Assignary and RefQuest (RQ+)

RQ+

RQ+ is a platform of six products from RefQuest LLC: Assign, Pay, Genesis, Insight, Collaboration and Resource. It calls itself “End-to-end officiating services for officials, assignors, and leagues.” [1] [2] RQ Assign’s tools are “built for conferences and officiating staffs”. [1] The NCAA “partners with RQ+ as its officiating services platform”, and RQ+ “provides registration, education, assigning, and payment for NCAA-registered officials.” [4] Its clients page says it “proudly services all sports, conferences and levels”. [3]

Beside assigning and pay, RQ Genesis is “Centralized registration, eligibility, and testing”, with “Background check integration”; RQ Collaboration is “Video-based learning, engagement, and feedback”; RQ Insight is “Custom reporting and grading intelligence”; and RQ Resource is “Document distribution, signatures, messaging, and digital manuals in one hub.” [2] [9]

Assignary

Assignary is where a club, league or association assigns its referees and judges, records the work and pays for it. It staffs a referee crew on a match, or a judging panel on a division. A referee crew is a lead and their assistants. A seat is one official’s place on a game’s crew. Officials are 18 or older. Nobody holds an account, or is paid, without saying they are. Assignary is new. Your club would be among its first. It opens in January 2027, and until then the way in is the waitlist.

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RQ Assign coordinates “assignments, availability, and communication across conferences from one command center”, and covers “Officiating and support-staff scheduling”. An assignor can “Assign individually or by crew”, use “Manual and automatic game release” and “Game Link assignment by series”, and set “Custom game fees, fields, and positions”. Its multi-conference workflows hold “Multiple conferences per consortium”, with “Conference-level defaults for pay, release, and notifications”. [1] [2] [5]

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On Assignary, you import the league’s .csv or .xlsx workbook, or write the games in. Either way, the weekend ends up on one schedule. 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.

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RQ Assign lists “Integrated proximity filters”, “Firm and provisional blocks”, “Game and team frequency restrictions”, “Team exposure filters” and “Allocation count tracking and conflict-of-interest logic”. [5]

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Assignary knows what the club records: each official’s level, the clearances they hold with the day each runs out, and the conflicts they’ve declared. 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. If an official says they’re out, their seats on games that haven’t started are offered to the next person who can take them. If a game’s automatic re-offers are switched off, the seat waits for you instead. Assignary reads nothing from a federation’s or a state body’s records. Each clearance is recorded by the club that checks it.

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RQ Assign sends “messages by email or text”, aimed at “conferences, consortiums, games, individuals, or crews”, with “Attachment support”, “Custom delivery timing” and “Game status updates and reminders”. [5] RQ Resource adds “Email and text messaging” with “Message recall”, and documents that officials “receive and sign”. [2] [6]

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On 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. An offer’s email shows the seat, the game, its sport and level, when it starts and ends, the venue and its address, and the pay. The official answers Accept or Turn down. Every offer has a time limit. If nobody answers before then, the offer runs out. An official who would rather not watch for one can say yes ahead of time. A seat that matches what they said is then theirs the moment it’s sent.

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 assigner can also write a note to a game’s crew. Each official holding a seat on it gets a notice that names their seat.

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On RQ+, officials “submit game reports and required forms” after contests, and RQ Assign lists “Game report submission”. [2] [5] RQ Insight adds “Customized grading and scoring fields”, “Evaluator reports”, “Composite grades and scores”, “Foul and violation reporting” and “Exportable reports”. [7]

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On 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. 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 download a signed record of their own work. It shows their offers and accepts, whether the work happened, and the clearances they hold. It has no pay figure in it. Whoever they hand it to can check it against a published key, without asking Assignary.

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RQ Pay is for paying “officials and vendors”, by “ACH Direct Deposit”, with “Two-way microdeposit verification”, “Pre-funding account controls”, “Automatic transfer options after game completion” and “Multiple account linking for allocation workflows”. It names “Enterprise financial services via Stripe” and “PCI-compliant processing and storage”. Pay is drawn from the assignment, with “Defaults by game type, position, and tier”, “Mileage and travel logic” and “Per diem support”. [8]

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On Assignary, a club’s treasurer pays for the weekend through Stripe, by card, bank transfer or bank debit. Each referee and judge is sent the whole fee on their seat. How soon each official’s fee is sent depends on how the club paid:

• A card whose bank confirmed the cardholder: as the charge clears
• An ACH bank transfer: 6 business days after it arrives
• A bank debit: plan on 65 days after it clears

Before you pay, the Pay page shows each wait beside the button for that way to pay. Officials give their bank details to Stripe, never to Assignary. Pay reaches an official’s bank on Stripe’s usual schedule, at no cost to them. Having it sent right away costs 1.75% of what is paid out, at least $1. They see the fee before they confirm.

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None of RQ+’s home, Solutions, RQ Assign or RQ Pay pages prints a price for an organization, and its product pages ask an organization to “Talk with our team or start registration”. [1] [2] [5] [8] The NCAA said on 15 July 2024 that, “Starting with the 2024-25 academic year”, it “will cover the cost of the RQ+ officiating platform, including payment transaction fees and signature software costs, for Division II and III and single-sport conferences”, and that it would also supplement Division I conferences’ platform costs. [10]

An official registering on RQ+ for NCAA championship eligibility pays a registration fee set by sport, and in some sports also by division: for 2026–27 basketball, $300 at Division I and $125 at Divisions II and III. [4]

Assignary

Assignary has no subscription, no setup fee and no contract. Assigning is free. Each seat your club pays through Assignary has a price. For each seat a club pays for, it adds $3.50 plus 3.5% of that seat’s fee by card, or $3.50 plus 1.25% by bank. The seat’s referee or judge is still sent the whole fee. A referee or a judge pays nothing to take a seat or to be paid. A season plan prepays the $3.50 part in a block, on one invoice paid by bank transfer. It’s sold on a quote, at no more than $3.25 a seat for a block of 250 and $2.95 a seat for a block of 2,500. These prices hold from October 6, 2026.

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A league’s schedule goes in as a .csv or .xlsx workbook, up to 200 games a file. Before anything is saved, Assignary shows you every row. For a row it can’t read, it says what’s wrong. Ask RQ+ whether it can save a schedule as that kind of workbook.

The crew comes over through one join link, an invitation each, or a roster typed in first. Officials sign in with a code sent to their email. You can put one weekend’s games into Assignary, offer their seats and fill them, while the rest stays where it is. Assignary charges nothing for a weekend your club doesn’t pay for through it.

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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 person can download their own record as one file. An official’s signed record of their work goes with them. Ask RQ+ whether it can read those files.

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Officials who want to be eligible for selected NCAA championships register and complete requirements in RQ+, “including rules tests, video content, background checks, and digital rules and case books.” [4]

That registration stays in RQ+ whichever tool a club or league assigns with. [4]

Assignary

Assignary doesn’t replace a system an association requires.