Stack Sports alternative
Looking for a Stack Sports alternative?
Genstar has officially announced the platform sunset. AYSO has publicly committed to migrating to PlayMetrics. You're going to migrate either way — switch once, not twice.If you've decided it's time to move, here's why clubs land on EZ Event Registration — and how a switch actually goes.
Why clubs leave Stack Sports
$3 non-refundable fee charged on every checkout
Sports Connect charges $3 on every checkout — including cash and check registrations where Stack Sports never touches a card. When the league refunds the family, the $3 is not refunded to the league. AYSO's own wiki documents this.
PE-driven layoffs hit support quality first
Indeed reviews from former Stack Sports engineers and customer-success staff explicitly attribute layoffs and support cuts to Genstar's cost-cutting playbook. Customer reviews mirror this: non-existent support, refund denials, and unfixed bugs.
Blue Sombrero → Sports Connect rebrand was largely cosmetic
The 2019–2021 rebrand left clubs on the same legacy CMS underneath. Reviewers and a former Stack engineer both call the codebase 'old' and 'dated.' Now the same customers face a second migration — to PlayMetrics — in 2027.
What you get with EZ Event Registration instead
$3 per-checkout fee, non-refundable, charged on cash/check, plus card markup
Flat 1.5% per transaction. Fully refundable when registrations are refunded. No surcharge on cash/check entries.
Forced migration to PlayMetrics in 2027 — second forced migration in 7 years
Independent, founder-led ownership. No PE roll-up. No platform sunset on the roadmap. Switch once, not twice.
Support cuts driven by PE cost-cutting; multi-week ticket response times
Founder-led team. No quarterly EBITDA pressure. Named humans on every ticket.
Aging Sports Connect codebase under a 2014-era CMS
Greenfield Next.js 16 + Fastify 5 + Prisma 7. Mobile-first by architecture, not by retrofit.