How to grow your payments app with bushcraft and survival courses
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Bushcraft and survival course leaders teach fire lighting, shelter building, foraging and knife skills on day courses, weekend camps, family days and team-building events. Most places are booked weeks ahead with a deposit, and the balance is due before the course starts. Gift vouchers sell well at Christmas and for birthdays. A payments app that takes deposits and balances by link, sells gift vouchers and handles group bookings can win these course leaders, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to course leaders
Ask local bushcraft and survival course leaders:
- How do customers pay you today, and how often do you chase payments?
- Do you take a deposit to book a place?
- Do you sell gift vouchers?
- Do you run team days or group bookings for companies?
Take deposits and balances by link
A payment link for the deposit holds the place, and a second link for the balance gets the course paid in full before the day.
Sell gift vouchers and group days
Gift vouchers and one link for a whole team or group help course leaders sell more places without extra admin.
Grow through outdoor businesses
Bushcraft leaders often know forest schools, campsites and outdoor activity providers. One leader on your app can bring others 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 forest schools?
The forest schools guide covers outdoor sessions for children and families, paid by the term, the block or the session.
Forest schools →What about kayak and paddleboard hire?
The kayak and paddleboard hire guide covers another outdoor business that takes bookings and payments ahead of the day.
Kayak and paddleboard hire →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.