For sports officials — every sport, every assigner

If you didn’t write it down, you paid tax on it.

Every official has deductions: the drive to games out of town, the fees taken out before you were paid, the uniform, the gear, the room at home where the paperwork happens. None of it counts unless it’s recorded — and by March, nobody remembers September.

Forty miles round trip, forty games, 76¢ a mile: $1,216 at the IRS rate, before the uniform, the dues or the fees that never reached your hand. RefTraq records all of it as the season happens, and hands your preparer one page they can read.

Start free → Do the math on yourself

Free during the beta · no credit card · any browser. Game tracking stays free forever.

Works with whatever assigns your games — any iCal feed

Arbiter Assignr RefTown ZebraWeb Horizon Web Ref …or games you add yourself

Feeds carry your schedule; your rate table prices it. No assigner passwords, ever.

RefTraq’s Taxes screen on a phone: the year’s deductions and estimated tax savings at the top, the breakdown from income received down to the self-employment tax, the Export Schedule C button, and the tab bar from Home to Help. — The real Taxes screen, in demo mode. The money is made up.

Do the math on yourself

Find yourself in this table.

No averages and no “typical official”. Pick your round trip to a typical game, then how many games you work in a season.

Your season’s driving at the IRS standard rate of 76¢ a mile
Round trip per game	20 games	40 games	60 games
20 miles	$304	$608	$912
40 miles	$608	$1,216	$1,824
60 miles	$912	$1,824	$2,736
80 miles	$1,216	$2,432	$3,648

Round trip × games × 76¢, the IRS standard mileage rate since 1 July 2026. This is a deduction, not a refund: it comes off the income you pay tax on. Which drives count depends on where the game is and whether you have a qualifying home office — the mileage guide explains it in two minutes. Not tax advice.

2008

officiating since

500+

of his own games on record

expense categories, Schedule-C mapped

1 click

to a CPA-ready Schedule C

Built by a working Texas football & baseball official — and running on his own decade of games first.

The real app

What it looks like on your phone.

Three screens from RefTraq’s demo mode, shot by the same recorder as the video. The officials, schools and money are made up.

RefTraq’s Home screen on a phone: a button to add a drive, a payment or an expense in one sentence, and the season’s games, estimated pay, money received and money still owed. — **Home.** Add anything in one sentence, and see what the season has paid and what is still owed.

RefTraq’s Track screen on a phone: the drives deduction and the expenses side by side, then each drive with its date, place, miles and deduction. — **Track.** Your drives and your expenses side by side, each drive with what it’s worth.

RefTraq’s Stats screen on a phone: every game since the first season recorded, the seasons, venues and playoff games, and a chart of games season by season. — **Stats.** Every season you’ve worked, in one place.

Everything RefTraq does →

Pricing

Free to track. Paid to save.

Everything is free during the beta. This is where it lands afterward — no surprises.

Game tracking

$0 forever

The core stays free. Really.

Automatic schedule sync
Your rate table → fees auto-filled
Season P&L, every sport in one place
Unpaid-game flagging

Pays for itself

RefTraq Pro

~$79/yr after beta

Free for every beta official until launch.

And it’s a write-off. Pro is software for your officiating business, so it goes on your Schedule C like your dues — and RefTraq adds it to your expenses for you the day you pay. $79 costs you about $50.At the 22% bracket plus self-employment tax, the same estimate the Taxes tab uses. Not tax advice.

Full tax suite: mileage log, deduction review, home office, both car methods, est. SE tax
One-page tax meeting sheet and one-click Schedule C export
Who pays you — what will be on a 1099, so nothing is counted twice
Pay sheets for each assigner — game cards and a W-9 (coming)

The app shows your estimated tax savings all season, right on the Taxes tab. If your number doesn't beat $79, don't pay us.

Working a crew, or run a chapter? Volume discounts by crew and chapter size — and free accounts for chapter officers who help spread the word. Ask at the demo.

Questions

What officials ask first.

What does it cost?

Nothing during the beta, and no credit card. If that changes, we’ll tell you before it does — that’s in the terms. The plans above are where it lands afterward.

Does it work with my assigner?

If your assigner gives you a calendar link — Arbiter, Assignr, RefTown, ZebraWeb, Horizon Web Ref and most others do — yes: paste it once, and new games arrive on their own. Arbiter’s schedule export (.xls) works too, and any game can be added by hand.

Do you need my Arbiter password?

No. RefTraq reads the calendar link your assigner already publishes, the same one your phone’s calendar can subscribe to. It never signs in anywhere as you.

Is this tax advice? Do I still need a preparer?

RefTraq is a record-keeping tool, not a tax preparer. It keeps the records and adds them up the conservative way, then hands your preparer a one-page tax meeting sheet and a Schedule C file. Your preparer decides what goes on the return.

Does it run on my phone?

Yes, in any phone or computer browser at app.reftraq.com, and you can put it on your home screen like an app. There is no password: you sign in with a link we email you. iPhone and Android apps are in development.

What happens to my data?

It’s yours. Export your Schedule C summary and mileage log to CSV whenever you like, and delete your account from Settings. The privacy policy says what is kept and why.

If you didn’t write it down, you paid tax on it.

A season in RefTraq, in 22 seconds

Find yourself in this table.

What it looks like on your phone.

Free to track. Paid to save.

What officials ask first.

Get in before the season does.