All your active bets on one page
April 12, 2011
We rolled out a useful new feature last week which enables you to see all your active bets (ones that haven’t been settled) on a single page and place new bets from the same screen.
To get to the new page, click the ‘active bets‘ link from the bet slip at the top right of your screen. From the new active bets screen you can see the position you have bet on (with your profit and loss as usual), and if you click the ‘show all’ link, you can also see the full market. This means you can place bets on multiple events without having to switch between tabs or open new windows.
We’d love to know what you think of the feature, so either comment below or get in touch.
Bet using Moneybookers!
August 24, 2010
We’ve now launched Moneybookers as a new way for you to deposit into your Smarkets account.
Moneybookers is a payment wallet. You can deposit funds into a Moneybookers account (using credit/debit cards or bank transfer) and then use those funds to shop with millions of websites worldwide.
You can make a Moneybookers deposit from the normal deposit page. There’s almost zero processing time from our perspective so (once Moneybookers tell us your transaction is legit) we automatically credit your account. In most cases this is within a few seconds.
Let us know what you think, we’re happy to introduce new payment providers as our members need them.
“Do I not like that… No, I like it!”*
July 9, 2010
So you’ve probably noticed all those Facebook ‘like’ buttons appearing on Smarkets. Why are they important? Well, Facebook are doing something a little clever with them. They are putting together a social search engine which weights the results based on the web pages your friends ‘like’. So if you have Arsenal fans for friends (commiserations) when you ‘like’ our Arsenal matches, they’ll appear higher in your friends searches. All interesting stuff.
We’ve also tweaked the following concept a little so when two members follow each other they become ‘friends’. This extra-strength relationship means you have more control of who you share your data with and we can do some fun things like leader-boards and challenge-a-friend. The ‘followers’ concept still exists but your followers will just see your comments in their activity stream at the moment.
Lots more social stuff to come like sharing your winning streak, fan accuracy, and putting things on other sites such as Twitter and your blogs. Keep your eyes peeled for the updates and get in touch with us with feedback about what you think of all this social stuff.
* Graham Taylor would have clicked our ‘like’ buttons!
