Building

Templates and subscriptions

When you create a program, the New program panel asks for a Type. This is the one choice that shapes everything downstream:

Template — a fixed-length plan. Twelve weeks is twelve weeks. Every athlete who gets it runs the same weeks from their own start. This is the type for a finished product: an off-season block, a peaking cycle, a program you sell on the marketplace.
Subscription — a live, rolling plan. There's no fixed end — you keep writing forward. Edits propagate to everyone on it. This is the type for ongoing coaching — a team's in-season training, a monthly programming membership.

The panel also asks where the program Lives in — the Org library or one of your teams. You can assign an org library program to any team. A team program files with that team. That's a filing question, separate from type. A team's in-season plan is a team subscription. A plan you write for the whole organization is an org library template.

The New program panel with Template selected, described as a fixed length a team runs start to finish — Template selected.

The New program panel with Subscription selected, described as rolling with athletes staying on it — The same panel with Subscription selected.

Which type to pick

Ask one question: is this a thing athletes complete, or a feed they stay on? Completed → template. Ongoing → subscription. If you're unsure, start with a template. A fixed-length plan is the easier one to reuse and to sell.

Working in a subscription program

A rolling plan lives against real dates rather than "Week 1", so a subscription program's editor works from a calendar instead of a week tab strip:

The calendar rail — the dated spine down the left of the week view. Click a date to move the week. Shift-click a second date to select a range of dates.
Overview — a month grid of the whole plan. The chevrons beside the month name page one month at a time.
Today — a button in the toolbar. It returns the view to the current date from wherever you scrolled to.
The rail toggle — hides the rail, giving the grid the full width.

Everything below the day works the same as in a template program. Sessions, groups, exercises, and the helper bar are unchanged. See The program editor for the structure tools.

The type also matters when you sell. How buyers experience a template versus a subscription is part of listing on the marketplace.