TagX is a flag rugby platform that focuses on providing a hybrid experience between real-world and fantasy sports. The platform provides the opportunity for users to create their own leagues and host events globally in exchange for profits from each event completed.
CHALLENGE
To bring scalability to a flag rugby platform, offering it to users around the World while ensuring ease-of-use, powerful tools, and a robust payment system that caters to multiple user types.
SOLUTION
Turkois is working with TagX to design a comprehensive platform for players, league managers, and admins that is easy to use, while offering powerful business tools for monetizing Events worldwide.
RESULTS
The TagX platform, launching in early 2024, allows users to create leagues, build and host events, and compete with other users from around the world while retaining margins from each event played.
With the success of their flag rugby efforts in Australia and other select countries, TagX was ready to scale their unique approach to the sport globally. In order to ensure that events could be created, managed and monetized internationally, the challenge was building and launching a platform that would entice new users to create leagues, invite players, and set up events in their local markets. While the top level functionality was focused on a statistics-first, competitive experience for players, a robust payment system was required in order to handle processing payments and handling payouts to leagues based on participation and event costs.
Turkois worked (and continues to work) with TagX leadership in order to ensure a complete implementation and platform launch targeting early 2024. The architected solution allows individuals to create leagues, teams, and events using a combination of player and manager portals. Payments for playing in events, organizing events, and profits from events are all processed and distributed to TagX League Managers and TagX itself via Stripe Connect. The integration provides a streamlined workflow, ensuring timely and accurate payments to all parties involved.
KEY RESULTS
Design and development of a three-portal platform, catering to players, league managers and admins, as well as companion mobile application for referees entering game data globally.
Implementation of Stripe Connect for onboarding leagues, setting up payout accounts and facilitating platform <> connected account payments in multiple countries
Event creation engine allowing for league managers to create events, set prices at a division level, and calculate profit-per-event based on country
Ability for players to add payment methods and pay for participating in league-created events
In-app reporting based on Stripe transactions provided via both admin portal and league manager portals, as well as payment history provided to players