Early accessFor travel & club teams
The team treasurer’s tool. Off your Venmo.
Season dues, tournament entries, uniforms, hotel blocks, ref fees: every team cost on one season, split the way families actually pay, with autopay and reminders doing the chasing. Keep TeamSnap for the schedule. Let Sideline Dues handle the money.
- Flat pricing, never per player
- Two households per player and fundraising credits, planned from day one
- Built on Fee-Lion invoicing and payments
- Winter indoor tournament$95 × 16 players 12 paid
- Stay-to-play hotel block, Phoenix$240 × 16 · plan 2 of 3 Autopay
- Fall league ref fees$35 × 16 All paid
Who it’s for
For whoever ended up holding the team’s money
Travel and club youth teams, from one 12U roster to a small club, run by volunteers who never signed up to do accounts receivable.
- Soccer
- Baseball
- Softball
- Volleyball
- Hockey
- Lacrosse
- AAU basketball
Volunteer team treasurers
The parent who said yes at the first team meeting and now holds the team’s money, the receipts and everybody’s questions.
Team managers
Running the travel calendar, the hotel block and the tournament registrations, and fronting the entry fee when a family is late.
Small club directors
Three to thirty teams, a few hundred players, and a registration tool that handles sign-up but not the fees that come after it.
Coach-run programs
AAU and select teams where the coach is also the bookkeeper, the travel agent and the person every parent texts about money.
Beyond the dues
The season fee is one bill. The season is fifteen.
Every one of these has its own amount, its own deadline and its own way of being split. Multiply by every player, and by two households for some of them.
Season dues
The club or team fee, usually split into installments across the season.
Tournament entries
Showcases, cups and qualifiers, each with its own entry fee and deadline.
Uniforms & gear
Home and away kits, warm-ups, bags, helmets, team socks and the reorder for the kid who grew.
Travel & hotel blocks
Stay-to-play hotel rooms, bus or van rental, and the deposit due months ahead.
Ref, field, gym & ice
Referee and umpire fees, field permits, gym rental and ice time, split across the roster.
Coach & trainer stipends
Head coach stipends, a skills trainer or goalie coach, and their tournament travel.
League & insurance
League fees, state association and governing-body registration, player cards, and insurance.
Fundraisers
Raffles, sponsor banners and car washes, credited back to the families who did the selling.
End-of-season party
Banquet, trophies, the coach gift and team photos, collected once at the end.
A year with one travel team
Six moments every treasurer knows
Northside FC’s 2014 Girls Blue: sixteen players, three tournaments, one volunteer treasurer. What it looks like today, and how Sideline Dues is meant to change it.
- August
Commitment deposits
TodaySixteen families send $250 by Venmo, Zelle and check. The treasurer cross-checks a spreadsheet against three apps and a stack of paper.
With Sideline DuesEach family gets one invoice for the deposit, with card or bank payment, and the treasurer sees who has paid at a glance.
- September
The uniform order
TodayThe supplier needs payment in full before it ships. Two families haven’t paid, so the team account covers $310 and the treasurer chases it for a month.
With Sideline DuesMeant to work as one fee assigned to the whole roster in one step, due before the order date, with reminders that go out on their own.
- October
Tournament season and hotel blocks
TodayThree tournaments, two of them stay-to-play. Entry fees, room nights and a bus deposit, each split a different way, all in a group chat.
With Sideline DuesEach cost goes on the season once, with a due date and an optional payment plan. Parents see every date from the first week.
- November
Two households, one player
TodayHarper’s parents split her costs 50/50. Every bill becomes two Venmo requests, and the treasurer is the one tracking who paid which half.
With Sideline DuesPlanned: split payers. Each household gets its own share, receipts and autopay, and one player balance stays correct.
- February
Raffle credits
TodayThe Daniels family sold $600 in raffle tickets and earned a $60 credit. It lives in a note on the treasurer’s phone until someone asks.
With Sideline DuesPlanned: fundraising credits applied straight to a family’s balance, so the next autopay is $60 smaller without anyone doing math.
- June
Handing over the books
TodayThe season ends, the treasurer steps down, and next year’s volunteer gets a spreadsheet, a bank login and a list of who still owes for the banquet.
With Sideline DuesEvery invoice, payment and receipt stays in the team’s account, so the next treasurer starts with the full history.
Why nothing covers this today
Team apps do schedules. Club software does registration. Nobody does the treasurer.
So most teams patch it together. Each of these is good at something; none was built for a volunteer collecting a season of uneven fees from sixteen families.
TeamSnap
Good atSchedules, availability, team chat and an app every parent already has.
The gapMoney comes in through team invoices and club registration, with no season budget, split households or fundraising credits for a treasurer to run. Its pricing page lists single teams as “$0 to start” and clubs by custom quote, and its help center says processing fees are added to what the payer owes.
SportsEngine HQ
Good atClub websites, registration and rosters for organizations with a board and an admin.
The gapIts HQ Premium page lists $69 a month or $749 a year, plus 3.25% and $2 on every transaction, and a $300 fee at renewal if less than $1,000 went through it in the year. That’s a lot for one 14-player team.
Spreadsheets + Venmo / Zelle
Good atFree, familiar, and every parent can pay in ten seconds.
The gapTeam money lands in the treasurer’s personal account, mixed with their own. No payment plans, no reminders, no receipts, and nothing to hand over at the end of the season.
Prices from TeamSnap’s pricing page and SportsEngine’s HQ Premium page, checked Nov 2, 2026. Plans, partner discounts and processing rates change; check with each company.
How it’s meant to work
Set up the season once. Every family sees it from week one.
This is what we’re building for early access. The treasurers on the waitlist decide what comes first.
- 1
Build the season budget
Dues, each tournament, uniforms, hotel blocks, ref and field fees, coach stipends: an amount, a due date and an optional payment plan for each.
- 2
Assign it to the roster in one step
Give all sixteen players the tournament fee at once instead of sending sixteen invoices. Guest players get only the events they play.
- 3
Split it the way families pay
Siblings roll into one family balance. Two households can each take a share. Fundraising credits come off the balance.
- 4
Autopay and reminders do the chasing
Parents save a card or bank account once. Installments run on schedule and reminders go out before anything is due.
In Fee-Lion today
- Invoices and recurring billing
- Payment plans and autopay
- Card and bank (ACH) payments
- A portal where payers see and pay their bills
Being built for teams
- Rosters, with fees assigned to the whole team
- One balance per family
- Split payers across two households
- Fundraising credits
Good for the whole team
Treasurers buy it. Parents pay through it. Players just play.
Stop being the collections department
Set the season up once. Reminders, installments and receipts run on their own, and team money stays out of your personal Venmo.
One view across every team
Each team’s treasurer runs their own fees while the club sees what’s collected and what’s outstanding, without a per-player software bill.
The whole season, up front
Every fee with its date from week one, paid by card or bank, in installments when the team offers them. Split households each see only their share.
Nobody sits out over money
No awkward reminders at practice, and fundraising they did themselves shows up as a credit on their own balance.
Paid on time, not chased
Stipends and trainer fees are budgeted and collected with everything else, so the coach isn’t waiting on the last family.
Tell us your team
Join as a parent and name your club or team. We’ll reach out to the treasurer.
Join the waitlist →Pricing
Flat pricing. No per-player fees.
A 14-player team and a 300-player club shouldn’t pay different software bills for the same tool.
Fee-Lion plans today are $9 / month (Solo) and $29 / month (Studio). Online payments carry Stripe’s processing fee plus a small platform fee: 2% on Solo, 1% on Studio, with bank payments capped at $10 and $5.
This edition’s price comes out before launch, flat like the rest of Fee-Lion. The waitlist hears it first.
See Fee-Lion pricing →Questions
Is this live?
Not yet. Sideline Dues is in early access. It’s built on Fee-Lion, which already does invoices, recurring billing, payment plans, autopay, card and bank (ACH) payments and a payer portal for small businesses. The team parts (a roster, one fee assigned to every player at once, split payers and fundraising credits) are what we’re building now, with input from the treasurers on the waitlist.
Do we have to leave TeamSnap or SportsEngine?
No. Keep them for schedules, chat and club registration. The plan is for this to handle the money that comes after sign-up: tournaments, travel, uniforms, ref fees and the rest. There’s no integration today; we plan to start with a roster import from a spreadsheet.
Where does the money go?
Fee-Lion takes payments through Stripe and pays out to the bank account you connect. For a team, that should be the team’s own account, not yours. That’s one of the reasons treasurers want off personal Venmo.
How will it be priced?
Flat monthly pricing, never per player or per team member. Fee-Lion’s plans today are $9 and $29 a month, plus Stripe processing and a small platform fee on online payments. We’ll publish this edition’s price before it opens, and tell the waitlist first.
What about players’ data?
We plan to keep it minimal: a player’s first name, last initial and jersey number are enough to bill a family. No birth dates, photos or medical forms; your registration tool already holds those.
Who’s behind it?
Media Lion LLC, the small team that makes Fee-Lion. We’re talking to treasurers, managers and club directors before we build, so the waitlist form asks a few questions. Your answers shape what ships first.
Early access
Join the waitlist
We’re opening to a small group of teams and clubs first. Tell us a little about yours and we’ll be in touch, usually for a 20-minute call about how you collect fees today.