For DECA
One place to run your DECA association.
State directors and chapter advisors spend too much time jumping between spreadsheets, email chains, and disconnected tools. CTSO Central brings membership, career development conferences, competitive events, cluster exams, and judging together in one platform built around how DECA operates.
DECA management software is a platform that helps state associations and chapter advisors run the day-to-day operations of their DECA program. This includes managing member rosters and chapter affiliations, collecting dues, registering attendees for career development conferences at the district, state, and international level, administering Principles Events, Individual Series Events, Team Decision Making Events, prepared events, and written events, coordinating volunteer judges, delivering cluster exams, calculating combined scores and placements, and publishing results. Most state DECA associations currently piece this together using a combination of legacy tools, spreadsheets, and manual processes. CTSO Central is a purpose-built DECA management platform from Clearpoint Business Group that brings all of these capabilities into one system. It replaces the need for separate registration, judging, and testing tools with a single, modern interface that works on any device.
What you get
What does a DECA state association need from its management software?
A DECA state association needs software that mirrors how DECA actually operates. From membership and dues collection to multi-round competitive events with combined scoring, every workflow should live in one system so your team focuses on students instead of spreadsheets.
Membership and chapters
See every advisor, student, and chapter in one roster. CTSO Central mirrors DECA's structure from the school level through state and provincial associations. Import rosters in bulk, set up automatic renewal invoicing, and give advisors self-service tools to manage their own chapters.
Competitive events
Administer Principles Events, Individual Series Events, Team Decision Making Events, prepared events, Personal Financial Literacy, Integrated Marketing Campaign, and written events without bouncing between tools. Set up scoring sections and rounds for role plays and presentations, bring in cluster exam scores automatically, calculate placements, and publish results when you are ready.
Judging
Judges get a clean, guided experience on any phone, tablet, or laptop. Whether they are scoring a role play, a written event presentation, or a team decision-making case, they see the rubric, score each criterion, leave feedback, and move on. Scores save automatically and sync in real time.
Cluster exams
Deliver cluster exams and practice tests with the right level of security for each situation. Built-in proctoring tools let your team monitor sessions in real time, and students get a focused, distraction-free testing experience. Scores flow directly into competitive event results.
Career development conferences
Handle district career development conferences, state CDCs, and ICDC preparation from registration to departure. Manage attendee types, collect payments, schedule sessions, coordinate housing, and check people in with a quick scan. Every chapter's status is visible at a glance.
Reporting
Pull placement reports, membership summaries, and conference attendance numbers whenever you need them. Build dashboards for your board, export data for state reporting, and track year-over-year growth across every chapter.
Competitive Events
How does CTSO Central handle DECA competitive events?
DECA competitions are complex. Role plays, prepared events, cluster exams, state-only events, and presentations all have different formats and scoring needs, but CTSO Central handles them all.
- Score role plays, prepared events, and presentations with rubrics on any device
- Collect and manage written event submissions like business plans and marketing plans
- Conduct pre-judging of written events and automatically advance top performers
- Deliver cluster exams with built-in security and real-time proctoring
- Combine cluster exam and role play scores into final placements automatically
- Give every student a detailed competitive transcript by event and career cluster
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We are part of the DECA community.
Clearpoint Business Group is proud to be a DECA National Advisory Board partner, joining corporations, foundations, and universities that share a mission to develop the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs. Being part of this community means we work closely with DECA staff, state directors, and fellow partners to understand the real challenges associations face every day. CTSO Central is shaped by those relationships and built by people who care about DECA's mission as much as you do.
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A closer look at every feature
Every part of CTSO Central is designed around the day-to-day realities of running a DECA association. Explore each area in detail.
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One platform, every CTSO
CTSO Central works for DECA, FBLA, HOSA, SkillsUSA, TSA, FCCLA, BPA, and any career and technical student organization.
Ready to simplify how your DECA association operates?
Join the waitlist and be among the first to use CTSO Central when it launches in summer 2026. Early adopters get special launch-week pricing.