Feature Overview of Our State-of-the-Art Online Registration System for
Chess Tournaments

We at www.OnlineRegistration.CC provide a fully automated, advanced, online player registration platform for chess tournaments with a free pairing & results publishing portal, compatible with multiple payment gateway support, to save your precious time and energy by more than 90% along with keeping accurate online records for all your events.

Online Registration for Chess Championships is a Product of Technosys Information Eng. Solutions, Inc., USA

Primary Features

  • Create Individual or Team tournaments with many customizations.
  • Fully automated online player registration platform with automatic section filtering.
  • Create single/multiple schedule tournaments.
  • Support for play-up class championships.
  • Bye administration support.
  • Age-specific sections.
  • Rating-specific sections.
  • Rating provider-specific sections (USCF, FIDE and combined USCF-FIDE sections).
  • Automatic section filtering based on rating, age, grade and titles.
  • The capability of activating/deactivating sections while the tournament is in progress.
  • Directly clone a past tournament to quickly set up a new tournament in 1 click.
  • Block specific players based on USCF/FIDE ID.
  • Team-tournament features:
    • Ability to swap players between teams and merge teams.
    • Can define Team average with individual player rating ceiling.
    • Support for individual registrations that can be manually allocated to a team later.

Scholastic Features

  • Grade-specific sections
  • Maintainable pre-defined school list for scholastic player registration
  • Possibility of obtaining various school-specific details at registration (such as school name/ address/ grade, etc., as per your requirement)

Rating Related Features

  • Automatic updating of FIDE/USCF ratings in the system upon the availability of the latest USCF/FIDE rating supplements.
  • The ability to process/update registered players' ratings using the current month/last month/next month USCF/FIDE supplement.
  • 'Process Ratings' function to automatically update the pairing files with the latest player ratings and to generate a list of exceptions with players not eligible for the registered section after the latest ratings update.

USCF Related Features

  • Support all 6 types of USCF ratings (OTBB/OTBQ/OTBR/OLB/OLQ/OLR)
  • The flexibility of automatically selecting a substitute rating type if the primary rating type of the tournament is unrated
  • Capability of automatically fetching the highest rating type for registration and pairing from multiple pre-defined rating types
  • Other advanced customizable algorithms to manually adjust and fine-tune and choose between multiple USCF rating types
  • The ability for players to purchase/renew USCF memberships
  • Auto generation of batch files for processing of the purchased USCF memberships at USChess
  • Automatically updating of USCF monthly supplement releases for the latest ratings
  • Advanced customizable algorithms to manually adjust and choose between multiple USCF rating types

Payments & Discount Related Features

  • Support for multiple payment methods for player registration (PayPal Advanced, PayPal IPN, Authorized.Net, Stripe)
  • Option during player registration to request players to support the organization by covering the online payment processing fee, helping to offset administrative costs
  • Capability of providing coupon-based discounts
  • Capability of handling automated, section-based multiple types of discounts, for both USCF/FIDE:
    • Rating-based discounts
    • Title-based discounts (including National Masters, and foreign FIDE titles)
    • Time-based ('early bird') discounts
  • Can provide publicly visible discounts (private discount codes)
  • Ability to issue complete or partial refunds

Player Account Features

  • Multiple player profiles in a single account for easy retrieval and use in numerous tournaments.
  • Ability to view all past tournament registrations and purchase history.

Powerful Search and Report Generation Capabilities

  • Search orders using Player Name/USCF ID/Transaction ID/Other player details, etc.
  • Generate simple, customizable reports in Excel/CSV format.

SwissSys and WinTD Features

  • Generating SwissSys tournament files with customizable SwissSys settings.
  • WinTD import file generation capability.

Publishing and Broadcasting Features

  • Automatic broadcasting of pairings using text and e-mail messages.
  • FREE publishing of pairings and results (using SwissSys files) on the fly.
  • Customizable advance entry list generation.

Seamless Integration with SwissSys

  • Our downloadable software interacts directly with SwissSys, streamlining the pairing and results process for each round.
  • Generates the initial SwissSys files directly, simplifying the setup process for tournaments and saving valuable preparation time
  • Effortless pairing and results management by automatically updating pairings and results in SwissSys for a smoother tournament workflow.
  • Send pairings, standings, and updates to players via text messages and email, ensuring everyone stays informed in real time.

TD Management Features

  • Create multiple TDs with different access levels.

Private Chess Club Features (purchasing our 'Membership database' is a prerequisite)

  • Ability to have your own Chess club's membership package registrations & renewals.
  • Membership purchase history.

Other Advanced Features

  • Custom-label solutions for chess tournament organizers interested in promoting your own brand.
  • The ability to have multiple player registrations in one go.
  • Capability of adding custom questions to players.
  • Can perform bulk registration by vendors by importing a player list via a CSV file.
  • Secure environment with 2-Factor Authentication system with mobile/e-mail and possibility of changing credentials.

Many more features!