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 paying a fee to use the app. There is a new, Canadian-based company that is changing the team management app market by allowing users free access to their app. TeamLinkt’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

TeamLinkt Team Management App

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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