Tournament registration & bracket API
Table Tennis Backend
Express + MongoDB API for player registration, payment-proof upload, referral/cashback fields, tournament ops, and knockout brackets (Vercel entrypoint).
Background & Context
tabletennis-registeration centers on active backend tabletennis-backend-fresh/: an Express REST API for tournament player registration, payment-proof uploads, referral tracking, tournament lifecycle, matches, and knockout brackets. Frontend and empty backend/ directories exist in the tree but hold no application source in this checkout. Persistence is MongoDB via Mongoose.
Search demand around tournament registration & bracket api and Table Tennis Backend keeps rising as operators look for proof—not slide decks—before they hire a build partner.
Tekvers framed Table Tennis Backend as a tournament registration & bracket api engagement with clear module boundaries, measurable outcomes, and a stack centered on Node.js, Express 4, Mongoose 7, MongoDB, JWT.
Delivery covered software development, cloud devops, with SEO-ready surfaces and internal linking so the public story reinforces the product work.
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The Challenge
Tournament organizers needed API-backed registration with capacity/fees, admin approval tied to payment status, referral incentives, and bracket/match endpoints—without a card processor in this repository. Without a coherent tournament registration & bracket api foundation, Table Tennis Backend stakeholders faced fragmented tools, slow handoffs, and limited visibility—classic failure modes Tekvers designs against.
The Solution
Table Tennis Backend: Express + MongoDB API for player registration, payment-proof upload, referral/cashback fields, tournament ops, and knockout brackets (Vercel entrypoint). API foundation for tournament registration and admin ops. Tekvers delivered a maintainable tournament registration & bracket api system for Table Tennis Backend using Node.js, Express 4, Mongoose 7, MongoDB, with phased rollout, operator workflows, and documentation suited to long-term ownership.
Our Approach
Registration-first domain
Players, tournaments, registrations, matches, and brackets are first-class Mongoose models with admin approval gates.
Proof-based payment
Method selection + file upload + status fields—explicitly **not** a card gateway integration.
Deploy duality
Documented CORS and mounted-route differences between local and Vercel entrypoints so ops do not assume identical surfaces.
What We Delivered
- Express REST API (`tabletennis-backend`) with JWT/bcrypt
- User registration, referral validation, and cashback field updates
- Tournament CRUD and capacity/fee/prize modeling
- Match scoring and knockout bracket generation/advancement
- Multer payment-proof upload on user routes
- Vercel serverless entry plus local `server.js`
- Ad-hoc test scripts (no formal automated suite)
Outcomes & Impact
- API foundation for tournament registration and admin ops
- Referral and cashback tracking fields in registration flows
- Bracket and match endpoints for knockout play
- Deploy path to Vercel against MongoDB Atlas-style hosting (hostnames in CORS/deploy docs)
Organizers can run registration → payment-proof → approval → brackets from one Express API—Tekvers kept claims accurate: no frontend in this checkout, no card processor, proof-upload payments only.
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