Coach-paid athletes
A coach-paid athlete is an athlete whose Saturday subscription you cover. They get Saturday with nothing to set up or pay. You start and stop coverage per athlete from your roster.
When an athlete is coach-paid
- Within your included seats: athletes who fit your plan’s included seats cost you $0 beyond your monthly plan fee. These are labelled Included on the roster, not coach-paid.
- Beyond your included seats: each additional athlete you cover is a per-athlete monthly add-on at the standard Saturday athlete subscription price, $12.99/mo, reduced by your volume discount once you cover enough of them. See The volume discount.
Covering athletes beyond your included seats requires a paid plan. On the free Coach plan the portal declines the action and points you at an upgrade.
How it’s priced
Coach-paid athletes are billed as a single per-unit line item on your existing coaching subscription: one subscription, one invoice, one payment method. The quantity is your coach-paid athlete count and the unit price is $12.99 less your volume discount.
Your volume tier is keyed off your coach-paid athlete count, the athletes you cover beyond your included seats. That is the same number the roster’s seat breakdown shows next to Coach-paid athletes, alongside the discount it earns. Included-seat athletes are already covered by your plan fee and are counted separately. See The volume discount for the full curve.
Covering and uncovering
From an athlete’s row menu or their billing drawer on your roster:
- Cover makes them coach-paid. If they were already paying for Saturday, that payment is stopped first so the same period is never billed twice.
- Stop covering (relinquish) hands payment back to the athlete over a grace window.
Both flows are covered in Take over & relinquish, including the billing-impact preview that shows what changes before you confirm.
One case Saturday cannot stop for you: if the athlete pays for Saturday through the App Store or Google Play, that subscription is managed by Apple or Google and the athlete has to cancel it themselves. Saturday tells you when this applies at the moment you cover them, so you can ask them to do it.
At trial end
When a coach-created athlete’s trial ends:
- You have a free seat: they move onto it automatically, at $0, and you get a “now covering Sam” note.
- Your seats are full: you get an alert to decide, and the athlete is immediately shown that their membership is ending, with a 14-day grace window, a one-time 20%-off annual offer, and an emailed link to take over. You can still cover them during that window.
Either path keeps the athlete’s access continuous; nobody is dropped without notice.
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