Your own club shop online
We offer customised websites that supply parents, supporters and players. It allows users to order directly online and means there is no hassle for the club. As a club you will be able to offer a full range of kit and leisure wear,
training wear and bags. These are then shipped straight out to the customer and typical delivery time is 3 weeks.

Benefits include.

• Allows existing and new members to order online 24/7
• No minimum ordersNo hassle for club committee taking orders etOption to add personalisation to items such as embroidered name and printed number
• Create a complete team look and helps give a strong club identity
• Bulk discount available
• Club built kit packages for players.
• Link to club shop category.
  

Contact us for more information about setting up your club shop.

• There is a no maintainance fee.
• A one off setup fee of £65 + VAT is chargable which covers the setup of embroidery and all artwork designs but give us a shout when your looking to get a shop as we often run offers on setup costs.

More about about clubs and the problem of solving yor physical club shop and its problems

Scenario One
You have an onsite club shop and it’s full of obsolete stock and there is no more space for new lines. You have stuff from the late 90’s in there and if you added up the contents you may be surprised to know the true value of the stock could be as much as £8-10k. Yes you take money but the minimum orders for products are 30 or 50 pieces and most time its 10-12 weeks. If you run out of small drill tops you have to order another 30 even though you don’t need any other sizes. Your stock is just getting bigger and bigger and invariably someone asks for something you haven’t got.

Scenario Two
The club has lost its identity; the shop is hardly open as you are short of volunteers to run it. Our club identity isn’t as strong as it used to be. Everyone is wearing kit from years and years ago and the kids are buying what they want from wherever.

To club shop or not to club shop?
Clubs do not have to have a physical club shop we can run everything for you online this eliminates the need for space, recruiting volunteers to run the shop, expensive insurance and tieing up cash it will also give your members the added benefit of being open 24/7; it’s a win win situation for everyone.

Your own club shop online
We offer customised websites that supply parents, supporters and players. It allows users to order directly online and means there is no hassle for the club. As a club you will be able to offer a full range of kit and leisure wear, training wear and bags. These are then shipped straight out to the customer and typical delivery time is 3 weeks.

Website commission explained.
We offer standard online shops and then for customers who have a forecasted annual turnover in excess of £10,000 per annum we can offer the option to add a commission/margin onto sales. For EXAMPLE the club can sell a product online earning a 20% commission on sales or the club may choose to reduce this commission and pass this benefit onto club members. If the club chooses to have a onsite shop they can buy direct with a commission rate of 30% allowing your club to make a greater margin.

How the pros do it.
By using the fusion of both our website and your club shop we have a great model for a healthy margin and sensible stock levels. Our semi professional clubs may have as many as 100 product lines online however they use our sales statistics and quick stocking to only buy in the best selling lines so the club might look to stock 8-10 lines in stock (one in each size) and simple reorder when they sell these. Clubs don’t need have a huge amount of money tied up in stock, whilst they can they can still receive the benefits of bulk buying. We are also happy to use our websites to clear any existing stock the club may have from old rugby product to selling merchandise such as mugs/ties etc.

Why work with a supplier and not direct with a manufacturer?

• Our websites and experience can offer the club a powerful retail opportunity that usually would not be affordable or logistically possible by the club.
• The manufacturer is not interested in the small orders and therefore by buying product from a supplier such as us we care about your every order and our buying power is enough to matter to the manufacturer so that when we shout they listen.
• If the supplier is bad you can change supplier and work with a different supplier to buy the same products, you are not tied by their brand.
• If the manufacturer has problems and you are happy with the supplier then they can often place you with an alternative brand or provide similar products.

Why Kitlocker.com?
Setup in 2005 we have developed a revolutionary supply method to both clubs and universities across the UK. Our online systems run alongside our traditional supply method of bulk order allowing us to provide a comprehensive, stylish and most importantly efficient, friendly service. Most embroidery and printing facilities are configured to cater for bulk supply. However at Kitlocker.com our machines are stand alone and in house allowing us to gain a 100% use all the time and therefore reduce overheads and costs. This system allows us to cater for the one off/individual orders as well as the mass bulk. In the past we have we done replica shirts for Burnley FC, Bristol Rovers and Darlington FC as well as a few National/Olympic teams. Our prices are sensible/sustainable and our high level of service and forward thinking approach has meant we have built up a clientel of fantastic customers over the years.

Websites are our forte! We run over 30 individual online sites, carrying around 500 different club shops. We have an in house design and tech team and our guys are good. We ship over 10,000 orders a year consisting of over 65,000 individual items to over 30 different countries. Its not just a service we offer its the basis we built our business around.