Choosing a plan and managing your subscription

What it is

Next Athletix has three plans: Free, Training and Training + Recruiting (shown as "Recruiting" on the pricing page). You pay per athlete. An adult athlete pays for themselves. A parent pays for each child separately, so you can pause or cancel one child without touching another. Paid plans start with a 7-day free trial.

How to use it

What each plan includes

1. Free costs $0 and needs no card. It keeps your streak, onboarding, your public athlete page and a quick single-day workout.
2. Training costs $20 a month per athlete, or $210 a year (about $17.50 a month). It unlocks building your own multi-week training plans. The pricing page also lists the full daily session, every skill module and the game lessons under Training.
3. Training + Recruiting costs $75 a month per athlete, or $800 a year (about $66.67 a month). It includes everything in Training, plus the college directory with coach contacts, saved schools, help writing outreach emails, and the recruiting checklist.
4. The full side-by-side list is on the pricing page.

Start a plan (adult athlete)

1. Sign in and open Account & Billing.
2. Under Subscription, pick Monthly or Annual, then choose Step up on the plan you want.
3. You are taken to a secure Stripe checkout page. Enter your payment details there. If you have a promo code, type it on that page.
4. Your 7-day free trial starts. The first charge comes when the trial ends. Your Subscription card shows the trial end date.

Start a plan for a child (parent)

1. Open My Athletes and choose your child.
2. Scroll to Plan & billing, pick Monthly or Annual and choose Step up.
3. Finish on the Stripe checkout page. You are the payer and you manage the plan. Your child cannot.

A child asks for a plan

1. A child signed in on the web opens Account & Billing and taps Request upgrade from parent. In the app, a child taps the ask-a-parent button where a plan unlocks something.
2. Your parent is emailed and sees the request on their dashboard. Nothing is charged until the parent chooses Review and pay.
3. The parent can instead choose Not now.

Change, cancel or fix payment details

1. Open Account & Billing (parents: your child's Plan & billing section) and choose Manage subscription.
2. That opens the Stripe billing portal, where you can update your card or cancel.
3. If you cancel, you keep access until the end of the period you already paid for. The Subscription card says "Cancels on" with the date.

Rules and limits

• One athlete, one bill. If an athlete already has a trial or active plan, paid by anyone, a second checkout is refused with a message before any money is taken.
• Adult athletes can only pay for themselves. A parent can pay for any child linked to them. Child accounts cannot start billing.
• Only a trial or active plan counts. After you cancel and the period ends, the account goes back to Free; your streak history stays.
• Paying for a whole team is not available yet. Each athlete subscribes on their own account (or their parent's). Coaches do not pay to coach.
• You buy and manage plans on the website. The app shows your plan and what is locked, and a child can ask a parent from the app, but you cannot buy in the app.
• Promo codes are entered on the Stripe checkout page when you subscribe. A code cannot be added afterwards from your account page.
• Prices and the trial length shown here match the pricing page. The pricing page is the place to check current numbers.

Edge cases

• If a payment fails, the plan stops counting as active right away and the account behaves like Free until the payment is fixed. Nothing on the Subscription card currently offers a way to fix it. Email support@nextathletix.com if you need help.
• The Step up button appears for Training users as a way to reach Recruiting, but checkout refuses because you already have a plan. Use Manage subscription instead. Whether the portal lets you switch plans depends on how Stripe is set up; this was not verified.
• A parent's own Account & Billing page has no Subscription card, because a parent has no athlete plan of their own. Parents pay from each child's page.
• An annual price only works when it is set up on our side; if it is missing, checkout says annual is not available instead of charging monthly.
• Admin accounts always act as Training + Recruiting, for testing.