Your fans show up every Saturday.
Do you know who they are?

Check-in rewards for showing up, student-section traditions, prediction games and quizzes, fan surveys, away-game watch parties, and auctions for signed gear. In college sports the examples that last have two things in common: they happen the same way every time, and they’re tied to a named fan, so you can count who took part.

Reward being there and give fans something to do between games. Run one tradition the same way at every home game, add a midweek quiz or survey, and offer rewards money can’t buy, like a walk-out with the team. Then measure it by named participation rather than impressions, so you know whether it worked.

Your staff doesn’t manage it day to day. You create a campaign, publish it, and fans participate on their own through the mobile app. Results show up in your dashboard in real time, which makes it less like running a social account and more like setting up a vending machine. Build it once, and it works on its own.

About 15 minutes to create your program. Each campaign takes about 5 minutes. You can launch your first campaign the same day you sign up.

Free for up to 1,000 active fans, with every core feature included and no credit card. If you grow beyond that, the City plan is $199 per month for up to 10,000 fans. There are no per-campaign charges, and every plan is on the pricing page.

That’s where it makes the biggest difference. Non-revenue sports are the ones that struggle to prove attendance and justify budgets. Game Set Engage gives you check-in data for every sport, every event. When volleyball can show 200 fans checked in last Tuesday, the funding conversation changes.

Yes. One account covers your athletic department: create an event for each game in any sport and run a check-in campaign for each one, alongside surveys, deal codes and points auctions. It all feeds the same fan list and the same dashboard.

No. Game Set Engage is built around fans, so there are no athlete accounts and no NIL tools. Athletes can still be part of it through the rewards you choose, such as signed gear in a points auction or a meet-and-greet, as long as your compliance office clears them.

Game Set Engage doesn’t collect grades, student IDs or academic records. Fans sign themselves up in the app. Check any data questions with your compliance office.

Social media tells you how many people saw a post. Game Set Engage tells you who engaged all week and who showed up on game day. One is an impression; the other is a person with a name, a check-in history, and points earned across campus. You can put that in a sponsor deck. You can’t put Instagram reach in a budget request and expect anyone to take it seriously.

Yes. Invite your booster club’s lead as a team member to run points auctions for signed gear, surveys and deal-code partnerships with local businesses. Team members get dashboard access to campaigns, events, fans and analytics, while billing and team management stay with the account owner. Points auctions don’t raise money, since fans bid points. For the cash side, see our list of sports fundraising ideas.