> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.saturday.fit/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Coach-paid athletes > Cover an athlete beyond your included seats: what it costs and how it is billed # 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](https://coach.saturday.fit/dashboard)**. ## 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](/coaching/billing/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](/coaching/billing/volume-discount) for the full curve. ## Covering and uncovering From an athlete's row menu or their billing drawer on your **[roster](https://coach.saturday.fit/dashboard)**: * **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](/coaching/billing/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. ## See also * [The volume discount](/coaching/billing/volume-discount), your per-athlete price as you scale. * [Take over & relinquish](/coaching/billing/take-over-relinquish), the start and stop flows. * [Who pays](/coaching/billing/who-pays), how coach-paid fits among all the modes.