How to grow your payments app with bakeries and patisseries
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Bakeries and patisseries sell bread, pastries and cakes over the counter, often in a busy morning rush, and take orders for birthday and wedding cakes, office trays and wholesale deliveries to cafés. Small counter sales need to be quick, special orders need a deposit, and trade customers may pay later. A payments app that takes fast counter payments, deposits for special orders and invoices for trade customers can win these bakeries, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to bakeries
Ask local bakeries:
- How do customers pay at the counter today?
- Do you take a deposit for celebration cakes?
- Do customers pre-order for collection?
- Do cafés or offices buy from you on account?
Take deposits for special orders
A deposit link for a birthday or wedding cake means the baker is paid for ingredients before starting, and fewer orders go uncollected.
Sell pre-orders for collection
A payment link for weekend bread or a tray of pastries lets customers pay ahead and skip the queue when they collect.
Grow through food businesses
Bakeries supply cafés, delis and farm shops, and share customers with them. One bakery 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 home bakers?
The home bakers guide covers orders taken by message, deposits for big cakes and chasing payment.
Home bakers →What about cafés and coffee shops?
The cafés and coffee shops guide covers the many small payments they take every day, where card fees and queues add up.
Cafés →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.