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Demosphere grew profit margins with embedded payments.

Demosphere grew profit margins with embedded payments.

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How Demosphere significantly increased profit margins with JustiFi's embedded payments — while keeping full control of their data and brand.

30+ years

serving sports organizations worldwide

Thousands

of clubs, leagues, and tournaments on platform

100%

data ownership retained

Payments · Engage

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About Demosphere

Demosphere is a leading provider of software for sports organizations — a comprehensive suite that streamlines administration for athletes, coaches, and parents. With over 30 years of industry experience, Demosphere serves thousands of sports clubs, leagues, and tournaments worldwide.

Problems to be solved

Before adopting JustiFi, Demosphere faced challenges that hindered revenue growth and compromised customer experience:

  • Revenue growth: the existing payments infrastructure meant high transaction rates and missed revenue opportunities.

  • Custom fee management: their “service fee” model needed exact, transaction-level fee pass-through their processor couldn’t deliver.

  • Risk & fraud prevention: a platform serving thousands of organizations needed robust risk processes without operational bottlenecks.

  • Fintech expertise gap: hiring dedicated payments engineers would have been expensive and slow.

Solution & results

Demosphere integrated JustiFi’s embedded payments directly into their platform — and the results have been transformational across their payment operations:

  • Embedded payments: an integrated gateway eliminated external processors and unified the user experience.

  • Precision fee control: exact fee amounts pass through at the transaction level — clubs choose to absorb costs or pass them on with mathematical precision.

  • Partnership-based risk management: robust fraud prevention without unnecessary barriers for legitimate organizations.

  • Fintech experts on tap: JustiFi’s Engage team provides real-time financial insights — data-driven decisions with complete data ownership, no in-house fintech hires.

When we needed a critical feature implemented, it got done quickly without having to fight through support channels. The whole experience made it feel like a partnership rather than just being a customer.

— Nate Muller, Director of Infrastructure and QA

Conclusion

JustiFi’s embedded payment platform addressed Demosphere’s revenue optimization challenges, delivered precise fee management, strengthened risk processes, and provided specialized fintech expertise without dedicated staff — substantial profit margin increases with complete brand control and data ownership.

Note: Demosphere was acquired by Otto Sport in 2026. The results described here reflect Demosphere’s partnership with JustiFi prior to the acquisition.

Getting new customers is expensive. It's increasingly hard to grow through SaaS fees alone. JustiFi has helped make our internal operations much smoother, created a better overall experience for our users, and significantly increased our profit margins.

Getting new customers is expensive. It's increasingly hard to grow through SaaS fees alone. JustiFi has helped make our internal operations much smoother, created a better overall experience for our users, and significantly increased our profit margins.

Kris Baker

President, Demosphere

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