Arbiter Pay

Name

Arbiter Pay

Legal name

Arbiter Pay

Website

https://arbiterpay.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Arbiter Pay provides electronic payment processing for sports officials and event workers, serving US schools, districts, leagues, and associations. The platform integrates with ArbiterOne and ArbiterGame scheduling tools and processes over $500 million annually.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sports Officiating Payment Software

NAICS

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (52232)

SIC

Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997)

akta.pro primary industry

Payouts & Disbursements (Withdrawals, RTP, Mass Payouts) (MPAEALAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Prepaid, Gift Cards & Voucher-Based Payments (MPAEALAE), Payments, Cashiering & Payment Plans (EDALAJAE)

Keywords

• Sports payment processing
• Official payment software
• Electronic funds transfer
• 1099 tax compliance
• Payroll disbursement platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Sandy

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Transaction Processing Fees: Fees charged per transaction including Auto Sweep transfers ($1.50), ACH returns ($5.00), and written check issuance ($8.50).
2. Monthly Service Fees: Monthly inactivity fee of $10.00 after 13 months of no activity. NSF return ACH payroll account fee of $20.00.
3. Stop Payment and Late Fees: Stop payment fees of $25.00, increasing to $35.00 after 18 months. Early funds release fee of 0.5% or $20 whichever is greater.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

ArbiterPay is an electronic payment platform that enables schools, leagues, and associations to pay sports officials and event workers via ACH transfers, prepaid cards, or written checks. The platform integrates directly with ArbiterOne and ArbiterGame scheduling systems to verify official attendance before payment and automates W-9 collection and 1099 tax form issuance for compliance.

Product overview

ArbiterPay is a single, unified electronic payment platform for the sports officiating industry. The core ArbiterPay product serves as the main platform enabling schools, leagues, and associations to pay officials and event workers. Three integrated modules extend the platform: Direct Payments (for electronic fund transfers without checks), 1099 Services (for W-9 collection and 1099 tax form issuance), and Prepaid Cards (for immediate fund availability). The platform processed over $500 million in payments annually as of 2024, serving clients ranging from elite college conferences to local recreational departments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ArbiterOne: Scheduling and event management platform for assigners and officials
• ArbiterGame
• ArbiterMobile

Products and services

• ArbiterPay Electronic payment platform that enables schools, leagues, and associations to pay sports officials and event workers directly via ACH transfers, prepaid cards, or written checks. Integrates directly with ArbiterOne and ArbiterGame scheduling systems for end-to-end assignment-to-payment workflows.

Quantifiable outcome

• $500 million+ in annual payment volume

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Active Network / Community Pass: Provider of recreation-management and payment solutions for parks-and-rec departments and schools. Comparable as a broader incumbent serving many of the same municipal and educational buyers that ArbiterPay targets for official payments.
• TeamSnap: Team and league management platform used by youth and amateur sports organizations, with payments and registration flows. Comparable as an adjacent incumbent whose integrated payments could expand into officiating payouts over time.
• Gusto: A broad payroll and 1099 contractor payment platform used by SMBs, including schools and leagues. Comparable as a horizontal competitor that could disintermediate ArbiterPay's tax-compliant payout value prop at the SMB end of the market.
• ArbiterSports: Parent ecosystem of ArbiterPay, operating the broader ArbiterOne/ArbiterGame scheduling platforms. Comparable as the umbrella suite whose adoption directly drives ArbiterPay's distribution and lock-in across U.S. scholastic sports.
• BILL (formerly Bill.com): A broad AP/AR and business-payments platform that handles vendor and contractor payouts including 1099 compliance. Comparable as a horizontal payments incumbent that could compete for league and school payment workflows outside of Arbiter's scheduling stack.
• Sports Connect (by DICK'S Sporting Goods / Blue Sombrero): League-management platform serving youth sports organizations with registration, scheduling, and payments. Comparable as a broader competitor whose payments infrastructure overlaps with ArbiterPay's school and league customer segments.

Direct peers

• Assignr: Scheduling and assignment platform for sports officials that includes payment processing. Comparable because it bundles the same scheduling-plus-payment workflow ArbiterPay depends on, targeting the same assignor and official customer base.
• OfficialsPay: A niche payment platform purpose-built for paying sports officials and event workers, directly competing with ArbiterPay in the same vertical with comparable electronic payout and tax-compliance features.
• RefPay: A direct peer offering electronic payments specifically to sports officials via ACH, with login functionality now absorbed into the ArbiterPay platform per the arbiterpay.com login URL. Highly comparable product, customer base, and payment-rail approach.

Emerging players

• RefQuest: An emerging sports-official management tool with assignment, communication, and payment features aimed at youth and amateur leagues. Comparable as a smaller, newer entrant attacking the same niche with bundled scheduling-plus-payment functionality.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ArbiterSports
• Facebookfacebook.com/ArbiterSports
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/arbiter-sports

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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