Sports Brand Unifies Awards & Ticketing

The client is a leading Australian sports education brand serving the business side of sport, running industry news, learning resources, and events for a close-knit professional community. Its event operations, nominations, awards, judging, and ticketing, ran across disconnected tools with no shared source of truth.

• Nominations, awards, judges, finances, and ticketing lived in separate tools with no central platform.
• Judging ran on manual processes, with no reliable way to assign panels, secure scoring, or aggregate results.
• Every new event category came with its own eligibility and judging rules, turning each event into a near-rebuild.
• No real-time scoring visibility or audit trail to defend results if a participant challenged them.
• Entry fees, tickets, and judge honoraria weren't wired into a unified financial system, and the multisite network couldn't share data across nodes.

• Build a single source of truth across the entire event lifecycle.
• Replace manual judging with a secure, auditable digital process.
• Let admins configure new award categories without rebuilding workflows.
• Unify commerce and reporting across a multisite network.

• Built an Awards Module with flexible per-award configuration for criteria, submission format, and documentation.
• Built a Nominations Module supporting multi-source nominations, dynamic forms, and automated stage notifications.
• Built a Judges Management Module with granular panel assignment, secure judge portals, and bias-reducing aggregation logic.
• Built an end-to-end integration layer with a single admin dashboard across the multisite network, tying WooCommerce into one financial spine.
• Ran the build with a dedicated cross-functional team operating in the client's time zone, with phased delivery and senior oversight.

• 4 custom modules built.
• 6 wish-list capabilities unified into one platform.
• 1 single source of truth end-to-end.
• Network-wide deployment across the client's multisite architecture.