Pitchero vs The Dugout

Pitchero combines a club website with membership, team management, payments, and communications for sports clubs. Its membership tools include online registration forms, a central database, custom fields, import and export, and permission controls. Team tools cover player availability, selection, messaging, fixtures, results, and player statistics. Clubs can collect membership fees, match fees, donations, and other product payments online, with reminders and payment tracking. Stripe and GoCardless are named payment integrations; other listed connections include YouTube, Facebook, X.com, Ticketmaster Universe, and official ECB Play-Cricket.com. The Free plan costs nothing and is limited to one team; payment processing is unavailable on that plan. Standard costs £38 per month and supports up to 20 teams. Pro costs £99 per month and offers unlimited teams. Paid packages have a 30-day free trial with no payment required to start; the selected plan begins automatically when the trial ends. Pitchero is available on Android, iOS, and web, and lists unlimited AWS hosting. Its UK team is available 24/7 for support, guidance, and onboarding.

The Dugout is a team management platform for youth sports, with tools for coaches, players, families, and tournament directors. Coaches can manage rosters and schedules, send messages and announcements, run polls, collect RSVPs and attendance, and track team finances. Game tools include pitch-by-pitch scoring, live box scores and statistics, and pitch-limit tracking with automatic rest-day calculations and warnings. Practice plans, a drill library, scouting, pitching tools, recruiting profiles, and highlight reels support player development. Teams can import rosters and stats from GameChanger, TeamSnap, or CSV, and collect payments through Stripe. Payments collected in the app carry a 2.5% platform fee in addition to Stripe processing fees. Tournament Director covers registration, brackets, live results, umpire assignments, multi-field scheduling, and conflict detection. The Dugout lists baseball, softball, soccer, basketball, football, volleyball, lacrosse, hockey, and more, and runs on Android, iOS, and the web. Fan, parent, and player plans are free; coach access is $5.99 a month after a free trial, and tournament plans are $49.99 a month or $499 a year.