Pageant Alert Free — for pageant directors
For pageant directors — 2026

Fill your next pageant
with the girls you already had.

Every season most directors start from zero, because last year's list is scattered across a form account, a spreadsheet, and a Facebook group. Pageant Alert keeps it in one place — so in January you invite everyone who ever competed with you in one tap. Free, and you don't change a thing about how you run registration.

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Chapter01

The list you lose every January.

A girl who competed with you last year is the easiest entry you will ever get. Almost nobody asks her back — not from unwillingness, but because by January her details are gone.

Last year's girls
Without it

Names in a form account you'd have to log back into, a spreadsheet on the old laptop, and a group chat where half of them muted notifications in March.

With Pageant Alert

One list, every girl who ever signed up for any of your pageants, still current — because active contestants keep it current themselves.

Inviting them back
Without it

A Facebook post that reaches whoever the algorithm picks, and an afternoon of copying addresses if you want to do it properly.

With Pageant Alert

One tap. Or pick just the girls who came back before, or the ones who haven't entered in two seasons.

Pageant day
Without it

A group text turns into a switchboard — forty replies to your personal phone on the one day you can't afford it.

With Pageant Alert

Your message goes out, your phone stays quiet. One-way by design, and you see who read it.

Knowing it landed
Without it

You announced the room change. Whether thirty people heard it is anyone's guess.

With Pageant Alert

Read receipts fill in live. You phone the two who haven't seen it instead of worrying about sixty.

Your registration
Without it

Every new tool wants to replace the form that already works.

With Pageant Alert

Unchanged. This never touches registration — it takes whatever registration produced.

Cost
Without it

Texting services charge per message, every season, and can't send until carrier registration clears.

With Pageant Alert

Free. All of it. Nothing to cancel, nothing to approve, and you can send your first message today.

Your list can even be larger than your entry list — girls who signed up but never entered are the warmest names you'll ever hold, and they're flagged separately rather than treated as mistakes.

Chapter02

Pageant day, without your phone melting.

Your Facebook group is where they chat. This is where they hear you.

01· Send

Room change, straight to her lock screen.

Type the subject and the details, check the confirmation, send. Every girl who's set up gets it immediately — and so does her mother, on her own phone.

02· Watch

See exactly who read it.

Receipts fill in live. Anyone genuinely unreachable is flagged separately, so you know which unread names are worth a phone call and which just haven't looked yet.

03· Automate

"You're next" sends itself.

Type the interview order once. Each girl gets her own alert a few minutes before her turn — and if the day slips an hour, every call time moves with it.

Chapter03

One-way is the feature.

There is no reply box anywhere in this product, and that's the point. Contestants see the way you actually want to be contacted instead — so a girl in trouble still has a route to you, and the other fifty-eight don't.

· Honest

A push can't be unsent.

No product can recall one. So before anything goes out you see the exact subject and exactly how many people will get it. We'd rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise.

· Honest

iPhones need one extra step.

Alerts only work once the app is on her Home Screen. We walk her through it, send a real test alert, and don't count her as ready until she confirms she saw it.

· Honest

It doesn't send texts.

Push notifications and email. If a text message is specifically what you need, our guide on texting contestants tells you what the services actually cost.

Chapter04

Your list is somewhere. Bring it.

We ask one question — where are your contestants now? — and show you the one path that applies. Nothing else.

1· A file

Drop in a spreadsheet.

Any CSV, a Jotform export, or rows pasted straight out of Excel. No template, no renaming columns. Bad rows get named; they never stop the import.

2· A link

Or start with no list at all.

Put your link on the entry form you already use — "while you're here, sign up for pageant alerts" — and girls opt in themselves. Every pageant gets a printable QR code too.

3· By hand

Or type in twenty names.

Name and email. For a director with a stack of paper entry forms this is genuinely the fastest way, and it takes a few minutes.

Chapter05

And a few things you'll find later.

None of it is on your screen on day one. It shows up when it's relevant to you, and not before.

The draw
What it is

One button that picks a contestant at random, spinning through real names on screen so the room can see it land.

What it's for

Door prizes, sponsor giveaways, interview running order — and prize draws open only to girls whose alerts are working, which is the fastest way to fix your set-up rate.

Families
What it is

A contestant is one line on your roster. Her mother, both parents, a grandmother — any of them can be attached and get the same alerts.

What it's for

A six-year-old needs no login at all. A teen and her mother both get the room change, and it still counts as one girl, read once.

Vendors
What it is

Hair, makeup, and tanning apply to your pageant; you approve or decline. Coaches and photographers you recommend yourself.

What it's for

Your girls get someone local, you're not the booking agent, and you never see any of it until somebody actually applies.

Being found
What it is

One checkbox lists your pageant on PageantDates.com, free, and the listing follows your changes.

What it's for

You came here to reach the girls you already have. You may find girls you don't.

Chapter06

Pageant Alert doesn’t run your pageant.

It reaches your girls and keeps your list. If you hit a wall somewhere else — registration, payments, judging, being found — these are the tools next door, and they’re run by the same people.

· Manage

Bombyhead

Pageant management, free for directors since 2022. Registration forms that calculate fees, Stripe payments straight to your account, photo and file collection, judges scoring on tablets, instant weighted tabulation with a full score audit, contestant scoresheets, and People’s Choice voting as a fundraiser.

· Manage

Dempsi

Pageant registration and management with scoring, judging, and contestant data in one system. Directors already on Dempsi can push their entry list straight into Pageant Alert.

· Be found

PageantDates

A free directory of upcoming pageants, searchable by state, date, and age division. Tick one box here and your pageant is listed — and the listing follows your changes.

· Score

PageantScore

Free standalone scoring for a director who doesn’t want to change platforms. Judges score on their phones, tabulation is automatic, and every contestant gets her score report by email.

It's free, and you don't have to change how you run registration.

Create a pageant with a name and a date. Everything else is optional and can wait.

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