Sports Illustrated Play vs SportsEngine Comparison

I was new to Sports Engine a couple of years ago when my son signed up for youth basketball. The league used it for scheduling and alerts and I am so glad they did! It put everything in one place and made it easy to see when the next game was and if anything was rescheduled.

There is nothing I don't like about Sports Engine. I think it's a vital tool to use for youth sports especially.

This is super cool product that I use with my basketball league. It has on there the schedule for each team, a section to chat with teammates, send messages to the entire league and show stats for the games.

Honestly, I haven't found anything in sports engine that I don't like.

This is a busy mom’s dream. You can add multiple sports teams as your favorites, allowing you to view a daily schedule encompassing multiple sports teams.

I have noticed some small bugs with this app. Sometimes, my schedules do not update automatically. This leads to confusion. I also have had some issues with the chat feature. When someone sends a message in chat, the message appears on the home screen of my phone. The message is truncated as usual. When I click on the message or open the app to view the whole thing, Sometimes the message is not there. Even when I try to refresh the message page, the messages will not appear for several hours. This can be problematic when a message is time-sensitive.

My family loves sports. We love watching and playing. This software allows us to stay up to date on what sports are taking place in our area and when.

Rarely, there are some sporting events in our area that are not listed. As I said though, that is rare.

This has been my favorite sports app I have used with my son's sports leagues. It is super easy to use and great functions. It is up to date with great features.

I have been using for a few weeks now and I dont see anything disappointing about it yet.

It covers all the needed functions to run a sports program

The only draw back is the older website look. The newer design costs money.

Can have multiple teams and sports all in one app, easy to use

Found this pretty handy to use overall, my app was glitchy for some reason, not sure why??

Sports Engine has most the features you want, can handle big data, and is somewhat configurable.

It's a beast, not many volunteer organizations have the IT skill on staff required to run it properly. Trust me, this is not user friendly software.

1. Ease of transition: We switched our Bogus Basin Ski Club website to the SportsEngine platform in August 2018. The transition only took 2-3 weeks and was painless. 2. Training and support: The online and in person training on the SportsEngine software was very thorough, and all of our questions were answered. Ongoing support through emails and scheduled phone calls has always been prompt and most...

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The software is primarily designed for team sports with leagues, teams, players, coaches, parents and youth. We are a ski club of adults only with no teams. Our primary function is year round social activities. Despite this the software has worked very well for us by simply ignoring (not using) all the functionality designed for team sports.

The software was easy to download and install. It was very easy to get up and running. The ease of getting registrations online was a blessing.

The price of Sports Engine software was a little bit more expensive than we felt we wanted to spend for our registrations.

Sports Engine is an easy way for me to organize and manage the team that I coach. It is very easy to use.

There are not many features other than it being a way to set up a store for your team or communicate.

As a volunteer coach/league administrator, I don't have a lot of time to sit down and learn how to use a new software package. Sports Engine is easy to figure out, and easy to use from day one. It does what I need it to do. Although I have not personally interacted with customer service, I've heard from other users that Sports Engine is responsive and quick to answer our concerns and unique requests. As a parent, I also like that many of my children's leagues and teams are part of Sports Engine and I only need one login to access all of them.

I wish it was easier to remove yourself from old teams/leagues that you or your children no longer participate in.

Ease of use. Very cost effective to switch over to and use year to year. High Levels of communication within the tool. SportsEngine is always making changes to try and improve the software. Adaptability between different orgs to use one piece of software for multiple different leagues and sports. I highly recommend this offtware quite to help in running youth sports orgs.

Sometimes the customer service people take a little longer than you would expect to answer questions.

As the Director the Mankato Sports Commission as well as being involved at a volunteer level for numerous sports organizations I have been exposed to and had to use many different sports related software/website platforms. SportsEngine is hands down the best of any I have ever used. In minutes I can show somebody who has never used the software a few basic things and get them up to speed enough that they can easily help manage a website on this platform. I love that you don't need to know how to write code or really any technical aspects in order to make changes or updates.

Occasionally I run into things I'd like to do on our website that are not available as options however the SportsEngine team always gets back to me in timely fashion to either let me know of a way to do it or let me know if that is something they are working on.

Creating own registrations, reports, ease of collecting payments

Hard to get a hold of tech support sometimes

I love that with my 4 kids in sports, I can see a daily snapshot of who is where and when. It is extremely effective for ease of use.

Only one email can be added by the admin for each child. However, as the parent, I can then add on my spouse and grandparents after.

Easy to use! Easy to train others to use. Tech support is very helpful. Helped me brand our Athletic Dept and families LOVE it! Easy to access and full of all the information parents need at our High School.

When I go to the helpful videos, I can't search a specific topic. Too many articles come up for the topic I choose. Other than that, absolutely NO problems with Sports Engine.

The ability to manage a travel club all through the site and software is perfect for any team or organization of any size.

It doesn't have a POS component yet. With a multisport facility that includes a sports bar, smoothie bar, and pro shop it makes it a bit difficult to manage them all through the site.

Once setup, it is easy to prepare for each season by making any changes to past registrations and duplicating them for the next season. It's radically reduced the amount of cash and checks we handle -- almost every transaction goes through the website now.

Some may find the initial setup tricky but Sports Engine offers a service for setting up your website, and rates that are really good if you compare with having an web design agency doing the work.

The ease of use in regards to registrations and payments. It has really streamlined my club and completely eliminated the use of any paper. The constant updates and changes to the platform to better it have been so useful as well.

The website designer needs an overhaul. For the average sports rep running the website it is very useful, but for someone who wants to take the website to the next level, it is pretty limiting.

There is not one good thing about this software, you will pull your hair out every time you try to login.

I work with a lot of software this is by far the clunkiest worst sports management software on the market. Stay far away from this terrible product. Nothing is intuitive and easy to use or manage. Customer support is terrible, they ended the chat conversation after they sent me a link to fix the issue I was having, the link un-useful because the instructions were not as they should be, but I couldn't chat with them they hung up on me. Do yourself a favor and use a different sports management website platform.

Help desk tutorials so you can be self sufficient. Fee collection is HUGE for volunteer organizations....so the multiple options of installments, customizations, and billing are amazingly helpful....especially as businesses are moving away from taking checks. Our club was literally in the red until we got SportsEngine to help us collect fees properly, communicate, and promote. ALSO now HUGE is that our main league can send the game schedule directly to our website! ALL on same platform now and gigantic time saver!

I have seen the availability of immediate support diminish.... Support is GREAT but reaching someone quickly, as a volunteer like myself, is important. Communicating to people who are not 'members' would help...as we have Alumni who are not comfortable with websites.

If it is raining out we can cancel practice on the app and parents will get a notification on there phone. With emails parents don’t always check them that regularly. Sports engine prevents any confusion

I likes everything to do with the softwear.

The ability to make it easy on my customers to play with us in our Leagues & Tournaments. Call to action with click through to registration pages set apart from competition

For first two years I exclusively did my scoring and scheduling on SE. In the last year or so I have gotten away from that as I find it too time consuming and I use Zorts Sports now