Splash Sports rakes 10% of the prize payout (12.5% with Commissioner Rewards on, per their help center). TourneyRun charges the commissioner one flat fee, free under 15 players, and never touches the money: buy-ins move over Venmo, Zelle, or PayPal and 100% of the pot pays out. TD Chase and Anytime-TD Survivor are TourneyRun originals you won't find there.
That's the reason TourneyRun is built the way it is: we never hold a dollar of the pot, so there is nothing to take a percentage of. The commissioner pays one flat fee for the software (free under 15 players) and the whole prize pool lands with your winners.
Yes. Create the pool, text your crew the invite link, and everyone is in within minutes; there is no app to install. Survivor pools can start at any week, and commissioners routinely migrate mid-season with standings intact via the commissioner console.
No. Members never pay TourneyRun and never fund a wallet. Buy-ins are between your crew and you, over Venmo, Zelle, or PayPal, exactly like the office pool has always worked.
If you want a licensed platform to custody entries and handle payouts for a real-money contest, that is genuinely their model, and the rake is what pays for it. If you run the pool yourself and want every dollar of the pot to reach your winner, that is ours.