Big-program energy on a small-program budget.
D-II, D-III, NAIA, JUCO. No marketing department, no five-figure software contract. Fill the stands, grow your booster list, and prove engagement to your AD — with a free tool one person can run.
The Challenge
Small programs do big-program work with none of the staff.
You’re a one-person athletics office wearing six hats. You run game-day ops, post on social, chase the local paper, and somehow still need to grow attendance and keep boosters giving. The Power Five schools have departments for each of those. You have a Tuesday afternoon.
Ticketing platforms are built for stadiums you don’t have. CRM tools cost more than your marketing line. And every spring the AD asks for engagement numbers you have no way to actually measure.
Game Set Engage is built for your size. Free to start, fast to set up, and simple enough that a work-study student can run it. You get the attendance data, the booster list, and the engagement proof — without the big-school price tag.
Built for Small Athletics
Everything a lean program needs. Nothing it doesn’t.
Fill the stands, grow your supporter list, and show your AD the numbers — all from one free dashboard.
Turn students into a student section.
Students open the app at the gym, field, or rink and check in — their phone’s location confirms they’re actually in the building, so the points only land when they show up. Set bigger point rewards for rivalry and homecoming games, and let the season-long leaderboard turn your regulars into your loudest section.
No turnstiles, no scanners, nothing to install at the gate. The whole check-in lives in the app.
Every fan in the stands is a future supporter.
Parents, alumni, and local fans all check in too — and now you have a profile for each one, their attendance history, and a reason to reach out. Turn a packed homecoming into a booster pipeline.
Run a fan survey, a local-business deal code, or a points auction for signed gear. Every fan who joins is tracked back to a real person — the data your development office actually needs.
Walk into the budget meeting with receipts.
When your AD asks “is this working?”, you have an answer. Attendance trends by sport, student engagement rate, supporter growth, and any venue-partnership revenue — live in your dashboard, with the campaign and venue data ready to export as CSV.
It’s the same report that justifies next year’s budget, recruits a title sponsor, and shows the conference your program punches above its weight.
How It Works
Live before your next home game.
Add your schedule
Add your fixtures across every sport, then brand it with your school colours and logo in minutes.
Open check-in
Start the game-day check-in and set the points. Fans see it in the app the moment they walk in.
Fans check in
Students, alumni, and families check in from the app — location-verified at the venue — earn points, and climb the leaderboard. You watch it live.
Report & grow
Pull the season numbers together for your AD and your sponsors, and export the data you need. Then do it all again next season, bigger.
FAQ
Questions from small programs.
Yes. The Local plan is free for your first 1,000 fans, and it includes the full check-in, points, campaign, and reporting toolset. Most D-III, NAIA, and JUCO programs run an entire season without paying anything. You only upgrade to the City plan ($199/month, up to 10,000 fans) if your fan base grows past the free tier.
No hardware at all. Fans check in from their own phones in the Game Set Engage app, and the app uses their location to confirm they’re actually at the game — full points at your venue, fewer at home. You set up and watch everything from a laptop or your phone, with nothing to install at the gate.
It’s built for exactly that. Setup takes an afternoon, and once a game’s check-in is live, fans do the rest from their phones and the reports build themselves. A work-study student or a single staffer can manage it across every sport.
Yes. Add your full schedule across every sport — basketball, volleyball, soccer, baseball, and more. One check-in system and one leaderboard work across all of them, and reports break down by sport automatically.
A live dashboard that pulls it together: attendance trends by sport, student engagement rate, supporter-list growth, and any venue-partnership revenue — with the campaign and venue data exportable as CSV. It’s the proof your AD needs for budget meetings and the data sponsors ask for before they sign.
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Your season starts now
Pack the stands this season.
Set up check-in before your next home game. Free for up to 1,000 fans — no contract, no hardware.