Documentation for Conference Organizers and Chairs

General guidance for everyone who is organizing a conference – covering the questions our clients ask most often and the experience we have gathered over many years of providing ConfTool to organizers and chairs. These pages are about running an event, not about operating the software.

Organizing your first conference? 
Start with the Guide for Local Organizers for the practical side – venue, budget, catering and registration desk – and read The Phases of Conference Preparation to see how the academic programme comes together.

Planning Your Event

Guide for Local Organizers

Venue, budget, promotion, catering, registration desk and everything else that happens around the programme.

The Phases of Conference Preparation

From the call for papers through reviewing to the programme and participant registration, phase by phase.

Payments and Services

Receiving Credit Card Payments

What an acquirer and a payment gateway are, which fees apply, and all payment gateways supported by ConfTool Pro.

Further Resources for Organizers

Additional services and tools that may be useful when preparing and running your event.

Explore More Documentation

User Documentation

For authors, reviewers and participants

Admin Documentation

Managing an event as an administrator

Configuration Documentation

Setting up modules and options

Technical Documentation

Installation and server topics

ConfTool Glossary

All terms used in ConfTool

ConfTool Support Forum

Ask questions and browse answers


These pages are far from complete – if you are missing something, we are happy to hear from you at info@conftool.net.