KingRegistration is a registration and payment service for chess tournaments: a chess-specific signup form with USCF ID and rating capture, payment at entry, and a per-registration service fee. Plenty of US scholastic and weekend organizers know it.
Chess67 starts at the same place — a signup form that takes payment — and keeps going: sections with their own pricing, pairings and live standings once the event starts, family accounts so parents manage several kids at once, and the club that brings those players back next month.
For an occasional event that just needs signup and checkout, KingRegistration does the job. Chess67 is for organizers who want the whole event in one place — registration, pairings, live standings, and the club — not just the entry list.
| Fact | Chess67 | KingRegistration |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Web platform for chess clubs and tournaments: registration, payments, pairings, standings, and member management | Chess tournament registration and payment service |
| Runs on | Any browser — phone, tablet, or laptop | Any browser |
| Price | Free to use*; 2% platform fee on Chess67 sales, plus processor fees that may include Stripe nonprofit discounts | Per-registration service fee on top of payment processing |
| Payments | Stripe or PayPal/Venmo checkout built into registration | Collected at signup |
| Formats & reporting | Swiss, round robin, double round robin, and quads; USCF tiebreaks and rating report export; FIDE TRF preparation | None — pairing happens in other software |
| Best for | Scholastic and recurring programs where families come back event after event | One-off events that just need signup and checkout |
KingRegistration bills per registration; check current fees at kingregistration.com before comparing costs for your field size.
*Free to use means no base subscription: publish events, run tournaments, and manage members at $0. Chess67 takes a 2% platform fee only on sales processed through Chess67; merchant processing fees are separate. Eligible nonprofits may qualify for Stripe's discounted nonprofit processing rates where available. The optional PayPal add-on gives a 0% platform fee on PayPal and eligible Venmo sales while active. Full details on the pricing page, and Stripe's nonprofit-pricing details are available from Stripe.
Venmo appears only where PayPal marks it eligible: US merchant and buyer, USD checkout, supported browser/device, and the Venmo app installed. PayPal eligibility docs
Chess67 replaces the toolchain, not one link of it. The club website, the registration form, tournament day, and the rating report all read and write the same records — and the people who register become the club that fills your next event.
Everyone who registered is already in your member list — there is no export at the end and no starting over.
Where KingRegistration fits: KingRegistration is stage two. The rest of the line happens in other software — and the families on it start from a blank form at the next event.
Scholastic chess runs on parents, and parents hate re-typing. In Chess67, a parent has one account with each child's profile — name, USCF ID, grade, section history — and registering for the next event is a few taps. A per-event registration form can't remember anyone, because there's no account to remember them with.
KingRegistration's job ends when payment clears: the roster exports, and the tournament happens elsewhere. Chess67 keeps going — sections, byes, check-in from phones, pairings, and live standings run on the same roster the parents built when they registered.
With a registration service, every event starts at zero entries and an empty inbox. With Chess67, your past families are members you can announce the next event to, and their registrations are two minutes of taps instead of a form from scratch. For a monthly scholastic series, that difference compounds fast.
Both screenshots come from public pages, linked below each image.
Chess67A public Chess67 tournament page: register, see live standings, check the schedule and location. This is what players get on their phones.
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KingRegistrationKingRegistration's public site: a registration-first workflow for signup and payment.
SourceTakeaway: If registration is the whole job, both work. If the same families register every month, the tool should know them by now.
The screens behind the claims on this page — real product, sample data.
Family accounts at signup: a parent picks which child they're registering, or adds a new one mid-flow.
See it live
Sections carry their own rating range, price, and bye requests — players put themselves in the right place.
See it live
Public messages and private notes to organizers (“please don't pair my kids together”) arrive with the entry, not by email.
See it liveScored from each product's public documentation and pricing pages — the rubric is at the bottom of this page.
| Capability | Why it matters | Chess67 | KingRegistration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public online registration pages | Players sign themselves up and the roster builds itself — nobody re-types entries from email. | Yes | Yes |
| Payments collected at signup | Entry fees arrive with the registration, so there's no cash box reconciliation afterward. | Yes | Yes |
| Pairings and tiebreaks built in | The same product that took registrations can pair round one — no export into separate pairing software. | Yes | Partial |
| Round robin and quad formats | Club championships, K-3 sections, and small invitationals often aren't Swiss events. | Yes | No |
| Live pairings and standings for players | Players check their board on a phone instead of crowding a printed wallchart between rounds. | Yes | Partial |
| USCF rating report export | Rated US events have to file a report — exporting it beats assembling one by hand on Sunday night. | Yes | Partial |
| FIDE report (TRF) preparation | FIDE-rated sections need a TRF file with complete player and arbiter data. Final reporting still goes through your arbiter and federation. | Partial | No |
| Custom registration questions and per-section pricing | School, team, bye requests, T-shirt size, different fees per section — real events need flexible forms. | Yes | Yes |
| Family accounts (one parent, several kids) | Scholastic events run on parents. One login that manages every child beats re-typing each kid every event. | Yes | No |
| Check-in from a phone on site | Morning check-in moves faster when any TD can work the line from a phone instead of one desk with one laptop. | Yes | Partial |
| Messaging and announcements to players | Round delays, room changes, and next-event announcements reach everyone without a separate email tool. | Yes | Partial |
| Member history (attendance, payments, engagement) | Recurring clubs need to know who's active, who paid, and which families are drifting away — per member, over time. | Yes | No |
| Full product works on phones and tablets | Parents register from phones and TDs walk the floor. Desktop-only software puts a laptop between you and both. | Yes | No |
Chess67 is free to set up — publish a tournament page, take a few registrations, and pair a round. You'll know within an hour whether it fits how you direct.
We build Chess67, so read these pages knowing that. We base each comparison on the other product's public pricing and documentation, and we say plainly when the other tool is the better pick. Verify prices and features with each vendor before you buy — they change theirs, and we change ours.
Updated 2026-06-10