Legal

Athlete Orchard Beta Program Agreement

Growing athletes. Building community. · Version 2026-09-beta-2


This agreement is between League Orchard, LLC, doing business as Athlete Orchard ("Athlete Orchard", "we", "us"), and the club named above ("your club").

1. You are invited

Youth sports runs on five disconnected tools and a volunteer's spare evenings. Registration in one place, the schedule in another, the roster in a spreadsheet, money in a third app, and communication scattered across email, a group text, and whatever the coaches set up themselves.

Athlete Orchard puts that in one place: registration, rosters, scheduling, payments, and communication, for the club and for the family.

We are opening a beta to a small number of clubs before public launch, and we would like yours in it.

2. What makes this different

This is a small, hands-on beta, not a mass early-access list. You get setup help, a direct line to the people building it, and real influence over what gets built next. In return we ask for real usage and honest feedback. It is a two-way partnership, and at this size your feedback genuinely changes the product.

3. What Athlete Orchard organizes

  • Registration, with the custom fields your sport actually needs
  • Teams, rosters, and coaching staff
  • Practices, games, and facility or ice time
  • Payments, including installments and your own discount rules
  • Messaging to the whole club, a team, or just the coaches
  • One login per family, across every sport and every team

4. What we ask of you

  • Onboard a representative sample. A few teams, or one age group. Not your whole club on day one.
  • Put real work in: actual rosters, an actual schedule, actual registrations.
  • Use Athlete Orchard as the working system for that sample through the beta.
  • Join a standing check-in every two weeks, 20 to 30 minutes, with Matt or Dan. We work around your schedule.
  • Tell us candidly what works, what is missing, and what would make it worth keeping.

5. What you receive

  • Setup help, in person or over video. We configure it with you, around how your club already runs.
  • A direct line to the founders.
  • Check-ins every two weeks where your input shapes what gets built.
  • No subscription fee for the whole beta. The platform fee on card payments (section 9) still applies.
  • Six months with no subscription fee after public launch. Clubs that join after launch get a 90-day trial, not six months. The platform fee on card payments (section 9) still applies.
  • Founding-club status, and early influence over how Athlete Orchard grows.

6. Timeline

The beta runs through the 2026 to 2027 season. Public launch is anticipated in 2027 and may move depending on how the product develops. Your six months without a subscription fee begins at public launch, not at signing.

7. Beta software

Athlete Orchard is under active development. It may be incomplete, it may change without notice, and it will contain errors. It is provided as is, with no warranties of any kind.

Keep your existing records. Do not let Athlete Orchard become the only copy of anything your club cannot afford to lose, including rosters, registrations, waivers, and payment records. Export regularly. We will help you export at any time.

8. Your club's data, and your families

You own it. Everything your club puts in stays your club's. We use it to run the platform and to support you during the beta. We do not sell it and we do not share it with other clubs.

You are the one with the relationship to your families. When you upload a roster, guardian contacts, or registration data, you confirm your club is entitled to share it with a service provider for the purpose of running your club. We have no way to verify that, and we rely on you.

Records about children. Athlete Orchard stores information about minors because a youth sports platform cannot work otherwise: names, dates of birth, teams, and who their guardians are. We collect it to run your club's programs, not to advertise to anyone. We do not sell it, we do not use it to build advertising profiles, and we do not disclose it except to run the service for you or where the law requires it. A guardian may ask us or you for a copy of their child's record or ask for it to be deleted, and we will act on that. Roster photographs processed for import are read on the uploader's own device and the image itself is never sent to us.

Deletion. Ask, and we will export your club's data and delete your account.

9. Payments, and who the merchant is

If your club collects money through Athlete Orchard, it does so through its own Stripe account, which your club connects and controls.

  • Funds settle directly to your club. They do not pass through Athlete Orchard, and we never hold your club's money.
  • Your club is the merchant of record. Your club pays Stripe's processing fee, and your club carries responsibility for refunds, disputes, and chargebacks on its own transactions.
  • We are not a bank. We are not responsible for a payment provider's holds, delays, reversals, or account decisions.
  • Platform fee. Athlete Orchard takes 1% of each card payment your club collects through the app, calculated on your club's price, not on any fee added to it. Stripe deducts it at the moment of payment. Your club chooses whether to absorb it or add it to what families pay. Payments your club records as paid outside the app (cash, check) carry no fee. If your club refunds a payment, our fee on it is not returned, the same as Stripe's processing fee. We will tell you at least 30 days before this rate changes.
  • Registration fees, discount rules, refund terms, and what your families are charged are set by your club, and are between your club and your families.

10. Confidentiality

Unreleased features, pricing, roadmap, and anything discussed on the check-in calls are confidential. Please ask us before sharing screenshots or details publicly. Your own club's data is never covered by this and is always yours to share.

11. Feedback

Feedback you give us may be used to improve Athlete Orchard without restriction and without compensation. You keep every right to your own ideas and to your own club's methods, curriculum, and drills.

12. Ending it

Either of us may end your club's participation at any time, for any reason, with notice. If we end it, your club keeps the six months without a subscription fee after public launch that it earned by taking part, and you keep the right to export everything.

13. Governing law

New York.

14. Your signature

By checking the box and typing your full legal name, you confirm that you have read this agreement, that you agree to it on behalf of your club, and that you are authorized to do so. Your typed name is your electronic signature.