Plate III · Before
Registration on autopilot
Set entry, side pots, fee model. Share one link. Anglers pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card and get a real receipt. Money lands in your bank.
Vol. I · No. 1 · Est. MMXXVI
b4ufish
The field guide for tournament directors — before you fish.
Plate I · The proposition
We handle it
before you fish.
Registration, side pots, payments, the day-of weigh-in. b4ufish runs the back office so the angler can show up and just fish. Money goes from the participant’s card straight to your bank. We never hold your funds.
No setup cost · No subscription · 1.5% per entry
Plate I·b · Try it out
See your tournament,
white-labeled in five seconds.
Type your tournament name. Pick your brand color. Watch the registration page on the right rebuild itself in real time. No account required.
5:23 AM
Tournament
Your Tournament Name
Sat May 16 · Lake Erie · 6:00 AM blast-off
Registration open
Plate III · Sign up
Enter the tournament
Team name
Boat number
Entry fee$25.00
Apple Pay · Google Pay · Card
See live standings →
Updates every 15 seconds during weigh-in.
Plate II · The promise
The whole tournament, on rails. One link covers entry, side pots, weigh-in, leaderboard, and recap.
Plate IV · Day-of
Officiated weigh-in
Tournament-grade scale. Bagged, bagged-and-released or kept. Submit, confirm, lock. Co-admins, weigh-masters, and scorekeepers each see only what they should. Every state change is audit-logged.
Plate V · After
Recap & payouts
Live leaderboard for spectators. Printable recap. Stripe handles the 1099-K. We just keep a small per-entry fee — you keep everything else.
Plate VII · Saturday weigh-in · club series, north shore
Plate VIII · Why we’ll never hold your money
Funds flow from the angler’s card
to your bank.
We can’t freeze them. We can’t take them.
We use Stripe Connect destination charges. Stripe extracts a small per-entry application fee at the moment of charge, then routes the rest of the money straight to the organizer’s connected bank account. It never lands on a b4ufish balance. That’s a regulatory choice (no money-transmitter license) and an honesty choice (no marketplace ever has cause to hold your event’s payouts hostage).
b4ufish per-entry fee
1.5%
+ Stripe processing · $0.50 minimum, no cap
Pass-through to the angler by default. Toggle absorb to eat it yourself.
What you don’t pay
$0
No setup cost. No monthly subscription. No minimum volume. Pay only when someone registers.
Plate IX · What you get
Fifteen real features. Not a wireframe.
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Stripe Connect Express onboarding in three minutes
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Side pots with opt-in toggles and per-pot fee math
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Pass-through or absorb fee presentation
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Multi-role permissions: owner, co-admin, weigh-master, scorekeeper, spectator
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Officiated weigh-in state machine with audit log
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Real-time spectator leaderboard with Big-5 scoring
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CSV roster import with heuristic column mapping
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Walk-up registration: scan-to-pay or cash on the spot
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Day-of dashboard with paid / pending / imported / cash totals
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Auto-printable recap with podium and big-bass overall
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Receipt page that auto-retries while waiting on Stripe webhook
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My Events page across every tournament you've registered for
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Email + Google + Apple sign-in via Firebase Auth
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1099-K handled automatically by Stripe Connect
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Custom domain support — your tournament, your URL