Vs subscriptions
Team Roster vs the monthly bill
On Team Roster:
The coaching practice aisle is stacked with subscriptions: Paperbell at $570 a year, or $57 a month. The Team Roster is one HTML file that does the honest working core of what those tools sell, once, for the price of a Swiss Knife.
The bill you were quietly paying
Name the actual products and the arithmetic stops being abstract: Practice (client CRM built for coaches), Paperbell ($570 a year, or $57 a month: scheduling, contracts, payments in one), Satori (coaching platform billed by active client). An average coaching stack lands at $48 a month, forever.
Run that out five years and Paperbell costs $2850, Paperbell costs $2850. A Swiss Knife, with the Team Roster folded in beside up to eleven other tools, is $95, once.
One year of Paperbell at $570 costs more than a Swiss Knife at $95. Every year after that is pure savings on this category.
What the Team Roster replaces cleanly
Fourteen kids, fourteen jersey numbers, fourteen sets of details, and a coach holding it all in the same head that's supposed to be watching the game. That is the working shape most subscriptions in this category are wrapped around; the Team Roster delivers it without the wrapper.
Concretely: Practice would keep player, number, position, and notes on its own servers, behind its own login, on its own pricing schedule. The Team Roster keeps the same fields in a file on your disk — same shape of work, no monthly line on the card.
You keep the workflow. You lose the login, the sync outage, the price hike email, and the export deadline.
What you honestly give up
Team collaboration in real time. Auto-import from third-party APIs. A mobile app that pings you. Practice does those things and does them properly; if any of them are load-bearing for how you work today, keep paying Practice — the Team Roster is not trying to compete on those fronts.
Most people, honestly, were paying for features they did not use. The Team Roster is what remains when you strip that back to the tool.
What you stop renting
- Paperbell: $570 a year, or $57 a monthScheduling, contracts, payments in one. $570 a year, every year.
Questions people ask
How does the cost compare to Practice?
Paperbell runs about $2850 over five years and Paperbell about $2850. One year of Paperbell at $570 costs more than a Swiss Knife at $95. A Swiss Knife folds the Team Roster in with up to eleven other tools for $95, once, and there is no year two.
Is the Team Roster a like-for-like replacement for Practice?
For the working core — player, number, position, and notes — yes. For client CRM built for coaches, no. We would rather say that plainly than sell you a switch you'll regret in a fortnight.
What if my needs grow past a single file?
Excellent problem. Keep the Team Roster for what it does well; add a specialised SaaS on top only when you have a specialised need. Nothing here locks you in — it is a file.
Can I import my current data?
The Team Roster is deliberately hand-entered. Two minutes of typing on Monday keeps you closer to your own coaching practice than an integration ever will.
The subscription was renting the arithmetic. Buy the arithmetic instead.