Nov 17, 2021
TeamSnap and TeamLinkt are both companies that offer sports teams a solution to managing their team and staying organized. If you are not familiar with what a team management app does, it is a tool that teams can use to view their schedule, communicate via email and team chat, store contact information, set attendance for events, share scores and live game updates, and simplify many duties that come with being a coach, team captain, team manager, or the team organizer.
While TeamSnap was first to market with their team management app, it is important to research the best and most cost effective way to manage your sports team before choosing an app for the season. In some cases, this can include to use the app. There is a new, Canadian-based company that is changing the team management app market by allowing users access to their app. ’s belief is that sports are expensive enough to participate in already, so why add in an extra, unnecessary fee for your team for the season. Just like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and all of your other favourite apps, TeamLinkt believes sports tech should also be offered out for free!
About TeamSnap
TeamSnap offers 4 pricing plans for their team management app. This includes the Free plan, Basic, Premium & Ultra. TeamSnap will insert ads into the app regardless of the plan chosen, but otherwise the plans will essentially unlock more features for the user as you pay more.
Free plan
15 Roster Members, Health Checks, Schedule, Live Updates, Messages, Invoicing, Team Chat Assignments
Basic plan
30 Roster Members, Health Checks, Schedule, Live Updates, Messages, Invoicing, Team Chat Assignments
Storage (500mb), Availability, Reminders
Premium plan
40 Roster Members, Health Checks, Schedule, Live Updates, Messages, Invoicing, Team Chat Assignments
Storage (2GB), Availability, Reminders
Lineups, Statistics, Customization, Premium Support
Ultra plan
Unlimited Roster Members, Health Checks, Schedule, Live Updates, Messages, Invoicing, Team Chat, Assignments
Storage (Unlimited), Availability, Reminders
Lineups, Statistics, Customization, Premium Support
Multiple Sponsorships
About TeamLinkt
TeamLinkt offers their team management app, with all features included, free of charge. The features included are:Unlimited Roster Members, Health Checks, Schedule, Live Updates, Messaging, Team Chat, Assignments, Storage (Unlimited), Availability, Reminders, Lineups, Statistics, Premium Support, Mobile Alerts, Photo Sharing (with likes & comments), Live Video Streaming, Polling, Collect & Track, and Team Challenges.
Let's talk numbers
To put things into perspective, on a team by team basis by choosing to use TeamLinkt there will be a savings of anywhere from $70 to $160 depending on which plan would be chosen with TeamSnap. In lots of cases, this fee to use TeamSnap will be built into the team fee for the season, or else it will be paid out of pocket by the coach, manager, captain or team organizer.
For leagues, associations & clubs, TeamLinkt offers to set up every team in their organization free of charge with their app to use for every season. This includes even importing any necessary data for the association to save time for the season! So essentially if a league or association wants to set up all of their teams with TeamLinkt, it is a matter of saying the word to one of TeamLinkt’s staff and we handle the rest!
By setting up every team in an association or league as a whole, this can result in massive savings.
Example: Saskatoon Minor Hockey
SMHA provides the TeamLinkt app for all of their teams each season. With their 240 teams competing in their association this season, they have saved teams a combined amount of anywhere from $16,800 to $38,400 CAD depending on which TeamSnap plan the team would have chosen.
Here’s a breakdown of what the TeamSnap costs would have been (assuming teams paid the cheaper, annual fee):
Basic Plan
240 Teams x $70 Annually
= $16,800
Premium Plan
240 Teams x $123 Annually
= $29,520
Ultra Plan
240 Teams x $160 Annually
= $38,400
With TeamLinkt, all SMHA teams received an app with the same features as the Ultra Plan, but paid $0 as an association, and teams paid $0 to use the app. Over the past three seasons of using the app, this savings compounds to upwards of $100,000!
Other Examples
Here’s some other cost breakdowns using TeamSnap’s premium plan ($123 annually):
20 Teams
20 Teams x $123 Annually
= $2,460
30 Teams
30 Teams x $123 Annually
= $3,690
40 Teams
40 Teams x $123 Annually
= $4,920
50 Teams
50 Teams x $123 Annually
= $6,150
75 Teams
75 Teams x $123 Annually
= $9,225
100 Teams
100 Teams x $123 Annually
= $12,300
200 Teams
200 Teams x $123 Annually
= $24,600
300 Teams
300 Teams x $123 Annually
= $36,900
500 Teams
500 Teams x $123 Annually
= $61,500
According to Hockey Canada’s latest Annual Report, between 2019-2020 there were 605,963 players registered to play hockey. This would result in an estimated 40,000 teams nationwide.
40,000 teams x $123 Annually = $4,920,000
Wow, that’s a lot of money.
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Learn more about the comparison here: 5 Reasons Why Leagues & Clubs Choose TeamLinkt Registration Over TeamSnap