Team Tether

Features

Everything a youth sports team needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Team Tether replaces the group chat, the spreadsheet, the Venmo requests and the paper playbook with one app coaches and parents both open every day.

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Schedule, RSVPs, attendance and volunteers

Run the season

Schedule & calendar

Add a practice once and repeat it all season. Games, scrimmages, tryouts and team events sit on the same calendar, color-coded per team. New events reach every family as soon as you save them, and when you move a time or place they get a notice.

  • ✓Repeating practices, one-off games, multi-day events
  • ✓Time zones handled — a 9pm–1am event reads correctly for everyone
  • ✓Subscribe from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook
  • ✓Saved locations with one-tap directions
  • ✓Games with scores and results
  • ✓Game-day jersey and a what-to-bring list on each event

Included on every plan.

RSVPs & availability

Switch on RSVP for any event. Families answer in one tap and can add a note ("leaving early"), coaches see the count and who hasn't replied, and if you set a deadline the families who haven't answered get a reminder the day before — or nudge them yourself with one button.

  • ✓Going / Maybe / Can't, per child
  • ✓Counts plus every child marked "No reply"
  • ✓Optional deadline, with an automatic reminder
  • ✓Works for team events and program sessions alike

Included on Coach and Coach Pro.

Attendance

Once an event has started, tap through the roster: present, absent, late or excused. Each player gets a season summary, so you know who has been showing up.

  • ✓One tap per athlete
  • ✓Season summary per player, split by games and practices
  • ✓Kept for teams; skills programs don't take attendance

Included on Coach and Coach Pro.

Volunteer sign-ups

Add volunteer slots to any team event. Parents sign up from the app or you assign someone, everyone can see what is still open, and the coach stops sending the same three texts every week.

  • ✓Slots per event with a count
  • ✓Families sign up and drop out themselves
  • ✓Assign a slot to a parent, who accepts or declines

Included on Coach and Coach Pro.

Join codes, families, staff and permissions

Know your roster

Join codes & QR

Every team and program has a join code, a link and a QR code to show at practice. Parents scan it, add their child, and they are on the roster. Choose open joining, a password, or approval by the coach.

  • ✓Join by code, link or QR
  • ✓Open, password, or approve-first
  • ✓Pending requests in one list with approve / decline
  • ✓Staff invite codes for assistant coaches

Included on every plan.

Families & co-parents

A child is a record managed by their guardians, never a login. Add a co-parent and they see the same schedule, RSVP for the same child and get the same reminders. Several kids on several teams live under one account.

  • ✓Multiple children per parent, multiple guardians per child
  • ✓Nicknames and how names are shown to the team
  • ✓Photos and birthdays seen only by the family and the staff you choose
  • ✓No child ever has an account or a password

Included on every plan.

Assistant coaches & roles

Bring on assistants with a code — as many as you like, on every plan. Every plan has four ready-made jobs: Assistant coach, Team manager, Equipment manager and Volunteer. On Coach and Coach Pro, build your own roles — Scheduler, Treasurer, Team Mom — and grant only what each needs: schedule, roster, dues, announcements, documents, the playbook.

  • ✓Unlimited assistant coaches on every plan
  • ✓Four ready-made jobs on every plan; custom roles on Coach
  • ✓Transfer a team to a new head coach
  • ✓Staff can step down themselves

Unlimited assistants and ready-made jobs on every plan. Custom roles and permissions are included on Coach and Coach Pro.

Uniforms & seasons

Record the team's kits so 'which jersey?' is answered in the app. When the season ends, settle up any dues, then close it — now or on a date you pick. The team stops counting against your plan, its history stays readable, and you can copy the team for a second age group.

  • ✓Home / away kit on the team
  • ✓End a season, keep the record
  • ✓Ended seasons don't count toward plan limits
  • ✓Copy a team in one tap

Included on every plan.

Dues, card payments and auto-pay

Money, handled

Dues tracking

Set the team's dues once: a single up-front amount or a monthly fee with an optional collect-until total. Give any player a custom plan. Families see exactly what they owe and when it is due; you see who has paid, at a glance.

  • ✓Up-front or monthly, with a collect-until total
  • ✓Custom plans per player
  • ✓Due dates — families see “Due Sep 1”, then “Was due”
  • ✓Mark cash, checks, Venmo or Zelle paid by hand — the family gets a receipt
  • ✓Deposits, late fees, months off and payment requests

Included on every plan.

In-app payments

Connect a payout account in about five minutes and a Pay button appears next to every amount a family owes: dues, program fees, deposits, late fees and 1-on-1 sessions. Families pay by card in the app, get an email receipt, and the row turns Paid on its own. A family with several things due can pay them all at once. Prefer to be paid directly? Show your Venmo, PayPal, Cash App or Zelle instead, and mark those payments by hand.

  • ✓Card payments through Stripe, paid out to your bank
  • ✓Receipts, refunds and a clear ledger for the coach
  • ✓You choose who covers the card fee
  • ✓Pay everything due at once
  • ✓Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Zelle buttons too

On every plan. Team Tether keeps a small share of each card payment, and less on paid plans.

Auto-pay for monthly dues

For monthly dues and program fees, a family can switch on auto-pay and the card is charged on the due date each month. Months off are skipped, a "collect until" total stops it at the right amount, and if the fee changes or the child leaves, auto-pay switches itself off and the family is told — nobody gets charged for something they didn't agree to. After a price change, they can opt back in with one tap.

  • ✓Charges on the due date
  • ✓Switch off any time — months already paid stay paid
  • ✓Stops itself when the fee changes or the child leaves
  • ✓One tap to opt back in at the new price

Included on every plan.

Feed, chats, documents and notifications

Communicate

Team feed & polls

Post an announcement and every family gets a notification on their phone. Run a poll for the team dinner date. Comments, replies, photos and likes keep it friendly; a dismiss button keeps it tidy. Let members post, or keep it coach-only. Anyone can report a post, and coaches can remove it, restrict the writer, or suspend a parent.

  • ✓Announcements pinned and sent as a phone notification
  • ✓Polls with results, a deadline and close voting
  • ✓Comments, replies, photos, likes and per-person dismiss
  • ✓Coach-only or open posting, your call
  • ✓Reporting and coach moderation

Included on every plan.

Chats, linked

Team Tether doesn't replace the chat your parents already open every day. Link it. Every chat for the team or program appears in one list in the app, so a new family finds it in one tap.

  • ✓Link WhatsApp, GroupMe or Discord groups
  • ✓One list per team and program, plus all your chats in one tab
  • ✓Edit or remove a link any time

Included on every plan.

Documents

Upload a file or paste a link. It sits on the team's Docs tab where every family can find it, on the phone or the website.

  • ✓PDFs, images and links
  • ✓Team and program documents
  • ✓Opens on any device

Included on every plan.

Notifications you control

Every family chooses what reaches them: schedule changes, RSVP reminders, dues and payments, posts, approvals. Coaches can also choose which emails their team receives. Everything starts switched on, so nothing is missed by default.

  • ✓Notifications on the phone, email everywhere
  • ✓A switch for every type of message
  • ✓Account messages always arrive

Included on every plan.

Play Designer, skills programs and 1-on-1 sessions

Coach smarter

Play Designer

A touch play editor built for the sideline, in every basketball team's playbook. Start from a formation, drop players, draw passes, dribbles and screens, add a defense, then press play and watch the whole thing animate. Save plays to the team playbook and share them with families on the website; on Coach and Coach Pro, export a PDF or a video.

  • ✓Touch editor on the phone, mouse editor on the web
  • ✓Animated replay with defenses
  • ✓Formations, multi-step plays and coaching notes
  • ✓Export to PDF or video on Coach and Coach Pro

Every plan includes the editor on basketball teams. Coach and Coach Pro add exports and more saved plays.

Skills programs

A skills program is coaching you deliver yourself: a Tuesday shooting clinic, a summer camp, a small-group session. It has its own join code, schedule, feed, documents, staff and fees — per session, monthly or up front — and you can cap how many can join.

  • ✓Per-session, monthly or up-front pricing
  • ✓Own schedule, roster, feed and documents
  • ✓Camps of up to a week, one session a day
  • ✓A cap on how many can join

Included on every plan.

1-on-1 sessions

Add a session with its time and price. Families book it, you confirm or it books instantly, and it lands on both calendars. Invite one family to a private session they accept or decline, share a link families outside your teams can book from, and take payment when they book.

  • ✓Instant booking or request-to-book
  • ✓Private invitations
  • ✓Pay to book, or pay after
  • ✓Shows on the family's schedule too

Included on every plan.

Privacy, safety and every device

Built to trust

Privacy & safety

Team Tether is for adults. A child has no account, no password and no messages. Who can see what is enforced in the database itself, not just in the app, and you can switch on two-factor protection for changes to your password, email and account.

  • ✓Adults only, children are guardian-managed records
  • ✓Access rules enforced in the database
  • ✓Two-factor on account changes
  • ✓Hide or block another person
  • ✓Delete your account any time, in the app

Included on every plan.

iPhone and the web

The iPhone app and the website share one account and one set of data. Change a practice on the laptop; the team's phones update. Sign in with Apple, Google or email. An Android app is on the way; until it lands, the website works in any phone browser.

  • ✓An iPhone app for coaches and parents
  • ✓Full coach and parent dashboards on the web
  • ✓Everything stays in sync

Included on every plan.

Every feature, free to try.

Start with one team. Upgrade when the season grows.

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