Registration, brackets and field assignments in three different places.

What moves our price, and what doesn’t. We never take a percentage, so doubling your registration revenue on the same number of teams doesn’t change our invoice by a cent. What does change it is crossing a tier — Club Platform starts at $3,000 and $149 a month, and past that Pro Platform starts at $6,000 and $299 a month. That step is why the middle column isn’t one number. The card fees beside it are yours, not ours: they go to Stripe on your own account and we never touch them. They’re in the table because the platform’s percentage on the left has card processing baked into it, so leaving them off would compare their price with processing against ours without.

And after year one, most of you pay us more. At the larger sizes above, between $802 and $1,419 a year more than the platform on its own — their subscription is cheaper than ours and we don’t take a percentage of your registrations to earn the difference back. You stay ahead on what you’ve spent in total for about 8 years, because you aren’t buying the website a second time; after that you’re paying for the platform and the people running it, not for a saving. The exception is the smallest row: at $20,000 the Club Platform starting price is low enough that you stay about $134 a year ahead indefinitely, because the platform you would otherwise buy still needs its own site maintained. That is one row out of three, and we’d rather point at it than let you assume it applies to yours. We’d rather you knew all this now than found it at your third renewal.

How this is calculated. Left column: SportsEngine Premium at $1,299/year plus 3.25% + $1.50 per registration (their transaction fee includes card processing), plus a $13,200 custom site build — $13,200 being the lowest year-one athletics site build in the Joliet Junior College public bid record B20050 — with $500/year maintenance from year two. Our column: MAD Sports Hub at the start of each tier’s published range — $3,000 setup plus $149/month on Club Platform, and the same treatment on Pro. A bigger scope costs more, up to the top of the range on the pricing page, so treat every figure here as the cheapest version of us and not the only one. That is the whole of what you pay us. The card-fees column is your own Stripe account at their standard 2.9% + $0.30, which we neither charge nor receive; it is shown because the platform’s percentage on the left already contains its own. Both assume a $450 average season fee. One thing we’ll say plainly: on platform fees alone, without the site build, a flat monthly only beats a percentage above roughly $371,200 in annual registrations — roughly a 71-team organization, so for practical purposes we are the more expensive option on fees and the website is the whole of the difference. That is why the gap above is a year-one figure and not a yearly one. These are estimates for comparison, not a quote.