ComparePlaypass
Playpass Alternative for League Management
Playpass is a scheduling, registration, and website platform with a free plan and a fee on online payments that falls on paid plans. LeagueArc adds live in-game scoring and stats that update your league site as games happen. LeagueArc's AI schedule builder turns a description of your season into a checked schedule. Every Playpass fact below links to an official source.
Where they really differ
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Free to start, more formats
Playpass has a free plan with no time limit, and its scheduler also makes Swiss-system, triple-elimination, and rotating-partner schedules. LeagueArc starts with a free 7-day setup, then a paid plan.
Favours Playpass
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Game day
Playpass documents entering a score after the game, with player stats for supported round-robin sports. LeagueArc adds live in-game scoring from any phone that updates standings, stats, and your public site as the game happens.
Favours LeagueArc
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Fees as you grow
Playpass's fee on online payments falls from 3% on Free to 1% on Max at C$113 a month, plus Stripe. LeagueArc is $29 to $159 CAD a month plus 1% and Stripe processing on every plan. Compare them at your own payment volume.
Depends on your league
What you get with LeagueArc
AI schedule builder and Schedule Copilot
Describe your season in a sentence. LeagueArc builds it.
Type who's playing, which days and hours, where, and anything to avoid. AI reads it, then a scheduling engine places every game and checks every rule before you see it. Change anything by asking, and nothing is saved until you say so.
- No team plays twice at once, no rink, court, or field is double-booked, and venue hours and blackouts always hold.
- Home and away, late starts, and rematch spacing are evened out across the season.
- Show me options: three checked versions of your season, from finishes earliest to most rest between games.
- Mid-season, tell it a team dropped out or you lost ice time. Only the affected games move, and you review the change before teams are notified.
- Paste the ice or field times you booked, and every game lands inside them, with a count of how many more you need.
The Schedule Copilot comes with every paid plan. During the free 7-day setup, the step-by-step wizard builds your season with the same scheduling engine.
Men's league, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 to 11:30 pm at Civic Arena rinks 1 and 2, from January 6, 14 games each, no games March 10 or 12.
Schedule Copilot
Here's what I read. Every game is placed inside these days, hours, and rinks, with every rule checked:
- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 to 11:30 pm
- Civic Arena, rinks 1 and 2
- Starting January 6, 14 games per team
- No games March 10 or 12
The Ice Hawks can't play on February 3.
Schedule Copilot
Added as a rule. Their February 3 game moved to an open slot, and the season still passes every check.
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Live scoring that survives bad Wi-Fi
Score from any phone during the game. It keeps working when the gym Wi-Fi drops, and standings, stats, and your site update as you go.
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Paper scoresheets, read for you
Snap a photo of a paper scoresheet. AI reads the stats, you approve them, and they're saved to the game. 10 scans a month on Starter, 50 on Pro, unlimited on Enterprise.
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Your money, in your Stripe account
Card payments go straight to your own Stripe account, with the same 1% fee on every plan and no per-player charges.
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A league site that updates itself
Scores, standings, and schedules flow onto your branded site and your own domain, with sponsors and registration links alongside.
Coming from Playpass? Try it with your own league.
Free for 7 days, no credit card. Send us a sample of your Playpass export and we'll tell you what moves.
Side by side
How each one handles the work. Every Playpass fact links to the Playpass page it came from.
| Area | Playpass | LeagueArc |
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| Pricing | Playpass's pricing page lists a Free plan with no time limit (1 live schedule, 1 manager, and a 3% fee on online payments), then Plus at C$10.30 a month, Pro at C$21.60, and Max at C$113, with fees of 2.5%, 2%, and 1%. Stripe's card fee is extra. Prices showed in Canadian dollars when checked from Canada.Playpass pricing | Published plans from $29 CAD a month (Starter, up to 10 teams), with the same 1% fee on online payments on every plan and no per-player fees. Card processing and taxes are separate. |
| Scheduling | Playpass builds round-robin leagues with playoffs attached, single-, double-, and triple-elimination and Swiss-system tournaments, and rotating-partner schedules, across multiple courts and divisions. Its pages don't mention venue availability or blackout dates; confirm if you need them.Playpass league scheduler | Describe the season in plain words, or use the step-by-step wizard: LeagueArc places every game around your venues, times, and blackout dates, checks every rule, and shows you the season before anything is saved. |
| Live Scoring & Stats | Staff open a game on the schedule, enter the score, and save, and standings update. Custom rules cover overtime-loss points and forfeits, and player stats and league leaders are available for supported round-robin sports.Playpass league scheduler | Scored during the game, not after it: from any phone, and it keeps working when the gym Wi-Fi drops. Standings, player stats, and your public site update as the game happens. |
| Registration & Payments | Playpass takes online registrations with one-time payments or installment plans, and you choose whether players pay Stripe's card fee or you absorb it.Playpass online registration | Season registration with waivers, discounts, installments, and waitlists. Card payments go straight to your own Stripe account. |
| League Website | Every plan includes a website with your logo and colours, an online store, and sponsor packages with logo approvals. The Free plan allows one custom page, and a custom domain is a C$113-a-year add-on on paid plans.Playpass pricing | A branded league site with schedules, scores, and standings that update themselves, plus news, sponsors, and registration links. |
| Communication | Paid plans include messages to 50 (Plus), 500 (Pro), or 5,000 (Max) recipients a month, with none on Free. SMS messaging is listed as coming soon.Playpass pricing | Send announcements by email or text, to everyone or to one team, and post news to your public site. Texting uses your own Twilio account. |
Run the numbers
Start from Playpass's published prices, or put in your own quote. One year, amounts in CAD.
For these numbers LeagueArc comes out $110 a year lower.
LeagueArc Starter costs less once you collect more than $14,500 a year online.
LeagueArc's figure is the plan plus its 1% fee on online registrations. Playpass plans use its monthly prices, in Canadian dollars as shown from Canada; yearly billing saves about 8%. Stripe's card fee is extra on both. Card processing, taxes, and the time it takes to switch aren't included for either.
Moving from Playpass to LeagueArc
Send us a sample of your Playpass export and we'll tell you what moves, what needs cleanup, and what to check before launch. Our importer previews every row before anything is saved, and you keep Playpass running until the new setup is signed off.
Export what you have from Playpass: teams, players, schedules, and past results.
Import it into LeagueArc, checking every row in the preview before anything is saved.
Set up registration and payments, and build your next season around your venues and dates.
Go live when you're happy, and keep Playpass until then. We'll help plan the domain switch too.
Playpass switching checklist9 steps you can tick off, export, or print
Work through it before changing systems, and check every import before inviting members or collecting payments. Progress stays in this browser.
Inventory and export
Map and validate
Prepare the cutover
Sources
Facts last reviewed October 10, 2026. Competitor facts are limited to the linked official sources reviewed on the date above. Unknown pricing and migration effort remain editable inputs. The recommendation is based on workflow fit, not a paid ranking. Products change, so recheck the linked page before you sign.
- Playpass pricing Checked October 10, 2026 · Plans, payment fees, schedule and manager limits, messaging, and the custom-domain add-on.
- Playpass league scheduler Checked October 10, 2026 · Schedule formats, score entry, standings, scoring rules, and player stats.
- Playpass online registration Checked October 10, 2026 · Registration, installment plans, and who pays Stripe's card fee.
Questions
Is LeagueArc always a better fit than Playpass?
No. Playpass may be the better fit if you want to start free and pay mainly through a fee on online payments, or need Swiss-system, triple-elimination, or rotating-partner schedules. LeagueArc is the stronger fit if you want live in-game scoring and player stats that update standings and your league site as the game happens, on published plans.
How much does Playpass cost?
Playpass's pricing page lists a Free plan with a 3% fee on online payments, then Plus at C$10.30 a month (2.5%), Pro at C$21.60 (2%), and Max at C$113 (1%), each billed monthly. Stripe's card fee is extra and can be passed on to players, and registered non-profits get 50% off paid plans. Put your own payment volume into Run the numbers above to compare a year.
Can LeagueArc migrate every record from Playpass?
Not always. It depends on what Playpass lets you export. Supported files are previewed row by row before anything is created. Keep your original exports for any history that does not import.