The official’s guide
How RefTraq thinks about your schedule, your money, and your taxes — written in plain officiating language by the official who built it.
Why track any of this?
The 1099 reality and the deductions most officials never claim.
Getting started
Feed, fee schedules, site distances — set up once, synced from then on.
Ask Chief
The assistant on every page: what to ask it, and where its answers come from.
How RefTraq thinks about money
Estimated vs. received vs. outstanding, and why travel fees aren’t mileage.
Mileage
The single biggest deduction, and the IRS rules RefTraq bakes in.
The home office deduction
The 1997 rule that makes your drives to games deductible — and the test most officials fail.
Taxes
What the numbers mean and what the Schedule C export hands your CPA.
What else counts
The deductions officials miss — and how safe each one actually is.
Importing your history
Paste or upload any spreadsheet — games, fee sheets, rings, sites, mileage, expenses; RefTraq works out the rest.
FAQ
Fees, feeds, 1099s, edits, and who owns your data (you do).
What's new
What changed in RefTraq, newest first, in plain words.