From basic to advanced ... see below to select which is the right one for you.
Side-by-Side Comparison
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Open Reviews* | ![]() |
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Plagiarism Checking* | ![]() |
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Community Edition |
Plus Edition |
Professional Edition |
Professional Edition
OpenConf Professional Edition is an advanced system providing over a dozen modules of extended peer-review and event management functionality. In addition to the Plus Edition features below, the Professional Edition includes priority technical support and the ability to: customize forms, accept payment to make a submission, auto assign reviews on submission, submit review credits to ORCiD, check submissions for plagiarism*, accept multiple uploads per submission, create a program and publish it online for both the web and mobile devices, and other features to facilitate copyright collection for ACM and IEEE events.
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Purchase a Professional License
to install OpenConf on your server
Plus Edition
OpenConf Plus Edition includes all the basics of a peer-review and abstract management system, plus: technical support, reviewer bidding, committee discussion, reviewer file upload, author rebuttal, online proceedings, custom acceptance types, and the ability to add or remove pre-defined submission and review form fields.
Community Edition
OpenConf Community Edition is the right option if you:
- just need the basics: submission, review assignment, online reviews, scoring, acceptance and notification
- know what PHP and MySQL are, and have access to a web server that supports them
- are able to install and maintain the software yourself without external assistance
- do not require any of OpenConf's advanced modules
- are not being paid for providing OpenConf-related services
- agree to abide by the OpenConf License