For referees, umpires, and assignors
One operation for assigning, communication, development, and payroll
Horizon is for officiating organizations that assign referees and umpires and need more than a calendar — including Horizon AI for drafting assignments and summarizing reports. The tools below are included unless noted as an add-on.
Jobs Horizon already does
Conflict checks
Catch double-books and overlapping games before they publish, so the same official is harder to put in two places at once.
Eligibility and qualifications
Apply certifications, age rules, blocks, and position rules so ineligible assignments are harder to make.
Collect interest before you assign
Post an open game, let eligible officials say they want it, then review responses and award it. Horizon calls this TBA Requests. Saying you are interested is not an assignment — the assignor stays in control.
Horizon AI and AI Assign
AI Assign drafts referee and umpire assignments with your eligibility rules in play. Horizon AI can also summarize ratings and evaluations, game reports, and incident reports across a season so you can spot trends without reading every file. You review drafts and summaries before they become the record.
Scheduling and assigning
Create or import games, assign manually, with AI Assign, or automatically, link games that should travel together, and publish so officials can accept or decline. When a slot is still open, you can collect interest first and award it afterward — Horizon calls that TBA Requests.
Availability and eligibility
Officials manage availability. Assignors apply qualifications, age rules, blocks, and conflict checks so ineligible or double-booked assignments are harder to make.
Communication and reminders
Email and push notifications come with your subscription. Email-to-SMS text reminders do too. Premium SMS text messages are an optional add-on when you want carrier SMS delivery.
Payroll and payments
Fee structures, deductions, mileage, and payroll reports come with your subscription. Electronic ACH through Payment Center is for United States organizations, with published processing fees.
Evaluations and reporting
Ratings and evaluations, observer comments, rankings, game reports, and incident reports can be turned on for your organization.
Mobile apps and calendar sync
Android and iOS apps come with a subscription, and officials can sync games to Google Calendar or an iCal feed.
Imports, integrations, and API
Spreadsheet imports come with your subscription, and SportsEngine schedule imports are there when you use that source. Connect Zoom to host virtual meetings for clinics and check-ins from the same schedule as your games. The developer API is an add-on.
Documents, video, and travel details
Share documents (50 MB) and unlimited video. Travel itineraries for hotels, flights, and rental cars can be recorded when that feature is on.
Coaches, schools, and leagues
Team coaches and school athletic directors can access their schedules without consuming a license. League tools are available when your organization enables them.
Insights
Open Metrics on an official to see season workload, acceptance, team exposure, and familiarity charts before you assign — so you can balance who works which games.
Custom forms
Custom forms for evaluations, post-game reports, incidents, season checklists, and compliance come with your subscription. Additionally, Forms Plus is an optional add-on for digital signatures, file uploads, routing logic, PDF export, AI summaries, and a higher form limit.
United States soccer organizations can show U.S. Soccer licenses in Horizon. See the U.S. Soccer connection
Used across sports
If you assign sports officials, Horizon is built for the same operation: games, people, rules, messages, and pay.
And other sports your organization assigns
- Swimming
- Tennis
- Track & Field
- Water Polo
- Gymnastics
- Competitive Cheerleading
- Golf
Officials already work from a phone
Android and iOS apps come with a subscription — the same product screens officials and assignors already use on game day.
For referees, umpires, and assignors
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