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Using the betslip
Arm acca mode, tap board rows to add legs, and read the combined odds and the chance all legs land — plus the PICK MOVED badge and fair-price markers.
Updated 2026-06-07 · BetFinder team
The betslip is how you turn the board's picks into an accumulator you could actually place. Arm acca mode, tap the games you fancy, and a slip pins to the bottom of the screen showing live combined odds and an honest combined chance for the whole thing — then hands you the quickest legal route to your own bookmaker. BetFinder never takes, places or holds bets itself; the slip is a planning tool, not a wallet.
This guide covers building a slip by hand from the betting board — the way accumulators are built now that the standalone Build accumulator view has been retired. If you would rather have a plan worked out for you, the £ Path bankroll planner compares an honest, +EV-gated accumulator plan against singles — see the accumulator builder guide.
Arming acca mode
The lime Build acca pill sits on the board toolbar. Tap it and it switches to Building acca, every priced row becomes pickable, and the betslip bar appears at the bottom of the screen. Once you have selections, the pill carries a leg-count badge so you can always see how many legs you are holding, even with the bar collapsed.
Acca mode and Lay modeare mutually exclusive — arming one disarms the other. A tap in acca mode means “add this pick”; in laymode it means “bet against it”, and the two cannot safely share a screen.
Adding and removing legs
- Tap Build acca on the board toolbar.
- Tap any row to add that game's headline pick as a leg. Tap the same row again to remove it.
- Open the bar with its chevron to review legs, set a stake and reach the bookmaker tools.
- Tap Done when you are finished — it exits acca mode and keeps your selections.
A few rules keep the slip honest. Rows showing Awaiting pricecannot be added — no price means no leg, never a guess. And the slip holds at most one leg per match, a rule enforced across every acca tool on the site: legs must be independent events for the combined chance to mean anything, so you cannot stack two bets on the same game. If two legs back the same name in different events, the slip warns that the combined chance overstates. Expanding a row for its other bets still works in acca mode, via the chevron at the row's end.
Reading the bar
Collapsed — the default — the bar is a one-line summary: a leg-count badge, then something like 3 Fold @ 11/4 (3.75) · 62% chance ≈ 6 in 10. That is the fold (a one-leg slip reads Single), the combined odds in fractional and decimal form, and the chance all legs land, restated as a plain frequency. Tap the chevron to open the full card: numbered legs (each removable with its ✕), the stake box, the bookmaker tools and the disclaimer.
Type a stake into the £ box and the bar shows approximate returns — stake multiplied by the combined decimal odds. Display arithmetic only; no money is held.
The honesty flags
Each leg is a snapshot of the pick at the moment you tapped it, and the slip checks those snapshots against the live board on every refresh. Three badges report what it finds:
- * — the leg is priced at a fair (model) pricerather than a bookmaker's quote, so you cannot necessarily place it at that number. One starred leg stars the combined odds too, with the footnote * fair (model) price — not bookmaker-priced, so combined odds are indicative.
- PICK MOVED— the game's headline pick changed after you added the leg, usually because the live favourite flipped. The board row shows as un-picked again (the bet it now displays is not the one on your slip), and tapping it once replaces the stale leg with the current pick — see pick moved.
- LIVE— the game has started. If a started leg's data has gone stale, the disclaimer adds A LIVE leg is frozen at its pre-off numbers rather than pretending the price is current. More on how in-play games behave in the live odds guide.
Placing the slip at your bookmaker
No UK bookmaker offers a public add-to-betslip link, so the slip is honest about what one tap can and cannot do. For legs sourced from the Betfair exchange, the Open exact market chips deep-link to that precise market page — one click on the price there puts the bet on your Betfair slip. For everything else, Place at… copies your slip as plain text and opens your default bookmaker in a new tab. The copied text — numbered selections with markets and prices, the approximate combined odds and the estimated chance all land — pastes straight into the bookmaker's search box, and the confirmation line tells you which of the two just happened.
Your default book is set in the account modal's Default bookmaker picker — None or one of ten UK bookmakers — covered in account & settings. The collapsible Compare odds at section lists the top five, with a +5 more button revealing the rest, because the same slip rarely pays the same everywhere. Some bookmaker links can be referral links that earn BetFinder a commission; that never changes the odds you see or the order anything is shown in. Prices move, so always check the live price before committing money, and only stake what you are comfortable losing.
Why the slip is not saved forever
The slip survives navigating around the site — open a match page mid-build and your legs are still there when you come back — and the bin icon clears all legs at once if you want a fresh start. But it deliberately does not survive across sessions. A slip saved overnight would reopen full of stale prices and moved picks, quietly lying about what is available — so the slip lives for the tab session and no longer. If you want a slip again tomorrow, rebuild it in seconds from tomorrow's honest prices.
Quick answers
Why can't I add a particular game to my slip?
Either the game shows Awaiting price — no formed market means nothing honest to add — or you are in Lay mode, which disarms acca mode entirely. Arm Build acca on the toolbar and any row with a priced headline pick becomes tappable.
What does PICK MOVED mean and what should I do?
The game's recommended pick changed after you added it — typically the favourite flipped. Your slip still holds the old snapshot, so decide: tap the row once to swap in the current pick, or remove the leg with its ✕. The slip never swaps a leg silently.
Can BetFinder place the bet for me?
No — BetFinder does not take, place or hold bets. The closest legal shortcut is what the slip already does: exact-market links for exchange legs, and a copied slip plus one-tap Place at… for everything else. The final click, and the final price check, are always yours.
Where did my slip go since yesterday?
It expired with your tab session, on purpose: restoring an old slip would present dead numbers as live ones. Your default bookmaker persists — only the legs and stake reset.