Full Feature List

Free to get started

Creating groups, adding items, inviting people, and configuring everything is always free. You pay per draft — and any draft of 15 items or fewer is free in every mode.

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Build a group with AI

Describe your draft in plain language and the assistant sets the whole group up for you — items, columns, and naming. If a ready-made template matches, it offers that instead.

Ready-made templates

Start from prebuilt templates — including full pro-season schedules with every game already loaded. Search, filter by category, and customize before you invite anyone.

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Copy an existing group

Duplicate a group you already have and choose exactly what carries over — columns, items, rules, settings. Perfect for a new season or the next quarter.

Demo groups

Free throwaway practice groups pre-loaded with sample data. The sample partners draft automatically, so you can run a full draft by yourself in minutes.

Unlimited groups

Create as many groups as you need — leagues, seasons, teams, events. Your account has no group limit.

Dashboard with folders

Every group you belong to on one dashboard, with private folders to keep seasons and leagues tidy. Search and sorting appear as your list grows.

Works in any browser

Phones, tablets, and laptops all work — nothing to install. Draft night can mix a big screen for the room with everyone picking from their own device.

Call things what you call them

Rename “items” and “partners” to whatever your group says — Players and Owners, Shifts and Staff, Properties and Heirs. The whole app follows your labels.

Group logo & image

Upload your group's logo or photo, or pick one from the built-in gallery. It appears across the group so everything feels like yours.

Group message board

A shared bulletin board on the group's home page. Pin the important post to the top, and control whether everyone or only admins can post.

Guided setup checklist

New groups get a step-by-step guide that checks items off as you complete them — minimize it to a progress bar or dismiss it whenever you like.

Roles & permissions

Owners, administrators, and participants each see exactly what they should. Promote as many admins as you need — there's no limit.

Ownership transfer

Hand the group to a new owner in one step when the organizer changes.

Placeholder slots

Don't know everyone yet? Reserve slots with just a name — “Team B”, “TBD” — and draft anyway. When the real person joins, their items and picks transfer automatically.

Privacy controls

Each member chooses whether their name and email are visible to the whole group or only to admins.

Timezone control

Set your group's timezone with a live current-time preview. Draft start times and event times all follow it.

Date-based groups

When your items are dates — shifts, games, vacation weeks — the group gets calendar views and real event handling: all-day or timed, including multi-day blocks.

Optional advanced features

Trading, the public calendar, and Multi-Pick are one-switch toggles, off by default. Turn on only what your group needs.

Sequence drafts

The classic turn-order draft: snake or straight, with optional per-pick timers and a live board everyone follows.

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Sign Up drafts

Untimed and turn-free, tuned for coverage: post shifts, booths, and volunteer slots, and let everyone claim their share.

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Open drafts

Everyone picks at the same time, at their own pace, up to their own limit — speed and flexibility over strict order.

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Auction drafts

Partners bid from a budget and the highest bid wins each slot. Use it when some items are worth far more than others.

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Per-person pick limits

In untimed drafts every participant gets their own pick allotment — nobody can take more than their share, and the draft finishes when everyone has hit theirs.

Bid & runoff windows

Tune auction pacing: a bid window from 10 seconds to 5 minutes, a tie-breaking runoff window, and optional auto-close when the clock hits zero.

Public or hidden bids

Show every bid in real time, or keep amounts hidden until each auction closes.

Auction currency symbol

Pick the symbol shown on balances and bids — real money or league bucks.

Multi-Pick drafts

Let the same item be claimed by more than one person — shared shifts, sign-up slots, split tickets. Multi-Pick drafts are always priced by participant count, even small ones.

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Custom item columns

Describe what you're drafting with 14 column types — text, numbers, currency, dates, dropdowns, links, images, and more — each with its own display options.

Computed date columns

Read-only columns derived from an item's date: day of week, month, quarter, season, weekend vs weekday, and more — great for filters and rules.

Column visibility

Show a column to everyone, only to admins, or to admins plus whoever owns the item. Sensitive values stay where they belong.

Add many at once

A spreadsheet-style grid for typing in a whole batch of items in one sitting.

Spreadsheet import

Bring items in from CSV or Excel. Columns auto-match by name, dropdown values validate before anything saves, and you can download a template pre-headed with your columns.

AI import prompt

One click gives you a ready-made prompt — with your exact columns and allowed values — to paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and get back a clean import file.

Date-range generator

Turn a date range into items automatically — one per day or multi-day block, filtered to the weekdays you want, with timed or all-day events.

Hand-picked dates

Or build items from scattered days you tap on a calendar — every third Saturday, the holidays, whatever the schedule needs.

Item statuses

Every item is in the draft, available, on hold, or assigned — one glance shows what's claimed and what's left.

Assign without drafting

Admins can hand any item straight to a person — for keepers, corrections, or things that were never up for grabs.

Inline editing

Click any cell in the items table and edit it right where it sits, spreadsheet-style.

Bulk edit, copy & delete

Select rows and set one value across all of them, duplicate them, or delete them in one pass.

Totals row

Numeric and currency columns total at the bottom of the table — and the total follows whatever filter you have on.

Export to Excel

Download the items you're looking at — filters applied — as an .xlsx spreadsheet.

Shared image gallery

Upload images once and reuse them across items. Drag-and-drop multiple files, rename inline, and attach the same photo to as many items as you like.

Calendar views

See dated items on a real calendar — month, 3-month, or list view — with events colored by status or by owner.

Calendar labels

Mark phases, deadlines, blackout periods, and event windows as background context on the calendar, in six muted colors.

iCal download

Export the calendar as an .ics file for Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook — your items or everyone's.

Printable calendar PDFs

Print a month-grid calendar or a chronological agenda as a PDF — handy for the break room wall.

Invite by email

Invite people by email, resend pending invitations, and see a log of declines. You can also add someone quietly without sending the email yet.

Shareable join link

One URL anyone can use to join your group — perfect for posting in a team chat or an email blast. Regenerate it any time to invalidate the old one.

QR codes for joining

Generate a scannable QR code for your join link and download it as PNG or SVG — print-ready for flyers, posters, and the projector screen.

Join without an account

People don't need an existing account to join from your link — they create one as they arrive.

Late joiners

Open and Sign-Up drafts accept new people while the draft is running — set how many picks each new joiner gets, and they're in.

Join notifications

Get an email when someone joins through your link, and optionally add them to the current draft automatically.

Bulk add & import

Add people row by row or import a whole roster from CSV or Excel — emails are detected, cleaned, and de-duplicated for you.

Participant columns

Track custom info per person with 11 column types, each visible to everyone or only to admins.

Pre-draft forms

Collect T-shirt sizes, availability, phone numbers — any info you need — before the draft. Required fields politely chase people until they answer. No per-response charges, ever.

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Export roster & responses

Download the full roster — form answers included — as an .xlsx spreadsheet, one row per person.

Message the group

Compose and send an email-style message to any set of members — or everyone at once — without leaving the app.

Co-partners

Two people share one draft slot, its picks, and its team name — spouses, siblings, or a two-person crew. Swap who's active any time.

Colors, photos & team names

Give each participant a color, a photo, and a per-group display name — name a slot “The Sharks” when it stands for a team.

Private pre-ranking

Drag your choices into your preferred order before the draft — jump an item straight to a rank, or send it to the top or bottom. Nobody else ever sees your list.

Do-not-draft flags

Flag the items you never want. Auto-picks respect your flags, so being away from the screen can't saddle you with them.

Highlight by criteria

Light up every item matching criteria you set — all the weekend shifts, everything over $500 — while you rank, without changing the order.

Hide-assigned filter

Ranking mid-season? Hide items that are already taken so you only rank what's still winnable.

Private data columns

Up to 10 columns of personal notes and values on every item — invisible to everyone, even admins.

Import private data

Bring your rankings and notes in from a spreadsheet instead of typing them.

Admin rank

A shared, group-wide ranking maintained by admins — importable from a spreadsheet, and shown to members only if you choose.

Median Rank

Combine everyone's private rankings into one consensus list using the median — a neutral group ranking nobody had to argue about.

Personal column order

Arrange table columns the way you like — your order follows you everywhere, including into the live draft.

Fair-order algorithm

A mathematically optimized draft order aimed at the fairest possible distribution — even when people have different numbers of picks.

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Snake drafts

The classic serpentine order that reverses each round, with a randomized or hand-set first round.

Unequal pick counts

25 games for one partner and 5 for another? Everyone's turns are spread fairly across the whole draft.

Build the order by hand

Assign every pick position yourself when your group already has its own agreement, or start from a generated order and adjust.

Import the order

Already decided the order elsewhere? Upload a spreadsheet with the pick-by-pick assignments.

Scheduled pause points

Drop pause markers into the order — the draft stops there automatically so the room can take a break.

Swap pick sets

Exchange two participants' entire sets of picks in one move.

Pick notes

Attach a note to any pick slot — “keeper”, “traded from Sam” — visible to everyone in the live views.

Pick-balance check

A live target-versus-actual count per participant, with a green check when the order adds up.

Editable mid-draft

Reassign, add, or remove future picks while the draft is running — life happens, the order keeps up.

Plain-sentence rules

Build rules that read like English — “no coach may take more than one center” — and OnlineDraft enforces them on every pick.

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Reusable rule library

Rules belong to the group, not one draft — build them once, attach up to 25 to any draft.

Limits & minimums

“No more than two weekends.” “At least one home game.” Cap or require picks by any column value.

Flexible rule scopes

Apply a rule to each person individually, to the group combined, to hand-picked people, or to everyone sharing an attribute — veterans versus rookies, day shift versus night.

Value conditions

Number, currency, and date conditions with full comparators — equals, at least, between, before, after.

Round-scoped rules

Point a rule at one specific round or at the entire draft.

Item-specific triggers

Watch up to 50 named items — when one gets picked, the rule fires.

Block, warn, or pause

Choose what a rule does: block the pick outright, allow it with a warning in chat, or pause the whole draft and post your note.

Admin override

Admins can override a blocking rule when the room agrees — and every override is announced in chat, so nothing happens silently.

End-of-draft rule summary

When the draft ends, anyone who finished below a required minimum is flagged in chat automatically.

Scheduled start

Set the draft's date and time so everyone knows when to show up — shown in your group's timezone.

Auto-start

The draft can start itself at the scheduled moment — and quietly declines to if setup isn't finished.

Real-time draft room

Picks, chat, and status changes appear instantly for everyone over a live connection — and the room reconnects automatically if someone's wifi hiccups.

Big-screen draft night

Put the live board on a TV or projector while everyone picks from their own phone or laptop — a real draft-night experience for the whole room.

Draft board

Every pick on one grid — rounds down, participants across — with a details panel for any pick and per-participant totals.

Keepers & pre-selected picks

Lock in picks before the draft starts — keepers, returning members, prize winners — straight onto the board.

Pick timers

Set the clock from 1 minute to 24 hours per pick — or run untimed. Display-only if you want gentle pressure, enforced if you want pace.

Enforced timers with auto-pick

When an enforced clock runs out, the pick happens anyway — from the person's own rankings first, so it's still their pick.

Pause & resume

Pause any time; the clock freezes with the draft. A resumed pick always gets a grace period, so nobody's timer expires while they're mid-sandwich.

Turn emails

Get an email the moment it's your pick — perfect for slow drafts that run over days.

Turn texts

Or get a text message when you're on the clock, so a day-long draft never needs babysitting.

Admin email alerts

Admins can get an email on every pick, at each new round, or when the draft hits a scheduled pause.

AutoDraft

Can't make draft night? Flip on AutoDraft and the system picks for you from your private rankings — then admin rank — the moment it's your turn.

AutoSkip

Sitting this one out? AutoSkip passes all your future turns automatically.

Live group chat

A live message stream for the whole room — trash talk included. Admins can turn it off.

Private conversations

Threaded direct messages inside the draft — work out a trade or a side deal without the whole group watching.

Running totals

Salary, points, hours — every numeric column totals live per participant, with a roster-comparison tab for the whole field.

Search, or pick from the calendar

Find your pick by searching the list — or in date-based groups, pick events straight off a calendar view.

Admin draft controls

Pick on someone's behalf, skip a pick, undo the last one, or lift a cap — admins can keep the draft moving without stopping the room.

Trades

Partners propose swaps of what they own — multiple items a side, with notes — and complete them when both agree.

Admin-approved trades

Optionally require an admin's sign-off before any trade goes through.

Public draft viewer

A read-only link anyone can open in a browser to follow your draft live — no account, no login. Chat and private data stay hidden.

Public draft QR code

Generate a QR code for the public view and download it as PNG or SVG — made for flyers and the projector screen at a live event.

Public draft board

Spectators can flip between the live view and the full draft board.

Public group calendar

Publish a read-only calendar of your group's dated items that anyone can view without signing in — it spans every draft in the group.

Team view

Everyone's haul side by side, one column per participant — the season at a glance.

Past drafts & pick log

Every finished draft stays browsable: the full pick-by-pick log — with badges for skips, admin picks, and auto-picks — plus the order by round.

Archived draft chat

The live chat from a finished draft is kept as a read-only archive — the trash talk is part of the record.

Copy a previous draft

Reuse a finished draft's setup — settings, rules, participants, order — as the starting point for the next one.

Reset a draft

False start? Reset clears the picks but keeps your whole setup, and it costs nothing extra. Auction bids are refunded to everyone.

Complete a draft early

Close out an in-progress draft whenever the group is done.

Scoring sessions

Score in repeating sessions — weeks, rounds, matchups, episodes. Each session snapshots who owns what and stacks into the season.

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Custom criteria

Define what counts and how much, with a multiplier per criterion — your raw input times the multiplier is the score.

Penalties

Multipliers can be negative — turnovers, missed shifts, and late fees can cost points, not just fail to earn them.

Import scores

Download a session's spreadsheet template, fill it in offline, and upload it — no cell-by-cell typing.

Rolling standings

A live leaderboard with one column per session and the running total pinned alongside — the whole group watches the same race.

Custom leaderboard

Name the board and the unit — “Standings” in “wins”, “Leaderboard” in “points” — to match your competition.

Adjustments

Bonuses, penalties, league fees, sportsmanship awards — add manual adjustments with a reason, per session or across the whole season.

Choose who's scored

Decide who appears in the standings — and if someone leaves, keep, delete, or transfer their scores.

First session free

Every group's first scoring session is free — run a real session on your own draft before you buy anything.

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Documentation & in-app help

A full documentation library plus contextual help throughout the app — answers where the questions happen.

Support Assistant

Ask questions in plain language and get answers drawn from the documentation, right in the app.

Support tickets

Reach a real person when you need one — support requests are free for everyone.

Basic Support

Up to an hour of hands-on help — we'll load your items and get your group draft-ready with you. One-time purchase, no subscription.

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Premium Support

Full-service setup for organizations: we build your draft program with you and assist during your first live draft.

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Multi-Draft Packs

Buy drafts in packs of 5 or 10 and save 20–25%. Packs belong to you and work across any group you run.

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Recurring group packs

Groups that draft again and again — a league every season, shifts every month — save 35–45% with a group-bound pack.

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Credits that just apply

Pack credits apply themselves at checkout automatically — decline any time if you'd rather pay directly. Credits are valid for a full year.

Grow without re-buying

Add participants after paying and you're only charged the difference between tiers — never twice.

Coupons

Promotional coupons apply right at checkout.

Enterprise coverage

One account covers all your organization's drafts — volume pricing, invoicing, and no checkout for organizers.

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Transaction history

Every purchase, credit, and invoice for the group in one place — date, type, amount, and status.