The officials worked Saturday in four different cities.
Leagues pay referees and umpires per assignment across venues they do not control, distribute prize money and tournament purses, and move money to member clubs and event crews. DiscoFi calculates each assignment and each purse, pays every recipient, and reconciles the season to one ledger.
The league is the payer, but it is not in the building.
Officials are assigned centrally and work locally. A referee might take three assignments in a weekend across three venues, at fees that vary by level and by whether they travelled. The league owes them, not the host club, and the league is reconciling assignment sheets that arrive from every venue it schedules.
Around that sit the purses that split by finish, the event crews hired per tournament, and the distributions to member clubs. Every one of those is a different calculation, and all of them are small, frequent and easy to lose. Officials work for several leagues at once and notice which one pays on time.
Assignments in, payments out.
- Calculate assignments and pursesPer-assignment fees by level, travel, prize splits by finish and club distributions resolve into one payable amount per recipient.
- Approve centrallyThe league approves what it owes across every venue from one place, and the approval is recorded with the payments it produced.
- Pay every venue at onceOfficials and crews are paid to their own accounts wherever they worked, built for instant delivery.
- Close the seasonEvery payment reconciles against the assignment or purse that produced it, and annual totals per official are carried for reporting.
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What a tournament weekend settles like.
Tournament weekend, illustrative
- Officials96 assignments, 6 venues$52,800.00
- Prize moneyBy finishing position$140,000.00
- Event crews38 crew$22,700.00
- Travel reimbursements61 submissions$14,950.00
- Member club distributions12 clubs$60,000.00
- Settlement$290,450.00
147 recipients · 6 venues · One settlement
Illustrative figures for a hypothetical operation, not a DiscoFi customer or a DiscoFi metric.
Questions this raises.
Can we pay officials per assignment rather than per month?
Yes. The assignment is the unit, so an official who worked three games at two levels is paid for exactly that, with travel handled as its own line.
How does prize money that splits by finish work?
The purse structure is a calculation rule, so the finishing order produces the payable amounts rather than someone rebuilding the split for every event.
Do we have to issue tax forms to officials?
It depends on each official’s annual total across the calendar year, not on any one assignment. Those totals are tracked continuously with tax information attached, which is why collecting it before the first assignment matters.
Can member clubs be paid from the same system?
Yes. A club is a recipient like an official, so distributions run alongside assignment fees and reconcile against the same ledger.
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