SportsEngine Pricing 2026: SportsEngine Motion Cost, Transaction Fees and What a Cheer Gym Actually Pays.

SportsEngine cost, line by line

This is the whole published price list. There is no tier ladder, no per location charge and no per athlete charge, which makes SportsEngine the simplest quote in this market to read and the hardest to forecast.

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Everything the product does is included. SportsEngine lists class management, financials and payments, member management, the mobile app, online registration and a business website with no separate price against any of them, and it does not sell the branded app, the texting bundle or the reporting dashboard as paid add ons the way iClassPro, Gymdesk and Jackrabbit do. On features per dollar of subscription this is the most generous offer in the market, because the subscription is zero. The money is collected somewhere else.

SportsEngine transaction fees on the payments a cheer gym really takes

The 1 percent technology fee and the 2.9 percent plus $0.30 processing fee stack. Together they take 3.9 percent plus 30 cents from every card payment, and the flat 30 cents means the effective rate rises as the payment gets smaller. Here is that arithmetic on the amounts a cheer program charges, using SportsEngine's own published rates.

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Two things in that table are worth arguing about on a demo call. The first is the row nobody thinks about: the $500 competition fee. A cheer program collects a large amount of money it does not keep, because entry fees go to the event producer and uniform payments go to the manufacturer. SportsEngine's 1 percent runs on those dollars exactly as it runs on tuition. Push $120,000 a year of pass through money through the platform and the technology fee alone is $1,200 on revenue your gym never earned.

The second is ACH. SportsEngine's FAQ says the 2.9 percent plus $0.30 applies to credit card and ACH alike. In the wider payments market bank drafts normally price well below card rates, often as a small fixed fee or a capped percentage, because there is no interchange to pay. If most of your tuition runs on autopay from a checking account, that single line is worth raising before you sign, and it is the one number on this page most likely to be negotiable.

The collections level where 1 percent costs more than a subscription

This is the calculation the phrase "no monthly subscription fees" is designed to stop you doing, and it takes one step. A 1 percent fee equals a monthly subscription at exactly one hundred times that subscription in monthly collections. Every subscription figure below was read from the vendor's own pricing page during the past week, and the break even column is just that multiplication.

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Read the third column as a warning line rather than a price. A 150 athlete all star program on $150 a month tuition collects $22,500 in tuition before it has invoiced a single competition fee, uniform or camp deposit. That program is already past every break even in the table. It is not that SportsEngine is overpriced, because at 40 athletes it is genuinely one of the cheapest ways to run a gym. It is that the meter runs on the one number in your business that grows fastest.

Three real programs, priced for twelve months

The collections figures below are our assumptions, clearly labeled, because no vendor can know what you bill. Everything else is published price. This compares software charges only: card processing is left out because every vendor here charges it in some form, so including it would just add the same number to every column.

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The SportsEngine column is $295 plus 1 percent of twelve months of collections. At 60 athletes it lands mid table, cheaper than iClassPro and Zen Planner and dearer than ClassJuggler and Gymdesk. At 300 athletes it is the most expensive row by $2,827 a year against the next dearest, and the gap widens every season you grow, because it is the only line in the table that has no ceiling. Nothing about that is hidden. It is printed on the pricing page in the words "1% technology fee". It just never appears as a dollar amount until your statement arrives.

Jackrabbit is the honest gap in this table. It publishes a $49 entry price and states that pricing is tiered by total student count at month end, but it does not publish the ladder above that entry point, so no figure for a 150 or 300 athlete program can be quoted without asking them. The full Jackrabbit Class pricing breakdown covers what is published and what has to be asked for.

The 90 day clause, and why $295 does not buy a standalone tool

Buried at the end of the first FAQ answer on the pricing page is a sentence that decides whether this product fits you at all. SportsEngine writes that if after 90 days you have yet to use SportsEngine Motion for electronic payment processing, they reserve the right to disable access to the platform.

That closes off the obvious arbitrage. A gym that already has a merchant account it likes, or one that collects tuition by bank draft outside the system, cannot pay $295 once and use SportsEngine as a cheap roster, scheduling and parent communication layer. The software has no price of its own because the payments are the price. If your payment processing is already contracted elsewhere and you are not moving it, SportsEngine Motion is not a candidate, whatever the feature list says.

PlayMetrics bought SportsEngine in May 2026

Anyone comparing SportsEngine against a subscription vendor this season should know that the company changed hands four months ago. A banner across the top of the SportsEngine pricing page reads "SportsEngine is now part of PlayMetrics", and PlayMetrics' own acquisition page dates the deal to May 2026 and places it third in a run of consolidation: Crossbar in November 2023, a merger with Sports Connect in June 2025, then SportsEngine.

There is a loose end worth noticing, because it tells you how recent this is. On September 8, 2026 the same SportsEngine page carries the PlayMetrics banner at the top and a footer that still reads "A Versant Media Company", with a consent notice saying the site is now part of Versant. Both statements are live on one page. That is normal in the months after a sale, and it is also a reasonable thing to ask a sales rep to explain, along with the question every acquisition raises: whether the pricing model you are being quoted survives the integration. A 1 percent transaction fee is exactly the kind of term a new owner revisits, and unlike a subscription there is no published rate card to compare next year's number against.

One practical consequence is already visible. sportsengine.com/hq/pricing, the URL that used to carry the SportsEngine HQ subscription tiers, now returns a 301 redirect to the Motion pricing page. Verified September 8, 2026, the $295 and 1 percent figures are the only prices SportsEngine publishes anywhere on its own website. The HQ subscription tiers that Capterra, TrustRadius, GetApp, G2 and Software Advice still list are not confirmable against the vendor. If you are budgeting from a directory listing, you are budgeting from a page the vendor took down.

When SportsEngine is the right call, and when it is not

SportsEngine Motion does serve this market rather than tolerating it. Its own sport menus name All Star Cheer and Cheerleading alongside Gymnastics, Dance and Figure Skating, and two of the testimonials on the pricing page come from a cheer and tumbling gym and a power tumbling club. It is the former GoMotion and TeamUnify, so the class, roster and billing plumbing is mature. The question is never capability. It is arithmetic.

If the last point is what brought you here, that is the gap Cheerleaders pricing is built to close: $29, $79 or $199 a month flat, with no per building meter, no per athlete meter and no share of what you collect. Season revenue can triple and the software line does not move. Where SportsEngine is genuinely the better buy, which is a small program with unpredictable enrollment, this page says so above rather than pretending otherwise.

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