How to grow your payments app with builders and bricklayers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Small building firms and self-employed bricklayers build extensions, garden walls, porches and patios. Bigger jobs are usually paid in stages: a deposit for materials, then payments as each part is finished. Chasing those payments by bank transfer takes time, and customers want a clear record of what they have paid. A payments app that sends a payment link for each stage, keeps a record both sides can see and lets builders take a card payment on site can win these trades, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to builders
Ask local builders and bricklayers:
- How do customers pay you today, and how often do you chase payments?
- Do you take a deposit for materials before starting?
- How do you split payments on bigger jobs?
- Do customers ever ask to pay by card?
Send a link for each stage
A payment link for the deposit and for each stage of the job means the builder can ask for money as soon as a part is done, and the customer can pay in a few taps.
Keep a clear record
A list of what has been paid and what is still due helps avoid arguments at the end of the job and makes the builder's accounts easier.
Grow through the trades
Builders work alongside plasterers, roofers, electricians and plumbers. One builder on your app can bring the other trades they work 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 roofers and scaffolders?
The roofers and scaffolders guide covers deposits for materials and staged payments on bigger jobs.
Roofers and scaffolders →What about plasterers?
The plasterers guide covers trades who skim walls and ceilings, render outside walls and patch up after other trades, usually paid at the end of the job or by the day.
Plasterers →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.