Swiss-Manager is the program FIDE arbiters know: a Windows license at €150 (€75 for the light version), FIDE Dutch pairings, TRF exports, and tight integration with Chess-Results.com. If you run norm events or federation-reported internationals, it's the established choice, and the arbiters you hire will expect it.
Chess67 is playing a different game. It's a web platform for the whole event — public registration, checkout, pairings, live standings, and the club around it — aimed at clubs, scholastic programs, and weekend opens more than title norms. This page is for organizers trying to figure out which game they're actually playing.
For FIDE norm events and federation reporting, stay with Swiss-Manager. For club and weekend events where registration and payments are half the work, Chess67 covers far more of the job.
| Fact | Chess67 | Swiss-Manager |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Web platform for chess clubs and tournaments: registration, payments, pairings, standings, and member management | Windows pairing and reporting program, the FIDE-circuit standard |
| Runs on | Any browser — phone, tablet, or laptop | Windows PCs |
| Price | Free to use*; 2% platform fee on Chess67 sales, plus processor fees that may include Stripe nonprofit discounts | €150 full version; €75 light version, one-time |
| Payments | Stripe or PayPal/Venmo checkout built into registration | None — registration and fees are handled outside the program |
| Formats & reporting | Swiss, round robin, double round robin, and quads; USCF tiebreaks and rating report export; FIDE TRF preparation | FIDE Dutch pairings, tiebreak controls, TRF export, Chess-Results.com publishing |
| Best for | Clubs and weekend events where signup, payment, and pairing should be one system | Arbiters running FIDE-rated and norm events |
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*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.
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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 Swiss-Manager fits: Swiss-Manager is a specialist in stages three and four — for FIDE-reported events, a superb one. Everything else on the line is yours to assemble from other tools.
Chess67 can prepare FIDE report files (TRF) and tracks FIDE IDs, arbiter rosters, and per-section reporting details — but Swiss-Manager has two decades of federation reporting behind it, and Chess67 is not approved, certified, or endorsed by FIDE. If you're running a norm event, use Swiss-Manager. We'd rather tell you that here than have you find out from your federation.
Swiss-Manager assumes the entry list exists; collecting registrations and money is your problem. For a norm round-robin with ten invited players, that's no problem at all. For a 150-player weekend open with sections, early-bird pricing, and parents registering kids, it's most of the work — and it's the part Chess67 does natively with public registration pages, per-section pricing, and checkout.
Swiss-Manager publishes to Chess-Results.com, which the international circuit reads. Chess67 publishes pairings and standings live on the event's own page, which your players' phones read. Which one matters depends entirely on who your audience is.
Both screenshots come from public pages, linked below each image.
Chess67Chess67's round control screen: pairings, results, byes, and board operations in the browser. Real product, sample data.
Source
Swiss-ManagerSwiss-Manager's site: established pairing and reporting software, deeply tied to the FIDE reporting world.
SourceTakeaway: Swiss-Manager is specialized arbiter software. Chess67 is event software. Norm events need the former; most club calendars are better served by the latter.
The screens behind the claims on this page — real product, sample data.
The USCF submission package — all three DBF files, zipped — plus CSV, TDEXPORT, and FIDE TRF16 outputs.
See it live
Sections carry their own rating range, price, and bye requests — players put themselves in the right place.
See it live
Standings update for players and parents the moment results go in — no separate publishing step.
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 | Swiss-Manager |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public online registration pages | Players sign themselves up and the roster builds itself — nobody re-types entries from email. | Yes | No |
| Payments collected at signup | Entry fees arrive with the registration, so there's no cash box reconciliation afterward. | Yes | No |
| Pairings and tiebreaks built in | The same product that took registrations can pair round one — no export into separate pairing software. | Yes | Yes |
| Round robin and quad formats | Club championships, K-3 sections, and small invitationals often aren't Swiss events. | Yes | Yes |
| Live pairings and standings for players | Players check their board on a phone instead of crowding a printed wallchart between rounds. | Yes | No |
| 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 | Yes |
| Custom registration questions and per-section pricing | School, team, bye requests, T-shirt size, different fees per section — real events need flexible forms. | Yes | No |
| 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 | No |
| Messaging and announcements to players | Round delays, room changes, and next-event announcements reach everyone without a separate email tool. | Yes | No |
| 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