• User interface designed for quick and easy message sending.
• Customisable message templates – messages can be pre-filled so that only scores need to be entered.
• Subscriber lists easily administered from the Sport Buoy content management system.
• Subscribers can be opted out from certain message sets – half-time, full-time, updates, adverts and marketing.
• Top up message credit at any time.
• Messages can be sent internationally to over 200 countries

Sport Buoy charges a flat rate of 5p per credit (that’s GBP£0.05).

Your club must purchase credits in advance from the Sport Buoy Credit Shop, which are then consumed by each SMS sent by you. For example, if you have 49 subscribers and sent them all 1 text message, that action would deduct 49 credits from your account.

We guarantee that purchased credits will be allocated to your account total within 48 hours, but we recommend to purchase enough credits per subscription upon receipt of the subscription fee in order to avoid cashflow complications. Your credits will last indefinitely.

Generally, each SMS sent use up one credit – a select handful of countries’ mobile operators require more than one credit, therefore it is prudent (and more profitable) to set a base subscription charge for your domestic market and a higher price for international text updates to avoid making a loss on individual subscribers.

Currency values and operator charges are of course outside of the control of Sport Buoy. However, we will endeavour to ensure that our price remains fixed indefinitely: we guarantee not to raise the price of credits unless we absolutely cannot afford to absorb the effects of currency fluctuations ourselves, under which circumstances we would notify all users well in advance of a price change. Despite the recent fall of the pound against the Euro and the dollar, though, our prices have stayed fixed throughout.