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Every game covered.
Every official kept.

Referee scheduling built for the officiating shortage. Fill your season in minutes, cut no-shows to near zero, and keep the officials you worked so hard to recruit — for leagues, schools, and independent assignors.

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<1 hrIMPORT TO COVERED
8% → <2%NO-SHOW RATE
70%+QUIT IN 3 YEARS
$0TO START
Built for three sides of the same problem

One platform. Three wins.

Referees, leagues and schools, and assignors each get something different out of Refze — and each one makes the others work better.

For referees

One login. Every league.

  • All your games in one place — school, club, and rec leagues merged into a single schedule, sorted by kickoff.
  • Never double-booked — Refze flags a clash across leagues that can't see each other's schedules.
  • Confirm with one tap — accept or decline from your phone in seconds, no phone tag.
  • Claim open games — grab unfilled games yourself instead of waiting to be asked.
  • Get paid, get supported — track fees and earnings, and get a mentor in your first season.
Always free. Referees never pay for Refze. · Ask on the anonymous Q&A board →
For leagues & schools

Fewer forfeits. Lower cost.

  • No empty fields — every unconfirmed slot is visible hours before kickoff, not after.
  • Stop re-recruiting — keeping officials you already trained costs far less than replacing them.
  • Numbers for your board — no-show rate, time-to-fill, and first-season retention in one view.
  • Pay officials properly — direct payment with W-9 collection and 1099 generation on Pro.
  • Flat, predictable price — $9.99 a month, no per-official or per-seat fees.
Free for a small program · $9.99/mo unlimited
For assignors

Your weekend back.

  • Import a season in minutes — paste from a spreadsheet or upload a CSV, columns auto-detected.
  • Smart fill suggests the crew — ranked by availability, show rate, level, and crew fit.
  • Offers escalate themselves — unanswered offers move to the next best official automatically.
  • Run game day from your phone — live check-ins and a crew chat per game.
  • Know who's about to quit — retention alerts tell you who needs a game, a mentor, or a call.
Most assignors are live in under an hour.
How it works

Four steps to a covered weekend

1

Import your season

Paste your schedule from a spreadsheet or email, or upload a CSV. Refze auto-detects dates, times, matchups, venues, crew size, and fees.

2

Add your officials

Names, emails, and certification level. Officials create their own login the first time you send them a game.

3

Fill and confirm

Smart fill proposes the best crew. Send offers in a click; officials confirm with one tap. Unanswered offers escalate automatically.

4

Run game day

Watch check-ins land on your phone, message a crew, and fix the one thing that goes sideways before it becomes an empty field.

The difference that matters

It tells you who's about to quit — and what to do

More than 70% of new officials quit within three years, and roughly 50,000 have left youth sports since 2018. Scheduling tools fill the slot. Refze also works to keep the person, by flagging the specific, fixable situations that come right before someone walks away.

21 days without a gameFirst-season officials who go idle rarely return. Offer them one this week.
First season, no mentorPair them with a veteran for two games and they stay far more often.
Incident last weekendSideline abuse is the top reason officials quit. Reach out before their next game.
Reliability slippingLate scratches trending up? A short conversation beats a quiet exit.
Read the referee shortage guide →
Everything in one place

What you get

Scheduling

Season import & smart fill

Paste or upload a full season, then let Refze rank eligible officials by availability, show rate, certification level, and crew fit. You approve; it sends.

Reliability

Confirmations & check-ins

One-tap confirmation on every assignment, automatic escalation after four hours, and game-day check-ins so you know who's en route before kickoff.

Retention

Retention radar & mentors

Automatic alerts for officials going idle, working without a mentor, or coming off a rough game — with the action to take next.

Recruiting

Onboarding pipeline

Track candidates from applied through certified, cleared, shadow game, and active — so recruits reach their first game in under three weeks.

Referee app

Cross-league schedule

Officials see every league they work in one merged schedule with automatic double-booking detection. Web and iOS, installable from the browser.

Payments

Fees, W-9s and 1099s

Pay officials directly, collect tax paperwork once, and generate 1099s at year end instead of rebuilding a spreadsheet.

Pricing

Two plans. Referees always free.

Start free and upgrade only when you outgrow it. No card required to begin.

Free

$0
forever

For an independent assignor or one small program.

  • Up to 25 officials, 40 games a season
  • 1 assignor seat, 1 league
  • Season import, Smart fill, confirmations
  • Game-day check-ins & crew chat
  • Full referee app + cross-league login
  • Retention automation & analytics
  • Referee payments & 1099s
Start free
Most leagues

Pro

$9.99/month
or $99/year — two months free

For leagues, clubs, and school programs.

  • Unlimited officials and games
  • Up to 5 assignor seats
  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • Retention radar with mentor pairing
  • Season analytics: no-shows, time-to-fill, retention
  • Recruitment & onboarding pipeline
  • Referee payments with W-9 / 1099 handling
Start free, upgrade anytime

Referees are free on every plan, forever — they're the reason the system works. Prices in USD, billed securely through Stripe. Cancel anytime.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Refze is referee scheduling and recruitment software for small-to-mid-sized leagues, school programs, and independent assignors. It imports a season in minutes, fills open slots with smart assignment, confirms officials with one tap, runs game-day crew check-ins, and keeps more officials each season with mentoring and automated retention alerts.
Refze treats every unconfirmed assignment as a risk. Officials confirm with one tap, unanswered offers auto-escalate to the next best fit after four hours, and a game-day crew chat prompts each official to check in when they are en route. Assignors see a live check-in count per game, so a slot heading toward a no-show is visible hours before kickoff. Leagues using Refze report no-show rates falling from roughly 8% to under 2% within a season.
Most assignors are running in under an hour. You import a full season by pasting your schedule from a spreadsheet or email, or uploading a CSV. Refze auto-detects dates, times, matchups, venues, crew size, and fees, so no template or manual re-entry is required.
Refze is built for small-to-mid-sized youth leagues, middle and high school programs, tournament organizers, and independent referee assignors who want simpler setup and better retention than legacy assigning systems.
Yes. Refze includes a recruitment and onboarding pipeline that tracks candidates from application through certification, clearance, a mentored shadow game, and active status. Onboarding checklists and a time-in-pipeline target help you get new officials to their first whistle in under 21 days.
More than 70% of new referees quit within three years, mostly due to abuse and lack of support. Refze pairs first-season officials with mentors, flags officials who go weeks without a game or have a rough outing, prompts supportive check-ins after incidents, and pays officials weekly. A season analytics view shows the retention curve against the national dropout pattern.
Refze is free for an independent assignor with up to 25 officials and 40 games a season. Pro is $9.99 per month or $99 per year and adds unlimited officials and games, up to 5 assignor seats, retention automation, season analytics, recruitment tracking, and referee payments with W-9 and 1099 handling. Referees always use Refze free, on every plan.
Refze runs on the web and on iOS. Assignors, referees, and organizations use the same platform, with real-time notifications, one-tap confirmations, and mobile check-ins.

More detail in the full Q&A and the referee shortage guide.

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