— Switch from Crossbar

Crossbar isn't an indie
modern alternative anymore.

PlayMetrics acquired Crossbar in 2023. PlayMetrics merged into Stack Sports under Genstar Capital in June 2025. The platform you joined to escape PE consolidation is now part of the same conglomerate as Sports Connect, GotSport, and Affinity Sports.

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⚠ Forced migration · recently completed

Crossbar is now a Stack Sports brand.

PlayMetrics acquired Crossbar in 2023. PlayMetrics merged into Stack Sports under Genstar Capital in a ~$400M deal closing June 2025. The same parent company now owns Sports Connect (formerly Blue Sombrero, being sunset to PlayMetrics in 2027), Affinity Sports, and Crossbar. The independent modern alternative pitch no longer holds.

You're going to migrate either way. Switch once, not twice. Land on a platform that isn't a migration project on someone else's roadmap.

— The math

What you're actually paying.
Including the line items they don't advertise.

Headline price isn't take rate. Once you stack subscription, per-transaction, per-registrant, dispute, and minimum-volume fees, the real number lands here.

— On Crossbar

$995/yr + 1.99% + $0.99 per transaction

Effective take ≈ ~2.4–3% of GMV

  • Annual subscription billed up front; no month-to-month
  • PE-owned; subject to the same consolidation pressure as Sports Connect
  • Roadmap now coordinated with PlayMetrics + Stack Sports, not Crossbar's original team
  • $0.99 per-transaction add-on stacks with the percentage fee

+ On EZ Event Registration

$49/mo + 1.5% per transaction

Effective take ≈ ~1.6%

  • No subscription minimums or volume penalties
  • Refundable platform fees on refunded registrations
  • Stripe Connect v2 marketplace payouts — funds go to you
  • No per-registrant uplifts, no dispute fees, no captive rules

— At your scale

For a club doing $500K in registrations,
that's roughly $4,412 a year back to your program.

$100,000 / yr

$2,500

on Crossbar

$2,088

on EZ Event Registration

Save $412

$250,000 / yr

$6,250

on Crossbar

$4,338

on EZ Event Registration

Save $1,912

$500,000 / yr

$12,500

on Crossbar

$8,088

on EZ Event Registration

Save $4,412

Estimates use the midpoint of Crossbar's reported effective take rate. Your contract may differ — pull your last statement and we'll do the real math on a 15-minute call.

— Run your own numbers

Plug in your registration volume.
See what you'd save in real time.

$/ yr
$25,000$5,000,000

On Crossbar

$6,250

On EZ Event Registration

$4,338

You save / yr

$1,912

$9,560 over 5 years

Estimates use the midpoint of Crossbar's reported effective take rate (2.0%–3.0%). EZ Event Registration baseline is $49/mo + 1.5% per transaction. Your contract may differ — for the real number, send us your last statement.

— Why your registrar is unhappy

These aren't edge cases.
These are the system.

Every quote below is from a real customer review on Capterra, G2, Trustpilot, BBB, or App Store. Sourced and dated.

  • Now part of the same PE roll-up that owns Sports Connect

    Genstar Capital's June 2025 merger combined Stack Sports (Sports Connect, Affinity Sports) with PlayMetrics (Crossbar). Multiple independent industry sources confirm. Customers who chose Crossbar specifically to avoid Stack Sports' consolidation now find themselves inside it.

    “We left Sports Connect for Crossbar two years ago to get away from Stack Sports. Now Crossbar IS Stack Sports. Where do we go?”
    — Hockey club admin · Reddit r/HockeyCoach · Sep 2025

  • Notification and messaging unreliability

    Capterra, App Store, and GetApp reviews cluster around the same complaint: notifications miss, email targeting drops the wrong people, parents fall back to text chains.

    “Email blasts go to the wrong groups about half the time. We've stopped using the comms feature and just text parents directly.”
    — Coach · Capterra · Jan 2025

  • Admin permission changes require a vendor support ticket

    Multiple sources spanning multiple years confirm that changing admin permissions in Crossbar requires opening a support ticket — vendor intervention is required for what should be a self-service operation.

    “Adding a new registrar or moving someone's permissions takes 3–5 business days because Crossbar has to do it on their side. In what world is that self-service?”
    — Club Director · GetApp · Mar 2024

— How EZ Event Registration is different

Not a feature list.
A different architecture.

These aren't features Crossbar could add next sprint. They require schema-level, processor-level, and ownership-level choices baked in from day one.

  1. / 01

    Now PE-owned by the same conglomerate that owns Sports Connect / GotSport / Affinity

    Independent, founder-led, no roll-up. Where you sign up is where you stay.

  2. / 02

    Email targeting and push notifications drop messages

    Comms architected as a first-class surface with deliverability monitoring and segment-aware sends.

  3. / 03

    Admin permission changes require a vendor ticket

    Self-service multi-org / role-based access. Add a registrar, move permissions, audit access — in seconds, not days.

  4. / 04

    $995/yr annual contract billed up front

    $49/mo. Cancel anytime. No annual lock-in.

— Switch from Crossbar

You left Stack Sports once.
Don't let it follow you.

EZ Event Registration is independent, founder-led, and not on anyone's M&A list. Move once and stay.

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