Forms that work. Payments that clear. Scores that tabulate the moment the last judge finishes. Every contestant goes home with her scores. No spreadsheets, no paper packets, no 3 a.m. arithmetic. Founded 2022. 166 pageants in. A modern platform, already proven.
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Here's the same job, two ways: with paper packets, group texts, and a rented projector — versus with Bombyhead.
A Facebook event page indistinguishable from every other small pageant in the state.
A website contestants screenshot, sponsors take seriously, and parents bookmark.
Google Forms, Jotform, PDF packets, and emailed Word docs — form builders collect entries, but that's where they stop.
One mobile-friendly link. Auto-calculates fees, only shows divisions a contestant qualifies for, collects everything in one pass.
Chasing Venmo requests. Waiting on checks in the mail.
Stripe collects fees instantly. Money lands in your account the same day.
Headshots scattered across email attachments and Dropbox links.
Contestants upload once. Photos stay organized and carry over to next year's pageant.
A spreadsheet of who sent what, and a round of group texts the week before. The missing music turns up on pageant day.
One list of every missing photo, waiver and balance. One click reminds each family, or Monday reminders go out on their own.
Texting the same three people you always use, then a Facebook post and a week of sorting through DMs.
Post what you need and share one link in Facebook pageant groups. Applications arrive with each judge’s experience, you choose, and they’re already in your scoring setup.
Stacks of paper scoresheets, calculators, and 3 a.m. tabulation.
Judges score on their own phone, tablet or laptop. Tabulation is instant — the result is ready when the last score is in — and every mark is on an audit trail a parent can recheck.
Numbers stay with the director. Contestants leave the show without ever seeing how they were scored.
Every contestant gets her individual scoresheet the moment you release it — judges' scores, written feedback, category breakdown. Release after each round, or all at once; standings stay yours until crowning.
Bake sales, raffle tickets, and chasing reluctant sponsors.
Turn on People's Choice voting — something no form builder offers. In 2026 the median Bombyhead director raised $1.13 in votes for every $1 of entry fees.
Chasing sponsors for checks, chasing families for artwork, then rebuilding half the ads yourself the week before print.
Each family shares a sponsor link. Sponsors upload their ad and pay by card, straight into your Stripe account, and the Program Maker drafts the finished book.
Rebuilding everything from scratch every season.
Clone last year's pageant in one click — divisions, pricing, deadlines, colors.
Every contestant. Every score. When you're ready.
No installation, no setup 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 your divisions, optionals, deadlines, and entry fees. Or clone last year's in one click.
Share the registration link, watch entries arrive, judge on tablets, crown your queen, send scoresheets — all from the same dashboard.
Turn on People's Choice voting, share the link, and let supporters vote online. Bombyhead tracks votes, payments, and the leaderboard automatically. We only earn when you do — and across 36 director-years of Bombyhead pageants since 2022, 16 made more from People's Choice than from entry fees.
Median voting income per director-year on Bombyhead since 2022. 26 of 36 cleared $2,000.
Your share after Bombyhead’s 25% cut — before Stripe’s card fee.
Setup cost. No risk to try, no contract to sign.
From the field — pageants on Bombyhead and contests on Dempsi
Run a pay-to-enter online photo contest — contestants submit and pay per photo, your judges score the images, and every entrant leaves with a certificate. It’s the low-effort way to find new contestants: everyone who enters is a warm prospect for your next pageant. No stage, no venue — it runs entirely online, on your schedule, on the Bombyhead account you already have. You keep 75%, before Stripe’s standard card fee.
Every entrant is a contact for your next pageant — a feeder for your roster.
Your share, before Stripe’s card fee — same split as People’s Choice.
Yearly, quarterly, or monthly — revenue and engagement between pageants.
The program book is usually the last thing standing between you and pageant day: chasing ad money, chasing artwork, then rebuilding half the ads yourself the week before print. Now each contestant gets a sponsor link to share. A local business or a grandparent picks an ad size, uploads the ad and pays by card, and the money goes to your Stripe account. You approve every ad, or ask for a new file with one click. Families without a designer use the free Ad Maker: pick a template, drop in photos, match the gown color, and download a print-ready page. Then the Program Maker opens on a finished draft of your book (cover, welcome, order of events, every contestant and the approved ads) and exports a PDF ready for the printer.
Your families do the selling, and ad sales land in your Stripe account, less our 10%.
Fixed templates and type mean the ad pages match each other, however many families submit.
The book drafts itself from your pageant, and sponsor ads print from their original files.
Most families walk into their first pageant guessing. Pageant Prep gives every contestant you register a place to get ready, and it comes from you. Fill in a short Contestant Guide (your stage pattern for each division, the schedule, what to bring, how interviews run) and families see it marked From your director, next to tools that turn it into practice: stage-walk patterns with spoken steps and demonstration videos, interview practice with questions for their age and short feedback on their answers, a packing list that starts with your must-bring items, and a People’s Choice share kit. Each family’s to-do list shows what is still missing from their entry — music, photos, signatures — before you have to chase it. It’s a service most pageants don’t offer their families, and it costs you and them nothing. Practice stays private to each family (you never see their answers), and for anyone under 18, interview feedback is on only when a parent or guardian turns it on.
Your stage pattern, schedule, must-brings and interview format, labeled as yours. Preview exactly what each division sees.
Walk patterns read aloud with demonstration videos; interview questions by age, with a timer and a little feedback.
Families see what’s missing from their entry and finish it themselves. You see who has used it, in counts.
Running since 2022 — though the more useful number is what this past season looked like.
Pageants run in the last twelve months — about one every five days, from county fairs to state titles.
Contestants registered, judged and emailed their own scores in those twelve months.
Pageants on the 2026 calendar. All of last year was 50. Directors keep bringing the next one back.
Ten things Bombyhead handles so you don't have to.
A mobile-friendly link that auto-calculates fees, only shows divisions a contestant qualifies for, and collects headshots, files, signatures, and shirt sizes in one pass. Families can save and pay later, and get a reminder until they do.
Every entry still missing a photo, music, a signed waiver or a balance, in one list. One click emails each family their own list, or switch on Monday reminders and they go out every week until the pageant. The program-book photo you’d have chased by text arrives on its own.
Entry fees flow straight into your Stripe account. No checks to chase, no Venmo screenshots to reconcile.
Judges score on whatever they bring: a laptop, a tablet, or their own phone, which gets a phone view with one contestant at a time and the number pad. Weighted tabulation is instant — results are ready when the last score is entered, not after a back-room spreadsheet. Every contestant gets her individual scoresheet — judges' scores, written feedback, category breakdown — emailed the moment you release them, often that same night. No "we'll get back to you."
Built-in fundraising with a real-time leaderboard, text reminders, and an upsell engine. Across 36 director-years of Bombyhead pageants, the median director added $4,338. You keep 75%, before Stripe’s standard card fee.
Post what you need (judges, a tabulator, an emcee, a photographer, hair and makeup), invite the people you know, or share a ready-made post in Facebook judge groups with a link anyone can apply through. Judges confirm they have no conflict, contact details are exchanged only when you choose, and the judges you choose are already in your scoring setup.
Clone everything — divisions, pricing, deadlines, colors, optional categories. Setup drops from days to minutes.
Once a contestant uploads a headshot, it's saved to their library. Next year, or in their next Bombyhead pageant, it's already there.
Scores go from the judge's screen to the scoresheet untouched — time-stamped, logged, never hand-tallied. Any score changed after entry is flagged, your tabulator records what the judge said, and an independent auditor — with their own read-only login — signs off on every flag. Close each round as it ends and the scores are settled — a judge can’t revise a number after a contestant already has it in her inbox. When a parent asks for a recheck, you open the audit, not an argument. How it works →
Fairgrounds are metal buildings with one bar of signal. Every score a judge enters is saved on her own device first, then sent — and if the connection drops mid-competition, the scores wait and go the moment it comes back. Each box shows the judge whether it's saved yet. Nobody re-enters a round because the network blinked.
Your pageant deserves to look the way you run it.
The pageants that look like real productions all have one thing in common: a website that takes them seriously. The pageants that don't are usually on a Facebook event page — and look small next to their competitors for it. Contestants weighing where to enter notice. Sponsors deciding whether to back you notice. Parents looking up call times notice.
Bombyhead replaces that with one polished page that does the work of a serious organization's website. Pick a theme, type your pageant name, drop in a banner and a schedule. The typography, layout, and contrast take care of themselves — every page looks art-directed, not assembled.
bombyhead.com/p/your-pageant — the same address year after year. Search and shares compound across seasons.
Five contrast-checked editorial themes. Pick one; we control typography, spacing, and color rules so every page looks designed.
Contestant lineup auto-populates from registrations. Past winners stack up year over year — eighteen seasons, one URL.
No monthly fee. No per-contestant charge. No credit card to start. Bombyhead earns only on the three optional ways you can raise money — and only when you do. Your money never passes through us — entry fees, votes and ad sales go straight into your own Stripe account.
If you ever credit Bombyhead in your pageant program, on your website, or on a sponsor card — thank you. Word from one director to another is how other directors find us, and it's how "free, always" stays free.
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