How to grow your payments app with architects and surveyors
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Small architecture practices and independent surveyors usually charge in stages: a fee for the first visit and drawings, another at planning, and a final one at sign-off. Clients are often homeowners doing one project in their life, and invoices can sit unpaid for weeks. A payments app that sends a link at each stage can win these practices, and every client who pays sees your app.
Talk to architects and surveyors
Ask small local practices:
- How do clients pay you today?
- How many stages do you bill in?
- How long do you wait to be paid?
- What would make chasing fees easier?
Send a link at each stage
A payment link sent when drawings are delivered, or when a survey report is ready, lets the client pay in a minute instead of setting up a bank transfer.
Take a fee before the first visit
A small fee paid before a site visit or survey cuts no-shows and time-wasters, and shows the client the work has started.
Grow through builders and clients
Architects and surveyors work with builders, fitters and designers on every project. One practice on your app can introduce the others it works with.
Build it
Create your own financial platform.
Pick a template, name it, brand it, preview every page before you pay. Your brand, your users, your fees.
Build my platform →Questions people ask
What about interior designers?
The interior designers guide covers design fees, deposits and staged payments for furniture and materials.
Interior designers →What about kitchen and bathroom fitters?
The kitchen and bathroom fitters guide covers deposits for units and materials and staged payments over longer jobs.
Kitchen and bathroom fitters →Can I call it a bank?
In most countries "bank" is a protected word you can only use with a banking licence. Call it an account, a wallet, an app or a platform. The accounts and payments behind a SendPay Business platform are powered by licensed partners.
Is there a step-by-step plan I can follow?
Yes. The free launch checklist takes you from picking your people and naming your app to setting fees, going live and winning your first ten customers.
Digital bank app launch checklist →How do I start?
Pick a template, name it and preview every page before you pay. Your platform can be live on your own domain within 24 hours of confirmation.
Build my platform →Read next
This guide is general information, not legal or financial advice. SendPay Business is a technology company, not a bank, and does not take deposits; regulated services on the platforms are provided by licensed partners. PayPal, Patreon and Substack are named as reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.