Assignary and Assignr

Assignr

Assignr is scheduling software for referees and umpires, made for “leagues, associations, and assignors of all sizes”, and it puts “scheduling, communication, and payments under one roof” [4]. It says it has served referees, umpires and assignors since 2009 [5].

Assignary

Assignary is where a club, league or association assigns its referees and judges, records the work and pays for it. A club, a league or a circuit for a judged sport keeps one schedule there for everything it staffs, and one record of who worked it. That can be a referee crew on a match, or a judging panel on a division. Assigners work in Assignary in a browser, and referees and judges answer from their phones. Assignary is new. Your club would be among its first.

Assignr

An assignor opens a game, picks an official for each position from a list, and publishes the game, which asks each official to accept or decline [7] [9]. On the League plan and above, officials can also ask to work a game from the list of open ones, for the assignor to approve or deny, or assign themselves to games the assignor opens to them [1] [12]. The League plan and above have unlimited assignors; Recreational has one assignor and five read-only accounts [1].

Assignary

A seat is one official’s place on a game’s crew. For each seat, you see everyone who can work it. They’re free, close enough, certified and cleared for the day of the game, with no conflict and no other game in the way. You also see why everyone else is out. You choose who to offer it to. You send every first offer.

Assignr

Officials mark the days, times and places they can work on a calendar [8]. A day they haven’t marked counts as not available [8]. As the assignor picks, each name shows a code for anything in the way [10] [21]. Among them:

• a date the official hasn’t marked
• another game at the same time
• a game for another organization on Assignr
• a team, league or venue conflict
• a limit on games a day, week or month

A venue farther than an official will travel, measured in a straight line from their home, shows as a venue conflict [22]. Its help center says the codes are informative and not hard limits, so an assignor can assign over one [11]. An assignor can narrow the list to the officials with no conflict with the game [9]. The code for an official who declined the game before prevents assigning them to it again, unless the assignor overrides it [10]. On the League plan and above, and on per-game plans, Assignr has a US Soccer integration [3]. It finds each official by email address and pulls in their active US Soccer certifications [3]. It keeps them current, and tells the official 60 and 30 days before one expires [3]. It can also be set to refuse an assignment to a referee who isn’t certified [3].

Assignary

Each official sets the times they’re free each week. An assigner can see them but can’t change them. An official can say they’re out for some days, and so can an assigner. That blocks those days on the official’s calendar, and frees the seats those days cover. A seat goes only to somebody who passes every check. They’re free at that time and inside their own travel radius. They’re at the level the game asks for, and hold every clearance its sport requires when the game starts. They have no declared conflict, no other game in the way, and room under their own cap for the day. Your club records each clearance itself: what it is, who issued it, who entered it, who checked it and when it runs out. Assignary never contacts the body that issued it. So the record shows who vouched for it, and when.

Assignr

When a game is published, each official assigned to it is emailed, and sent a push notification where they have its app, and asked to accept or decline [7]. They answer on Assignr’s website or in its app for iOS and Android [2] [6]. An official who hasn’t answered is reminded daily [7]. Every assigned official is reminded by email 24 to 48 hours before the game [7]. A change of date, time or venue asks them to accept again [7]. A declined game stays assigned to the official until the assignor removes it [6]. An official can’t decline within 36 hours of the start, a period the assignor can change [6]. An assignor can switch on auto-decline, which declines an assignment nobody accepted within a set number of hours [13]. Messages to officials go by email, and by push notification as well where the assignor chooses [23].

Assignary

Email is the only way an offer is sent. There’s no app to install. The offer’s link opens in the phone’s browser, and officials can add Assignary to their home screen. Its email shows the seat, the game, its sport and level, when it starts and ends, the venue and its address, and the pay. They answer Accept or Turn down. Every offer has a time limit. If nobody answers before then, the offer runs out. If someone turns an offer down, or lets it run out, it goes to the next person who can take it. Assignary asks the nearest first, and the better record of turning up breaks a tie. The game’s history shows that Assignary moved it. You can turn off a game’s automatic re-offers. Then a seat that opens up on that game waits for you.

An official can also say yes before anyone asks. Then a seat that matches is theirs the moment it’s offered. They choose what counts as a match: the levels they work, a radius, a cap for the week, weekdays they keep free, the lowest fee they’ll take and a pair of dates.

Assignr

On every paid plan but Recreational, an assignor can switch on game reports, which any assigned official can file after a game, to confirm the officials showed up, record the score and collect comments [14]. Before officials are paid, an assignor approves the games for payment, checking each game’s officials and fees and leaving out an assignment such as a no-show, and each official’s approved games become one statement [15]. Its reports, in CSV or PDF, include what each official is owed and paid, declined games, and a count of the games each official has worked in each position [19].

Assignary

An assigner marks who didn’t show and who was excused. Every accepted seat on a game that has started is paid. The seats left out are the ones marked a no-show or excused, and any whose official disputes the record. If an official hasn’t finished setting up payouts with Stripe, their seat is left out of the weekend’s payment until they do. The rest of the crew is paid without it. An official can say the record of their seat is wrong. That seat stays out of the weekend’s payment until an assigner answers. The assigner answers by changing the record or by leaving it as it is. Each seat keeps a history of who offered it, who took it and who marked it. An official can get a signed record of their own work in a club. It lists their offers, what they accepted, whether the work happened and the clearances they hold. Whoever they hand it to can check it against a published key, without asking Assignary.

Assignr

Direct deposit is an add-on for the League plan and above, and for per-game plans, in the United States [1]. It’s ACH alone: each payment is drawn from the paying organization’s bank account, or from a balance it moved into Assignr’s payment network beforehand [17]. Paid from a bank account, the money reaches officials within 4 business days [17]. That drops to 2 once Assignr moves the payer to Priority Timing, after a pattern of successful payments and at least 30 days [17]. Paid from a balance already moved in, it arrives within 1 business day [17]. Officials never pay a fee to receive their pay [16]. A league, school or other payer outside the organization can pay its officials through Assignr, and pays the processing fees [16]. Outside the United States, it tracks what’s owed and what has been paid [16].

Assignary

The club pays at Stripe’s checkout. It doesn’t open a payments account of its own. Officials give their bank details to Stripe, never to Assignary. A weekend is paid by card, bank transfer or bank debit, and each referee and judge is sent the whole fee on their seat. Pay sent to an official lands in their Stripe balance first. It reaches their bank on Stripe’s usual schedule, at no cost to them. They can ask for it right away instead, which costs 1.75% of what is paid out, at least $1. They see the fee before they confirm.

How soon an official is paid depends on how the club paid:

• A card the bank confirmed, or Apple Pay or Google Pay: as the charge clears
• A US wire for the whole weekend: as it arrives
• A bank debit from an account Stripe reports as a business account: 2 business days after it clears
• Any other bank transfer: 6 business days after it arrives
• Any other bank debit, the wait to plan on: 65 days after it clears
• A card the bank didn’t confirm: 120 days after it clears

You can pay with a US card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, but not with American Express, Discover or a prepaid card. One payment carries up to 50 seats. A bigger weekend is paid for in batches of 50, earliest games first. Each batch is a payment of its own, from the same Pay page. A club starts with a limit of $5,000 on payments that could still be taken back at any one time. Assignary doesn’t accept a payment that would go over it. The limit rises to $25,000 once 3 of the club’s weekends were paid for at least 60 days ago. On each of them, the wait before the crew is paid has to be over. None of them can have been disputed. The Pay page shows what the club paid each official in a calendar year. It counts each payment on the date the money moved.

If a club’s bank or card issuer takes a payment back, the club owes what that cost. That’s the amount, plus the fees Stripe charges for it. A club that owes anything can’t pay for another weekend until it has paid what it owes. If the club has not paid within 30 days, each official that payment paid can have their share of the crew’s part of what is still owed, and no more, taken back from their Stripe account. It is paid back to them once the club has paid what it owes and that payment can no longer be taken back. An official is told this before they set up payouts.

Assignr

Here are Assignr’s plans as its pricing page stated them on October 20, 2026 [1]. Each of the first three includes 60 officials [1].

• Recreational: $240 a year, and $40 a year for each 10 officials more (“max of 100”) [1]
• League: $360 a year, and $60 a year for each 10 more [1]
• Elite: $480 a year, and $80 a year for each 10 more [1]
• Enterprise, for 600 or more officials: “Contact for Pricing” [1]

As its payments page stated it the same day, direct deposit is $199 a year, with “No fees for the first 150 transactions” and “$1.25 per transaction beyond 150” [16]. Per-game pricing is set up on contact [1]. Recreational, League and Elite each start with a 14-day free trial, with no credit card required [1]. Assignr will refund a customer who isn’t satisfied with its software, “even if your season has already started” [1].

Assignary

Assigning is free. Each seat your club pays through Assignary has a price. There’s no subscription, no setup fee and no contract.

Each seat paid adds $3.50 plus 3.5% of the seat’s fee by card, or $3.50 plus 1.25% of the seat’s fee by bank. Putting the weekend in, sending offers and seeing what’s covered are free. Taking a seat and being paid are free too, for a referee or a judge. Pay they ask to have sent right away costs them 1.75% of what is paid out, at least $1. These prices hold from October 6, 2026.

The percentage is worked out on each seat’s fee and rounded up to the cent, and its official is sent the whole fee. A bank debit through Stripe’s checkout adds Stripe’s $1.50 fee for linking the bank account, as a line of its own. A wire adds Stripe’s $15 wire fee.

A season plan prepays the $3.50 part of each seat in a block, on one invoice paid by bank transfer, and a weekend paid by bank draws its seat fees from the block. A plan is sold on a quote, at no more than $812.50 for 250 seats, $1,575.00 for 500, $3,050.00 for 1,000 or $7,375.00 for 2,500.

Assignr

Assignr’s Games page downloads your games as a CSV [20].

Assignary

The schedule. Assignary imports a .csv or .xlsx workbook, and each row becomes a game. Before anything is saved, Assignary shows you every row. For a row it can’t read, it says what’s wrong. One file carries up to 200 games. It finds each column by its header, and ignores capitals, spaces and punctuation in the header. The switching page lists a name for each column it reads. Read the file’s first row against the columns the switching page lists before you import it. If a sheet has no fee column, Assignary asks you for one fee before it’s saved.

The crew. Every club has a join code. Anyone who signs up through a link with the code in it joins your roster as an official. So one message in the group chat you already run brings the crew over. Or invite one person at a time at their email address, or type your roster in first, a name and an email address each.

Both at once. You can put one weekend’s games into Assignary, offer their seats and fill them, while the rest of the season stays where it is. Assignary charges nothing for a weekend your club doesn’t pay for through it.

Assignr

Assignr imports games from a CSV, matching each column to a field of its own, and asks every game for a date, a start time, a venue, an age group and both teams [24]. It imports officials the same way, with first and last names each in a column of their own [25].

Assignary

A club’s owner can download one zip of spreadsheets for a range of dates. It holds the games and every offer of a seat on them, and the roster and members as they are now. It also holds what the club was charged and what its officials were paid. Each is a CSV file, and the roster file holds each official’s name, in one column, and email address.

Each person can download their own record as one file from their Account page. An official’s signed record of their work goes with them to their next association.