How did your club find out about Clubshopsales?

A member of a local club that used clubshopsales told one of our members about it who in turn told us. Simple word of mouth really.

Why did your club choose to use Clubshopsales?

We are a relatively small club in terms of numbers of members and the committee, most of whom have many other commitments such as earning a living, already work very hard to keep this club on its feet and turn out 3 or 4 teams every weekend. Kit is always something that we are forced to address but do pretty badly because it isn’t top priority. When it became clear that Clubshopsales would effectively take it on on our behalf it seemed like a very sensible move.

It didn’t take any time apart from locating the logo in electronic format. Clubshop took some pictures from our website to give the shop our own look and feel and presented us with a functioning shop.

How long did it take to set the shop up?

It didn’t take any time apart from locating the logo in electronic format. Clubshop took some pictures from our website to give the shop our own look and feel and presented us with a functioning shop.

Do you have any say in what products your members can buy?

Not really, we are happy with the products that are on there already. They have told me that if we really want to include something specific we can do that. In fact we chose a club tie that they put on for us which was popular at Christmas time.

How would you describe the quality and price of the products?

We are very happy with the quality. We have only had one issue and ClubShop had it sorted free of charge straight away. The cricket playing kit is Surridge which is a brand our members buy anyway. We also bought 50 playing shirts from Clubshopsales’ parent company as they offer us a significant discount on bulk orders because we are ClubShop customers.

What are the top three benefits of clubshopsales for your club?

• The biggest benefit has been freeing ourselves of the effort of providing club kit to the members. We, like many other clubs, struggle to find volunteers so leaving this to clubshopsales meant we could get on with the many other jobs that go into running a community sports club.
• We got a great discount when we did place a club order so not only have we had a return from commissions on member purchases we have saved money as a club on behalf of our members.
• We have had to work hard to bring in new members and players and they come in wanting to look the part. It was really easy for us to simply point them to the club shop and let them get what they want under their own steam.