Downgrading from premium: what happens to your data

Three ways premium ends

1. You cancel a direct-paid subscription

• Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period, not immediately. You keep premium through premium_until.
• On the day after premium_until, the expire_premiums daily cron runs and reverts your role.

2. A coach grant ends

• The coach toggles Coach grant premium off.
• premium_until is set to today (the grant ended).
• The daily cron reverts your role the next time it runs (within 24 hours).

3. An athlete switches to a coach who does not grant

• The previous coach's coach_grant premium revokes automatically when the relationship ends (see Switching coaches explained).
• If you paid directly, this is a no-op.

What the cron actually does

The daily expire_premiums cron runs early morning. It finds all UserProfiles where role = 'premium_athlete' and premium_until < today, and:

• Flips role to 'athlete'.
• Sets premium_source to 'none'.
• Leaves premium_until as-is (historical record of the last day you had premium).
• Notifications: not yet implemented (Phase C roadmap).

So the role flip is at most 24 hours after premium_until passes, depending on what time the cron runs.

What stays after downgrade

All your data:

• Race calendar.
• Activities (FIT files, parsed metrics, lap data).
• Wellness logs.
• Equipment inventory.
• Coach notes visible to you.
• Past race recaps.
• Past assessment records and metric history.
• Past saved CalculatorResults (you can view them; you just cannot re-run the calculators that produced them).

What becomes inaccessible

• Running any calculator in /calculators/.
• The race planning wizard for new or upcoming races.
• Longer analytics windows (you fall back to the free default).
• Environmental adjustments on analytics.
• Full season visibility (you see the current week only).

What does NOT change

• Your sign-in keeps working.
• Your athlete data continues to be uploaded and parsed.
• You can still file race recaps and log wellness.
• You can still upload activities. The parser still computes metrics; you just have a narrower window to view them in.

Re-upgrading later

Re-upgrade any time at /settings/billing/. Your saved CalculatorResults, assessment history, and metric trends are all intact. You pick up where you left off with no data migration required.

What if you re-upgrade and a coach was granting before?

The Hub uses the most recently set source. If you direct-pay now and a coach had granted before, the source updates to direct_payment. If the coach later turns their grant on, the direct payment still takes priority.

See also: Upgrading to premium, Switching coaches explained, Billing and subscription.