Bloomily vs SportsEngine.
SportsEngine charges a percentage of every payment on top of a setup fee. We are dearer on cards and cheaper on bank transfer — the arithmetic is below.
$99 a month per location · unlimited athletes · 60-day money-back
What you would be looking at · Teams & clubs
Good morning, Marco — 3 games this weekend. 7 families have not said whether they can come.
- DecideAbsence requestAlvarez · Saturday practice
- AnswerSetup questions1 left
- Who is comingSat 9:00 · U10 Boys vs HillcrestRiverside Park · arrive 8:30 · 11 coming · 3 not yet
Today so far — Coach Lena accepted the invite · U12 Travel: 2 registrations · Kit: 4 jerseys handed out
| What you are choosing | Bloomily | SportsEngine |
|---|---|---|
| What the price is based on | One location. Never per child. | A percentage of what families pay you, plus a fixed amount per transaction. sportsengine.com · read 7 September 2026 |
| The price you can read today | $99 a month per location, or $990 a year. | No club subscription price. What is published is $1,500 a year for Play Creator Studio and, for Motion, $295 to set up. sportsengine.com · read 7 September 2026 |
| The fee on a payment | 3.5% on cards (plus $0.30 on payments under $60), 1% on bank transfers (at least $0.50, never more than $8). You choose who covers it. | A 1% technology fee plus 2.9% and $0.30 a transaction, on Motion. sportsengine.com · read 7 September 2026 |
| Setup and add-on charges | None. No setup fee, no per-device fee, no module to unlock. | $295 setup on Motion. sportsengine.com · read 7 September 2026 |
| How long you commit | Month to month, or a year. Cancel from your own settings. | Not published. sportsengine.com · read 7 September 2026 |
| Money back if it is wrong | 60 days, contractual, on your first paid subscription. | Not published. sportsengine.com · read 7 September 2026 |
| Try it without a call | Sign up and start today. A call is offered, never required. | No. The club route is “Get Pricing”. sportsengine.com · read 7 September 2026 |
| Background checks on your coaches | We record each adult’s background check and chase its expiry. | Background screening is part of their offer. We record the certificate and chase the expiry; we do not run the check. sportsengine.com · read 7 September 2026 |
A row appears here only where both of us have published an answer, and every cell about SportsEngine links to the page we read it on and the day we read it. Where their page is silent we leave the row out rather than guess — and where they win, the row says so. Last checked 7 September 2026.
$99 a month per location, or $990 a year. Free for licensed home daycares up to 18 children. See pricing
SportsEngine Motion: $295 to set up, then a 1% technology fee plus 2.9% and $0.30 a transaction. Play Creator Studio: $1,500 a year. No club subscription price.
sportsengine.com · read 7 September 2026500 registrations at $150. What each one actually costs a season.
On cards we are not the cheapest of these, and we would rather show you than let you find out. What is true whatever you choose: no fee per player, no cut of your registration count, a rate that is published, and a bank-transfer option at 1%. A club can also absorb the fee so a scholarship family is never charged it.
If you move, here is exactly what moves.
- Athletes with birthdays, allergies, dietary notes and medical notes
- Parents and guardians, with the email their invite goes to
- Emergency contacts and pickup people, each with a kiosk PIN
- Coaches with their role, so nobody re-picks permissions one dialog at a time
- Team rosters onto sessions that already exist here
- Saved cards and bank details
- What families owe you today
- Past invoices, payments and receipts
- Old attendance, daily reports and messages
No system in this category hands another its saved cards or its ledger. We say it first, and we say what happens instead.
Questions, answered
Not on cards. Our 3.5% is also a percentage of payments, and at 500 registrations of $150 the card route costs about the same as theirs. On bank transfer we are roughly half. The arithmetic is on this page — run it against your own numbers rather than taking a slogan from either of us.
No per-player fee, no cut of your registration count, a rate that is published, a 1% bank-transfer option, and the club can absorb the fee so a scholarship family is not charged it.
No. We record each coach’s background check and chase its expiry — 538 certification types including “Background Check (DOJ/FBI)”. Running the check itself is somebody else’s product, and SportsEngine offers one.
Stop comparing. Start running.
Set up in an afternoon, and see it with your own program’s name on it.