What an invitation pays

An invitation to judge now carries its own rates. Not one figure for the whole season — one pair per submission category, a technical rate and a creative rate, each paid per scorecard filed.

The figures start from what the season posts on Festival settings → Categories. You may change them for that one judge before you send. The judge reads them in their email, on the page the link opens, and on their own Invitations screen inside FilmScorecard. The moment they accept, those figures are fixed and nothing — not you, not another coordinator, not editing the season afterwards — can move them.

That is what makes two judges on the same season able to be paid differently for the same work, which is the point of the whole thing. And one of them can be paid nothing at all: on a paid season you may invite a particular judge as a volunteer, without changing anything about the season or about anybody else on it. See Inviting one judge as a volunteer.

Where the money comes from, in four steps

Each step is a copy taken at a moment, and nothing upstream can move a number under you afterwards:

1. The library default — what a category is worth by default, anywhere in your organization. See Judge pay.
2. The season's posted rate — copied from the library when the category is attached to a season.
3. The invitation's rates — copied from the season when you send an invitation, and yours to tune for that judge. This is the new step.
4. What a scorecard was worth — copied from the judge's own rates when they file it, and never rewritten.

Three consequences worth reading twice:

• Editing a season's posted rates does not touch an invitation already sent. It changes where the next invitation starts.
• Accepting freezes the invitation. After that, the rates on that judge's place cannot be edited from any screen at all — and neither can whether that place is paid or volunteer.
• A scorecard is priced from the judge's rates, not the season's. If a judge holds no rate for the category they are working, the scorecard is recorded as unpriced — see Two ways to end up with unpriced work. A volunteer judge's scorecards are a different case entirely: they are recorded at $0.00, which is a price, not an absence.

An open-call applicant reaches the same place by a different road, and it is worth knowing before you read on: they are quoted the season's posted price per category and either take it or ask for something else; you may reply with figures of your own; they may accept those or send back another set; and accepting the application writes whatever the two of you actually settled on. See Accepting an application.

The screens that make an offer

Everything below the picker is the same form. The rules, the wording and the refusals are the same wherever you start; the only difference is that the Roster's dialog sets one set of terms for every address you paste, with no per-address override. See Inviting by email address.

The form, field by field

1. Roles

Two toggles, Creative and Technical, at the start of one row with How this judge is paid and Pricing — and you may pick both. The ⓘ beside the heading says what each role does; the other two headings carry one too.

At least one is required. What you tick becomes the judge's roles on the season — Technical reviewer, Creative judge, or both. Those are the only two judging roles there are, so nothing about a judging panel is missing from this pair; a judging coordinator is a member of your own organization rather than a judge, see Judging coordinators are staff, not judges.

On the two dialogs that start from a judge — the directory's and the Invites sent tab's — the pair starts from that judge's own answer, the judge type on their directory card: a judge who reviews technical work alone arrives with Technical on and Creative off. Turn either on or off before you send; Send obeys what is ticked when you press it. Picking a different judge, or a different season, sets the pair from their answer again. The Roster's email dialog starts with nothing ticked — there is no profile to read for an address.

This is a change. Every invitation sent from these two dialogs used to arrive as Creative judge alone, whatever you had in mind.

2. How this judge is paid

Two segments, Paid and Volunteer, under the heading How this judge is paid, with the Pricing choice beside them on a paid invitation. What they decide is this one invitation, not the season.

On a paid season this is now your choice, and it used to not be. The control was read-only in both directions and simply reported which mode the season was in; a coordinator who wanted one volunteer on a paying panel had no way to say so. The season's setting is now a ceiling rather than a rule — it caps what any one seat can be, and every seat carries its own terms underneath it.

A volunteer season still admits volunteer seats only. That is the other half of the same rule, and it is why the control does not move there. To pay somebody on a volunteer season, switch the season to Paid first on Festival settings → Categories — which is always allowed — and then invite them.

Nothing here can change the season. Picking Volunteer for one judge writes nothing to the season, changes nobody else's terms, and does not appear on any settings screen.

Inviting one judge as a volunteer

Press Volunteer on a paid season and two things happen at once:

• The two rate columns disappear from the category list, along with the summary block.
• The $0.00 rule stops applying, because there is no figure to get wrong. Send turns on as soon as a role and a category are picked.

Nothing takes the summary's place. What Volunteer means is in the ⓘ beside How this judge is paid: "No scorecard they file carries a payout, and the invitation says so."

On a volunteer season a line does take the summary's place, and it is the one that has always been there:

On Volunteer, no category on Northern Lights Festival 2026 carries a rate and no payout is created. The invitation says so.

It talks about the season there because it is true of every seat there is. On a paid season it would be false — other judges are being paid — which is why a volunteer seat on a paid season never shows it.

Switching back to Paid restores whatever you had typed. The figures are not cleared when you press Volunteer, so pressing Paid again brings the same numbers back, tuned exactly as you left them.

The categories are still picked the same way, and the season's posted figures are still written onto the invitation behind the scenes — inert, owed to nobody, and there as the record. See What sending does.

3. Submission categories, and their rates

A searchable list of every category attached to that season, A to Z, one row each: a checkbox, the category's name, and its type — Film or Screenplay — in a column of its own. A category that arrived through an import has no library record, so its type cell is empty.

• The search box matches the name, the CAT- code and the type. Escape clears it, and so does the ✕ inside the box.
• All · Film · Screenplay sits beside the search box when the season has both film and screenplay categories, and narrows the list to one type.
• The checkbox at the head of the list, beside the CATEGORY and TYPE headings, ticks everything. While a search or the type filter is narrowing the list it ticks the matches only. A monospace count — 4 of 74 — sits beside the Submission categories heading, with Clear to untick everything.
• You must pick at least one. See What Send needs.

While this judge is being invited as Paid, a Pricing choice sits beside How this judge is paid, above the list, with two segments:

• Festival pricing — selected when the dialog opens. Every ticked category is offered at the season's posted rates, which each row shows, read-only, under one set of headings — CATEGORY, TYPE, TECHNICAL, CREATIVE.
• Custom pricing — the same two figures become boxes, for figures that apply to this invitation alone.

Going back to Festival pricing offers the posted rates again. Whatever you typed is kept, and comes back if you pick Custom pricing again before you send.

Under Custom pricing:

1. The boxes arrive filled in from the season's posted rates, whether or not the row is ticked.
2. Type an amount in dollars — 8, 8.50, 12. The $ is part of the field.
3. On leaving the box it settles to two decimals, and an empty box settles to 0.00.

Amounts run from $0 to $10,000.00, the same range the season's own rates use — so a legal posted rate can always be copied onto an invitation.

Reset to posted rates sits in the section heading, and it only appears once at least one figure differs from the season's. Pressing it puts every box back to what the season posts and the button disappears.

$0.00 on a picked category is an error

While this judge is being invited as Paid, a selected category sitting at $0.00 raises a line under the list, marks the field red under Custom pricing, and turns Send off. Under Festival pricing that only happens when the season itself posts $0.00 for the category — pick Custom pricing to type a figure for this judge:

A paid category cannot sit at $0.00. Set a rate above zero, or invite this judge as a volunteer.

The second half of that sentence is now a door you can walk through. It used to describe a season-wide switch on another screen; it is the Volunteer segment in this very dialog, and pressing it clears the error outright.

Two other things about it catch people out, and both are on purpose:

• Both boxes on a picked category must be above zero — even the one for a scorecard this judge was not asked to file. The invitation stores both figures whatever the judge does today, so a zero left in the other box is a mispricing waiting for the day somebody adds the other role.
• Reset to posted rates can put the error back. If the season genuinely posts $0.00 for that category, restoring the posted figure restores the problem. That is the honest answer: the fix is on Festival settings → Categories, or untick the category, or type a figure for this judge alone — or invite them as a volunteer.

An unticked category at $0.00 is not an error and does not block anything, and a volunteer invitation is never held to this rule at all.

4. The summary

Under the list, one line per rate this judge will actually file:

TECHNICAL $4.00 to $12.00 per scorecard filed CREATIVE $6.00 per scorecard filed

3 categories, 128 submissions in scope right now.

• A range, collapsing to one figure when every category you picked pays the same.
• Never a total. The two rates are alternatives on different scorecards, not things to add up, so nothing on this screen ever adds them and neither does anything else in FilmScorecard.
• A judge you ticked Creative for gets one line, because the technical figure on their rows is money they will never earn — even though it is still stored, and still has to be above zero.
• The second line sizes the commitment. The submission count is what those categories hold right now, which is the difference between a $50 decision and a $5,000 one.
• A volunteer invitation has no summary at all — the volunteer line takes its place.

The judge's own Invitations list shows both lines, always, because there it is a fact about the categories rather than about their roles. Do not be surprised that a creative-only judge can see the technical figure; the emailed summary is the one that follows their roles.

5. FilmFreeway access

One switch, headed FilmFreeway access, above the note, with the line:

Lets this judge receive submissions that can only be viewed on FilmFreeway.

It is off when the form opens. On, a submission whose only screener is on FilmFreeway can be offered to this judge like any other; off, such submissions are not offered to them at all. It is not part of the offer: it changes no rate, no summary line and nothing the judge is paid, and it never holds up Send invite — an invitation with it off is the ordinary one. On the two dialogs that know who the judge is — the directory's and the Invites sent tab's — a read-only line under it gives the judge's own answer, "Judge says: has a FilmFreeway account" or "Judge says: no FilmFreeway account", and the switch is never set from it. See FilmFreeway access.

6. A note to the judge

Optional, under 500 characters, placeheld with "Why you would like them on this season". It goes in the invitation email, and onto the invitation's own page inside the app — it is not repeated on the page the emailed link opens. The Roster's batch dialog has no note field; a note is written to one person.

What Send needs

Send invite turns on when all four are true:

1. a season is chosen (on the directory dialog — the other two already have one);
2. at least one judge type is ticked;
3. at least one category is ticked;
4. when the judge is being invited as Paid, no ticked category has a $0.00 in either box. A volunteer invitation skips this one.

Two named states stop you before you start:

• No season chosen yet — "Choose a festival and season first. The categories on offer, and what each one pays, come from that season." The pay control is absent too, because it is a property of a season.
• The season has no categories at all — "This season has no submission categories yet." Send stays off. A judge invited to a season with nothing attached could never be given a single submission, so no invite dialog will do it — the Roster's email invite included.

What sending does

• A place is created on that season as Invited, or a dead place — declined, removed, revoked — is revived as Invited.
• The roles are the judge types you ticked, one or both.
• The place is paid or volunteer as you chose it, and that is written onto the place itself rather than read off the season.
• The scope is exactly the categories you ticked. Not "All categories", even when you tick every one of them. That is what stops a category attached later from silently extending an accepted judge's work onto rates nobody set.
• The rates you were looking at are written onto the invitation, figure for figure.
• The invitation email is queued as a background job.
• The offer appears on the judge's own Invitations screen immediately, whether or not they open the email.
• A message names what went out, and it names the terms this judge got rather than the season's:

The season's posted figures are written onto a volunteer place anyway, whatever the dialog showed — on a volunteer season and on a volunteer seat alike. Nothing is owed on them; they are there so the record is complete, and so that a place re-invited as paid later starts from real numbers rather than from zeros.

A batch invitation from the Roster reports differently, because it sends several at once: "3 invites queued as Creative judge, sending in the background." It names no pay mode either way.

What the judge is emailed

The invitation is otherwise the message it always was — role line, your note, the link, the 14-day expiry sentence — with a compensation block in the middle:

You have been invited to judge Northern Lights Film Festival Spring 2026.

Your role: Creative judge and Technical reviewer.

Compensation, paid by the festival directly: Technical: $4.00 to $12.00 per scorecard filed Creative: $6.00 per scorecard filed Paid 30 days after invoice.

A note from the festival: We loved your work on the shorts panel last year.

Accept or decline here: a link

This invitation expires in 14 days. If you were not expecting it, you can ignore this message.

• The email carries ranges, not the per-category breakdown. The exact figures are one click away, and a fourteen-row table in a plain-text email is worse than the range in every mail program there is.
• One line per scorecard they will file, driven by their roles.
• Your payment terms follow the figures — "Paid 30 days after invoice", or "Paid on the 15th of the month" — when your organization has set judge payment terms. With none set, that line is simply absent.
• A volunteer invitation says "Compensation: none. You are invited on a volunteer basis and no payout is created." — and it says that for a volunteer judge on a paying season too, with no figures anywhere in the message. The email reads the place's own terms, not the season's.
• An invitation with no rates at all has no compensation block, exactly as an offerless invitation always did.
• The email is no longer the only route. A judge with an account and a finished profile can read and answer the same offer inside FilmScorecard, so a bounced or deleted message is no longer a dead end — see Your invitations.

"Paid by the festival directly" means exactly that. No money moves through the platform: you pay your judges yourself and record it afterwards on the pay ledger, and the email, the invitation page, the judge's own statement, the Terms of Use and the Judge Code of Conduct the judge agrees to all say the same. A judge who wants paying sends you an invoice from their statement — see Judge invoices.

What the invitation page shows

The link opens the same page it always did — festival, season, role, the address it was sent to, the expiry — and then, under What this festival is offering, a table:

with the line under it: "Per scorecard filed, paid by the festival directly." — and, under that, your payment terms line when you have set any.

• The full breakdown, not a range. This is where somebody binds themselves to the figures, so a range that hid the difference between $4.00 and $12.00 would be the wrong answer.
• Both columns are always shown, including the one for a scorecard this judge was not asked to file. It is the second reason both boxes have to be above zero.
• The table scrolls sideways, at every width. Rows stay rows on a phone; the heading row stays pinned to the top, the Category column stays pinned to the left, and the scroll region takes keyboard focus so the figures can be read without a mouse.
• On a volunteer invitation the table is replaced by "Volunteer — no payout" and "You are invited on a volunteer basis and no payout is created." That is true of a volunteer judge on a paid season as well — the page reads the invitation, not the season, so two people invited to the same season can be looking at two different pages.
• An invitation with no categories reads "This invitation does not name any submission categories yet. Ask the festival what you would be scoring before you accept." Accept and Decline still work.

The judge's own Invitations screen shows the same table, built from the same figures by the same component, so the two cannot disagree. What differs is that the in-app copy also carries your note, does not name their roles, and offers a third action — blocking your festival. It is written up in Your invitations.

A judge is never shown the season's posted rates — only their own. The gap between the two would tell them what other judges were offered, so it is not on the screen and there is no way to ask for it. That still holds after they accept: their pay statement and their Earnings screen print the rate each of their own scorecards recorded, and nothing about anybody else's. A volunteer judge is likewise never told that anybody else on the season is being paid.

An open-call applicant is the one exception, and it is not really one. They are shown the season's posted price for each category — that is the quote they are answering — and never anybody else's figures. See Open calls.

Once they accept, the figures are fixed

There is no screen for editing what an accepted judge is paid, and the refusal is at the database rather than only on the page: an accepted judge's rates cannot be rewritten by anyone, from anywhere.

Nor can paid become volunteer, or volunteer paid. Whether a place pays is frozen by accepting exactly as the figures are, and for the same reason — the judge agreed to terms, and terms that could still move afterwards would not be terms. There is no control for it on any screen, and the database refuses it even if one is reached another way.

What that means in practice:

• Editing the season's posted rates changes nothing about a judge who has already accepted, and nothing about an invitation already sent to a judge who has not.
• Switching the season between Paid and Volunteer changes nothing about any place that already exists. Existing volunteer places stay volunteer when a season turns Paid, so a raise never lands on somebody who did not agree to one.
• Reset pay to library changes nothing about either.
• Resending an invitation changes nothing. It is the same offer with a new link — the same figures and the same pay mode — so what is already sitting in that judge's inbox stays exactly as it is.
• Revoking changes nothing about the record. It stops the link working; the rates stay on the row as the account of what was offered. It also takes the offer off the judge's Invitations screen entirely.
• Detaching a category from the season does remove its rates, from every judge including accepted ones, because the category itself is gone. Their other categories are untouched.

Fixed means existing figures never move — not that nothing new can be added. A category an accepted paid judge did not have a rate for gets one, fixed the moment it is written, in two ways:

• Adding it to their scope on the Roster asks you for their rate, filled in with the season's posted price. See Judging scope.
• Attaching a new category to the season gives every accepted paid judge on All categories its posted price. See Judge pay.

Either way the judge is emailed, with a line in their inbox, naming the category and what it pays them.

To offer somebody different money — or to move them between paid and volunteer — revoke and invite again, or, if they declined or you removed them, simply invite again. A re-invitation rewrites the rates and the pay mode to whatever the dialog is showing you at that moment. A pending invitation cannot be edited in place; revoke and re-invite is the whole of it.

The other two ways onto a season

Inviting by email address

Invite judges on the Roster tab is the only invitation control that takes an email address rather than a name out of the directory pool — and it commits money the same way the other two do. Under the addresses and the role picker sits the same terms form described above.

• One batch, one set of terms. Everything you set applies to every address you pasted; there is no per-address override and no note field. Twenty addresses each with their own rate table is what the other two dialogs are for.
• That includes the pay mode, and FilmFreeway access. Every address in one batch is invited on the same footing — all paid, or all volunteers, and all with the same FilmFreeway switch. To mix them, send two batches.
• The rate lines follow the roles you tick. With nothing ticked yet the summary reads "Pick a judging role above to see what it pays."
• A volunteer season says so and names itself.
• The scope is the categories you ticked, exactly as on the other two.
• A season with no attached categories cannot send. The block reads "This season has no submission categories yet." and the send is refused. Attach a category to the season first.

Accepting an application

Accepting a judge's application on the Requests tab is the one route with no rate-setting step, because the rates were settled before it reached you: the applicant was quoted your season's posted price for every category they picked, either took it or asked for something else, and — if you replied with a counter — either accepted your figures or sent back another set of their own.

What accepting writes:

• The place is paid or volunteer as the application was. An applicant who chose Volunteer on a paying call joins as a volunteer; you cannot upgrade them at the moment of accepting, and there is no control that offers to. See Paying a volunteer applicant.
• The categories they picked carry the agreed figure — your counter for that category only where the judge accepted it, and what they asked for everywhere else — in the column for the kind of judging they applied for. The other column on those rows keeps your season's posted figure.
• A counter nobody answered pays the ask. So does one the applicant answered by sending back figures of their own, which replaces their ask and withdraws your counter. The Accept dialog names which of the three you are in before you commit — see Which rate is used.
• Every other category on the season carries your posted pair, in both columns — including the ones the judge is not scoped to. Two reasons: a category they never named must not inherit a number agreed about a different one, and widening their scope later should not land them on unpriced work.
• A volunteer application takes your posted pairs on every category, including the ones it named. Nothing is owed on them — the place's mode is what makes it unpaid — and writing the applicant's zeros there instead would leave one judge priced at nothing for good if the place were ever re-invited as paid.
• So a second role added later on the Roster pays your posted rate, never a figure agreed for a different kind of work.
• Their scope is the application's, which is a change: the categories they picked, and the kind of work they said they could cover. Accepting used to put every applicant on the whole season. See The scope accepting writes.

They are paid what was agreed with them. That is new, and it took two fixes. Accepting used to write your season's posted pairs over the top of the whole conversation, so a judge who had settled on a different figure was quietly paid something else. Then it wrote your counter whether or not anybody had taken it, so a festival could reply at its own number and accept at it with no consent anywhere on record. A counter is now an offer until the applicant accepts it, and what is written is the figure both sides actually settled on, per category.

The price they were quoted is frozen at the moment they applied, so editing a category on Judge pay between their applying and your accepting does not rewrite what was agreed — it only changes what the next applicant is quoted, and what an unpicked category is worth. A revised ask does not move it either: a revision rewrites what the applicant wants, never what you were asking.

It still shows up on the judge's Invitations screen, as an Accepted row with no deadline, carrying the rates the acceptance wrote. Nobody sent them an invitation to answer; the row is the record of the terms.

Paying a volunteer applicant

There is no way to turn a volunteer application into a paid one. Counter is not offered on one — there is no figure to counter — and accepting honours what they asked for.

The route is a paid invitation from the Judges directory, which is the path that puts real figures in front of a judge before they bind themselves to anything. Decline the application, or accept it and then revoke and re-invite; either way what they are agreeing to is on the screen when they agree to it.

Judges already on your seasons

Nobody had to be re-invited. Every judge on every season was given rates when this shipped, taken from that season's posted rates, over the categories they were already allowed to work — active, paused, invited, declined and removed alike. Every place was likewise given the pay mode its season had at the time, so nothing about an existing panel moved.

So a judge who accepted last month is on the posted figures, and a judge you invite tomorrow is on whatever you type. Both read the same way everywhere.

Two ways to end up with unpriced work

Nothing falls back to the season's rate at the moment a scorecard is filed — deliberately, because a fallback would quietly re-introduce the floating number this whole chain exists to prevent. A judge working a category they hold no rate for files successfully and the scorecard is recorded as unpriced.

The two gaps this used to describe are closed for accepted judges. Attaching a category to the season now prices it for every accepted paid judge on All categories, and widening an accepted paid judge's scope on the Roster asks you for their rate. Judges an earlier attach had left without a rate were given the season's posted figures when that changed — but scorecards they had already filed there stay unpriced; nothing prices work after the fact.

There are still two ways to get there:

1. A category attached at $0.00. Attaching does not give a judge a posted rate of $0.00 for a role they hold, so a category attached before it was priced leaves every accepted paid judge on All categories without a rate for it until you price it in Settings, which then gives them the posted figures — but anything they filed there in the meantime stays unpriced. Price a category in the library before you attach it. See Judge pay.
2. Widening the scope of a judge who has not accepted yet. The Judging scope card asks for a rate only on a place that has accepted. A paid judge whose invitation is still unanswered holds rates for exactly the categories it named; widen them before they accept and the added categories have none. Wait until they accept, or revoke and re-invite over the wider list.

A volunteer judge is neither of these. Their scorecards are recorded at $0.00 — a real price, deliberately free — whatever categories they are given and whenever they were added. They never land in the unpriced bucket, and they never need pricing.

Nothing warns you at the moment it happens, and no judge is ever blocked by it. The scorecard files; it simply records nothing about money. Where it does surface is the season's pay ledger: unpriced scorecards are reported in amber there and excluded from every figure — see Paying your judges — and on the judge's own side, in the same amber: their statement reports them, and their Earnings screen counts them as "awaiting pricing" with an em dash where the rate would be — so the person who filed the work can see that nothing was recorded for it: see Your pay statement. For a judge who has not accepted yet, revoking and re-inviting over the full category list rewrites their rates from scratch — for the scorecards still to come; the ones already filed stay unpriced.

Reading an offer back

Everything an offer says is on the season's Invites sent tab:

Volunteer, no payout is now a fact about one row, not about the tab. On a paid season it can sit in a column of figures, and the two rows beside it are being paid normally.

The Role column's second line now reads "3 categories" rather than "All categories" for anything sent from an invite dialog, because that is what the invitation named. A judge who was invited, went dead, and then came back through an accepted application reads the application's count instead — the acceptance replaces the scope the invitation gave them.

An application is read back on the Requests tab instead, where the record panel shows what you were asking per category, what they asked for, what you countered and what they said back — see What they asked for.

And what one judge is paid is on their own panel too, on the Roster tab's Pricing card — where a volunteer place reads "This judge holds a volunteer seat on this season."

What this does not do

• Nothing charges and nothing pays. These figures are a written record of what you intend to pay. No payout, transfer or Stripe object is created anywhere; an invoice exists only when a judge sends you one from their statement — see Judge invoices.
• What a filed scorecard was worth has two screens, and neither is this one. The amount is recorded on every scorecard as it is filed; once the scorecard is approved it is added up on the season's Payouts ledger — see Paying your judges — and it appears on the judge's own side, on their Earnings screen and the pay statement behind it, which is the same document read from the other side — see Your pay statement and What a filed scorecard records.
• A judge cannot reply to an invitation with different rates. Neither invitation surface has a counter-offer: the emailed page offers Accept and Decline, and the in-app one offers Accept, Decline and blocking your festival. Asking in a reply to the email is how a different figure gets discussed today. An open-call applicant can, on the application form and again on the application itself once you have countered — which is the one negotiating surface in FilmScorecard.
• A judge cannot ask to volunteer on an invitation either. The choice is yours when you send it; theirs only when they apply to an open call.
• There is no comparison with anything on the judge's profile. A judge's profile says Paid or Volunteer and names no figure; an offer is a pair per category, so there is nothing for it to be compared against. The word is still on their directory card, in their profile panel and on the judge picker, and the Compensation filter still works — but there is no Match asking rate button and no amber "below their asking rate" warning, and nothing like them.
• You cannot edit an offer in place, before or after it is answered — the pay mode included.
• There is no per-judge tuning on an accepted application — the negotiation happens on the application itself, before you accept — and no per-address tuning inside one batch of email invitations. The scope is not tunable there either: it is taken from the application and changed afterwards on the Roster.

Messages

Related guides

• Judge pay — the season's own posted rates, the Paid or Volunteer ceiling and what locks it, and what a filed scorecard records.
• Paying your judges — where the recorded amounts are added up once scorecards are approved, where a volunteer judge's $0.00 lines appear, and where the payments you make are logged.
• Earnings and Your pay statement — what the judge eventually sees of all this: every festival on one screen, one statement per paid place, and a Volunteer tab for the rest.
• Invites sent — the tab every offer lands on: resending, withdrawing, and reading one back.
• Judges directory — the pool both invite dialogs draw from, and the other place the offer form opens.
• Judges — the Roster tab: inviting by email address, roles, judging scope, the Pricing card, and everything after an invitation is answered.
• Judge requests — accepting an application, countering its prices per category, reading the answer that comes back, and what accepting writes.
• Your judging invitation — written for the judge who receives what you send.
• Your invitations — the judge's in-app list of every offer they hold, and the three answers they can give.