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Coach-paid athletes

A coach-paid athlete is an athlete whose Saturday subscription you cover. It’s how you take fueling entirely off an athlete’s shoulders — they get full Saturday with nothing to set up or pay.
Covering an athlete is never framed as a penalty or a charge for going “over” — it’s a feature. You’re adding a coach-paid athlete, and the price is clear up front.

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When an athlete is coach-paid

  • Within your included seats: athletes who fit your plan’s included seats are covered for $0 beyond your monthly plan fee.
  • Beyond your included seats: each additional athlete you choose to cover is a flat per-athlete monthly add-on, roughly a standard Saturday subscription price — with a volume discount as your covered count grows (see The volume discount).
You always choose per athlete: cover them, or let them self-pay. Inviting an athlete never auto-charges you.

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How it’s priced

Your coach-paid athletes are billed as add-on items on your existing coaching subscription — one subscription, one invoice, one payment method. There’s no separate bill to manage and no second dunning surface. The per-athlete price is the standard add-on rate, discounted by your volume tier. Your volume tier is keyed off your total coach-paid athlete count — that’s your included-seat athletes plus your coach-paid extras. As that count crosses a threshold, the discount applies to the add-on price automatically. See The volume discount for the full curve.

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Covering and uncovering

You can start or stop covering an athlete from the Billing view or inline on your roster:
  • Cover an athlete → they become coach-paid; if they were self-paying, their old payment is canceled first (no double-charge).
  • Uncover (relinquish) → coverage moves to the athlete on a friendly, never-silent handoff.
Both flows are covered in Take over & relinquish, including the billing-impact preview that shows exactly what changes before you confirm.

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At trial-end

When a coach-created athlete’s trial ends, Saturday keeps them whole automatically:
  • You have a free seat: they’re seamlessly covered from your plan — no action needed (you’ll get a friendly “now covering Sam” note, never a silent change).
  • Your seats are full: you’re prompted to either cover them as a coach-paid athlete or send them a zero-friction self-pay handoff.
Either way, the athlete never silently lapses.

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