Any sporting organisation, association or club can use SP Registrations to receive online payments

SP Registrations is used by some of Australia's biggest grassroots sports organisations, including associations and leagues across AFL, Touch Football, Basketball, Rugby League, and others. 

Yes. In order to facilitate online registrations and payments for your sporting organisation, you can do this using the bank you already bank with. No specific type of bank is required. 

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To get started with SP Registrations, you need to sign up for a SportingPulse Sub Merchant Login to your Online Membership Database at reg.sportingpulse.com.

If you don’t have your login details please contact your State Governing Body Click on the yellow dollar sign icon in the left hand menu bar Fill in the ‘Payments Application’ Select ‘Set up your Bank Account Details’ and fill in the appropriate data The Sub Merchant Application is now complete.

The Sub Merchant application will take approx. 5 business days to gain approval. At which point,SportingPulse will contact you to alert you that Online Payments can now be taken.

A sub merchant account is the payment gateway that allows you to process online transactions at yourclub.

No. The online payment is only there as an option for members who would like the convenience.

Funds are transferred directly into the nominated club bank account on either a daily or weekly basis.

There's no time commitment to using SP Registrations. Signing the SP Registrations User Agreement doesn't lock your organisation into any use of the system, it simply allows you to make use of it if you choose to.

You're welcome to sell any products or services online using SP Registrations. Although we can track the payments and which product has been purchased, it's up to the organisation to then supply the goods or deliver the services to the purchaser.

The purchaser's name and the details of the product will be in an email that's sent to them (as long as you capture their email address), and you will also be able to report on those purchases using the SportingPulse Membership database reporting tools.

The SportingPulse Membership database has extensive reporting, including the ability to: customise the data that appears in your reports, choose which columns to be displayed, apply multiple filters to the reports have the reports displayed on screen or emailed to you, group and sort in a number of ways, save reports and run them again at a later time.

For an online demonstration, contact us at sales@sportingpulse.com.

The benefits of using SP Registrations, even in a smaller organisation, are numerous. You can offer an online payment facility for your players and members, without needing your own payment gateway.

Also, you're able to create your own products and pricing, take payments 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, customise reports on your member database, and a range of other benefits. To find out more click here to access our Expression of Interest form.

If you are a club or association within one of these sports - AFL, ARL, Hockey, Touch, Basketball, Lawn Bowls, Tenpin Bowling - then you just need to contact your state or national governing body to request your login code to the database.

If you fall outside of these sports, you can still get your own database to run online registration and payments through. Click here to fill out the Expression of Interest form and make sure to note that you require a membership database.

Our fee structure is based on: 1. A percentage transaction fee. This fee incorporates transaction fees charged by third parties, Visa and Mastercard, and the processing and disbursement of funds to the nominated bank accounts (based on the payment split rules you select as part of your product set up). 2. A minimum transaction fee of $1. This fee only applies to lower value transactions and exists where the percentage transaction fee is too low to cover the fixed costs of processing that transaction.

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Yes. You also have the option of printing out an automatically generated receipt.

Unlike our competitors, we do not charge fees for manual transactions

When you set up SP Registrations, you have the choice to either pass on the processing fees to your end users (that is, the players or members that purchase your products), or you can choose to absorb those fees within your pricing structure.

To look at a couple of examples. If you are set to a "user pays" structure, then the fees will be passed on in full to the purchaser. This means, if you had a product that you sold for a $100, at a rate of 3.9% the fee to be paid for the transaction is $3.90. The purchaser will see two line items when they complete their transaction; Registration product - $100 Processing fee - $3.90 Total - $103.90 On the other hand, if you use the "fees inclusive" model, the processing fee is effectively hidden within your pricing. In that case, the purchaser will only see a single line item, without actually seeing the processing fee explicitly stated. That is to say, all the would see in the above example is; Registration product - $103.90 Total - $103.90 Of course, this means you need to adjust how you price your items, as they need to include the fee.

SportingPulse is the home of grassroots sport on the internet and one of the most popular sports networks in Australia. We provide more than 50 sports with the IT tools to manage their organisations and competitions, publish websites, communicate with participants and raise revenue. We have business relationships with and direct access to:

  25 national governing bodies

  3700+ leagues/associations

  30,000+ clubs

  180,000+ teams

  2 million sports participants 

SportingPulse software enables administrators to manage participant membership and competitions, edit websites that display fixtures, results, league tables and statistics, plus communicate with participants via email and SMS. Our software can reduce costs, save volunteers’ time and create new revenue streams. 

Sports governing bodies such as the AFL, Australian Rugby League, Basketball Australia, Touch Football Australia, Hockey Australia, Lawn Bowls Australia and The Oceania National Olympic Committee have all helped to make SportingPulse one of the most popular website networks for sport in Australia and New Zealand. SportingPulse also provides registration and event management software for single and multi-sport events. 

Our major clients have included the 2007 FINA World Swimming Championships and the coming 2009 Sydney World Masters Games. SportingPulse's online community is dependent on our software and websites for essential information on the sports in which they participate - information they can’t get from any other source. 

This content makes SportingPulse unique and creates opportunities for companies to be part of the SportingPulse Grassroots Network, enabling them to interact with consumers in a meaningful way and deliver relevant targeted brand messages. SportingPulse was the winner of the 2006 Information Technology Award from the Australian Sport Awards.