Choosing winners in the Giveaway Calendar template

All plans Last reviewed October 29, 2026

The Giveaway Calendar template saves every day's entries to one list. To pick a winner for each day's prize, filter that list in the Entries Manager by the prize name or by submission date, then draw a winner with the Random Entry Picker and label it. Repeat for each day. Filtering by prize name is most reliable when past days weren't locked.

Note: This article is for the Giveaway Calendar template, which you can find here. For how the template works, see Giveaway Calendar template.

What you can do

To	Do this
See all entries for the calendar	Open the list in the Entries Manager.
Find the entries for one day's prize	Filter by prize name or by date.
Draw a winner for that day	Use the Random Entry Picker.
Find a day's winner later	Filter by their label.

Before you start

Every day's entries are in one list, because the template uses a single form.
Filter by prize name when you can. If the template's Behavior settings copy the prize name or prize ID to the form, each entry records the prize the entrant chose.
Filtering by date only works if Lock past days was on. Otherwise, entrants could enter an earlier day's giveaway, and their entry date won't match that prize's day.

Open your entries

From the Campaign Builder: Click the inbox icon on your Form Container in the Edit Widgets Panel. It shows the number of entries.
From the Dashboard: Click Manage, then Lists. Find your list and click the number of entries next to its name.

Filter by prize name

In Search at the top of the Filters sidebar, type the day's prize name or prize ID exactly as it appears in the template.
Click Apply filters or press Enter.

If the prize name has more than one word, you only see entries that contain every word.

Filter by date

In the Filters sidebar on the right, open Date.
Enter the day in the From and To fields, or click the calendar icon to choose it.
Click Apply filters or press Enter.

Pick a winner for each day

With one day's entries showing, click Actions, then Pick Random Entries/Winner(s).
Set Number of Entries to Pick.
In Labels to Apply to Picked Entries, enter a label, such as "winner".
Click Submit & Close. When Picked entries ready appears, click View to see the winner.
Clear the prize or date filter, filter for the next day, and draw again.

To stop one person winning twice, open the Label filter before each draw and add your winner label under Exclude Labels. For all the picker options, see How to select winners.

Find your winners

In the Filters sidebar, open Label and choose the label you gave your winners.
Click Apply filters or press Enter.

If something goes wrong

What you see	What to do
A day's date filter includes entries for other prizes	Lock past days was off, so entrants could enter earlier days. Filter by prize name instead.
Searching for a prize name shows nothing	Check the template copies the prize name or ID to the form, and type it exactly as it appears in the template. Search matches whole words, so end a word with `*` to match the start of it.
The same person won two days	Before each draw, exclude your winner label in the Label filter.
A winner is from the wrong day	The new day's filter wasn't applied, so the list still showed the previous day. Click Apply filters, check the entries shown, then draw again.

FAQs

Why are all my days' entries in one list?

The Giveaway Calendar template uses a single form, so every entry goes to the same list. You separate them by filtering for each day's prize or date.

Should I filter by prize name or by date?

By prize name, if the template copies the prize name or ID to the form. That always matches the prize the entrant chose. Filtering by date only matches if Lock past days was on, so nobody could enter an earlier day's giveaway.

How do I stop the same person winning two days?

Give every winner the same label, such as "winner". Before each new draw, open the Label filter and add that label under Exclude Labels.

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