How to properly evaluate League Software from a features and cost standpoint

Today's youth sports organizations have turned into online sporting communities that require powerful and affordable league software. At ClubSetup we offer an online sports registration system that your members can use to register players online, full league scheduling, division/team/player pages, group based calendars, an advanced notification and communication system that finds your users and delivers them important league information, online reporting, custom applications built specifically for youth sports organizations such as a League Classified section that parents can sell and search for sporting goods items, a volunteer sign up application that can be used by the organization to track sign ups for events such as snack shack sign up, a lost and found application that parents can post to the website items that are lost or found, and extentisve league fund raising programs that allow your league to make money with your website.

Comparing features for league software is a relatively straight forward process and we encourage leagues with over 250 members doing online registrations to sign up and see for themselves but figuring out the true cost of what a league website solution will cost your organization is a challenge!  League software vendors have multiple ways of charging an organization for a league sport website such as;

1. When league software vendors mark up credit card rates 1 - 2x  for player registrations this cost could represent an additional $3 - $5 per one registration ($100 Registration).  League parents are stuck with this fee.   

2. Forcing unwanted advertising on your site.  The league software vendor, and not you, could easily get paid thousands of dollars per year using your sports website,

3. Set up and yearly fees for creating a merchant account,

4. Charging set up fee's to get your site active,

5. Having recurring yearly fee's,

6. Hosting fee's,

7. Handling and controlling your funds for weeks at a time and those receiving your interest!

ClubSetup has a flat fee per player that registers online with the system.  This cost is the lowest in the youth sports league website field. 

Youth sport organizations need the involvement of their community; volunteers, parents, and players. ClubSetup’s innovative league website technology makes it possible to enlist ever-larger numbers of non-technical people to accomplish what used to be a complex and daunting task. Volunteers do not need to be a computer expert to utilize ClubSetup's easy to use publishing tools.

ClubSetup encourages everyone to get involved. Your members will become more motivated, and will contribute to your online community through a sense of ownership and personal connection.