Guide to Planning your Projects and Submission Calls Quick Links: Project-Call Structure Basics | Recommendations | An Example | Submission Caps | Making Changes Project-Call Structure Basics First, the Duosuma Account is the top-level entity. It corresponds to an organization (which does not have to be a legal entity). An organization should only have one Account. Each Account can have multiple Projects. A project is a publication, book press, competition, literary agent, or other entity that accepts submissions. If you have more than one publication, press, contest, or agent, each one should be listed as a separate project. Whenever possible, each Duosuma Project should correspond to a Duotrope listing. (This will help ensure that the Duotrope listing links properly to the Duosuma Project page; otherwise, we may not be able to.) Important: The Projects and Calls you list must allow submissions through the Duosuma platform. You may not create Duosuma projects and/or calls that instruct people not to submit through Duosuma but through other means. Also, Duosuma is not a storefront. You may not create projects or calls for the purpose of selling physical or digital products or for selling services (such as editing or self-publishing services). Projects can currently only be vessels for Calls for Submissions. Each Project can have multiple Submission Calls, and Calls can have optional Submission Periods (which set when Calls open and close to submissions). Each Call can accept certain type(s) of submissions — fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, visual art, or multimedia — set the specific guidelines for that call, and limit the number of pieces that can be sent in a single submission. If the account has been set up to charge fees, you can set fees (or tip jars) on each Call and/or Submission Period. Recommendations for Setting Up Projects and Calls You should set up projects for each publication, project, or contest separately. All of your active projects will link to one another. Any time you accept different file types, you should set up separate calls. For example, if you only accept PDFs for certain types of submissions, that type of submission should get its own call. This allows the system to ensure you only receive the correct file type with each submission. Also, if you want to be able to set up automatically recurring submission periods, your Calls should be generic rather than issue-specific. For example, a "Flash Fiction" call makes more sense to set up with recurring submission periods than a call for "Issue 10." If you still aren't sure about the best approach for structuring your projects and calls and would like our advice, feel free to contact us. An Example: An organization called Duopolis Writers publishes a quarterly online journal, an annual anthology, and runs two contests. Their Projects and Calls could be structured like this: Project: The Duopolis Review Call: Flash Fiction (Up to 3 pieces at a time; Recurring Submission Periods in the months of January, March, September, and November; Optional Tip Jar) Call: Short Stories (One piece only; Recurring Submission Periods in the months of January, March, September, and November; Optional Tip Jar) Call: Nonfiction (One piece only; Open year-round; Optional Tip Jar) Call: Poetry (Up to 5 pieces at a time; Recurring Submission Periods in the months of February, April, August, and October; Optional Tip Jar) Call: Visual Art (Up to 5 pieces at a time; Open year-round; Optional Tip Jar) Call: Multimedia (One piece only; Open year-round; Optional Tip Jar) Project: The Duopolis Writers Annual Anthology Call: Fiction (One piece only; Recurring Submission Period from June 1 through July 30; Optional Tip Jar) Call: Nonfiction (One piece only; Recurring Submission Period from June 1 through July 30; Optional Tip Jar) Call: Poetry (Up to 3 pieces; Recurring Submission Period from June 1 through July 30; Optional Tip Jar) Call: Visual Art (Up to 3 pieces; Recurring Submission Period from June 1 through July 30; Optional Tip Jar) Project: The Duopolis Short Story Competition Call: Short Stories with the theme "A Tale of Two Cities" (One piece only; Submission Period from August 1 though December 31; Fee: USD $5) Project: The Duopolis Writers Chapbook Prize Call: Poetry Chapbook (One chapbook only; Recurring Submission Period from January 1 though May 30; Fee: USD $12) Call: Prose Chapbook (One chapbook only; Recurring Submission Period from January 1 though May 30; Fee: USD $12) Call: Hybrid Chapbook (One chapbook only; Recurring Submission Period from January 1 though May 30; Fee: USD $12) Submission Caps/Quotas Optional When you are managing your Duosuma account, projects, and calls, you have the option of setting Submission Caps, which will limit the number of submissions you can receive in a billing cycle. Caps can be set on an Account-level (which will count all submissions sent to any project under the account), on a Project-level (which will count all submissions sent to calls under that project), or on a Call-level (which will count all submissions sent to that specific call). You can also use these settings in combination, if necessary. Once any cap is reached, it will close submissions on that level (account, project, or call) until the start of the next billing period:Reaching an account-level cap will close all submissions, reaching a project-level cap will close submissions under that project, and reaching a call-level cap will close submissions for that call. You also have the option of setting Submission Period-based caps. Note that those do not reset on your billing date. Submissions for the submission period will remain closed after the cap has been reached, until you have another open Submission Period, or you manually re-open submissions for that call. For example: You can set a Submission Period for your "Flash Fiction" call from September 1 to December 1 with a cap of 250 submissions. If you receive your 250th submission for that period on October 15, submissions will close then and remain closed though the rest of the period. They will not re-open on your billing date. If you want submissions to re-open on the next billing date, do not use this option. Use the options described above instead. When Submission Caps are in effect, the public pages (for the projects and/or individual calls) will display a message and a progress bar indicating how much of the cap has been used, like so: Quota: This project has established a quota. Submissions will close when it is reached. 63% Some Friendly Advice: Since submission caps reset on your billing date (except for submission period caps), we recommend that you set your billing date to the first of the month, so that your submitters can more easily remember to check back on the first of the next month if your quota has been met. You can do this on your Manage Billing page. Making Changes to your Project/Call Structure If you have already set up your Projects and Calls but need to make changes to how they are set up, you can move your calls from one project to another, if needed. Note: Changing the project for a call will also update the associated project on any submissions you've already received for the call. Follow these steps: If you need to move the call to a project that doesn't exist yet, first set up that project. (See our Projects Guide for full instructions.) Navigate to the Call that needs to be moved, using the Manage Projects, Calls, and Dates page or the links on the Duosuma Control Panel. In the Basic Info section, click Update this Section. The current Project will be listed. Click Change. Select the new Project and click Update. Finally, update the links you use to point to your submission manager. Since you've updated the project, the links have changed. (See our Linking Instructions for full details, as well as HTML code and graphics for your links.) Go to the Duosuma Home Page. See more Documentation. Have any questions about this? Ask us.