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Switching systems part-way through a conference sounds like a way to lose a review round. It is not. Below is what an export actually carries across, which parts we do for you, and what the two days after approval look like.
Moving a conference that is already running
You do not have to wait for the current round to close. Whichever phase you are in — bidding, reviewing, decisions, camera-ready — is the phase your workspace opens in, and authors keep the submission they have already made.
Exports we work from
EasyChair
Microsoft CMT
OpenConf
OpenReview
Anything that exports CSV or Excel
Assisted, not automatic
There is no one-click connector. You send the export your current system produces — CSV, Excel, or an archive of submissions — and we map it onto CMS fields, load it into your conference while it is still private, then hand you the counts to check against your old dashboard: papers, reviewers, assignments, decisions. Whatever the export leaves out is named before you commit, not discovered afterwards.
Committee and reviewer lists
Names, emails, affiliations and topic interests. You approve the roster before a single invitation is sent.
Assisted import
Tracks and topic taxonomy
Track names, their chairs, and the keyword list authors choose from when they submit.
Assisted import
Submissions and their metadata
Title, abstract, authors, affiliations, keywords, track and the paper file — one record per submission.
Assisted import
Review assignments and conflicts
Who is reviewing what, plus declared conflicts of interest, so bidding does not start over.
Assisted import
Completed reviews and scores
Scores, recommendations and reviewer comments stay attached to the paper they were written for.
Assisted import
Decisions already issued
Accept, reject and revise keep their date and their decider. A round you have closed stays closed.
Preserved as-is
Branding, CFP text and deadlines
Entered once in the conference request. These are the fields no export gives you in a usable shape.
You configure
Your first 48 hours
What happens once a conference request is approved. Only the first step waits on us — platform admins review requests within one business day. Everything after it is self-serve and moves at your pace.
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Step 1 — performed by Platform
Workspace created
Approval assigns you the Organiser role and opens the conference workspace. Organiser, track chair, reviewer and author views all point at it.
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Step 2 — performed by You
Tracks and deadlines set
Add tracks and their chairs, then set abstract, full-paper, review and camera-ready dates. Those dates drive the submission form and the author reminders.
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Step 3 — performed by You
Committee invited
Upload or paste your programme committee. Every invitation carries its role, so nobody signs up into the wrong permission set.
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Step 4 — performed by Automatic
Call for papers live
Your CFP publishes at a shareable link anyone can read, and which opens the submission form directly for signed-in authors.
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Step 5 — performed by Authors
Submissions open
Papers arrive in the right track with their metadata already structured. Assignment and bidding begin whenever you open them.
The call for papers publishes at /c/<id> — one link for the mailing list, the society site and the poster. Visitors read the conference page; signed-in authors land straight in the submission form.
Running a conference here means unpublished manuscripts and unblinded reviewer identities sit on our infrastructure. These are the controls that govern them — written as what the platform does, not as badges.
01 · Anonymity
Double-blind, enforced by the workflow
Author identities are withheld from reviewers and reviewer identities from authors for the whole review round. Conflicts of interest are checked at the moment an assignment is made, not after a review has already landed.
Authors → reviewers
Identity withheld
Reviewers → authors
Identity withheld
Conflicts
Detected at assignment time
02 · Access
Seven conference-scoped roles
Researcher, Reviewer, Meta Reviewer, Track Chair, TPC, Organiser and Super Admin, each scoped to a single conference. Permissions are checked by the API on every request — hiding a control in the interface is never the access decision.
Scope
Per conference, narrowed by track
Enforcement
API guards, not UI state
Platform console
Separate from conference roles
03 · Audit
Privileged actions are recorded
Actions on submissions, reviews and decisions are written to an audit log with the actor, the target and the time. A contested acceptance can be reconstructed from the record instead of argued from memory.
Captured
Actor, action, target, timestamp
Covers
Submissions, reviews, decisions
04 · Custody
Your conference’s data stays yours
Export submissions, reviews, decisions and registrations whenever you want them — there is no exit fee and no export request queue. Manuscripts are held in private object storage and are never served from a public URL.
Storage
Private buckets, no public objects
Downloads
Signed URLs that expire
Export
Available for the life of the conference
05 · Review quality
Scores you can defend to a programme committee
Reviewers answer a structured form rather than writing loose prose, meta-review lets a chair reconcile disagreement into one recommendation, and assignment shows current load so no reviewer silently carries the round.
Scoring
Structured criteria, not free text
Synthesis
Meta-review over reviewer scores
Assignment
Reviewer load shown while balancing
06 · Availability
Monitored, and backed up
Health checks and error tracking run against the API continuously, and the database is on a scheduled backup. We quote the current backup and recovery policy in writing rather than printing an uptime figure on a marketing page.
Monitoring
API health checks, error tracking
Backups
Scheduled database backups
Policy
Provided on request
Certifications
This page makes no compliance claim. ResnDevs CMS is not certified against SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and we would rather say so here than let you find out during procurement. Institutional security questionnaires and data processing agreements are handled directly with your team.
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Upcoming Conferences
Hand-picked conferences from the platform showcase.
One price covers the whole run — call for papers through to proceedings. Not per seat, not per month, and not renewed while your conference is dormant. Tell us the shape of your programme and you get a written quote back.
Society
A single-track symposium or society meeting run by a small committee.
Quoted per cycle
Scoped on programme size and how long the cycle runs.
Several conferences under one institutional account
Role and permission templates reused across conferences
Reports on reviewer workload and acceptance rates
Announcements across every conference you run
Migration of an existing conference from another system
Not sure which tier fits?
Send your dates, track count and expected submission volume. Migrating an existing conference from another system is part of the same conversation, not a separate project.
Organisers send a structured proposal — title, tracks, dates, deadlines and CFP — and the conference workspace opens once it is approved. Authors and reviewers only need an account.