Pair registration: one checkout for both partners
Pair sign-up sells a division's spots in twos: one player checks out, both entries are paid in that one payment, and both players land on the roster. Turn it on per division, on a tournament or single-day event.
Turn on pair sign-up
Set this before you open registration. Switching a division that already has registrations leaves those entries as they were.
Open the division in your event's create or edit form.
Set Sign-Up Type to Pairs — partner takes a spot.
Enter Team Capacity — the number of teams, not the number of players.
Save the division.
Switching between individual and pair sign-up converts the capacity number for you, so it keeps meaning what its label says.
What the registrant sees
The registration page requires a partner on a pair division and tells the player their checkout covers both entries.
The partner's full name is required, and so is an email when the partner has no GGS account. We send the partner's registration and event emails to that address.
The price shown is two entries, and remaining spots are counted in team spots.
The partner does not register separately. A checkout naming a partner who already holds a spot in that division is refused, so nobody pays twice for one seat.
A checkout in progress holds both of its spots for 30 minutes, so a division can show fewer open spots than its roster while someone is at the payment step.
Where pair sign-up is not offered
The Sign-Up Type dropdown only appears where pairs make sense. It is not available for:
Singles divisions, which have no partner.
Leagues, whose capacity is counted per play date rather than in teams. A league player can still pay for a partner without an account by typing their name at registration — see Register with a partner, and who pays.
Team Event / MLP formats, where a team registers as a unit.
Reign of the Court, Cream of the Crop, Crazy 8's, Pecking Order, and Open Play, whose sign-up has no partner field.
Drop-in registration, where a player buys individual play dates.
Waitlist and freed spots
A waitlist entry on a pair division records both players, so when a team withdraws the freed pair of spots can go to a complete team rather than two unmatched players.