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Take over & relinquish

Coverage moves in two directions. You can take over an athlete’s payments, or relinquish them and hand payment back. You do both from the athlete’s row menu or billing drawer on your roster, and both show their consequences before you confirm.

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See it before you do it

Every coverage change opens a billing-impact preview. It tells you:

• The amount that stops and the paid-through date.
• Who pays next, and that the athlete will be notified.
• The refund and proration state.
• Whether you can undo, and how long you can re-cover.
• What the athlete gets: access through the end of the paid period plus a 14-day grace, a one-time 20%-off annual offer, and several ways to pay.

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Take over payments

Use Cover from the athlete’s row menu, or Take over in their billing drawer. Both buttons carry the athlete’s name. What happens next depends on how the athlete was paying:

• Self-paying monthly: their subscription is cancelled at period end and your coverage begins there, so the same period is never billed twice. Your add-on starts on your next cycle rather than immediately.
• Self-paying annually: their subscription is cancelled with a prorated refund and your coverage begins now, so your add-on bills now.
• In a trial: your coverage takes over with no gap.
• Paying through the App Store or Google Play: Apple and Google own that subscription and Saturday cannot cancel it. Your coverage starts, and the portal tells you the athlete has to cancel the store subscription themselves to stop paying.

If Stripe fails partway, the cover is aborted rather than allowed to double-charge. The athlete gets a push notification naming you as the coach now covering their membership.

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Relinquish (hand payment back)

When you stop covering an athlete, by choice, on a downgrade, or when you stop coaching, the athlete becomes payment-responsible:

1. Your charge stops. You are paid through the current period, with no mid-cycle charge and no refund for the remainder.
2. The athlete keeps access through the end of that paid period plus a 14-day grace.
3. They get a notification (“Your membership is ending soon”) and a persistent screen with a countdown and a take-over button.
4. They are offered a one-time 20%-off annual deal, valid for the grace window, and emailed a secure link to redeem it.
5. If they are an unlinked self-payer, the message is about unlinking only, with no payment talk.

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Undo and reversibility

A fresh relinquish offers an immediate undo for a few seconds. After that window the athlete’s grace has started and the undo is replaced by a Re-cover button in their billing drawer, available any time until the grace ends. Side effects such as the athlete notification are held through the undo window, so a mis-click does not fire anything.

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Org-paid athletes

If you are an assistant coach, you cannot end an org-paid arrangement unless an org admin has granted you that permission explicitly. It is a separate grant from the general billing-coverage delegation, so being able to cover and uncover your own athletes does not carry it with it. Org admins manage both on the Access & Roles page, where role assignment and assistant delegation are available on every plan. See Permissions.

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When you cancel your plan or stop coaching

Cancelling your coaching plan from Coach Subscription takes effect at the end of your paid period, and your covered athletes move to self-pay on that date through this same relinquish flow: 14-day grace, notification, and the 20%-off annual offer. Self-pay athletes unlink. You can undo the cancellation before its effective date. Separately, if you bill athletes a coaching fee through Stripe Connect, you can refund one of those charges from the $ Earning page. That refunds your coaching fee, not the athlete’s Saturday subscription.

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See also

• Coach-paid athletes, what coverage costs.
• Who pays, all the billing modes.