News & announcements

League administrators can now start on Umply with their first season free on the Standard plan. Paid plans start at $250 a year after that.

The offer is for leagues ready to move scheduling, official assignment, check-ins, and payments off spreadsheets. Sign up on the site and include your role so the right person follows up.

Umply published a 24-hour response plan for leagues that need to protect an official, document referee abuse, apply policy, and keep that official willing to come back.

Two related guides cover confirming availability, qualifications, and backup coverage before postseason brackets lock, and running a midseason retention check-in with officials in their first year.

Before tip-off, leagues can use the youth basketball referee readiness check to confirm rules knowledge, availability, and assignment fit.

Separate guides show how to turn Volleyball Officials Appreciation Week into a retention plan, track youth hockey referee certifications before assigning games, and audit referee coverage after fall opening weekend.

The Little League World Series guide lays out a path from first local assignments to mentoring, evaluation, and tournament opportunities.

Companion pieces cover running lightning delays without losing officials, protecting green-badge youth soccer referees, and resetting referee availability before the back-to-school rush.

Youth football leagues can use the August scrimmage guide to confirm crew depth, practice-week availability, pay rules, and backups before jamboree weekend.

Related guides cover July 4 weekend umpire coverage for baseball and softball, adjusting referee schedules for the 2026-27 soccer age-group change, and keeping veteran officials from being over-assigned.

The World Cup 2026 guide shows youth soccer leagues how to turn summer interest into a fall referee pipeline before schedules tighten.

Other June pieces cover heat-advisory plans for officials, protecting the umpire pool when summer tournaments overlap, and scheduling rainout makeup games without making the shortage worse.

Umply has completed its first three full months supporting live league seasons. During that stretch, 4 leagues used Umply in-season, more than 270 officials were onboarded, and over $6,000 in umpire payments were processed through the platform.

Leagues also used Umply to manage hundreds of games, reduce scheduling conflicts, simplify official communication, and keep operations moving through live-season changes.

The early feedback from leagues and officials is helping shape the platform as Umply continues improving scheduling, official assignment, check-ins, communication, and payments for future seasons.

The new resource hub gives league administrators and assignors practical guidance around official availability, assignment coverage, game-day check-ins, payout planning, and retention.

These updates support Umply's product direction: helping leagues replace scattered spreadsheets and group texts with clearer official operations.

The calculator gives youth sports organizations a planning baseline before the season starts, especially when coordinators need to model pay rates across baseball, softball, soccer, basketball, football, lacrosse, and hockey.

It complements Umply's broader official management workflows: assignment, check-in, reliability visibility, and Stripe-backed payout operations.

The new check-in content explains how leagues can confirm arrival, identify uncovered fields earlier, and connect assignment records to payment workflows.

This supports Umply's broader official management focus: clear assignments, fewer no-show surprises, and cleaner post-game payout approval.

These resources explain how leagues can replace spreadsheet workflows with connected scheduling, official assignment, game-day staff check-ins, communications, and payments.

The guide hub gives administrators and coordinators a clearer way to evaluate workflows like scheduling, official assignment, check-ins, communications, and payments before they choose a platform.