Registration fees · checked 2026-09-07

Sports registration fees compared, 2026

What nine vendors print for a subscription and a per-registration fee, in their own words, with the date each page was read. Vendors that publish no number are listed as such. EasyChamp's row is read from the plan registry that prints /pricing.

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Subscription and per-entry fee, vendor by vendor

Quoted wording is in “quotes”. “Not published” means the vendor's pricing page prints no figure; “Not verified” means a figure exists somewhere but was not re-read from a vendor page on the date shown.

VendorSubscriptionPer-registration feeWhat is inside the numberSource · checked
EasyChampFree $0 (up to 8 teams per competition at go-live) · Club $29/mo or $290/yrNo EasyChamp transaction fees. Payment processor fees apply separately.EasyChamp transaction fee: $0. Stripe charges its own processing fees separately. Settles to the organizer's own Stripe account.easychamp.com/pricing (plan registry)checked 2026-10-08
SportsEngine HQ“$79 billed monthly” · “$67/month, billed annually”“Preferred Processing Rate - 3.25% + $1.50”; help centre examples use 3.25% + $2.00 per instalment ($100 order: $5.25 / $7.25 / $9.25 over 1 / 2 / 3 instalments)The pricing page calls it a processing rate; the help centre a management fee. Whether card processing is inside it is not stated on the pricing page.sportsengine.com/pricing · help.sportsengine.com/en/articles/6310814 (updated Aug 6, 2026)checked 2026-09-07
Jersey Watch“$19” first month, then “$348/year (that's $29/month)”“3.5% plus $1 per transaction”All-in by the vendor's statement; the organization may pass it through to the registrant. Custom domain included.jerseywatch.com/pricingchecked 2026-09-07
Spond ClubFree app (“A free app trusted by over 12 million people”)“3.29% + $1.00” (USD) · “2.5% + £0.20” (GBP) · “2.5% + €0.20” (EUR)All-in by the vendor's statement. No league engine (standings, fixture generation, brackets) is listed.help.spond.com › What is the transaction fee in Spond Clubchecked 2026-09-07
LeagueRepublicFree (with adverts) · Gold “$17.90 per month” for up to 25 teams, “$30.40” up to 100, “$60.90” up to 300, “$89.60” for more“1% per transaction with no setup fees”Platform fee; “Stripe fees vary by country and currency” on top.leaguerepublic.com/pricing.htmlchecked 2026-09-07
LeagueLobster“Up to 50 games per month are FREE” (ad-supported) · LITE “$9.95/month”, “100 games included”, “$0.10/extra game” · PRO price not printedNot verified on this date (a registration fee is charged; the rate was not re-read from a vendor page).Metered by games, not teams.help.leaguelobster.com › Pricingchecked 2026-09-07
LeagueApps“No subscription fees. No contract lock-ins. No ads.” · “Pay a small, one-time fee to get up and running”“We collect a small % of your online transactions” — no number publishedNot published.leagueapps.com/pricingchecked 2026-09-07
TeamSnapTeams “$0 to start” · Clubs & Leagues “Flexible, customized pricing” (quote)Not publishedNot published. Third-party estimates exist and are not quoted here.teamsnap.com/pricingchecked 2026-09-07
SportsEngine Tourney (ex Tourney Machine)By quote: “Contact us now for pricing”, via a sales address on tourneymachine.comNot publishedNot published.tourneymachine.comchecked 2026-09-07

How to read it

Three things the numbers do not say on their own

A platform fee and an all-in fee are different numbers. Jersey Watch and Spond state theirs as all-in; EasyChamp has no transaction fee; LeagueRepublic's quoted platform fee excludes Stripe processing. Compare like with like.

All-in, both sides: a $325 registration costs about $9.73 with EasyChamp (0% plus Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30) and $12.06 using the dated SportsEngine HQ rate (3.25% + $1.50). Actual processing depends on the provider, country, currency and payment method.

The subscription is where the difference is. A subscription is paid whether or not anyone registers: SportsEngine HQ is $67 to $79 a month before its first registration, while EasyChamp is $0 on Free for competitions up to 8 teams, or $290 a year on Club, with registration, fixtures, tables and the league site in one account.

Entry fees settle to the organizer's own connected Stripe account. That is also true of LeagueRepublic and LeagueLobster (Stripe-connected). Where a vendor settles to its own account first, ask when the payout arrives.

Questions

Registration fees, asked and answered

Which sports registration platform has the lowest fee?
EasyChamp's transaction fee is $0; payment processor fees apply separately. The competitor rows quote the rates their pages published on each row's date. Some include processing and some do not, so compare the total for your payment amount, country and currency. LeagueApps, TeamSnap and SportsEngine Tourney do not publish a rate.
Does zero EasyChamp transaction fees include payment processing?
No EasyChamp transaction fees. Payment processor fees apply separately. Using the US Stripe estimate of 2.9% + $0.30, a $325 registration costs about $9.73 in processing. Organizer subscriptions pay for plan features; they do not change the zero EasyChamp transaction fee.
Why does the table quote the vendors' own wording?
Because fees change and third-party fee tables go stale. Every competitor cell here is the sentence the vendor's own page printed on the date in that row; where a vendor prints nothing, the cell says so rather than estimating.
How do I use this table?
Cite it. The URL is stable and every row carries its source and date. If a figure is out of date, the page footer has a support address; corrections with a vendor link are applied and the date updated.

Ledgers

The vendor-by-vendor pages

Each comparison page is a dated ledger of the vendor's own wording against the EasyChamp plan registry.

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