Voting allows you to evaluate projects completed on Arcbazar. The vote consists of judging the basis of an architectural work – beauty, function and structure. Simply, it means, you judge whether the design is beautiful, whether it is functional – does it work, and whether it is realistic and buildable. In addition, graphics is judged as a fourth evaluation criteria. The voting system is based on a 10 point scale where 10 is the best and 1 the worst. Also, the average of each evaluation is calculated and shown as “Average” point.

All registered members of the Arcbazar community, designers and clients, can vote. Notice that designers cannot vote on their own projects.

Yes, Arcbazar regards voting as an honorable service by designers, and understands this feedback loop as an ongoing effort by designers to mentor/judge their peers. Therefore the system issues points for voting on projects, in order to promote, foster and strengthen our community.

The system does not allow voting on your own projects.

Votes have no direct impact on the ranking of projects. Clients can rank projects in any order they see fit. However, votes do have an impact on how projects are shown on Arcbazar's Top Competitions pages. The more votes and the higher the average the higher the project is listed on these pages.

Expert voters are designers that made it into the Top 100 of the overall designer charts on Arcbazar.

Everybody registered on Arcbazar can vote, however, the higher the designer in the overall designer charts the more weight is given to their vote. The average is calculated based on an algorithm that weights user-, expert-, client- and family/friends votes differently.

Both is possible. Every competition whose results have been announced by clients is showcased at the "Past Competitions" section on Arcbazar, and any user can vote on them at that point. However, there is also a paid feature, which allows clients to open their competition and get voting feedback from users before they make their announcements.

No. We do never charge designers any participation fee. However, when the designer wins a monetary award at the end of the competition, say s/he wins the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Prize, or receives any bonus, we do charge a 3% service and handling fee from the amount.

The first 3 ranked projects will receive monetary awards, e.g. the winner will receive %60, the runner-up %30, and the third %10 of the award money.

All your earnings will be displayed in your “My Bank” page. (Go to “My Home” and click on “My Bank” on your dashboard.) Here you can see all your earnings that you either won through a competition. You can withdraw any positive balance at any time in three ways: PayPal, direct deposit to your bank account or MoneyGram. Click on the “Withdraw” button, and decide on the amount and the transfer method, and your money will be transferred ASAP. Payment is done periodically within few days, therefore once you withdraw money from your account, you will receive a confirmation email when the payment has been done.

Yes. If you decide to use affiliate company products in your designs, please tag them after you have uploaded them onto Arcbazar. All relevant affiliate companies and their products will be listed at the Info tab at each competition page. At the end of the year we will be sharing 10% of all product sales proceeds with all designers, proportionally. In other words, the more tags you have in your designs, the more money you can earn.

Yes, you can participate as a team in a competition. You can form as many teams as you need. You can create teams just for one competition, or teams you think will participate in multiple competitions.

The team leader (the designer who creates the team) has two options: 1. payment of entire award to team leader only, or 2. distributing the award among team members. For example for option 2, if your team wins an award of $1,000, and you have 5 team members, each member will get $200 to their accounts. Points are distributed in either case proportionally among team members.

No, you can invite as many designers to your team as you need. These members can be from within or outside the Arcbazar community. There needs to be at minimum two designers in a team, otherwise the system will show the team leader as an individual designer participating in the competition.

The system will create a separate team profile page, showcasing all projects that this team submitted on Arcbazar. These team pages will receive points as well, and be ranked separately in the designer charts. Each team page will list all team members and provide links to each member's profile page. Team projects will also be shown separately in each member's portfolio page.

Once a designer decides to join a team, and that team participates in a competition, the designer cannot participate separately in the same competition. However, you can participate individually in any other competition your team does not participate in.