Three home games in five days is three hundred payments.
Teams pay game-day staff, ball crews, camp coaches, appearance fees, performance bonuses and vendors, mostly per game and mostly to seasonal or one-off workers rather than salaried employees. DiscoFi calculates what each person is owed for the games they worked, pays it, and reconciles the stand to one ledger.
Per-game work does not fit a pay period.
The ushers, the ball crew, the security detail, the promo team and the in-arena talent are paid for the games they worked. So are the camp coaches, the appearance-fee obligations and the vendors who set up and struck the activation. None of that lines up with a fortnightly payroll cycle, and most of those people are not on payroll at all.
The result is a parallel operation: a spreadsheet per home stand, reconciled against a bank file, chasing tax information from seasonal staff who worked four games in April and will not be back. It works until the season is long enough that nobody can remember who was paid for which game.
Per game, per person, in one run.
- Calculate the standPer-game rates, appearance fees, bonuses and vendor invoices resolve into one payable amount per recipient across the games they actually worked.
- Approve itOperations approves a stand rather than a bank file, and the approval sits on the record with the payments it authorized.
- Pay game-day staffEveryone is paid to the account they already have, built for instant delivery.
- Carry the seasonPayments roll into an annual total per person, so a seasonal worker who returns in September is already on file.
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What a home stand settles like.
Three-game home stand, illustrative
- Game-day staff184 workers, per game$96,300.00
- Appearance fees6 appearances$34,000.00
- Performance bonusesContractual triggers$28,500.00
- Camp and clinic coaches22 coaches$13,200.00
- Vendors and activations7 invoices$19,750.00
- Settlement$191,750.00
219 recipients · 3 games · One ledger
Illustrative figures for a hypothetical operation, not a DiscoFi customer or a DiscoFi metric.
Questions this raises.
Can we pay staff per game rather than per pay period?
Yes. Per-game work is the default assumption here rather than an exception, so a worker who did four games in a month is paid for four games without anyone converting that into a payroll line.
What about seasonal staff who come back next year?
They stay on file with their payment details and tax information, so their return is not a re-onboarding, and their annual totals are already tracked across both stretches.
Does this replace payroll for our salaried employees?
No. DiscoFi pays the independent and per-game side of the operation. Salaried employees stay in your payroll system, which is built for a different job.
How do we know a payment actually landed?
Every payout resolves to a final status, and a failure comes back with a reason. The obligation stays open on the ledger until it is genuinely paid.
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