Order now, pay by invoice: for schools, clubs and organisations
Cricket-Hockey.com has supplied schools and clubs since 1999. A trade account lets you order anything on our website and pay by invoice, with no card needed at the checkout and no chasing quotes by email. It fits your purchase order process, or just a name and reference if you do not use POs, and it is free.
- Schools and colleges: 30 day payment terms. Your order is dispatched straight away and your finance office pays our invoice within 30 days.
- Clubs: pay on invoice. We email your invoice as soon as the order is placed, and it is dispatched the moment payment reaches us.
How it works
- Apply once. The form is short and takes about two minutes. We approve most applications within one working day.
- Shop as normal. Browse and add to basket like any other customer, with any agreed school discount applied automatically.
- Choose "Pay by invoice" at the checkout. Enter your purchase order number, a reference, or simply your name. You can upload a PO document if you have one.
- We check the order and email our invoice straight to your finance office, bursar or treasurer, with your reference, our VAT number and our bank details on it.
- Schools: your goods are dispatched immediately and you pay within 30 days by bank transfer, quoting the invoice number. Clubs: pay the invoice by bank transfer and your goods go out as soon as payment arrives.
What you will need to apply
- Your organisation's name and address
- Your accounts contact, meaning the person or department who receives and pays your invoices. That is usually the finance office or bursar rather than whoever places the order.
- A free Cricket-Hockey.com customer account. You will be asked to sign in or create one when you apply, and it becomes the login you order with.
Your discount band
Trade accounts earn a sitewide discount based on what your organisation spends with us over a rolling year, excluding VAT.
- Under £500: no automatic discount. The account still gives you invoicing, PO numbers and written quotes.
- £500 or more: 5% off
- £2,000 or more: 7.5% off
We work the band out for you and review it automatically, so it goes up as soon as you qualify rather than when you remember to ask. It can come back down if a year's spend falls away. Your current band is shown on your trade account page.
The discount comes off in the basket rather than the ticket price, so product pages look the same to you as they do to everybody else and the reduction appears at the checkout. It applies on top of a sale price rather than instead of one, so an account buying something already reduced gets both. It comes off the goods, not the delivery.
If you already order from us, your opening band is set from what you have been spending, so an established customer does not start from nothing.
What schools order from us
Most of what we send to schools is hockey, and most of that is goalkeeping and match balls. We hold close to 200 goalkeeping lines from OBO, Mercian and TK, and several thousand Kookaburra Dimple balls, including the Dimple Elite that the FIH approves for international play.
If you would rather not price a squad list line by line off the website, email it to us and we will send back a written quote you can raise a purchase order against.
Common questions
We are a club, not a school. Why are our terms different?
Schools order against a purchase order backed by a finance office, so we can offer 30 day credit. For clubs we keep it simpler: order online, receive our invoice by email, pay by bank transfer, and your kit ships the moment payment lands, usually the same or next working day.
Can we still pay by card?
Yes. Invoice payment is an extra option, not a replacement. You can pay by card or PayPal on any order whenever that is easier.
Who receives the invoice?
Your accounts contact, with a copy to whoever placed the order. Invoices arrive as a PDF with your PO number on them, so your finance system can match them straight away.
Do repeat orders take longer?
No. Once your account is established, repeat orders are approved and invoiced automatically, so they reach our warehouse just as fast as card orders.
Several people order for our school. Do we all need accounts?
For now each trade account is linked to one login, so most schools share a single login between the staff who order. The invoices always go to your finance contact regardless of who placed the order.
We need a quote before we can raise a PO.
Email us the list of what you need and we will send a written quote you can raise your purchase order against.
Questions? Email christian@cricket-hockey.com and we will help you get set up.
