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# Hosting Paid Tournaments

# Hosting Paid Tournaments

Start accepting fees for registration, the venue, the prize pool, or other types of revenue upon tournament registration through Challonge's paid tournaments feature.
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| Visit the Settings Tab

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| Scroll down to the "Registration" section to configure your settings. *Note: To host a tournament with paid registration, you must host a sign-up page. *

In order to help facilitate, manage, and maintain registration fees, Challonge does charge a per transaction service fee of $0.75 for non-Premier users and $0 for Premier users ([upgrade here](https://challonge.com/stripe_subscriptions/new)). This Service Fee is applied at checkout, so if you had competitors purchase an entry as well as any merchandise the fee would all still only be a single $0.75 service fee from Challonge upon checkout.

Currently, we enable all payments through each organizer's own, individual Stripe account, which has its own credit card processing fees. According to [Stripe's website](https://stripe.com/us/pricing), it starts at 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction and we encourage all organizers to explore that and sign up directly through Stripe as well.

To see more on Stripe, view our [Stripe Article here](https://kb.challonge.com/en/article/using-stripe-1zaz62/?1552060922595).