Organization & Staff

Before you can create a tournament or an event, you need an organization. If you do not have one yet, the platform guides you through creating it the first time you start an event.

1. Open the Organizer menu in the top bar (the hamburger menu on mobile) and choose Create an organization — or click Create a tournament straight away: the profile form opens first and you are brought back to your tournament once it is saved.
2. Fill in the name, logo, description, and social links.
3. It is approved instantly — you can start building right away.

Every organization has a public page listing its upcoming and past events. Players can follow your organization with the heart button to keep it on their radar and get a shortcut to your events.

Followers are also an audience you can email later — see the Email Marketing page.

You do not have to run everything alone. Add staff and give each person only the permissions they need — for example entering results, generating pairings, checking decklists, or issuing penalties.

• Organization staff — people who help across all your events (for example a co-organizer).
• Tournament staff — people you add to a single tournament (for example a judge or scorekeeper for one day).

Permissions are grouped by task, so a scorekeeper can run rounds without being able to touch payouts or settings. The Judge and Scorekeeper guides explain what each role does day to day.

To charge entry fees, sell shop products, or sell TIX packs, connect your organization to Stripe. This is a one-time onboarding where Stripe verifies your identity and bank details.

Connecting Stripe unlocks:

• paid tournament and side event entries;
• publishing your store;
• selling TIX packs.

Stripe Connect is part of the Plus plan, like everything it pays for. An organization that is already connected keeps access to its Stripe account page — status, verification and payout dashboard — whatever its plan.

The platform's only cut on your revenue is the optional Cancellation Protection (7% of an entry fee) that a player can add at checkout. A separate small platform fee applies only to very large paid tournaments — see the Organizer Guide.

GetPaird has two plans:

The following features need Plus:

• paid tournaments and Stripe Connect payouts;
• side and on-demand events;
• the Store — shop, inventory, order pickup, prize and goodie-bag distribution, and TIX;
• coupons;
• email marketing campaigns (each send is still billed per email);
• creating and running circuits.

The core tournament functions — pairings, standings, results — are always free, on every plan.

Plus is needed to activate a module, never to keep running what already exists. An organization that is not on Plus keeps managing what it already has in these modules — refunds, order pickup, the side-event queue, the TIX stand, switching things off, exports — but cannot create or switch on anything new until it is on Plus. A module it has never used shows as inactive in the organizer sidebar, with a note that the Plus plan is required.

The plan that counts is the organization owner's. If you are a staff member, ask the owner to upgrade: a Plus subscription on your own account does not unlock someone else's organization.

Plus costs 7.90 EUR per month or 79 EUR per year. Upgrade and manage your subscription from your billing page.

A circuit groups tournaments that belong together — a season, a championship and its qualifiers, a store league — under one badge and one shared metagame. One organization creates it (the hub) and adds the other organizations that take part; each of them then ticks "This tournament is part of a circuit" when creating a tournament, or attaches it later from the tournament editor.

Creating a circuit and running it as its hub need the Plus plan, held by the owner of the hub organization. An organization that is not on Plus keeps managing the circuits it already runs or belongs to, but cannot create a new one. A member organization does not need Plus to take part.

When the hub organization is on Plus, every tournament attached to the circuit is freed from the Free-plan caps (player cap, monthly cap, paid entries) — whichever member organization runs it, and on those tournaments only. Each organization keeps full control of its tournaments, its player payments and its platform fees.

Each organizer account can run one circuit, across all the organizations it owns. If you run several genuine circuits, write to [email protected] describing them — extra circuits are granted case by case. The limit exists to prevent abuse.