Who pays, what it costs, and who touches the money. TourneyRun, Splash Sports, RunYourPool, OfficePools, Easy Office Pools, OfficePoolStop and PoolHost, side by side.
TourneyRun and OfficePoolStop both say it on their own pages: the commissioner pays a flat software fee and the buy-ins stay between the commissioner and the players. Splash Sports is the other model. It custodies entries and deducts a rake from the prize payout, 10%, or 12.5% total with Commissioner Rewards switched on, per its help center. RunYourPool, OfficePools and Easy Office Pools all publish a flat hosting fee rather than a percentage; check each one on how the pot itself is handled.
It depends on the exact size, because the flat-fee ladders cross. At 100 entries TourneyRun is $34.99 for the tournament and RunYourPool is $64.95; Easy Office Pools is $20 for any pool over four people. On Splash a 100-entry, $25 pool gives up about $250 to the rake.
Not on the flat-fee sites. On TourneyRun a member taps the invite link, joins and picks, and never enters payment details; buy-ins go to the commissioner over Venmo, PayPal or Zelle. Splash is a real-money platform, so entries are funded through it.
On TourneyRun that is the Season Long format: one auction or snake draft, a weekly lineup, waivers, and the four majors scoring 1.5x. RunYourPool and OfficePools both publish multi-event golf pools of their own; OfficePools lists $100 admin for its 2026 full-season pool.