What is a Secondary Payor?
A Secondary Payor lets a game be paid for by two organizations instead of one. When you set a secondary payor on a game, every fee on that game — official fees, assignor fees, admin fees, and travel expenses — is split 50/50 between your primary payor and the secondary payor once the game is approved for payment.
This is useful for games that two organizations jointly fund — for example, a tournament co-sponsored by two leagues, or a game where a host association and a visiting association agree to split officiating costs.
If you don’t see a Secondary Payor field on your game form, this feature isn’t turned on for your site yet. Contact Assignr support to enable it.
How to Set a Secondary Payor on a Game.
For a new game, select + New Game or for existing games, select Edit to the right of it.
Below the existing Paid By field, you’ll see a Secondary Payor (optional) dropdown, listing the same payors available to your site.
Choose a payor different from the one selected in Paid By, or leave it set to None if the game only has one payor.
Save the game.
A few things to know about this field:
A secondary payor requires a primary payor first. You must choose a Paid By payor before you can set a secondary payor.
The two payors must be different. You can’t split a game’s fees between a payor and itself.
Once the game has been approved and a statement generated, the secondary payor can no longer be changed. If you need to correct it, do so before running approvals for that game.
What the split looks like on a game:
If a game has a secondary payor, its details page shows both payor names side by side wherever payor information is normally displayed:
There’s no indicator of which payor pays what percentage on the game page itself — the split is always an even 50/50, applied automatically when the game is approved.
What the split looks like on the approvals page:
On the Approve Games page, a game with a secondary payor shows a 50% split w/ [Secondary Payor Name] badge next to the payor name on that game’s row.
The game itself still appears only in its primary payor’s section of the approval list — the secondary payor doesn’t get its own grouped section — but the totals summary at the top of the page correctly credits half the game’s fees to each payor’s running total.
There’s nothing extra to do here: approving the game approves it for both payors at once.
💡 You can’t change the secondary payor from the Approve Games page, and the bulk Change all to… payor tool and the per-game payor dropdown only ever affect the primary payor.
What happens when a split game is approved:
When you approve a game that has a secondary payor:
Two separate statements are created — one for the primary payor, one for the secondary payor — each covering the official’s share of that game.
Every fee is split exactly in half: the official’s game fee, any assignor fee for that game, and any travel expense, all divide 50/50 between the two statements.
Each payor only ever sees and pays their own half. The official is paid the full amount overall, just via two payments instead of one.
On an official’s or assignor’s statement/payment history, a split game may show up to two links — one to the statement from each payor — since the same assignment or expense can now belong to two different statements.
Turning off the secondary payor feature:
If Secondary Payors are disabled for your site after some games already have a secondary payor set, those games are unaffected — any future approvals for them will still split fees 50/50. Disabling the feature only hides the field and indicators from the interface; it doesn’t change how already configured games are paid.