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Cards and Klarna

Make life easier for you and your customers, and let Cup Manager and our provider Stripe handle your payments.

After just a few clicks and a call to us, you can activate Cup Manager's payment solution. We've worked with Stripe for years as our card payment provider, and now also offer an integration with Klarna.

This is our recommended way to handle payments, since it drastically cuts down the time you spend on financial admin, along with the knock-on problems that come from teams paying late or not showing up at all. If things do go wrong, refunds are also very easy. As an organizer, it costs the same and works the same way whether your customer paid by card or with Klarna.

Read more about the benefits of using card payments and Klarna for your tournament below.

Features and overview

Klarna Pay Later - let team leaders wait 30 days to pay

Team leaders are often reimbursed by their club for at least the team registration fee. With Klarna, the leader can wait 14 days to pay, while the tournament still receives a confirmed payment with all the money paid directly into its Stripe account. That means nobody has to front the money - the leader can simply wait for reimbursement from their club before paying.

Guarantee that every approved team has paid

The moment a payment is made, it's linked to the team's registration in Cup Manager. You can always be completely certain when every approved team has paid its registration fee, so you know registrations aren't accidental or from teams that never intend to show up.

No more fiddly OCR or reference numbers

Because the link between payment and registration happens inside Cup Manager, neither you nor your customers need to keep track of OCR numbers or which registration a payment belongs to. It's handled automatically, guaranteeing every payment ends up in the right place. No more detective work chasing payments that can't be matched to a registration.

Instant confirmation as soon as payment is made

Unlike other payment methods, your customers get instant confirmation of their payment, both in their team account and by email. That means you no longer have to field questions about bank transfers that haven't been registered yet or haven't reached your account. It also makes it much easier to manage deadlines, for example for early-bird discounts. When a class has limited spots, you can simply let first-come, first-paid decide who gets in, removing the need for any manual admin afterwards. Combined with our waiting list feature, you get a complete solution for team registration.

Refunds with a single click

Refunding a payment is as simple as clicking on it inside Cup Manager and choosing how much of it to refund. From there, everything is handled automatically by Cup Manager and our provider Stripe, which makes sure the money is back on the right card or bank account within a few days.

As the organizer, it makes no difference whether the payment came in by card or via Klarna - you handle it the same way inside Cup Manager.

Skip the financial admin

With an integrated payment solution, you skip almost all the work you used to spend collecting and tracking payments. Every link is automatic and happens in real time - no waiting around for money to move from one bank to another. The system also makes it easy to export ready-made documents you can use directly in your bookkeeping.

Make it easier for foreign teams

Paying from abroad via bank transfer has never been simple - you need IBAN numbers and bank addresses, and you end up paying transfer fees. With our payment solution, your customers can pay directly by card with no such hurdles. Where Klarna supports it for their country, they can even pay directly in their own currency without worrying about exchange rates.

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Use card payments and Klarna

Do what most of our tournaments do

Most of our tournaments now use card payments and Klarna to collect their registration fees. The large majority of them have also chosen not to offer any alternative payment method (although individual exceptions are always possible). This simplifies how they manage registered teams, since they can be 100% certain a team has already paid the moment it registers.

65%
use Cup Manager's payment service
50%
require payment by card or Klarna

Klarna and card were the preferred payment methods in Sweden in 2019.

In e-commerce, 33% of Swedes say they prefer card payments and 41% prefer invoice-based services (such as Klarna). Both payment methods supported by Cup Manager are therefore, by a clear margin, more popular than the remaining options. Together with direct payments, which are also supported through our Klarna integration, 85% of all Swedes will find their preferred payment method when registering for your tournament.

Source: Sverige betalar 2019

41%
prefer Klarna
+33%
prefer card
Cup Manager phone support

We have extensive experience helping tournaments use modern payment solutions. Feel free to contact us for more information

Cup Manager support

Telefon: 046-52580E-post: support@cupmanager.net

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