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Take over & relinquish

Coverage moves in two directions: you can take over an athlete’s payments (start covering them), or relinquish them (hand payment back). You do both from your billing page. Both are designed to be friendly, fully previewed, and reversible.

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See it before you do it

Any coverage change on your billing page shows a billing-impact preview before you confirm. The preview tells you:
  • The $ that stops and the paid-through date.
  • Who pays next (you, or the athlete on takeover) and that the athlete will be notified.
  • The refund/proration state.
  • Reversibility — whether you can undo or re-cover within the grace window.
  • Reassuring terms for the athlete: access continues through end-of-period plus a 14-day grace.
  • That there are multiple easy ways to pay and a one-time 20%-off annual offer.
No coverage change is ever a silent surprise.

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Take over payments

Covering an athlete is meant to feel effortless. From your billing page or your roster, choose Take over payments. What happens depends on how the athlete was paying:
  • Self-paying monthly: their subscription is canceled at period end; your coverage begins seamlessly so there’s never a double-charge.
  • Self-paying annually: their subscription is canceled with a prorated refund, and your coverage begins now.
  • In a trial: your coverage simply takes over — no gap.
The athlete gets a good-news notification: “Your coach is now covering your Saturday membership.”

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Relinquish (hand payment back)

When you stop covering an athlete from your billing page — by choice, on downgrade, or when you stop coaching — the athlete becomes payment-responsible. Saturday makes this gentle, never abrupt:
  1. The athlete keeps access through the end of the current paid period plus a 14-day grace.
  2. They get a friendly notification and a persistent “Your subscription is ending” screen with a countdown and a clear take-over button.
  3. They’re offered a one-time, grace-window 20%-off annual deal — “multiple easy ways to pay.”
  4. If they’re an unlinked self-payer, the message is purely about unlinking — no payment talk at all.
The 14-day grace is real. Even after the paid period ends, an athlete keeps Saturday for 14 more days. Plenty of room for them to take over without ever losing access.

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Undo and reversibility

Both takeover and relinquish are reversible within the grace window — from your billing page you can re-cover an athlete you just relinquished, and a fresh relinquish offers an immediate undo. Side effects (like the athlete notification) are held through the undo window so an accidental click doesn’t fire anything you’d regret.

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Org-paid athletes (assistants, note)

If you’re an assistant coach, you can’t end an org-paid arrangement unless your head coach or org owner has explicitly granted you that permission from the team page. See Permissions.

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When you cancel your plan or stop coaching

Canceling your coaching plan from your billing page, or offboarding entirely, routes every coach-paid athlete through this same relinquish flow — 14-day grace, friendly notification, and the 20%-annual offer. Self-pay athletes simply unlink. Nobody is left stranded. You can also issue refunds directly from your billing page (see Who pays).

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