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EasyChair alternative
EasyChair handles paper submission and review. registration.expert does that and registration, payments, scheduling, check-in, and proceedings — in one connected system, so nothing lives in a spreadsheet or a second tool.
Free to start · No credit card · Built for academic & research conferences
EasyChair earned its place: it's free and nearly every reviewer already has an account. But it was built for one phase of the conference — getting papers in and reviewed. Everything after acceptance still lands back in your inbox, a spreadsheet, and a separate registration tool that knows nothing about your papers.
If you've ever exported an accepted-papers list just to re-key it into a scheduler, chased registration payments in a different system, or assembled proceedings by hand, that gap is what registration.expert closes.
The gaps
EasyChair doesn't sell tickets, take payments, issue invoices, or generate visa letters. You bolt on Eventbrite or a payment form — disconnected from your author and paper data.
Accepted papers don't flow into a schedule. The agenda gets built by hand in a spreadsheet and emailed around the committee.
No QR badges, no live attendance, no door-list. On the day you're reconciling a printed list against who actually paid.
Compiling proceedings and registering a citable DOI per paper is manual and external. It should be one click from the same accepted-paper list.
Side by side
Coverage across the full conference lifecycle — the phases each tool actually handles.
| Conference phase | registration.expert | EasyChair |
|---|---|---|
| Paper submission | ✓ | ✓ |
| Peer review (single- & double-blind) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Registration & ticketing | ✓ | — |
| Payments, invoices & visa letters | ✓ | — |
| Drag-and-drop program scheduler | ✓ | — |
| QR-code on-site check-in | ✓ | — |
| Proceedings & per-paper DOI | ✓ | — |
| One connected dataset, modern UX | ✓ | — |
EasyChair covers the first two phases. registration.expert covers all seven.
What you gain
FAQ
The Starter plan is free to use and charges 3% per paid ticket, so a small workshop can run submissions and review at no fixed cost — while also collecting registrations and payments, which EasyChair doesn't handle at all.
Registration and payments, tiered tickets and invoices, visa invitation letters, a drag-and-drop program scheduler, QR-code on-site check-in, and one-click proceedings with per-paper DOI registration — all connected to the same submission and review data.
The review workflow is built to feel familiar to anyone who has used EasyChair or HotCRP — assignment, conflicts, scoring, and decisions — with a modern interface and automated reminders so you're not chasing reviewers by email.
Yes — registration.expert is designed to replace the EasyChair + Eventbrite + spreadsheets combination with one system. Join the launch list for early access; founding conferences get white-glove migration help.
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