Invite your first athlete
Your roster starts empty. You can fill it one athlete at a time, from a pasted block of emails, or from a CSV. Another coach can also transfer an athlete to you.Invite one athlete
From your roster, click Invite, then the One athlete tab. Enter their email and, optionally, their name, which personalizes the invite. Saturday emails them a link and also gives you a shareable invite link you can send yourself. By default the invite says nothing about who pays: “This athlete will be self-pay unless you cover them after they accept.” You can instead tick I’ll cover this athlete’s Saturday subscription (coach-paid) before sending. That commits you: when they accept, their billing switches to coach-paid, and the modal shows the estimated monthly cost first. If they already pay for Saturday, their existing plan is cancelled and the unused portion refunded. Lifetime members cost you nothing. The athlete sees the change before they accept. When they accept, they choose to share their Saturday data with you and they appear on your roster. If they have no Saturday account yet, the invite walks them through creating one.Consent is built in. An athlete explicitly accepts coaching and agrees to the requested permissions. They can also decline. You never silently gain access to someone’s account.
Invite many at once
From your roster, click Invite, then the Many (paste or CSV) tab.- Paste: drop in a block of emails separated by commas, spaces, or newlines, mixed however they came. Saturday sorts them as you type. Valid addresses are marked for sending, duplicates collapse, anything that isn’t an email is flagged for a quick fix, and anyone already on your roster is skipped. A running line counts all four: valid, duplicates, invalid, and already on roster.
- CSV: drag in a
.csvor click to choose one. Saturday detects the email column and an optional name column; if it is ambiguous, you pick the column. Very large files are rejected with a nudge to paste instead.
Set an athlete up for them
Coaching a less-techy athlete? You can build their fueling Setup (bottles, mix, ratio) before they ever open the app, then use Invite to claim their account from the athlete’s row menu. Saturday emails them a link to take ownership. They keep everything already there, their activities, products, and fueling plan, and you stay their coach. Nothing changes for you until they accept.Manage invites and relationships
An athlete awaiting acceptance carries a Pending badge on the roster.
Transfer hands the athlete to another coach: your coverage ends at period end plus a 14-day grace, and the new coach can cover them or the athlete can take over. Share adds a viewer-coach who can see the athlete’s training while you stay primary and keep handling their membership. Both wait on the receiving coach accepting the handoff, and the handoff link expires after 7 days.
After they accept
Once an athlete is on your roster you can:- See their fueling history, adherence, and flags. See Flags & groups.
- Read their AI fueling report. See AI report.
- View and adjust their Setup. See The Setup.
- Decide who pays for their Saturday subscription from their row. See Who pays.
- Message them, or add them to a group.