Participation limitations
TotalContest provides multiple options to restrict voting for users based on different conditions.

Time period#
Time period allows you to set when your contest will be accepting submissions.

- Start date: The date where your contest will start accepting submissions (your contest will not accept any submissions before this date).
- End date: The date where your contest will stop accepting submissions (your contest will not accept any submissions after this date).
Membership#
Will allow voting only for logged in users with specific roles, you can make use of this option if you want to accept submissions from logged in users only if you select all the roles.
You can hold CMD on Mac or Ctrl on Windows to select multiple roles.

- Required roles: Select the user roles that will be allowed to participate.
Quota#
This option will be useful if you want to receive a specific amount of submissions for your contest. A good example if you want to receive 100 submissions
only and your contest will not accept any other submissions after that.

- Number of submissions: The number of submissions that will be accepted before stopping accepting any new submissions.