Built by a former pro who runs a 200+ player club
Run Your Tryout. Run Your Season. Run Your Facility. One Platform.
Tryouts, evaluations and recruiting, team management, facility management, payments, and parent communication — everything you're running across separate systems today, in one.
Tryout season is two weeks of selling. Game Mode tracks every family through it — who's committed, who's on the fence, who hasn't answered — and sends the follow-ups that get them to yes, so nothing gets lost while you're running the field.
- Tryouts
- Evaluations
- Recruiting
- Team Management
- Facility Management
- Camps & Lessons
- Court & Cage Rentals
- Registrations
- Payments
- Scheduling
- Messaging
- Reports
- Parent Portal
- Mobile App for Parents & Coaches
Why this exists
Built for the club, not the building.
The strongest platforms in this space are facility software — memberships, point of sale, court booking — with team features bolted on. That works if you own a building. If you run a club, the things you need most are the things they treat as a line item: the tryout, the evaluations, and the two to four weeks of selling that fill your rosters. Game Mode is built the other way around. Your season and your tryout come first, and the facility fits around them.
Tryout season is a two-week sales sprint. Run it like one.
Every family who tries out is somewhere in your pipeline — committed, on the fence, invited and not answering, or gone without a word. Game Mode tracks all of them in one place and sends the follow-ups that move them forward, so the ones who were almost in don't slip out while you're running the field.
See how recruiting works
Put the clipboards away
Coaches evaluate and film players from their phones while the tryout is happening, and scores land in the system live. When the last group finishes, your results are already done.
See tryouts and evaluationsTurn tryout results into rosters
Build teams directly from evaluation results instead of rebuilding them by hand in a spreadsheet. Offers, acceptances, and final rosters all live in the same place the scoring did.
See team building
Take registrations and payments without chasing anyone
Families register and pay online with payment plans built in, and money goes straight to your own Stripe account under your own name. You keep your merchant account, your statements, and your relationship with your bank.
See registration and payments
Run camps, lessons, and training from the same platform
Sell and schedule camps, clinics, private lessons and cage rentals, and give players access to training video and analysis in the mobile app. Families book and pay on pages under your name.
Pricing
One published price. No sales call required.
You connect your own Stripe account, so payments go directly to you, your organization’s name appears on the parent’s card statement, and we never hold your money.
Your Stripe account
Parents pay your organization directly. You keep your merchant account, your statements, and your relationship with your bank.
Two ways to pay
Card is 3.5% + $0.90 per payment: Stripe’s 2.9% + $0.30 plus Game Mode’s 0.6% + $0.60. Bank transfer is 1.5% + $0.90, with Stripe’s bank fee included. On a $1,500 season fee that is about $23 by bank instead of $53 by card.
Pass it on or absorb it
Choose whether parents see the processing fee at checkout or you build it into your pricing. Most organizations build it in.
Base
$99/month
For organizations running tryouts and a season.
- Tryouts and evaluations
- Recruiting pipeline and follow-ups
- Registrations and payments
- Teams and rosters
- Parent messaging and scheduling
- Reporting and parent portal
- Your logo and colors on your registration and parent pages, with “Powered by Game Mode”
- Mobile app for parents and coaches — schedules and team messaging
- Coaches also get tryout scoring and player evaluations in the app
- Unlimited AI assistance
- 500 SMS and 5,000 emails per month
- 25 GB video storage
- Tryout video kept 6 months after each tryout
Growth
Most popular$199/month
For organizations running a facility alongside their season.
- Everything in Base
- No Game Mode branding on your pages
- Your name, logo and colors inside the Game Mode app
- Facility management — camps, lessons, clinics, court and cage rentals
- Training library in the app for parents and coaches, with video analysis for coaches
- Guided setup and data migration
- 2,000 SMS and 25,000 emails per month
- 100 GB video storage
Pro
$399/month
For organizations that want the app under their own name.
- Everything in Growth
- Your own branded app in the App Store and Google Play, under your organization’s name
- Multiple facility locations
- 5,000 SMS and 50,000 emails per month
- Unlimited video storage
- Tryout video kept permanently — full player history across seasons
- Hands-on onboarding
Need more texting or a custom setup? Enterprise plans are priced for your organization — talk to us.
Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial. A card is required to start, and nothing is charged until the trial ends. Texting turns on when your paid plan begins. No setup fee, no contract.
Questions
Before you ask
Can I try it before I pay?
Yes. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial. You add a card to start, and nothing is charged until the trial ends. Cancel any time before then and you pay nothing. Texting turns on when your paid plan begins.
Do I have to switch in the middle of a season?
No. Most organizations start with a tryout — that is the piece with the clearest start and end. Your current season keeps running wherever it is until you are ready to move it.
How long does setup take?
A first tryout can be live the same day. A full season with registrations, payment plans and rosters usually takes a few days of back and forth. Growth and Pro plans include help moving your existing data across.
Do I need a separate tool for tryout evaluations?
No. Tryouts, scoring, video and team assignment are part of every plan, including the $99 one. There is no per-player evaluation fee.
Who holds the money?
You do. Payments go to your own Stripe account, your organization’s name appears on the parent’s card statement, and we never take custody of your funds. We collect our fee as a small share of each transaction.
What if my coaches are not tech people?
Most coaches never need more than their phone. They get an invite, download the app, and score tryouts, evaluate players and message their team from there. Your admins handle setup on the web, so coaches only see what they need.
Is there a contract?
No. Month to month, cancel whenever. No setup fee.
What happens to my data if I leave?
You can export your players, rosters, registrations and payment history at any time while your account is active, and for 30 days after your subscription ends. It is your data.
What sports does this work for?
Baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, lacrosse, hockey, football — any sport that runs tryouts and a season. You build your own evaluation categories and criteria, so scoring matches how your sport is actually assessed rather than a template someone else wrote.
Can parents pay by ACH bank transfer instead of card?
Yes, and it is significantly cheaper for them. Bank transfer is 1.5% + $0.90 against 3.5% + $0.90 for card. On a $1,500 season fee that is about $23 instead of $53.
Something we did not answer? Ask on the demo.
Who built this
Game Mode was built by an actual club owner, not a software company.
Justin Klipp played professionally, then spent ten years building and running a 200+ player organization in Texas — the tryouts, the rosters, the payment plans, the parent emails at eleven at night. He was paying for three separate platforms that each did one part of the job and none of them talked to each other. Evaluations in one, registrations and facility in another, training in a third, with team communication and recruiting held together by a separate group chat and spreadsheets.
He looked hard at switching to a single platform and couldn’t find one that fit a club instead of a building. So he built the exact thing he wanted.
Every part of Game Mode exists because it solved a real problem in a real season — not because it looked good on a feature list. Tryout season used to mean three weeks of twelve-hour days — three main tryouts, eight make-ups, and every roster decision tracked by hand. The first year he ran it on Game Mode, that came down to a fraction of the time and almost none of the stress.
That club still runs on it, and it made his whole staff’s job easier.
See it on your own tryout.
A 30-minute walkthrough with our team. Bring your rosters, your fee structure, and whatever your current setup can’t do.