Built for Baking Contests
May the best bake
win outright.
Registration, entry management, and tasting-table voting for baking contests: every entry gets a QR placard and the crowd votes between bites.
Create Your First Event
Try a live ballotNo card required.
The parts that go sideways
Every baking contest has the same failure points. Placrd removes them before the day starts.
- Sticky paper ballots at the tasting table
- Phones instead of pencils. Voting takes seconds between bites.
- Tie-breaks nobody trusts
- A clean, screened count settles it without a re-vote.
- Entry chaos at the door
- Caps, categories, and entry forms are handled online before the table fills.
How it works
Open entries with categories and caps
Bakers register online into the categories you define.
Every entry gets a QR placard
Placards sit beside each bake; one scan opens its ballot.
The crowd votes between bites
Votes land live from any phone. Winners are ready when the plates are empty.
The proof
How the vote stays honest
Anyone can promise a fair vote. Here is what actually enforces ours.
- One device, one vote
- Every ballot is tied to the device that cast it. Second attempts are refused, not counted twice.
- Bots get bounced
- Automated voting trips rate limits, bot checks, and too-fast-to-be-human timing gates before it ever reaches the count.
- Suspicious patterns get flagged
- Coordinated voting patterns are flagged for the organizer to review, with the evidence attached.
- Offline votes follow the same rules
- Votes cast on dead venue wifi sync later and pass through exactly the same checks as every other ballot.
Try a live ballot
Cast a vote on the demo ballot and watch the count move. No account needed.
Free to set up. You only pay when registrations come in.
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Free to set up. You only pay when registrations come in.
Vote from any phoneGuest-first registrationAutomatic Stripe payouts