How to grow your payments app with audiologists and hearing centres
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Independent audiologists and hearing centres carry out hearing tests, fit hearing aids and sell batteries, wax removal and aftercare. Hearing aids are often a large purchase, fitted after a test and a wait for the devices to arrive, and many patients come back for aftercare and supplies. A payments app that takes a deposit when hearing aids are ordered, takes the balance at fitting and sends links for batteries and aftercare can win these practices, and every patient who pays sees your app.
Talk to hearing practices
Ask local audiologists:
- How do patients pay for tests and hearing aids today?
- Do you take a deposit when hearing aids are ordered?
- How do patients pay for batteries and aftercare?
- Do you visit patients at home or in care homes?
Take deposits when hearing aids are ordered
A deposit link when hearing aids are ordered covers the practice while the devices arrive, and the balance can be paid at fitting.
Send links for batteries and aftercare
A payment link for batteries, wax removal or an aftercare visit lets patients pay without coming in, which helps those who find travel hard.
Grow through health practices
Audiologists work alongside opticians, pharmacies and GPs, and patients often visit several of them. One practice on your app can introduce the others.
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 dentists and opticians?
The dentists and opticians guide covers deposits, larger bills and patients who want to spread the cost.
Dentists and opticians →What about foot care practices?
The podiatrists and chiropodists guide covers taking deposits and payments for appointments in a clinic or at home.
Podiatrists →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.