Assignary and Refr Sports

Refr Sports

Refr Sports describes itself as tools for assigning officials, managing games, and handling payments [9]. It has accounts for assignors, for the sports organizations that own the games an assignor assigns, and for officials [14]. Its app, Refr Sports, is listed in both app stores for referees, assignors and sports organizations [15] [16]. Refr Sports also offers RefrAI, which answers questions about officials, games, assignments and payments from Refr data, and RefrSites, a website for an assigning business [17].

Assignary

Assignary assigns referees and judges: a referee crew on a match, or a judging panel on a division. A seat is one official’s place on a game’s crew. Assignary is new. Your club would be among its first. It opens to new clubs in January 2027, and until then the way in is its waitlist.

Refr Sports

Refr’s importing guide names three ways to add games: manual entry, a CSV built on Refr’s template with its columns mapped, or AI import of a CSV, PDF, photo or screenshot [7]. Imported games are drafts, and officials can’t see them until they’re published [7]. Its page for assignors says games import from CSV or Excel [2], and its guide for assignors offers to have Refr’s support upload a schedule emailed to it [14]. An assignor assigns an official directly, reviews officials’ requests for open positions, or opens positions through a self-assign process [8]. Bulk editing applies a supported change to every selected game [8]. Game fees are set by sport, level and role, and the matching fee follows each assignment into its payment record [18]. An assignor discusses a game with its assigned crew in a crew chat tied to the game [8].

Assignary

Import the league’s .csv or .xlsx workbook, or write the games in. One file carries up to 200 games. Before anything is saved, Assignary shows you every row. 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. How it works

Refr Sports

An official marks the times they can’t work in the Refr app, month by month, and any time not marked is treated as available [11]. On the web, assigning an official to a game that overlaps another of their games opens a warning that lists the conflicting games [12]. Refr redesigned that warning in its release of October 15, 2026 [12]. Where games are linked, a fix in the same release extends the check to every game in the link [12]. Officials add certifications, such as USSF, to their profile, and each organization and sport sets its requirements [5].

Assignary

An official keeps the times they’re available, and the dates they’ve blocked out. 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. A declared conflict is a team, a venue, or a gym, club or school entered in a competition. 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 issuing body.

Refr Sports

An assignor chooses whether officials accept or decline each assignment, or are assigned without needing to accept [14]. With accepting on, an assignment waits for an answer for an expiration window, 72 hours unless the assignor changes it, and an unanswered one drops off so the assignor can reassign [14]. Officials review and answer assignments in the Refr app for iOS and Android [5] [10], where Accept all, released October 15, 2026, confirms every waiting assignment at once [12]. Reminders go by push and email [9]. An assignor sends notices as push notifications, or as emails with files attached where needed, to officials chosen by tag, by game or all at once [3], and a change to a game’s time or location notifies its assigned officials [2].

Assignary

An offer arrives by email. There’s no app to install. The offer’s link opens in the phone’s browser. Its 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. 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 say yes ahead of time, 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. What an official meets

Refr Sports

The assignor certifies each completed game for payment, one at a time or up to 250 at once [13]. A game can be certified for 60 days after it ends, and one not certified by then has its payouts set to zero and locks [13]. Officials submit game reports on the assignor’s templates, and the assignor can have each one emailed as it’s submitted, a setting released in October 2026 [12].

Assignary

The assigner marks a no-show or an excused seat. 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. A disputed seat is held out of the payment until an assigner answers. Each seat keeps a history of who offered it, who took it and who marked it. The Pay page shows what the club paid each official in a calendar year. It counts each payment on the date the money moved. A referee or a judge can download a signed record of their own work in a club. It shows their offers and accepts, whether the work happened and the clearances they hold. Whoever they hand it to can check it against a published key, without asking Assignary.

Refr Sports

Organizations fund officials’ pay through RefrPay, which is billed weekly and apart from the platform plan [1]. They either preload funds, which are deducted weekly, or use AutoPay from a connected bank account by ACH [1]. Billing periods run Wednesday to Tuesday [19]. Each Wednesday the organization receives a report of the charge for every game it’s billed for [19]. Once the assignor certifies a game, its earnings become available when the organization has enough available spending and the official has a payout method set up [4]. That can be the same day as the game, and it means available to cash out, not delivered to the bank [4]. The official then requests a cashout, and a standard ACH transfer is free [6]. An Instant Cashout costs 2.9% + $0.75 per transfer, paid by the official, and the smallest is $1.00 [6]. Instant Cashouts were released on April 23, 2026 [6]. The fee is shown before the official confirms [1]. Payments are processed through Stripe [1]. Officials’ bank details are never accessible through Refr’s servers [20].

Assignary

A club’s treasurer pays for a weekend at Stripe’s checkout, by card, bank transfer or bank debit. Each referee and judge is sent the whole fee on their seat. The club doesn’t open a payments account of its own. Officials give their bank details to Stripe, never to Assignary. 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

Pay lands in the official’s Stripe balance first. It reaches their 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. One payment carries up to 50 seats. A club starts with a limit of $5,000 on payments that could still be taken back at any one time. How the refs are paid

Refr Sports

Refr Sports, as its own pages stated it on October 20, 2026. Assignors pay a subscription for scheduling, organizations opt in to RefrPay, and officials pay nothing unless they buy optional services [2]. A plan is a year of game credits, where a game is any scheduled contest or match assigned to at least one official [1]. Starter is $250 a year for 200 credits ($1.25 per game), Professional $750 for 1,000 ($0.75 per game) and Commercial $2,500 for 5,000 ($0.50 per game) [1]. Billed quarterly on a one-year term, Professional is $900 a year and Commercial $3,000, and Starter costs the same either way [1]. More credits are added at the plan’s per-game rate [1]. Plans include up to 10, 20 or 50 paired organizations, and each additional one is $30 a year [1]. A background check is $30, and a website build and hosting is $749 a year on Starter and Professional and included with Commercial [1]. The first 20 games are free with no credit card, and there are no setup fees [1].

Assignary

These prices hold from October 6, 2026. Assigning is free. Each seat your club pays through Assignary has a price. For each seat it pays for, a club 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 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 to what the club owes. A seat with no fee is never part of a payment and never charged for. There’s no subscription, no setup fee and no contract. A referee or a judge pays nothing to take a seat or to be paid. If your purchasing office wants one invoice, a season plan prepays the $3.50 part of each seat’s price in a block. It’s sold on a quote, at no more than $3.25 a seat for 250 seats, $3.15 for 500, $3.05 for 1,000 and $2.95 for 2,500. Seats the weekends don’t use stay in the block until the plan’s term ends, after 3 to 12 months. Whatever’s left then expires, unless the plan is renewed before the term ends. A renewal carries what’s left forward, up to 10% of the smaller of the two blocks. What it costs

Refr Sports

Refr exports games as a CSV from its Export tab, with the fields and the date range you choose, and one file can hold past and upcoming games together [21].

A game already worked on Refr can be certified there for 60 days after it ends, and one left uncertified by then has its payouts set to zero [13]. Refr’s help center says unused preloaded funds are refundable, processed within 30 days [19].

Assignary

Assignary imports a .csv or .xlsx workbook and makes each row a game. It reads the columns its switching page lists, up to 200 games a file. Before anything is saved, it shows you every row. For a row it can’t read, it says what’s wrong. Officials come over through the club’s join link, which puts whoever signs up through it on the roster, or through an invitation mailed to one address.

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.

Refr Sports

It invites officials one at a time by email, or as a group from a CSV [22].

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

Assignary

Assignary doesn’t replace a system an association requires.