The STRONGVON Tournament Management System allows you to collect online payment of registration fees through your PayPal account. The system integrates directly with PayPal's shopping cart, so that you can have control over the funds collected for your event. Figure 1 shows a simplified diagram of how information flows during the registration process with PayPal integration.
On the PayPal's checkout page, the registrant has a choice in completing the payment. He can log into his own PayPal account, or he can enter credit card details without logging into a PayPal account. If he chooses to complete the payment using his PayPal account, he enters his PayPal account details on the right side of the checkout page. If he chooses to complete the payment using a credit card without logging into PayPal, he follows the instructions on the left side for continuing without logging in.
Once the payment is approved by PayPal, you log into the Administration Software and approve that registration, which triggers the system to send a registration confirmation by email to the registrant. Alternatively, you can set up PayPal to automatically send the STRONGVON server the approval message to trigger the automatic registration approval, which alleviates your involvement in the approval process.
