Onboarding Step 2 – Payment Service Agreement

This article series (Onboarding Steps 1–4) helps your club get started with Suomisport and begin using its various features. At the bottom of each article, you’ll find a button to move to the next or previous step.

This article explains the payment service agreement that enables your club to use all Suomisport features.

Your club gets access to Suomisport by making payment service agreement with Svea Payments, Suomisport’s payment service provider.
Making a payment service agreement is free of charge and does not require the club to commit to using Suomisport.

Prerequisites from STEP 1:

• Your club has its own account in Suomisport.
• Your club has at least one Administrator.

How to make the payment service agreement for your club

1. The club’s administator signs in at www.suomisport.fi/signin

 
2. The Adiministrator navigates to the club home page via the Menu button in the top-right corner.

Image: Use the Menu button to access your club’s home page.

3. On the club home page, the Administrator clicks “Start using Suomisport”.
Image: The “Start using Suomisport ” button on the club home page.

4. The service will direct you to Svea Payments’ electronic order form to fill in details required by law*. The club must provide:

• Basic association details
• Board members
• Authorized signatories
• Preferred payout interval and bank account number (IBAN)

5. Once the details have been submitted, the authorized signatories will receive a signature request by email.

6. Finally, the club must send the required documents to info.payments@svea.fi.

Note: See the full list of required documents below.
The process is fast if all requested details and documents are ready.

Documents required by Svea Payments* for the payment service agreement

1. Extract from the Register of Associations (issued no more than 1 year ago).
   • If the board is not recorded in the register, provide an excerpt of the board meeting minutes where the board was elected.
2. Account number verification, e.g., a copy/screenshot of a bank statement
   (the payout account must be in the association’s name).
3. Additional information required under the Anti-Money Laundering Act:
   Svea Payments will email the main contact a form to complete.
   Submit the form together with the financial statements and the annual activity report.

* The law requires Svea Payments to know the beneficial owners of its customers and to collect specific information about them. For associations, the board members recorded in the Register of Associations are considered the beneficial owners.
Therefore, certain details about the club’s board members must be provided when creating the agreement. Processing is faster when all required information and documents are correct and readily available. You can find Svea Payments’ detailed instructions for creating the payment service agreement there.

NOTE – MULTI-SPORT CLUBS

Suomisport recommends a single bank account model, where payouts are made to one club bank account. In Suomisport, you can link only one bank account per sport division.

If your club is a multi-sport club and you want payouts to different bank accounts for different divisions, the payment service agreement must be handled manually.

In such cases, contact both Svea Payments and Suomisport customer service by email in the same message:
info.payments@svea.fi and suomisport@olympiakomitea.fi 

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