EasyChair vs Fourwaves

EasyChair is a web service for managing conferences from abstract submission and review through program generation, registration, and proceedings publishing. Its review workflow includes reviewer management, paper assignment, online discussion, and an author rebuttal phase, with support for standard and multi-track conferences. Other listed services include Smart CFP for calls for papers, Smart Slide for presentations, proceedings publishing, and preprints. Executive and VIP licenses include integrations with IEEE copyright management and ACM and Springer proceedings. The free license allows at most 20 submissions and excludes technical support. Professional licenses allow up to 60 submissions, cost $3.90 as a one-time purchase billed per submission, and require credit-card payment. Executive and VIP rates are listed from $6.10, paid once billed per submission, with unlimited submissions; helpdesk and technical support are included, and VIP adds an assigned manager. EasyChair says licenses include encrypted access, data backup, and replication. It is hosted on its own servers and cannot be installed on a customer's server. EasyChair says conferences using the service range from small workshops to events with nearly 5,000 submissions and thousands of participants.

Fourwaves is a conference management service for academic and scientific events, covering abstract submissions, peer review, registration, event websites, programs and attendee apps. Submission forms can support calls for papers and abstracts, and organizers can export abstract books with author indexes. Review workflows offer single- or double-blind processes, reviewer conflict detection and custom scoring grids. Its iOS and Android app includes the event program, personal agenda, participant list and presentation materials, and works offline. An API with organization-specific keys provides endpoints for event, registration, form, submission and session data. The free Starter plan costs nothing and caps yearly submissions at 25. Essential costs $999 a year with a 100-submission limit; Advanced costs $2,599 a year with a 300-submission limit. Each lists a 3% service fee. When a yearly cap is reached, new submissions pause until an upgrade, though existing submissions, registrations and event websites remain accessible. The company describes its audience as research communities, universities, scientific societies and research networks.