Are you an Upward basketball league, sports league? Are you looking at online registration for your baseball league, soccer league, soccer tournament, baseball tournament, basketball tournament? Are you investigating online sports registration in general?
Make sure you choose your online provider carefully. Youth Today (www.youthtoday.org) posted a news story on its website on Thursday, December 18, 2008, with troubling news. Online sports registration provider, Count Me In (CMI Corp.) allegedly owes $2 million dollars in registration fees to 25 non profits. Count Me In is being sued in Washington and California because of the unpaid fees.
Count Me In's website says that it handles online registrations for more than 1,000 organizations. Count Me In was hired by these organizations to provide online sports registration and received a fee for each player registration. These monies were to be transferred to the organizations at periodic intervals. Apparently, according to the article, by late fall some of those payments stopped showing up.
The message is pretty simply: choose your online provider carefully. Look for those with proven track records. Bigger doesn't always mean better. Look for those with great references. Call those references.
There's little doubt that online registration needs to grow. It represents a great way to grow a league, its visibility and at the same time provide a necessary service to its customers.