{"id":890,"date":"2020-05-12T22:07:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T22:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweepwidget.com\/docs\/?p=890"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:58:02","slug":"only-allow-certain-emails-to-enter-your-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweepwidget.com\/docs\/only-allow-certain-emails-to-enter-your-giveaway","title":{"rendered":"Only Allow Specific Email Addresses To Enter Your Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Learn how to only allow certain emails to enter your giveaway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#local\">Whitelist emails for a single giveaway<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#disallowed-emails-example\">Disallowed emails example<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"local\">Whitelist emails for a single giveaway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This option lets you only allow certain emails into a single giveaway. All other giveaways associated with your account will be unaffected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navigate to the <strong>Security Settings<\/strong> tab, then tick the <strong>Only allow specific emails to enter<\/strong> checkbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, add all of the emails that you want to allow into your giveaway (each separated by a line).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/sweepwidget.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/emails-1-1024x579.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweepwidget.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/emails-1-1024x579.png 1024w, https:\/\/sweepwidget.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/emails-1-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/sweepwidget.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/emails-1-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/sweepwidget.com\/docs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/emails-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"disallowed-emails-example\">Disallowed emails example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If a user tries to enter with an email that is not on the whitelist, they will see an error message indicating they cannot enter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to only allow certain emails to enter your giveaway. Table of contents Whitelist emails for a single giveaway This option lets you only allow certain emails into a single giveaway. All other giveaways associated with your account will be unaffected. Navigate to the Security Settings tab, then tick the Only allow specific emails to enter checkbox. Next, add all of the emails that you want to allow into your giveaway (each separated by a line). 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