Sponsor-a-Player
A season shouldn't be out of reach over a payment schedule. Sponsor-a-Player gives anyone (a grandparent, a family friend, a local business) a simple, honest way to help.
The conversation nobody wants to have
Every coach has had a version of it. A family is short on the registration fee, and the choices are an awkward payment arrangement, a quiet scholarship out of the club's pocket, or a kid who doesn't play this year.
Meanwhile there's usually somebody who would happily cover it: a grandparent two states away, an aunt, a family friend, the auto shop on Main Street that already sponsors the outfield banner. They just have no straightforward way to do it, and nobody wants to ask.
Sponsor-a-Player is a link. The family sends it to whoever they'd like to ask, and that person can pay toward the balance without creating an account, downloading anything, or talking to the coach at all.
Three steps, and the coach isn't one of them
It's sitting on their own financials page, next to their balance. One tap to copy.
A text to grandma, an email to an uncle, a message to a local business. However they'd normally ask.
No account, no app, no sign-up. Card details, done, and the balance drops on the spot.
Real numbers, not a donation jar
The page shows what that specific player actually owes: the registration fee, the add-ons they picked, minus what's already been paid. Not a round number somebody typed in, and not a general fundraising goal.
That specificity is the whole point. "Help our program" is easy to scroll past. "$85 remaining on Malik's fall football registration" is a number a grandparent can just pay. Anything already pledged shows too, so a second person doesn't accidentally cover the same amount twice.
A sponsor can leave a short note when they contribute. It goes to the family, not onto a public page. This isn't a fundraising wall, and nobody's finances end up on display.
A grandparent can do this in about a minute
The single biggest reason these things fail is friction. Nobody is downloading an app to give $40 toward a nephew's football fees.
By card, on the spot
They open the link, type an amount, and pay by card. No account to create, nothing to install, no password to invent. It's the same secure checkout they'd see on any online shop.
The moment it goes through, the money is applied. The balance drops immediately, the family is told, and nobody has to approve anything: a coach isn't standing between the payment and the player.
Or however else they like
If your organization takes Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, cash, or checks, those are listed too. A sponsor sends the money the usual way and records it on the page so you know it's coming.
Those need a quick confirmation from you before they come off the balance, because the money arrived outside the system. Card payments don't. They're already settled.
In your organization's own bank account, through your own Stripe account, the same as any other card payment your club takes. It never sits with us. Stripe charges its usual rate and Playbook Logix takes its flat 99¢, and you decide per season whether the sponsor covers that at checkout or your organization absorbs it. See Payments & Billing for the full picture.
Nobody has to cover the whole thing
A sponsor gives whatever they want, up to whatever is still owed. $20 is a perfectly good contribution.
On a $175 registration, a grandmother might put in $50, an aunt another $50, and the family covers the rest themselves. Each contribution comes off the balance as it arrives, and the next person to open the link sees the smaller number, so two people can't accidentally pay the same amount twice.
What organizations ask
Does a sponsor need an account?
No. The link opens a page anyone can use, and paying by card takes about a minute. Requiring a signup would defeat the purpose. A grandparent asked to create an account is a grandparent who gives up.
Where does the money go?
Straight to your organization, against that player's balance, the same as if the parent had paid it. Card payments land in your own bank account through your own Stripe account. It doesn't route through us on the way.
Does someone have to approve a card payment before it counts?
No. A card payment is already settled, so it comes off the balance the moment it goes through and the family is told automatically. The other methods (Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, cash, checks) do need a quick confirmation from you first, because with those the money moved outside the system and only you can confirm it arrived.
Is a family's balance public?
Only to someone holding the link, and the family controls who gets it. It isn't listed anywhere, and it isn't searchable. Nobody is browsing a list of which children need help paying.
Do we have to turn this on for everyone?
The link only exists for a player who actually has a balance owing. A family who has paid in full has nothing to share, so there's no awkward link sitting there.
Most of the time, the money to keep a kid on the team already exists somewhere in that family's circle. It just needs a way to get there.