess. ## Smaller things worth knowing - **The as-of line is the load time, not a data lag.** There is no delayed reporting behind this page; every number is a live read at the moment the line names. The one time it moves without a reload is when [a first import finishes](#a-first-import-finishes-on-its-own). - **The counts in the left navigation do keep themselves up to date**, unlike this page's cards: the amber counts beside the season's rows re-read themselves about once a minute while the tab is in front of you — see [Finding the screen](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/review-queue.md#finding-the-screen) on the Review Queue guide. - **A season that has not opened shows only what it can use.** Under the setup strip sits the choice of how filmmakers hear from you, until somebody makes it, then the Import batches card, and under that the Open judging card; Needs attention, Judging progress, Submissions and Revenue appear the moment you open judging — see [Finishing setup](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/finishing-setup.md). - **Setup work does not stop when judging opens.** Imports, Judges, Settings and the rest of the season's screens stay exactly where they were in the navigation — you can keep importing into a season whose judging is open. - **The judging dates are a second half.** The pill here reads **Judging open** from the moment you open judging; **Judging opens** and **Judging closes**, on the [Settings](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/festival-settings.md#dates) screen's Season tab, set the dates. **Judges are offered films only once both are true** — this season is open, and its opening date has passed — so a season you opened ahead of its date still offers nothing until that date arrives. See [How the judging queue works](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/how-the-judging-queue-works.md). - **The overview holds no per-judge numbers.** Who has filed what lives on the [Judges](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/judges.md) screen and in the [Review Queue](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/review-queue.md) — and what each judge is owed lives under [Payouts](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/paying-your-judges.md), for the people allowed revenue. - **Nothing here is per submission.** Whether one filmmaker has unlocked their scorecard, and how many of its categories, is on that submission's drawer, not on this page — see [Selling scorecard access](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/selling-scorecard-access.md) — or, one row per unlocked category across every festival, on [Orders](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/orders.md). - **Priority is not on this page.** Which films your team has marked **Judge this first** is on the [Submissions](https://www.filmscorecard.com/help/submissions.md#priority-judge-this-first) screen, through its Priority filter. Which films are **On hold** is there too, through its Judging filter — the hold warning above is only the count.