Dempsi is the People's Choice voting platform built for pageant directors. Voting, payments, leaderboards, and CyberTracker text alerts — so your fundraiser runs itself while you run the show.
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Same job, two ways: with paper sign-up sheets, group texts, and a clipboard at the back of the venue — versus with Dempsi.
A Facebook event page indistinguishable from every other small pageant in the state.
A polished voting page supporters bookmark and share — one link, one URL, no copy-pasting Venmo handles into comments.
Clipboards, paper packets, and a Google Form that scares contestants away before they finish.
One mobile-friendly form. Photo upload, contact info, and welcome email handled in one pass.
Venmo screenshots, checks in the mail, and a spreadsheet that's three weeks behind — and nothing stopping a stranger from setting up a lookalike account and collecting in your name.
One page at one address supporters can check before they give. Stripe collects each donation, deposits straight to your bank, and reconciles automatically. Funds land in your account the same day.
A single Facebook post that fades from the feed by Tuesday. The energy of week one is gone by week two.
CyberTracker texts every supporter the moment their contestant moves — turning one-time voters into people who come back five times.
A handwritten tally on a clipboard at the back of the room. Updated when somebody remembers.
A live, public ranking that updates the second a vote clears — with activity badges that show who just moved and who's gaining ground.
Hard cutoff at 9 p.m. People arrive at 9:02 with cash in hand. You take it anyway. The math gets fuzzy.
A fluid close. Announce "fifteen more minutes" from the stage and watch last-minute sniping push totals up another 20%.
Rebuilding everything from scratch every season — new spreadsheet, new Venmo, new chaos.
Duplicate last year's contest in one click — pricing, descriptions, layout, settings. Add this year's contestants and go.
When money is collected by handle and screenshot, supporters have no way to tell a real fundraiser from someone who copied the name. A Dempsi contest is one page at one address they can check before they give, with every donation running through the organizer's own payment account — and a receipt on both ends.
No installation, no sales call, no contract. Sign up and you're in the dashboard the same minute.
Email and a name is all we ask. Free, no credit card.
Pick a layout, write a short description, set your prices. Add your cast — or, for an open contest, share a registration link and let entrants add themselves. Or duplicate last year's in one click.
Watch entries arrive, votes clear, supporters return. Funds land in your bank the same day.
A single Facebook post is a one-shot weapon. CyberTracker is the long game: every time the People's Choice leaderboard shifts, supporters get a text. They come back. They vote again. The contest runs itself for sixty days while you run the show.
People's Choice is its own honored title — never tied to the judges, never contingent on placement.
Typical revenue range per contest, before our fee.
Of revenue traced directly to CyberTracker text alerts.
Higher repeat-voter rate in contests with CyberTracker on.
From the Pageant Research Lab — 300+ contests and $1M+ in voting, analyzed
We don't guess what raises money. We measure it — and build the findings into every contest's defaults.
Eight things Dempsi handles so you don't have to — every one of them here because the data says it raises more.
Supporters opt in with their phone number and get a text every time their contestant moves up or down. The closing-in alert — sent when one contestant is gaining ground — is the single biggest revenue driver on the platform.
Donations flow straight into your Stripe account — no holding accounts, no waiting period, no paperwork. Money lands in your bank the same day.
A spotlit stage, a winner's podium, photo cards, a thumbnail list, or a clean name-only ballot. Pick the one that fits your fundraiser; switch any time, even mid-contest.
Your voting page shows who's "On Fire" and who's "Getting Votes" in real time. Momentum becomes visible — and visible momentum compounds.
When supporters cast votes, Dempsi suggests one more bundle at checkout. The lift is consistent, automatic, and adds to every contest's total without a word of effort from you.
Your most passionate supporters can give as much as they want — Dempsi makes it one tap. Simple flat-rate pages can't.
Clone everything — layout, prices, description, settings. The only thing you change is this year's contestants. Setup drops from days to minutes.
Every layout ranks contestants live, shows who's on fire, and marks who climbed since yesterday. The only thing that changes is how it looks to your supporters.
A lit stage. The leader bleeds in behind the title, the clock counts down, and the top three sit one tap from a vote.
First, second and third framed in gold, silver and bronze, each wearing her sash. The winner sits centre and largest.
The classic. Big photos, place badges, one vote button per card. Hard to beat when the photos are good.
A leaderboard with faces. Reads fast on a phone and holds a big cast without endless scrolling.
No photos at all. For contests where nobody submitted one — or where the ballot should stay plain.
When your contest ends, Dempsi prepares a personalized certificate for every single contestant — the People's Choice winner, the finalists, a Community Champion for the contestant who rallied the most supporters, and a certificate of appreciation for everyone who competed. You review the awards, press send, and every family gets a thank-you worth framing. It's the note that brings contestants back next year — and you never have to remember to write it.
Nearly every Dempsi contest is a pageant — that's where the platform was built and where it's earned its reputation. The same engine fits anywhere a community ranks people, pets, projects, or performances. Five of the six tiles below are illustrative concepts; the third is a real contest.
If you can rank people, pets, projects, or performances — and supporters care enough to vote — the People's Choice mechanics that work for a pageant work for you. Except where marked, each tile shows the format rather than a real customer.
No upfront fee, no monthly charge, no setup cost — we only earn when you do.
We earn a quarter of each donation; you keep three. Within the BBB Wise Giving Alliance's 35% standard for fundraising costs — with the engagement engine and automation built in.
The numbers on this page already answer that. CyberTracker alone drives 26% of contest revenue — more than our entire fee — before the checkout upsell, the layouts, or the automated reminders add theirs. And directors who've run contests both ways keep telling us the same thing: with Dempsi, they raise about twice as much.
And the money is only half the answer. Once your contest is set up, there is no day-to-day work: the texts fire, the standings update, the reminders go out, the certificates send — a gorgeous contest that runs itself while you run the show. We take a smaller slice of a much bigger pie.
Free to start · No credit card · You only pay when you receive donations