Plain-language answers for directors, officials, and scorekeepers—from event setup through the final payout.
Start with your role.
The right guide should tell you what to do next, not make you decode the platform.
Create the event, bring in the schedule, staff every position, resolve exceptions, and send the money when it is ready.
Set up a league or tournament and continue into its readiness checklist.
Bring in spreadsheet, PDF, image, or pasted schedule data and review warnings.
Review recommendations, handle conflicts, and send invitations only after review.
Approve a batch, send ready payouts, and follow up on blocked workers.
Assign is your live day/week coverage view for fixing staffing gaps. Schedule is where you import, post, edit, duplicate, and organize games.
When posting a game, check "Repeat weekly" and set an end date or number of occurrences — one submission creates the whole series in one shot.
Yes. If the game is part of a recurring series, open it and use "Manage Weekly Series" to apply a change (time, pay, crew size) to every upcoming game in the series, or cancel them all at once.
When you assign someone directly, they get a notification and must Accept or Decline before they're locked in. When a referee claims an open game themselves, they're already confirmed — no separate approval step.
It ranks officials by distance, availability, preferences, experience signals, and past reliability, then sends offers to the best-fit candidates for each open slot. It never assigns anyone without them accepting.
Once another eligible referee claims their open spot, you'll see it under Swap approvals on that game — just Approve or Decline the handoff.
On the Officials page, use "Make co-assignor" on any referee already in your roster. They'll be able to manage games, officials, and payroll for your organization from their own account, without it changing their status as a referee anywhere else.
No. Documents and certification levels can help with review and recommendations, but they do not block an official from accepting or being assigned to games.
Completed games generate a Pending payment automatically. Batch them together, approve the batch, then choose Send payouts to initiate transfers to each worker's connected payout account. Mark paid manually is only for money already sent outside SportAssign.
It'll show under Failed transfers, usually because the worker hasn't finished payout setup yet. Once they do, re-open the batch and choose Retry failed. SportAssign skips payments already sent, so a successful transfer is not sent twice.
Use "Message League" on the Officials page — a one-way broadcast by SMS, email, or both, with a preview of how many people will receive it.