Getting Started
Set up your account, complete your profile, and learn the basics.
Creating Your Artist Account
One account lets you enter calls at every gallery using Crafted Call. You do not need a separate account per gallery, and you never pay to have one. This guide covers signing up, the three ways to sig
Migrating from Another Platform
Moving from ArtCall, CaFÉ, Submittable, EntryThingy or a spreadsheet does not require a project plan. Export a CSV, drop it in, and Crafted Call works out which platform it came from and shows you exa
Completing Your Profile for Better Recommendations
Your profile is what a gallery reads about you before they see your work. Filling it in is optional and does not affect whether you can enter a call or whether your submission is accepted. It matters
Finding and Browsing Calls
Browse Calls for Artists is the public list of every open call on Crafted Call. You can search it, narrow it by what you make and where you are, follow the calls you are interested in, and have new ma
Submitting Your First Artwork
Submitting to a call takes one form, split into a few steps, and it saves as you go. This guide walks through starting a submission, what each step asks for, and what happens after you send it. Before
Understanding Submission Statuses
Every submission carries a status that tells you where it stands. You can see all of them on My Submissions on your dashboard. This guide explains what each status means, how the dashboard groups them
Setting Up Your Organization
When you sign up as a gallery, your organization is created for you and you land on your dashboard. Two quick questions come first, then a checklist that fills itself in as you work. There is no long
Connecting Stripe to Accept Payments
Stripe Connect allows you to collect submission fees, entry fees, and process payments directly through Crafted Call. This guide walks you through connecting your Stripe account so you can start accep
Inviting Team Members & Setting Permissions
Team & Access (Admin → People → Team & Access) is where you add colleagues and decide what each of them can reach. This is the short how-to. For what each role and area actually opens, see Team Member
Creating Your First Call for Artists
A call is an open opportunity for artists to submit work to your organization. This guide takes you from an empty form to a call the public can find. It covers the five-step create wizard and publishi
Accepting a Jury Invitation
An organization has invited you to help select work for one of its calls. This article covers accepting the invitation, what you will see when you start reviewing, and how to declare a conflict of int
Messaging on Crafted Call
Crafted Call has built-in messaging so artists and galleries can talk inside the platform, with the thread attached to the submission, call or exhibition it is about. This article covers finding your
Where Crafted Call Works
Crafted Call is not limited to organizations in the United States. This article covers which countries can take payments, which currencies you can price in, what Australian and New Zealand organizatio
Finding Your Way Around the Admin
The admin sidebar is grouped by the kind of work you are doing rather than by feature name. Once you know which group owns which job, you stop hunting. This guide is a map of the sidebar, the switcher
Who to Contact: the Gallery or Crafted Call
Crafted Call runs the website. Each gallery runs its own calls. Most questions about a call are the gallery's to answer, and they reach the right person fastest when you ask the gallery directly. Ask