You add a player with four plain answers — a first name, an age, how much they've played, and skater or goalie — plus one optional question you are free to skip. No account, no email, no jargon.
Then Season Plan walks the bag with you, one piece at a time, through all thirteen categories. For each item it gives you the answer first — buy this one new, find this one used, keep the one you have, or go get fitted — then the reason, then the evidence if you want it.
You mark each piece as one of six things: already own it, borrowing it, need to check the fit, need to replace it, need to buy it, or not sure yet. "Not sure" is always an accepted answer.
It checks before it spends
If your player has a hand-me-down, the app walks you through a 20-second check. The outcome depends on the item: a cracked helmet gets replaced, a too-long stick gets cut down at any shop for free, an oversized bag is simply fine. Different gear, different rules — because that's how gear actually works.
It knows what it doesn't know
Skate width and volume can't be measured at home, so the app budgets a range and sends you to a fitting rather than inventing a size. Goalie gear isn't researched yet, so it says exactly that instead of pretending. Every refusal comes with a next step.
It ends with a plan
You finish with a list grouped by what to actually do, and a running total of what you've entered. Season Plan does not invent prices — the estimates are the ones you type in — and when items are still blank it says so rather than quietly reporting a total that pretends to be complete.
What it isn't yet
There is no phone app, no account, and no login. Everything you enter stays in your own browser on your own device, which also means it doesn't follow you to another phone. Goalie-specific gear isn't researched yet and the site says so on the page rather than guessing. Live retailer stock and prices are not connected; where we publish a price it carries the date we checked it.