Category: Updates

Take control of exactly who votes — and see how they engage.

Identity-based voting has always been one of Izivote’s most powerful features. Whether you’re running an awards ceremony, a corporate election, an academic competition, or an exclusive members’ poll, it lets you decide precisely which individuals are eligible to cast a ballot. No open links. No duplicate votes. No uninvited participants.

Today we’re releasing a significant upgrade to how you manage those voters — making the experience faster, clearer, and more insightful than ever before.

What is identity-based voting?

When you create a vote page on Izivote, you choose the voting mode that suits your event. Identity-based voting means you supply a list of unique identifiers — one per eligible voter. Each identifier is shared privately with the individual it belongs to, and only someone who holds a valid identifier can cast a vote on your page.

This is ideal for award shows and galas where only registered attendees should vote, staff recognition programmes restricted to your organization, member associations where voting rights belong to dues-paying members, and academic institutions limiting participation to enrolled students or faculty.

What’s new

The updated Voter Identities panel brings an easier way to search and filter your voter list instantly as you type, add voters one at a time or by pasting an entire list in one action, and remove individuals or groups in bulk when your attendee list changes.

More meaningfully, you now have a live view of engagement. At a glance, you can see who has voted, who hasn’t, and — for multi-category ballots — how far through the ballot each voter has progressed. If someone has only voted in three of six categories, you’ll know, and you can follow up before voting closes.

One thing worth noting for your voters: participation data only tells you that someone has voted and how many categories they engaged with — never who they voted for. Their choices remain entirely private. This is by design, and it’s fundamental to how Izivote maintains the integrity of every vote.

Participation insights are available with any subscription plan. Free plan users retain full access to voter list management — adding, removing, and organizing identities.

How to use it

Open your vote page from the dashboard and navigate to Voter Identities in the side menu. Add identities one at a time or paste your full attendee list. Share each identifier privately with the corresponding person — by email, printed badge, QR code, or however suits your event. Once voting opens, return to this panel at any time to monitor participation.

Izivote handles the rest.

What this means for event organizers

Running a fair, verifiable vote has never required a technical background on Izivote — and this update reinforces that. The new voter identities panel gives you the oversight of an enterprise polling tool without the complexity. Whether your event has 20 voters or 2,000, you have full visibility and control in one place.

If you’re on a Free plan and want access to voter participation insights, upgrade your account to one of our plans.

Manually tracking and adjusting voting start and end times is a time-consuming process, particularly for events with many voters or multiple voting rounds. Without automation, it’s easy to miss deadlines, set incorrect timeframes, or forget to send timely reminders, which can cause confusion, undermine the credibility of the vote and frustrate participants.

That’s where Izivote’s auto-close feature transforms how voting deadlines are managed. Organizers can set a precise deadline for their voting event, and the system automatically closes the voting once the deadline is reached, no manual effort required. To enhance this process further, the newly added countdown timer provides participants with a clear visual of the remaining time, building anticipation and ensuring everyone stays informed. Together, these features remove the need for constant monitoring, delivering a seamless and timely voting experience.

Here’s how it works:

Set End Time: During event setup, organizers can specify the exact end time for voting, ensuring the voting period aligns with the event’s schedule. This level of control helps eliminate confusion by clearly defining when voting ends, allowing for a smooth and organized process.

Automatic Closure: At the designated end time, Izivote automatically locks the voting page, ensuring that no further submissions can be made. This seamless process removes the risk of any votes being cast after the deadline has passed, maintaining the integrity of the voting event. With this feature, organizers can be confident that the voting period is adhered to strictly, without the need for manual intervention or last-minute adjustments.

Countdown Timer: The newly added countdown timer enhances the voting experience by giving participants a real-time view of how much time is left to cast their votes. This feature not only keeps voters informed but also creates a sense of urgency, motivating them to act quickly before the deadline passes. By visually emphasizing the ticking clock, it drives higher engagement and ensures no one misses the opportunity to have their say, making the voting process both exciting and efficient.

A seamlessly managed voting timeline reflects well on your event. The auto-close feature brings a touch of professionalism to your process, leaving participants with a positive impression and increasing the chances of engaging with future events. This functionality is especially valuable for events, contests, and surveys that depend on accurate and timely results.

Incorporating an auto-close voting feature into your event ensures a smooth, efficient, and trustworthy experience for both organizers and participants. It’s a simple adjustment that makes a big impact on the success of your event!

Looking to take your event to the next level? Get started with Izivote today!

Izivote website has recently gone through a major update. The update presents bug fixes and more importantly the addition of several new features to the app. Some of these new features include

• Two new vote types

Anyone who has created a vote page on izivote would know izivote has two vote types (Open and Facebook) ever since izivote was launched, but due to requests from some users and analysis of the system, we decided to add two others, making a total of four different vote types to choose from for your vote page. The two added are Paid and Ticket.

With the Paid vote type, you can set an amount to be paid per vote, this is a way to generate revenue for your awards. You can set any amount in either US Dollars or Nigerian Naira.

With Ticket vote type you generate a list of tickets whereby only those with the tickets you added can vote. It is useful for office elections, class votes, etc, where everyone has a unique id known to them (e.g. staff number)

• Online payment

Online payment has been integrated to izivote hence you do not need to contact us to upgrade your account to pro or premium, you can simply upgrade your account by purchasing any of our plans in the pricing page

• Nominee profile

Having an izivote account now gives you more value because you can now create a nominee profile, upload your details and select categories you would be interested in, so you can be easily found by award organisers and have a higher chance of being nominated. In addition, it makes it easier for organisers to add nominees to their vote pages without having to source for information or type, nominees can be added with a click of a button.

There a several other changes made to izivote, a lot on the invisible part of the system, to raise performance and serve you better.

We constantly ensure that voting done on our platform is as easy and stress-free as possible, that you can easily find nominees in their distinctive categories and making them obvious to find, or if not found, using Izivote Search would easily locate them regardless of the vote page they were nominated in, same applies to options in izivote polls. Although voting on izivote seemed simple enough, there were certain factors which strain voters a major one being the need of voters to scroll to the bottom of each category to login to vote (in the case of a vote page using the Facebook vote type), scrolling up back to select the nominee or option to be voted for and scrolling down back to the bottom of the category to click on vote, the procedure only gets worse in mobile devices which have lesser display viewport hence accommodating limited nominees on screen at a time, which increases the amount of scrolling required from the voter. Although this limitation seemed not to have stopped thousands of voters who regardless voted for their favorites, we saw a need for it to be improved (thanks to all users who contacted Izivote support). We decided to bring the login button and vote button closer to any nominee or option to be voted for, hence voting on izivote now takes the following steps:

1. Click on a nominee or option to be voted for, once that is done, the ‘login to vote’ button would be shown above the nominee if login is needed to vote, else the vote button along sides a cancel button would be displayed.

2. If login is required, click on the ‘login to vote’ button and login appropriately.

3. If login is not required or if already logged in, the cancel and vote buttons would be displayed, click on the cancel button to cancel the vote process or click on vote button to vote for the selected nominee.

4. Once the vote button is clicked, the vote would be sent and the voting process is completed.

This doesn’t just reduce the amount of scrolling but it totally eliminates the need to scroll to vote a nominee or option once already in view, making it faster, easier and less stressful for anyone to vote.

From the bottom of the screen to the left-bottom of each category and now just right in front of the nominee or option to be voted for, we have gradually but eventually made voting on Izivote easier. Move your votes or polls to izivote today and take advantage of our system to provide you what is needed to have a successful award vote or poll survey.

We are constantly making improvements to our system in order to give the best to our users. In as much as Izivote has new UI upgrades, we also pay attention to our background working codes, optimizing them to give faster results making you to accomplish more tasks faster. With the recent changes to our user interface (UI) on the account dashboard, we also made optimization to our system.

Remember that you can be part of those making Izivote better for everyone. Send you suggestions for upgrades or report bugs to our support at [email protected] or chat with us live on our website.