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It runs the operating side of a sports organization: registration and payments, scheduling, communication with families, live scores and brackets, event ticketing, and your website and app. The point is that they share one roster, so registering a family is what puts them on a schedule and on a message list.

Four steps: pick a plan, connect the account you get paid into, publish the events you are running, and open sign-ups. Most organizations are taking registrations the same day rather than at the start of the next season.

No. Plenty of organizations start with registration or with one tournament and add the rest later. Every plan includes the full platform either way, so turning something on is not a new line on the invoice.

Every tier includes the full platform and a branded website. You pay one flat monthly price based on the size of your organization, and there are no per-team fees.

Your plan is not metered by athletes, teams, events, or sports, so adding them does not move the price. If your organization outgrows its tier you can move up at any time, and the change is prorated for the rest of your billing cycle.

Nothing, if they do not want to. Families can register, pay, and follow schedules and scores on your website in a browser. If they want it on their phone, your organization has its own space in the Sketchplay app.

Yes. Every plan includes a branded website built and hosted by Sketchplay carrying your name, your colors, and your event calendar, with your registration and live scores already wired into it.

That is what the demo is for. Bring your current sign-up form or last season's schedule and we will put it into Sketchplay while you watch.

Yours. Registration runs on your own branded site and the confirmation carries your organization's name, so families never get handed off to a page that looks like someone else's.

Yes. Waivers are signed inside the same flow as the sign-up and the payment, rather than emailed out afterward as an attachment you have to chase.

Yes. Set a capacity and sign-ups close themselves once you are full, so you are not manually turning people away or discovering you oversold a session.

You can sell a pack of credits families draw down session by session, or set up recurring billing for training that runs week after week. Talk to us about your specific structure on the demo.

Balances are visible to you and to the family on the same screen, so it is a number both sides can look at rather than a chase.

It builds itself from who registered, and it is the same roster your schedules and your messages are addressed from. There is no second list to keep in sync.

You enter your courts or fields, your teams and divisions, and your constraints such as start times, rest windows, and travel gaps. The AI scheduler builds a complete conflict-free schedule in minutes, then keeps solving during the event so a no-show or delay can be rebuilt in seconds.

You mark the team out and the scheduler re-solves the affected games immediately, respecting your original constraints. Every affected family gets the updated time and court automatically, so nobody shows up to a game that moved.

Yes. It runs real tournaments today. It is not a beta or a roadmap item.

Yes. Every game stays drag-and-drop editable. The scheduler flags a conflict the moment you create one, so you keep full control without losing the safety net.

Generic auto-schedulers generate a schedule once, before the event. When game day changes, you re-run them by hand and then chase families yourself. Sketchplay keeps solving live during the event and handles the notifications for you.

Your organization. Sketchplay Ticketing uses Stripe Connect with direct charges, so the charge lives on your Stripe account, your name appears on the buyer's statement, and Stripe pays you directly on its normal schedule. There is no platform escrow.

No. They open the link, pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a card, and get a confirmation email with a QR code, a printable PDF, and an Apple Wallet pass.

A phone or a tablet. Gate staff sign in with a per-event PIN in the browser, point the camera at the QR code, and it validates and marks the ticket used on the spot. There is no hardware to rent.

Yes. Full and partial refunds are one click from the order, with an optional checkbox to void the ticket so it cannot be scanned at the gate.

There are no setup fees, no monthly subscription, and no long-term contract. There is a small per-ticket service fee plus standard Stripe processing, and only when you actually sell a ticket.

Yes. Multi-day tournaments and showcases can sell different ticket types per day, and the gate scan validates against the right day.

No. Text and email reach every family whose contact details are on the roster, app or no app. Push and in-app notifications are the extra layer for families who do install it.

For organization and team announcements, yes, and without the problem that makes group chats fail: the recipient list maintains itself from your roster instead of depending on someone remembering to add the new family.

Yes. Send to a single team, an age group, the families in one tournament, or the whole club. The audience comes from the roster, so you are picking a group rather than building a list.

Every plan includes a monthly allowance of SMS credits, and the allowance goes up with the tier. Email, push, and in-app messages are not metered. See the pricing page for the allowance on each plan.

The families affected are notified automatically. If the AI Scheduler re-solves a day around weather or a no-show, only the teams whose games moved get the message, not the entire event.

Your organization's. Announcements and automatic notifications carry your name and branding rather than ours, both in email and in your organization's space in the Sketchplay app.

Yes. Pool records settle the seeding when pool play closes, and bracket play starts from there. You are not rebuilding the bracket by hand between the two rounds.

Yes. Multiple age groups and divisions run at once across as many courts or fields as your venue has, from six courts to sixteen fields.

The bracket and scores appear on your branded event website and in your organization's space in the Sketchplay app, so families in the gym and families at home are looking at the same live picture.

The AI scheduler re-solves the day around the delay and notifies only the teams whose games actually moved, rather than blasting the whole event.

No. Registration, scheduling, gate ticketing, and the bracket are one platform. A team that registers can be seeded, and gate revenue and registration land in the same place already reconciled.

Yes. Copy the whole event, change the dates, and reopen registration. The format, divisions, and structure come with it.

Yes. A branded website is included with every Sketchplay plan at no extra cost. It carries your organization's name, logo, and colors, and it is built and hosted for you.

Yes. Point your existing domain at your Sketchplay site and families see your address, not ours. If you do not have one yet we can start you on a Sketchplay address and move it later.

No. We build the site with you during onboarding. You supply your logo and colors and we handle the rest, so there is nothing to design, host, or patch.

Yes. Schedules, rosters, registration, standings, and scores come straight from the platform, so publishing an event or a score updates the public site immediately. There is no second place to maintain.

Families download the Sketchplay app and your organization has its own space inside it, carrying your name and branding, with your schedules, announcements, scores, and payments. A fully white-labelled standalone app is on the roadmap.

Your domain is yours and your data is yours. You can export your data and point your domain elsewhere at the end of any billing month.

Tournament management software runs the operational side of an event: team registration and payments, seeding and brackets, court and field scheduling, gate ticketing, live scores and standings, and communication with families. Sketchplay does all of it in one platform, under your own brand.

Multi-court, multi-division weekends are the normal case. Because pricing is flat by organization size rather than per team, adding teams or divisions to an event does not change what you pay.

Mark the team out and the AI scheduler re-solves the affected games in seconds while holding your original constraints, then notifies every affected family automatically with the new time and court.

Yes. Sell gate and parking passes in advance or at the door with Apple Pay and Google Pay, scan QR codes at entry, and see sales in real time. Payouts go straight to your account.

Teams and families use your organization's space in the Sketchplay app, alongside your own branded website. Schedules, scores, brackets, and alerts all sit under your organization's name.

No. Sketchplay charges one flat monthly price based on the size of your organization. Running more events or adding more teams does not change it.

Camp registration software handles sign-ups, waivers, and payment for a camp or clinic, then manages the roster, attendance, and communication once it starts. Sketchplay adds recurring training, session credit packs, and athlete evaluations so the same platform runs your whole year, not just one event.

Families buy a block of sessions up front, for example ten training sessions. Each time the athlete attends, one credit is drawn down automatically. Everyone can see the balance, and you get paid before the work rather than chasing invoices after it.

Yes. Set a session to repeat on a schedule and it publishes to your calendar for the whole term. Families book once, attendance is tracked per session, and cancellations notify the group automatically.

Yes. Set capacity per session, from a one-on-one lesson to a full clinic. When a session fills, sign-ups close automatically so you are never over capacity on the floor.

Coaches score athletes against the skills you define, and the results roll up into a profile parents can see. It gives families visible proof of progress, which is what keeps them re-enrolling term after term.

No. Sketchplay charges one flat monthly price based on the size of your organization. Running more camps, more sessions, or more athletes does not change it.

Yes. SportsEngine documents exports for member data, games, rosters, and eligibility searches, and they produce CSV files you download. You need Full Access or Limited Access - HQ Tools permissions to reach the member export, so check who on your board actually holds those rights before you plan around it.

Signed waivers and uploaded documents. They rarely come down in a bulk CSV the way member records do, so they have to be saved separately, and clubs usually discover this after access has already ended. Save a sample and open it to confirm you got the signed version rather than a blank template.

Before, without exception. Admin access to your data generally ends when the subscription does, and the export tools go with it. Once that happens, recovering historical records is a support request rather than a download.

Between seasons, after your last event has settled and before the next registration opens, so nothing is in flight. If you cannot wait, switch at a registration boundary rather than in the middle of one: a half-collected registration living in two systems is what produces duplicate charges and refunds.

Plan on yes, and plan the message rather than letting them find out from a broken bookmark. Send one announcement before anything visibly changes, saying what is moving, what they need to do, what they do not, and the date the old links stop working, then one reminder on the day.

Bring your exports to a demo and we will go through the actual files with you, including the parts that will not come across cleanly. What is possible depends on what your export contains, so we would rather look at yours than give you a number over a web page.

Yes, and they document it openly. The Members report and the Registrations report both export, and depending on the report you can take CSV, Excel, or PDF. They also publish articles for exporting your data specifically to import into other platforms, which is an unusually straightforward thing for a vendor to provide.

Custom form fields. In the Registrations report they are collapsed into a single Custom Form Fields column, and you have to right-click it, choose Extract columns, select the fields and confirm before they become real columns in your export. Nobody finds that by accident, so the club-specific data like medical notes, school, jersey size, or volunteer preference is exactly what gets left behind.

Yes. One blended export across every program and season is very hard to unpick later when someone asks about one specific season. Export per program and per season and name the files so a stranger could tell them apart in a year.

You can schedule an export to run on a cadence and email it to addresses that do not have to be inside your organization. Setting a weekly export to a club-owned address in the weeks before a switch is cheap insurance, and it means a recent snapshot does not depend on still having a login.

That depends on which fields you selected and how your programs were structured, so we would rather open your actual CSVs with you than quote a number on a web page. Bring them to a demo and we will tell you what maps across and what needs rework.

Because an event platform stores your history as separate events rather than one continuous season. Your record is however many tournaments you have run, each holding its own teams, payments, rosters, schedule, and bracket. Plan to work backwards through every event you care about and export each one.

Exposure's features documentation describes downloading or printing reports for an event, with Excel exports for teams, payments, and rosters, and PDFs for schedules, standings, and brackets. Take the Excel version wherever you get the choice, and the PDF only as a visual backup.

Exposure offers an API that can retrieve participants, events, divisions, and games if you have a developer or a technical volunteer. For an operator with a long event history that is far more reliable than clicking through every past event by hand, and it gives you structured data instead of a folder of spreadsheets.

Their published support route is email, at support@exposureevents.com. We could not find a public self-serve knowledge base with per-report instructions, so start that conversation early rather than days before your access ends, ask specifically about a bulk export of historical events, and get the answer in writing.

In your off-season, once the last event has settled financially and before registration opens for the next one. Do not migrate with an event on the books: a tournament weekend takes all of your attention, and the migration is the one that ends up done badly.

Not as a club. GroupMe's export is run by an individual account holder from the web app, under their profile, and covers the conversations that person selects. There is no club-level export, because a club does not hold a GroupMe account the way it holds an account on a management platform.

Their account goes with them, and so does their copy of the history. That is why the time to ask someone to run an export is while they are still around and still willing to spend ten minutes on it, rather than after they have moved on.

JSON files, which GroupMe's documentation notes you need an external viewer to read. That is workable for archiving and awkward for actually using, so if you expect to search it later, get help from whoever in your club is comfortable with data while the context is still fresh.

No. Their documentation states you can only have one active export at a time, and creating a new one replaces the previous. Tell everyone that up front so nobody starts a second export and quietly destroys the first.

You should not. Group membership is out of date, includes people who have left, misses the parent who never joined, and phone numbers in a chat app are not a roster. Build the list from your registration records instead, which is where it should have come from originally.

No, and we would be sceptical of anyone who said they would. A JSON archive of chat threads is a record to keep, not a migration source. What is worth doing is the rebuild: getting your real contact list out of your registration records so your first announcement reaches everyone.

Treat courts as the constraint. A basketball weekend is a fixed number of courts, fixed game lengths, minimum rest between a team's games, and pools that turn into a bracket by a set time. Sketchplay's AI Scheduler takes courts, teams, divisions and rules as inputs and returns a conflict-free schedule; when a court goes down or a team drops, it re-solves and notifies every affected family.

Yes. Each event carries its own divisions (age, grade, level), each with its own price, cap and waivers. A team registers, pays online, and lands in the right pool. Registration and payment are one flow on your own site, and the money goes to your own Stripe account.

The scorer enters the result once, at the court, from a phone. Standings, tiebreakers, seeding and the bracket update on their own, live on your site and in the app, and families get the notification. Nobody carries a clipboard to a laptop between games.

Yes. Day passes, weekend passes and parking sell online before anyone leaves the house; families pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay and get scanned at the door with any phone. Gate revenue is paid direct to your Stripe account.

No. One roster runs the club: registration and team fees, practice and league scheduling, camps and skills training, communication, and your tournaments and showcases. The same families and teams appear everywhere; there is nothing to re-import between the season and the event.

One flat monthly price by organization size, with every product included and no per-team fees, so a 60-team weekend costs the same as a 20-team one. Details are on the pricing page.

Yes. Players register once for tryouts, you place them, and the roster carries straight into the season with the fees, waivers and contacts already attached. Nobody fills in the same form twice.

Yes. Set the schedule you want (deposit, then monthly, or by season phase) and the plan runs itself. Payments land in your own Stripe account and the roster shows who is current.

The AI Scheduler takes your fields, time slots, teams and rules and returns a conflict-free practice and game schedule. When a field closes or a coach moves a practice, it re-solves and every affected family gets the notification.

Yes. Your club season and your hosted event run off the same roster: registration, schedule, live scores and the gate for the event you host, and team communication and payments for the season.

Yes. Schedules, changes, scores, payments and messages in one branded app and on your club website, included with every plan.

One flat monthly price by organization size, every product included, no per-player or per-team fees. Details are on the pricing page.

Yes. Session packs and camps run on the same roster as your tournament registration, gate, schedule and scores. One set of families, one app, nothing to re-import between programs.

Write it once and it goes out as a text, an email, a push notification and an in-app message, addressed from the roster. Every family gets it the way they read it, and you can see it landed.

Yes. Day passes, weekend passes and parking sell online; families pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay and get scanned at the gate with any phone. Gate revenue is paid direct to your Stripe account.

Yes. Waivers, custom questions like jersey and equipment sizes, and payment plans are part of the same sign-up flow on your own site. The roster builds itself from whoever finished.

Yes. Coaches get their team in the app with schedules, contacts and messaging, scoped to what they should see.

One flat monthly price by organization size, every product included, no per-team fees. Details are on the pricing page.

The AI Scheduler takes fields, time slots, teams, game lengths, rest rules and blackout dates and returns a conflict-free schedule for the season or the weekend. When weather closes a field, it re-solves and notifies every affected family.

Yes. Team registration by division, seeding, the schedule, live scores entered at the field, standings and the bracket moving on their own, and online tickets and parking scanned at the gate.

Yes. Register once for tryouts, place players onto teams, and carry the roster into the season with fees, waivers and contacts attached. Payment plans run themselves; money lands in your own Stripe account.

Yes, included with every plan. Schedules, registration, standings and news publish to your branded site and app on their own.

Yes. Address the message from the roster at any level, and it goes out as text, email, push and in-app. Nobody gets missed and you can see it landed.

One flat monthly price by organization size, every product included, no per-player or per-team fees. Details are on the pricing page.

Yes. Sell a pack of lessons or sessions, cap the size, collect payment up front, and the pack counts down as athletes attend. Parents see what is left and can buy more without calling you.

The AI Scheduler takes the diamonds and time slots you actually have, plus teams, game lengths and rest rules, and returns a conflict-free schedule. When a field is lost to weather it re-solves and tells every affected family.

Yes. Registration by division, seeding, the schedule, scores entered at the field, standings and the bracket moving on their own, and online tickets and parking at the gate.

Yes. All of it is part of one sign-up flow on your own site, and the roster builds itself. Payments land in your own Stripe account.

Yes. One branded app and website, included, with schedules, changes, scores, payments and messages in one place.

One flat monthly price by organization size, every product included, no per-team fees. Details are on the pricing page.

The AI Scheduler takes courts, teams, divisions, match lengths and rest rules and returns a conflict-free pool schedule; when a court goes down or a team drops, it re-solves and notifies every affected family. Standings and the bracket update as results are entered at the court.

The scorer enters the result once at the court from a phone. Standings, tiebreakers, seeding and the bracket update on their own, live on your site and app.

Yes. Each division has its own price, cap and waivers; teams register, pay online, and land in the right pool. Money goes to your own Stripe account.

Yes. Day and weekend passes and parking sell online, families pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay, and gate staff scan with any phone. Gate revenue is paid direct to your Stripe.

Yes. Tryout registration, placement, dues with payment plans, practice scheduling and communication run off the same roster as your events.

One flat monthly price by organization size, every product included, no per-team fees. Details are on the pricing page.

The AI Scheduler takes the ice slots you actually hold, plus teams, game and practice lengths and rest rules, and returns a conflict-free schedule. When a slot moves, it re-solves and every affected family gets the notification.

Yes. Register once for tryouts, place players, and carry the roster into the season with fees, waivers and contacts attached. Payment plans run themselves and money lands in your own Stripe account.

Yes. A branded association website and app, included with every plan, with schedules, changes, scores, payments and messages in one place.

Yes. Team registration by division, the schedule, scores entered at the rink, standings and the bracket moving on their own, and online tickets and parking at the door.

Yes. Address it from the roster at any level; it goes out as text, email, push and in-app, and you can see it landed.

One flat monthly price by organization size, every product included, no per-player or per-team fees. Details are on the pricing page.

The product page now reads SportsEngine Tourney, formerly Tourney Machine. The app still lives at tourneymachine.com and the mobile apps carry the SportsEngine Tourney name, and it was part of the SportsEngine assets PlayMetrics acquired on May 1, 2026. Expect the brand and the login to keep changing; that is a reason to hold your own copy of your history.

We could not find a public help article for exporting brackets, schedules or results as PDF or CSV in the Tourney help center; what is documented is embedding public results in your own webpage. Ask their support in writing for an export of your event history before you plan a date, and keep the answer.

Their documented flow is from SportsEngine HQ into Tourney, using HQ's Quick Report and Export to Excel. If your teams registered through HQ, that is where the clean CSV lives; export it there. If they registered directly in Tourney, ask support for the export path.

A support form linked from tourneymachine.com and a chat bubble in the help center. Pricing questions go to pricing@tourneymachine.com. Start early; there is no published phone line or hours.

In the gap after one event settles and before registration for the next opens. Run the next event on Sketchplay while Tourney is still readable, so nothing you need is behind a login you no longer have.

Their registration feature page states responses export to CSV, and their public release notes describe exports for schedules, tryout players, subscriptions, invoice payments and team account transactions. The admin how-to articles themselves are behind the customer login, so use those from inside your account, and note their release note that export files are retained for download for 7 days.

We could not find public developer documentation for a PlayMetrics API. Plan on the in-app exports.

support@playmetrics.com or the Submit a request link in their help center; existing clubs also have a Customer Success representative. Ask for a complete export of members, registrations, payments and documents in writing before your access changes.

PlayMetrics announced on May 1, 2026 that it acquired substantially all of SportsEngine's assets from Versant. Their statement is that SportsEngine customers keep the same service and gain access to PlayMetrics technology. If you are on either platform, the practical move is the same: hold a current export of your own data while things change around you.

Between seasons, after the last payment plan has settled and before tryout registration opens. Register the new season on Sketchplay while the old system is still readable.

Their help center documents CSV exports for team rosters and organization members (emailed to you), registration reports with separate fee and waiver exports, financial reports (payments, deposits, outstanding), and schedules as CSV or iCal. Registration exports only include data entered at registration, and long financial ranges are split into batches.

It matters for where the export lives. Single-team rosters export from the team's Roster tab; organization-wide members export from the Members tab in the club and league console, and only that export carries custom fields. Take the organization export.

TeamSnap describes itself as pay-as-you-go that can be canceled at any time, with no prorated refunds; team and organization plans auto-renew until canceled through your account or a support ticket. Club and league agreements may carry supplemental terms, so check yours.

Their published notes cover downgrades (photos kept 30 days, paid-feature data stored) and retiring a team as a read-only copy; we could not find a stated retention window after an organization cancels. Export first, then cancel.

Message and chat from the app or help center, with published hours (admins: message daily 8 AM to 6 PM CST, chat weekdays), and help@teamsnapone.com for TeamSnap ONE. Phone support is described as limited.

Yes, you can upgrade or downgrade your plan at any time. Changes to your subscription will be prorated for the remainder of your billing cycle.

Yes, from time to time we offer a free trial for our Starter plan. Please contact our team to inquire about a free trial.

Absolutely! We offer special pricing for educational institutions and non-profit organizations depending on the situation and need. Please contact our team for more information.

We offer both monthly and annual billing options. Annual plans save about 16% compared to monthly billing. Sketchplay uses Stripe for all billing and payments.

We accept all major credit cards, ACH (bank transfer), Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App Pay, and Stripe Link. Payment plans are available so families can pay over time, and we keep adding options as they roll out.

Yes, you can cancel your subscription at any time from your account settings. There are no cancellation fees.

No. Sketchplay never charges per-team fees. You pay one flat monthly price based on the size of your organization, and every tier includes the full platform.

No. Your plan is not metered by athletes, teams, events, or sports. Register as many as your season needs and the monthly price stays the same.

Yes. Every plan includes a branded website for your organization, built and hosted by Sketchplay, carrying your name, your colors, and your event calendar.

Adding teams, athletes, or events does not change your price. If your organization outgrows its tier you can move up at any time, and the change is prorated for the rest of your billing cycle.