Service · Conference registration
Fees & payment
Fees are defined per registration type, can differ before and after an early-bird deadline, and are collected online once the conference's payment service is approved.
Fee tables
Each registration type gets a display title and an amount. Amounts are written with their
currency — 100CNY, 10USD, or both as 100CNY,10USD —
so a conference can price in Chinese yuan, US dollars, or offer the payer a choice.
Conferences with membership support keep a parallel fee table for member types.
Early-bird pricing is a second, complete fee table with its own deadline. The switch from early-bird to standard pricing happens automatically at the deadline — no manual action needed.
The online payment service
Online collection is an approved service: the Chair applies for it, the SmartChair site administrator reviews the application, and on approval assigns the available payment methods. The service status is always visible: Not in service, Application under review, or Approved.
- The default method set is WeChat Pay and Alipay for CNY amounts.
- USD amounts are paid through PayPal; if PayPal is not enabled for the conference, USD options are not offered at checkout.
Payment management without online payment
A conference that does not use (or is still waiting for) the online service can enable payment management alone: organizers record payments manually, and participants still see their payment status on the portal.
Receipts
Organizers choose whether payers may customize their receipt, and define the list of receipt types (default: “Registration fee”). When customization is on, a payer can set the invoice title, taxpayer code, receipt type, and a mailing address — and send the organizers a free-text query about receipt issuance.