# 🌐 Jersey Watch review (2026)

> Jersey Watch builds a website with registration for youth and community sports organizations. What $348 a year buys, how its schedules and standings work, what you can export, and who it suits.

Canonical: https://simplestandings.com/reviews/jersey-watch
Last updated: 2026-11-08

By The Simple Standings team. Facts about other products checked 2026-11-08 on their own pages (Sources below).

## Our take

- **A good, plainly priced website for a youth organization.** Pages, registration, payments, announcements and a custom domain for one published price.
- **They do the setup.** Jersey Watch says it will set up your website and registration for free, which matters to a volunteer board.
- **Standings are tied to its Schedule Generator.** A hand-entered Basic Schedule gets no standings, and there is no documented schedule import.
- **No free plan.** You can explore for free, but going live is $19, then $348 a year.

## Jersey Watch at a glance

| Item | What Jersey Watch publishes |
| --- | --- |
| Price | $19 for the first month, then $348 a year ($29 a month); called the entry plan |
| Free plan | None. A free account to explore all features, no card |
| Contract and setup fee | No contract, no setup fee; cancel before renewal |
| Online payments | 3.5% + $1 per transaction; you can pass fees to registrants, none if you do not collect online |
| Custom domain | Included, or bring your own |
| Ads | None on your organization’s pages |
| Standings | Wins, losses and point differential per division, sortable; Schedule Generator games only |
| Exports | Registrants (.xlsx or .csv), team rosters (PDF), contact lists. Schedule export “Coming soon” |

## What it does well

A note on who is writing this: we make Simple Standings, which competes with it. We have not run a league on it; everything below comes from its own pricing, feature and help pages, linked at the bottom and checked on the date above.

- **One tool for a youth organization’s front door:** website, registration forms, online payments and announcements.
- **Clear pricing.** One published price, no contract and no setup fee, which is rarer in this category than it should be.
- **Setup help at no charge,** and pages built for volunteers rather than IT staff.
- **No ads** on your organization’s pages, and a custom domain included.
- **A schedule generator** that checks for conflicts and handles blackout dates.

## What to watch for

- **Standings only come from generated schedules.** If your venue hands you a fixture list, you either re-create it through the generator (their help centre suggests a one-game workaround) or ask their team to add it.
- **Tiebreakers are fixed:** win percentage, then head-to-head, then differential. We found no documented manual adjustment.
- **Getting a schedule out is not available yet.** PDF, Excel and CSV schedule downloads are marked “Coming soon”, and no standings or scores export is documented.
- **Not a stats tool,** by its own description.
- **$348 is the entry plan.** Its comparison pages say “starting at”, and no other tier is published.

## Is Jersey Watch worth it?

For a youth association that needs a website and online registration, it is a sensible buy: one price, setup done for you, payment fees you can pass on to families.

For a league that only needs standings, it is a website you would be paying for to get a table. [Simple Standings](https://simplestandings.com/vs/simple-standings-vs-jersey-watch) does that part free, or $9.99 once per league with no ads, and lets you type the table in rather than generating a schedule first.

## Who Jersey Watch is right for

- Volunteer-led youth organizations that need a website and registration.
- Boards that want the site set up for them.
- Organizations that want their own domain and no ads anywhere.
- Leagues that build their season with a round-robin generator anyway.

## If you are weighing Simple Standings instead

- It is not a website: no domain, no registration, no payments, no announcements.
- Its public page shows ads unless you pay $9.99 once.
- Nobody sets it up for you, though there is little to set up.

## Frequently asked questions

### How much does Jersey Watch cost?

$19 for the first month, then $348 a year, which it describes as $29 a month. Online payments cost 3.5% + $1 per transaction. There is no setup fee or contract.

### Is there a free version of Jersey Watch?

No free plan. You can create a free account and explore every feature without a card, and use the schedule generator, but publishing a schedule and tracking standings are paid.

### Can you export standings from Jersey Watch?

Not that its help centre documents. Registrants export to a spreadsheet and rosters to PDF; schedule export is marked “Coming soon”. Standings appear as a table on your public site, which you can copy.

### What is a free alternative to Jersey Watch for standings?

Simple Standings: a standings table, schedule and player stats on one public link, free with ads or $9.99 once per league without. It does not do websites or registration.

## Sources, checked 2026-11-08

- [Jersey Watch pricing](https://www.jerseywatch.com/pricing)
- [Jersey Watch FAQ](https://www.jerseywatch.com/faq)
- [Jersey Watch help: How to manage standings](https://help.jerseywatch.com/article/197-how-to-manage-standings)
- [Jersey Watch help: Creating schedules and events](https://help.jerseywatch.com/article/78-creating-schedules-and-events)
- [Jersey Watch help: Schedule generator overview](https://help.jerseywatch.com/article/144-schedule-generator-overview)
- [Jersey Watch schedule generator page (export marked "Coming soon")](https://www.jerseywatch.com/tools/sports-schedule-generator)
- [Jersey Watch help: Exporting player information](https://help.jerseywatch.com/article/32-exporting-player-information)
- [Why Jersey Watch](https://www.jerseywatch.com/why-jersey-watch)
- [Jersey Watch vs TeamSnap (Jersey Watch’s page)](https://www.jerseywatch.com/compare/jersey-watch-vs-teamsnap)

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