Alternative · 2026
A Wise.live alternative for chess academies
ChessCore is a Wise.live alternative for academies that teach only chess and want the chess work built in: game review with Stockfish, puzzles, play against AI and a live board. Wise.live is general tutoring software with branded store apps. Many academies keep it for non-chess subjects, so this page also covers running both.
Wise.live details below are sourced from their own site, read on 16 October 2026. We do not invent competitor facts; re-check before deciding.
Who each option fits
Choose Wise.live
if you teach multiple subjects beyond chess, or you specifically need native branded mobile apps for a general tutoring business.
Choose ChessCore
if you run a chess academy and want the chess-specific work, game review, engine analysis, chess reports, plus India-deep billing, not a generic tutoring tool.
Wise.live details as read on 16 October 2026.
Side by side
At a glance
The jobs a chess academy does every week, ChessCore beside Wise.live. A Wise.live cell repeats its own site as read on 16 October 2026.
| The job | ChessCore | Wise.live |
|---|---|---|
| Built specifically for chess | ChessCore | Wise.liveGeneral tutoring, with a chess-school page |
| Engine-verified game review (PGN, Stockfish) | ChessCore | Wise.liveNot stated on its chess LMS page |
| AI chess reports with human approval | ChessCore | Wise.liveGeneral AI performance reports |
| Scheduling & invoicing | ChessCore | Wise.live |
| Puzzles, play against AI & chess classroom | ChessCore | Wise.liveNot stated on its chess LMS page |
| Session recording | ChessCoreConsent-gated class recording | Wise.liveAutomatic recording and sharing |
| Branded mobile apps | ChessCoreInstallable web app | Wise.liveBranded Android and iOS apps |
| India billing (UPI / WhatsApp) | ChessCoreUPI AutoPay, Grow plan and up; WhatsApp updates | Wise.liveWhatsApp reminders; Razorpay and Stripe shown as integrations |
Feature by feature
Every feature, side by side
48 features appear on Wise.live's own site, each beside ChessCore's version. ChessCore offers 160 more that Wise.live's site does not list.
What Wise.live lists, and ChessCore's version
Admissions and CRM2
Lead pipeline and stages
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing comparison says an advanced marketing CRM with funnels, landing pages, pipelines, and nurture automation is included.ChessCoreTrack every lead from first contact through trial booked, trial attended and converted, with counts at each stage.Academy website and profile page
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing comparison says new customers can pick a slot and pay on a self-serve booking page.ChessCoreEach academy gets a public page with its programs, camps, coach directory and booking links for new families.
Scheduling and attendance5
Google Calendar sync
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says scheduling has two-way Google Calendar sync.ChessCoreClasses and bookings sync to Google Calendar for coaches and families, and every booking also downloads as a calendar file.Coach availability
What Wise.live's site saysThe chess schools page says instructor availability, working hours, and calendar conflicts are managed, with two-way Google Calendar sync.ChessCoreRecord when each coach can teach, as one-off or weekly blocks, so scheduling and substitute checks respect it.Room booking
What Wise.live's site saysThe in-person page says room scheduling, room capacity, and desk availability can be managed.ChessCoreBook rooms inside each physical centre so two classes never land in the same room at the same time.QR code self check-in
What Wise.live's site saysThe in-person page says walk-in attendance replaces paper sign-in and parents can be notified when a student arrives or leaves.ChessCorePrint a class QR code and students check themselves in at a kiosk, with attendance recorded on the spot.Substitute coach cover
What Wise.live's site saysThe chess schools page says course templates support instructor replacement.ChessCoreAssign a substitute to cover a session; they accept or decline and receive the class notes and lesson plan.
Fees and billing6
Recurring fees and autopay
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says auto-charging is available for recurring invoices.ChessCoreFamilies set up UPI AutoPay, eNACH or a saved card once, and recurring fees are debited on schedule.Razorpay, Stripe and Cashfree payments
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage integration grid includes Razorpay and Stripe logos. The pricing page says local and regional gateways go beyond Stripe.ChessCoreConnect Razorpay, Stripe or Cashfree as the payment gateway, so fees land in the academy's own account.Invoices and receipts
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says online payments, invoicing, and payment reminders are automated.ChessCoreIssue numbered invoices with a PDF copy, send them to families, and keep a receipt for every payment.Multi-currency billing
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing feature list says payments can be accepted in multiple currencies.ChessCoreBill families in their own currency, including INR, USD, EUR, GBP, AED and SGD, on prices and invoices.Class packs and pay per class
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says customers can be offered subscriptions, packages, or pay as you go.ChessCoreSell class packs and prepaid credits that are used up as students attend, or charge for each class.Automatic fee reminders
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says reminders go by email, SMS, and the app before sessions.ChessCoreOverdue fees trigger reminders by email and WhatsApp with a pay link, plus a nudge before each renewal falls due.
Staff4
Coach performance and ratings
What Wise.live's site saysThe chess schools page lists attendance, attentiveness, talk-time, and engagement metrics for instructors.ChessCoreSee each coach's teaching quality scores, parent feedback, utilisation and compliance over any period.Coach payroll calculation
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says tutor payroll uses automated calculations, session-based rates, and split payments.ChessCoreWork out coach pay from sessions taught, substitute cover and commission on fees received, as one payroll run.Coach payouts
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing comparison says UK split payments divide a client payment between the company and the tutor.ChessCorePay coaches straight from an approved payroll run, or split a family's payment between the academy and the coach.Roles and permissions
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says multiple tutors are managed with customizable roles, permissions, and synced calendars.ChessCoreUse built-in staff roles or create custom ones that grant only chosen permissions, never more than the creator holds.
Parents and communication7
Scheduled monthly reports
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage Wise Way section says personalized performance reports are shared with students and parents.ChessCoreSchedule monthly progress digests that are built from the academy's records and emailed to parents automatically.In-app chat with parents
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage lists secure in-platform chat.ChessCoreParents chat with the academy from the portal while signed in, and staff reply from one shared inbox.Email to parents
What Wise.live's site saysEmail is one of the three reminder channels on the pricing page.ChessCoreEmail parents reports, reminders and announcements from the academy's own sender address.Parent portal
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage describes a student portal for schedules, chats, recordings, and resources. The pricing feature list also names a separate student and parent portal.ChessCoreParents sign in to see each child's schedule, attendance, games, invoices and progress, and request make-up classes.Student progress reports
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says AI-powered performance reports track student progress.ChessCoreCreate a monthly report per student covering attendance, chess activity and coach notes, previewed and emailed to guardians.Push notifications
What Wise.live's site saysPush is one of the three reminder channels on the pricing page.ChessCoreParents and students get push notifications for class changes, homework and messages on phone and desktop.WhatsApp messages to parents
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing feature list says reminders go by email, WhatsApp, and push.ChessCoreSend class reminders, fee links and updates to parents on WhatsApp from the academy's own business number.
Teaching4
Homework and assignments
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing comparison says work can be set, submitted, and returned inside the platform.ChessCoreAssign puzzles, game reviews, opening drills, games against the computer and lessons, then grade what students submit.Lesson plans per session
What Wise.live's site saysThe chess schools page says course templates standardize lesson plans.ChessCoreSet the lesson for each session from the syllabus, a study or a note, or accept the suggested next step.Chess quizzes
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing LMS feature list includes auto-graded MCQ quizzes.ChessCoreSchedule timed quizzes for a batch with attempt limits, leaderboards and team, streak and survival modes.Drip course content
What Wise.live's site saysThe video course page says course content can unlock gradually.ChessCoreRelease course lessons gradually on a schedule, so students unlock each part as they progress.
Student engagement2
Points, streaks, badges and leaderboards
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage footer says the product includes gamification, and the pricing feature list names badges and leaderboards.ChessCoreStudents earn points, badges and daily streaks, level up through the curriculum and climb the weekly academy leaderboard.Live polls and class quizzes
What Wise.live's site saysThe group tutoring page lists live polls, agendas, AI quizzes, word clouds, and leaderboards inside live classes.ChessCoreRun polls, quick quizzes, word clouds and leaderboards during a live class to keep every student involved.
Live classes4
AI class recaps
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says an AI summary of the session is shared after the session.ChessCoreAfter a recorded class, AI drafts a recap that the coach edits and publishes for students and parents.Attendance from live classes
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says attendance and session logs are automated for billing.ChessCoreStudents who join the live class are marked present automatically, and the coach confirms the register.Class recording and playback
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says session recording and sharing can be automated.ChessCoreRecord live classes with consent and let staff, parents and students watch them again later.Built-in video and audio
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage says Zoom sessions can be started and joined inside the platform, and the pricing comparison says Zoom licences are bundled.ChessCoreLive classes have built-in video and audio for coach and students, with no outside meeting app needed.
Branding and white label4
Your own branded app
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage hero leads with branded mobile apps, and the pricing comparison says iOS and Android apps are published under the customer's name and logo.ChessCoreThe academy's own app in the App Store and Google Play, with its name, icon and colours for parents and students.Branded certificates
What Wise.live's site saysThe video course page says branded certificates can be auto-generated with verifiable links.ChessCoreCertificates carry the academy's name, logo and colours, with a QR code linking to a verification page.Your own custom domain
What Wise.live's site saysThe same comparison line names the customer's own domain.ChessCoreRun the parent and student portal on the academy's own web address, with the DNS records checked and verified for you.White label under your brand
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing comparison says full white-label includes the customer's own domain at no extra cost.ChessCoreThe academy's name, logo, colours, email sender and domain on every parent and student screen, message and email, with ChessCore's name removed.
Analytics2
Coach utilisation
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing feature list says talk time, camera-on time, and attentiveness can be monitored.ChessCoreCompare sessions each coach taught against a target to see who is overloaded and who has room.CSV, Excel and PDF exports
What Wise.live's site saysThe group tutoring page says custom reports can be exported as CSV.ChessCoreExport any analytics table to CSV or Excel, or download the whole report as a PDF.
Platform and trust8
Open REST API
What Wise.live's site saysA homepage testimonial names API endpoints for CRM integration. The pricing feature list also lists API access. The API documentation link on the nav points at wise-app.gitbook.io, which was not fetched.ChessCoreA documented REST API with an OpenAPI file lets developers read and write students, notes, events and webhooks.Free plan
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage offers sign up for free. A trial length was not in that sentence.ChessCoreStart on a free plan with no credit card, covering a small roster with scheduling and Stockfish analysis.Data import and migration help
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing comparison says Wise moves the customer's data and can be live in 2 to 3 days.ChessCoreImport students, leads and enrolments from CSV or Excel with column mapping and undo, or let ChessCore staff move the data.Setup done for you
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing page says a dedicated account manager provides onboarding and training calls.ChessCoreA setup wizard gets a new academy running, and ChessCore staff can set up and move the academy's data for it.Flat capacity pricing
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing page offers Pay Per Session, Pay Per Seat, and Enterprise. The fetched HTML shows a calculator unit figure and a monthly total that do not reconcile, so no session or seat price is quoted from this retrieval.ChessCorePlans are flat capacity tiers by roster size, so adding a student never raises the bill within a tier.Two-factor sign-in and audit log
What Wise.live's site saysThe pricing feature list includes single sign-on.ChessCoreStaff sign in with two-factor codes or passkeys, admins can require it, and an audit log records every change.Protected course videos
What Wise.live's site saysThe video course page says videos can be secured with HLS and DRM, including a block on screen recording.ChessCoreCourse videos stream with encryption and DRM that blocks screen recording, so paid content stays inside the academy.Zapier and webhooks
What Wise.live's site saysThe homepage integration grid includes a Zapier logo.ChessCoreSend academy events to Zapier and other tools through signed webhooks, with a delivery log and replay.
In ChessCore, not listed on Wise.live's site
160 ChessCore features across 14 areas. Not listed on Wise.live's site means we found no mention on the pages we read, not that Wise.live cannot do it.
- AI-drafted messages and reports
- Human approval of AI drafts
- Swiss tournaments
- Arena tournaments
- Shared board the coach drives
- Puzzle library
- Puzzles from students' own mistakes
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Admissions and CRM14
- A/B testing for campaigns
- Email campaigns
- SMS campaigns
- WhatsApp broadcast campaigns
- Enquiry and lead capture forms
- Lead scoring
- Online admission and registration
- Referral program
- Demo and trial class booking
- Waitlists for full classes
- AI ad copy writer
- Drip sequences for leads
- Meta lead ads sync
- Partner school programs
Scheduling and attendance14
- Attendance tracking
- Batches and class groups
- Holiday calendar and closures
- Online, offline and hybrid classes
- Make-up classes and credits
- Multiple branches and locations
- Recurring class timetable
- Day, week and month views
- Camps and intensives
- Reschedule or cancel single classes
- Self-booking for private lessons
- Student records
- Timezones for online classes
- Outside meeting links
Fees and billing17
- Sibling discounts, coupons and scholarships
- Expense tracking
- Family ledger and partial payments
- UPI, card and net banking payments
- Fee refunds
- GST and VAT invoices
- Sell courses and paid webinars
- Lesson credit reversals
- Prepaid and earned funds apart
- Gift cards
- Invoice cancellation
- Automatic late fees
- Event entries and licence sales
- No-show and cancellation fees
- One-time fees
- Overdue account access control
- Pause or cancel subscriptions
Staff4
- Second approver for sensitive actions
- Coach profiles
- Affiliated clubs
- Coach payout ledger
Parents and communication7
- Class and academy announcements
- Parent feedback and surveys
- Parent mobile app
- SMS to parents
- In-app notifications
- Message template library
- Shared support inbox
Teaching23
- Puzzles from students' own mistakes
- Ready-made course content
- Curriculum and syllabus builder
- Endgame training
- Guess the move training
- Opening repertoire trainer
- Puzzle library
- Spaced repetition review
- Interactive studies and PGN chapters
- Video lessons and courses
- Adaptive lessons
- Blindfold tactics training
- Coach training and webinars
- Recurring error detection
- Send positions as live puzzles
- Position memory training
- Move replay practice
- Opening explorer database
- Opening tree
- Custom puzzle editor
- Puzzle set generator
- Puzzles by rating
- Woodpecker method training
Student engagement9
- Skill certificates
- Play against classmates
- Chess mini-games
- Play against the computer
- Placement and rating test
- Student app
- Live tournament broadcasts
- Position playground
- Proctored online assessments
Live classes7
- Screen sharing
- Shared board the coach drives
- Classroom whiteboard
- Legal and free teaching modes
- Class controls for coaches
- Live game monitoring
- Class waiting room
Games and ratings13
- AI move and game explanations
- Chess.com game sync
- Stockfish game analysis
- FIDE and national rating tracking
- PGN game import
- Lichess game sync
- Rating progress graphs
- Internal academy ratings
- FIDE ID linking
- Games flagged for review
- Master game database
- Shareable game reports
- Opponent preparation reports
Tournaments15
- Arena tournaments
- Embeddable standings widget
- FIDE and federation rating reports
- Knockout tournaments
- Elo and Glicko rating calculation
- Online tournament registration
- Round robin tournaments
- Live public standings
- Swiss tournaments
- Team tournaments
- Tournament certificates
- Arbiter tools
- Tournament archives
- Simultaneous exhibitions
- Tiebreak calculation
AI11
- AI-drafted messages and reports
- AI tutor for students
- AI syllabus and lesson planning
- AI copilot for academy records
- Human approval of AI drafts
- Personal data masked for AI
- AI admin assistant
- AI enquiry chatbot
- Counselling call transcription
- AI voice agent for enquiries
- AI answers from past classes
Branding and white label5
- Branded emails from your sender
- Branded parent, payment and consent pages
- Embeddable website widgets
- Academy logo and colours
- Branded student reports
Analytics7
- Attendance analytics
- Academy dashboard
- Enrolment funnel
- Retention and churn analysis
- Revenue reports
- Batch health checks
- Talent scouting shortlists
Platform and trust14
- E-signed waivers and contracts
- Data export
- Free trial of paid plans
- Multi-language interface
- Installable mobile web app
- iOS and Android apps
- Offline access
- DPDP, GDPR and COPPA tools
- Email support and guided help
- Workflow automations
- Chain and franchise management
- MCP server for AI agents
- Single sign-on
- Website integration
Source: wise.live, pages read on 17 October 2026.
Price at your roster
What it costs at your size
30students
- ChessCore
- Core: $69 a month billed annually, $89 monthly. With UPI AutoPay, Grow: $109 a month billed annually, $139 monthly
- Wise.live
- Quote required. Price follows conducted sessions or tutor and admin seats, with unlimited students on both models.
What it meansChessCore is Core at $69 billed annually, or Grow at $109 billed annually with UPI AutoPay. Count your sessions and coaches in the quote sheet below before comparing.
100students
- ChessCore
- Core: $69 a month billed annually, $89 monthly. With UPI AutoPay, Grow: $109 a month billed annually, $139 monthly
- Wise.live
- Quote required. The student count does not change a Wise.live price, so the figure depends on your sessions or coach seats.
What it meansChessCore is Core at $69 billed annually, or Grow at $109 billed annually with UPI AutoPay.
300students
- ChessCore
- Grow: $109 a month billed annually, $139 monthly, UPI AutoPay included
- Wise.live
- Quote required, or Enterprise by contact.
What it meansChessCore is Grow at $109 billed annually, UPI AutoPay included. Wise.live’s amounts are not quoted here because its calculator showed no currency.
On ChessCore, Razorpay UPI AutoPay with Stripe, WhatsApp payment links and a custom domain start on the Grow plan, and automatic Lichess and Chess.com game sync starts on Pro. Wise.live amounts are not quoted: the calculator we read on 16 October 2026 showed no currency, so each cell says quote required.
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About Wise.live
What Wise.live is good at
Wise.live calls itself "All-in-one tutor management software to manage scheduling, invoicing, learners, tutors, and more", trusted by 1000+ online and in-person tutoring businesses, with chess academies as one of its solution pages alongside test prep, music, language and corporate training (wise.live, read on 16 October 2026).
Its strength is breadth and polish for tutoring in general: group and one-to-one scheduling with self-booking pages, invoicing with instalment and subscription payment plans, branded Android and iOS apps, AI-powered performance reports and automatic session recording. Its page for chess schools lists calendar and session booking, session credits, templates, quality control, and automated session reminders over WhatsApp and email through your own WhatsApp Business account. Its pricing page shows three models: Pay Per Session, Pay Per Seat for tutor and admin seats with unlimited students and sessions, and Enterprise by contact, with an optional Zoom toggle on the first two. The calculator we read on 16 October 2026 showed a unit figure of 0.69 with no currency and a monthly total of 0, so this page quotes no Wise.live amount. Get a written quote instead.
waits for WeiChessCore, differently
How does a class move from booking to a parent update?
The table below follows one class through four handoffs. Wise.live’s side is what its own pages describe, read on 16 October 2026. ChessCore’s side is how the product works. ChessCore is chess-only on purpose: it imports games from Lichess and Chess.com, lets a coach select games for Stockfish to flag the mistakes worth coaching, and drafts chess progress reports alongside academy operations. Students train inside it too, with a catalog of 6,095,563 rated puzzles, a spaced-repetition practice queue, human-like AI opponents, a live classroom board and Swiss tournaments. For Indian academies it takes UPI AutoPay through Razorpay from the Grow plan, and sends WhatsApp updates once the academy connects its WhatsApp Business account. Wise.live’s own pages are the place to confirm any detail before you decide. For a neutral review of the product, read our Wise.live review for chess academies.
White-label too. Families see your academy, not ChessCore: the student and parent portal carries your logo, your colours and your own home page on every plan, and runs on your own domain from the Grow plan up. Families also get an academy-branded app, which installs from the browser to a phone home screen.
Illustrative screen from a made-up demo academy.
Worked through
Where do the two products hand off?
Run one real class through both and write down who owns each step. Credits and cancellations are the usual points of friction: Wise.live counts session credits, while ChessCore applies policy-based make-up credits that the academy defines. Our guide on running a tutoring app alongside chess tools covers the same handoffs for any general class app.
| Step | Wise.live, as its pages describe it | ChessCore | Test it with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book the class | Wise.live, as its pages describe itGroup and one-to-one scheduling, tutor availability, time zones and self-booking pages for single or recurring slots. | ChessCoreBatches with recurring schedules and coach assignments. A coach can paste a Zoom or Google Meet link on a class. | Test it withOne recurring batch and one one-off class |
| Charge it | Wise.live, as its pages describe itSession credits are deducted when a session completes, with renewal reminders when credits run out, plus instalment and subscription payment plans. | ChessCoreRecurring invoices generated automatically for due subscriptions, with a family ledger. UPI AutoPay and payment links are on Grow plan and up. | Test it withOne family with a part payment |
| Move a cancellation | Wise.live, as its pages describe itRescheduling is listed as a scheduling feature. The pages we read give no cancellation cut-off or refund rule, so ask for it in writing. | ChessCoreAttendance marks settle make-up credits under the academy’s own policy; a parent leave request alone does not record attendance. | Test it withOne absence with notice, one without |
| Prepare the parent update | Wise.live, as its pages describe itAI performance reports for learners and families, and session reminders by WhatsApp and email. | ChessCoreClass and fee reminders and enabled monthly report emails go out automatically; AI-written report text is a draft that waits for a person. | Test it withOne monthly report, with a coach note added |
Worked through
What should a Wise.live quote say?
Wise.live prices by conducted session or by tutor and admin seat, not by student, so a student count alone cannot price it. Fill in every line from a written quote before you compare totals. See ChessCore capacity and feature limits for the other side of the sheet, and the recurring invoices and family ledger for what ChessCore bills.
| Quote line | What to enter | Where to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Billing model | What to enterPay Per Session, Pay Per Seat or Enterprise | Where to confirmWise.live pricing page, then a written quote |
| Billable sessions a month | What to enterYour conducted sessions, counted as Wise.live defines a session | Where to confirmThe session-counting answer on its pricing FAQ, or ask sales |
| Tutor and admin seats | What to enterEvery coach and front-desk user who logs in | Where to confirmThe seat-counting answer on its pricing FAQ, or ask sales |
| Zoom included | What to enterYes or no; it is an optional toggle in the calculator | Where to confirmThe quote |
| Currency and billing period | What to enterThe currency shown on the quote, and whether it bills monthly | Where to confirmThe quote; the calculator we read showed no currency |
| Taxes | What to enterWhether GST or VAT is added on top | Where to confirmThe quote |
| Verified total | What to enterLeave blank until the quote shows a figure with a currency | Where to confirmThe written quote |
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Questions
Frequently asked questions
- Is Wise.live made for chess?
- Wise.live is general tutoring software. It has a page for chess schools, and that page lists scheduling, session credits, and WhatsApp and email reminders, but does not mention a chessboard, PGN or engine tools (read on 16 October 2026). ChessCore is built only for chess.
- Which chess teaching workflows can I test in ChessCore?
- Read a PGN, run Stockfish on a student’s games, flag coachable mistakes, draft a chess progress report a coach approves, serve students rated puzzles on a spaced-repetition schedule, let them play AI opponents and classmates, teach on a shared live board, and pair a Swiss tournament. Test these workflows with a sample lesson and a coach-selected game before deciding.
- Does ChessCore have mobile apps?
- ChessCore gives families an academy-branded app that also installs from the browser to a phone home screen, with a parent portal (an email invite, then their own login) and WhatsApp updates. Wise.live advertises branded Android and iOS apps.
- How do I move my academy from Wise.live to ChessCore?
- Put your student list in a spreadsheet; the template at /templates/chesscore-student-import-template.csv shows the columns. Import your student roster from a CSV or Excel (.xlsx) file, mapping columns for student name, guardian name, email and phone, batch and date of birth. Every import is previewed first, with row-by-row errors, before anything is saved. Likely duplicates are flagged for you to decide on, and you can undo an import within 24 hours. ChessCore does not import invoices, fee plans or opening balances, so set those up in ChessCore yourself. Ask Wise.live how to download your learner list; we have not read an export page of theirs.
- What must we check if we keep Wise.live for tutoring and use ChessCore for chess?
- Give each job one home. Choose one product to issue invoices, so no family is charged twice, and one owner for parent messages, so reminders do not go out from both. Agree who reconciles the roster and class cancellations by hand, because there is no Wise.live connector and no shared login. Run one batch for a month before moving the rest.
Written by Abhishek Tiwari. See our editorial standards.
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