One price per conference. Every feature on every plan.
Plans differ only in how many submissions they include. Reviewers, organizers, tracks, sessions and attendees are unlimited. Pay once for the event; there is no subscription.
Workshop
Free
per conference
- 25 submissions
- 2 GB of manuscripts
- Unlimited reviewers and sessions
- Every feature
For workshops, PhD symposia and trying the product.
Starter
£159
per conference, paid once
- 100 submissions
- 10 GB of manuscripts
- Unlimited reviewers and sessions
- Every feature
Small conferences and special sessions.
Standard
£479
per conference, paid once
- 300 submissions
- 25 GB of manuscripts
- Unlimited reviewers and sessions
- Every feature
Annual meetings with parallel sessions.
Large
£1,199
per conference, paid once
- 1000 submissions
- 100 GB of manuscripts
- Unlimited reviewers and sessions
- Every feature
Association-scale conferences.
Every conference starts on the Workshop plan. Upgrade from inside the conference when you need to; the higher allowance applies at once.
Add-ons
Bought from the conference's Plan and features tab whenever you need them. Nothing recurs on its own.
Extra submissions
£95
per pack of 50, about £1.90 a submission
Ran past the allowance? Add a pack to the current conference and decisions unblock at once. Buy as many as you need, on any plan, right up to the day you send decisions.
AI reviewer
£3.98
per paper, in packs: 10 for £47, 50 for £199
One more reviewer that reads every paper and scores it against your own criteria, with comments for the committee. Compile decisions on human scores, AI scores or both, and see where they disagree. Never sent to authors; disclosing it on the call for papers is a separate switch.
Keep manuscripts online longer
£39
per conference per year, up to 10 GB
Uploaded files are deleted twelve months after the conference ends. You are emailed thirty days before, can download everything as one zip for free, or buy another year of hosting. Titles, abstracts, reviews, decisions and the programme are kept for good either way.
Included on every plan
- Public call for papers page with your own sections
- Custom submission form, tracks and file uploads
- Single, double-blind or open review
- Unlimited reviewers, organizers and track chairs
- Weighted review criteria and bulk decisions
- Programme builder with discussants and clash detection
- Embeddable programme for your own website
- Registration with priced types, coupons and CSV export
- Submission and registration fees into your own Stripe account
- Eight currencies, timezone-aware deadlines
- Email notifications for every step
Fees you charge your authors and attendees
Submission fees and registration are optional. When you use them, the money is paid by card through Stripe straight into your organization's own Stripe account, which you connect once. ConferenceSlate keeps 1% of each fee as a platform charge; Stripe's card processing fee is deducted separately by Stripe. Refunds are yours to make from your Stripe dashboard.
Coupon codes for students, speakers or sponsors' guests take a percentage or fixed amount off; a code that covers the whole price skips the card entirely and costs nothing.
Questions chairs ask
- What counts as a submission?
- A paper that has been submitted and not withdrawn. Drafts, withdrawn papers and papers awaiting a submission fee do not count. Revisions and re-uploads of the same paper are one submission.
- What happens if we get more submissions than the plan allows?
- Authors are never turned away at the deadline. Past the allowance, up to 25 more submissions on the free plan (and a quarter of the allowance on larger plans) are accepted and you are emailed. Review contents and decisions are withheld until you add a pack or move up a plan; nothing is lost.
- Do reviewers or attendees need to pay for anything?
- No. Reviewers, organizers, discussants and attendees use ConferenceSlate free. Only the conference pays for its plan, and only authors or attendees pay the fees you choose to set.
- Can we try it properly before paying?
- Yes. The free plan is the full product with a small allowance, not a demo. Run a workshop or a PhD symposium on it end to end.
- Is there a discount for running the same conference every year?
- Every year is a new conference and a new plan, so a department pays only for the years it runs an event. Organizations, roles, tracks and forms can be reused.
- Which currencies can we pay in?
- USD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CAD, NZD, SGD, JPY. Choose at checkout; the invoice is in that currency. Prices exclude any taxes that apply in your country.
- Where is our data, and for how long?
- Manuscripts are stored privately and served only through signed links to people with a role on the paper. Uploaded files are kept for twelve months after the conference ends, then deleted; you are emailed thirty days before, can download everything as one zip, or keep the files online for another year (£39 a year). Titles, abstracts, reviews, decisions, the attendee list and the programme are kept for good, and every decision and role change is in an audit log the next chair can read.
- Is AI used in reviewing?
- Only if the chair switches on the AI reviewer add-on, and then only as one more reviewer: it scores each paper against the conference's own criteria and writes comments for the committee, which are never sent to authors. Decisions stay with the committee. A separate setting adds a disclosure to the call for papers, with wording you control. Manuscripts are sent to the model provider with no training on them and no retention.
- Can we leave?
- At any time. Submissions, reviews, decisions and the attendee list export to CSV, and the conference page stays readable after the event on any plan.
Start with the free plan today
Create the conference, open the call, and upgrade only if the submissions come.