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Become a coach

There are two doors into coaching. Both end in the same state: a coach account with portal access, your own athlete subscription intact, an empty roster, and an activation checklist on the dashboard.

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The two entry paths

From the Saturday app

Already a Saturday athlete? Open the Accounts page and tap . Your existing account gains coaching; your own training is untouched. Stop Coaching lives on the same page.

From the coach portal

No Saturday account yet? Sign up at coach.saturday.fit. Saturday provisions an athlete account for you, so your coach identity and athlete identity are one account from day one.
The in-app Become a Coach row is behind a staged rollout, so it may not be on your Accounts page yet. Signing up at coach.saturday.fit works either way and reaches the same account.

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Every coach is also an athlete

Every coach has a Saturday athlete account and completes athlete onboarding. You coach fueling better having used it, and the on the Accounts page switches between Coaching and My Training without logging out.
  • Portal-first sign-up: Saturday creates your athlete account and subscription. You can finish athlete onboarding in the app whenever you like.
  • Already have an app account: it is kept. Same login, now with coaching.
  • Signed up twice (app identity does not match portal identity): Saturday detects the mismatch and offers to link the two into one account, keeping the account with more training history. Linking is the recommended path.
  • Want them separate? Keep them separate is offered alongside linking. A few account shapes cannot be linked automatically; in those cases Saturday’s team completes the link by hand and you keep coaching in the meantime.

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Your activation checklist

An empty dashboard opens with a Get started card and four steps, each with its own button:
  1. Invite your first athlete from your roster. See Invite your first athlete.
  2. Set up billing, which opens Coach Subscription to pick a plan. See Who pays.
  3. Finish your athlete setup in the app, about 5 minutes. The button shows a QR code that hands your own athlete onboarding to your phone.
  4. Read the coach docs, which lands here.
The card tracks progress, collapses to a Setup complete strip when all four are done, and can be dismissed. Once dismissed, a Setup guide link reopens it.

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Choosing a plan

You can start without paying. Plans live on Coach Subscription, which the checklist’s Choose a plan button, your Account Settings, and the command palette all open. (The $ Earning item in the nav is Stripe Connect payouts, not your plan.) Included means covered by your plan fee, so the athlete pays nothing. The free Coach tier is the exception: it lets you coach one athlete, but that athlete pays for their own Saturday subscription. Covering an athlete yourself starts at Pro Coach. See Who pays. Beyond the assistants your plan includes, you can buy extra assistant seats at $10/seat/month and release them at any time. Business and Enterprise are already unlimited, so the seat add-on does not apply to them.
Saturday Lifetime owner? Your coaching plan is 50% off for as long as you hold it. Pro Coach is 6.50/moandHeadCoachis6.50/mo and Head Coach is 25.00/mo. The discount applies automatically and the plan cards show a Lifetime 50% off badge.
Coach plans are billed monthly. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel from Coach Subscription. An upgrade takes effect immediately; a downgrade or cancellation takes effect at the end of your paid period, and both can be undone before then. Cancelling moves your covered athletes to self-pay on that date. See Take over & relinquish for what your athletes see when that happens.