How to grow your payments app with calligraphers and hand letterers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Calligraphers and hand letterers address wedding envelopes, write place cards, seating plans and signs, personalise gifts live at shop and brand events, and run beginner workshops. Most jobs start with a deposit to book the date or the order, with the balance due before the finished work is sent or on the day of an event. Workshops are usually paid up front. A payments app that sends deposit and balance links, takes workshop bookings and keeps a clear record can win calligraphers, and every client who pays them sees your app.
Talk to calligraphers and hand letterers
Ask local calligraphers:
- How do clients pay a deposit to book an order or an event?
- When is the balance due, and how often do you chase it?
- How do people book and pay for your workshops?
- How do shops and brands pay you for live lettering at events?
Send deposit and balance links
A payment link to book and another before the finished work is sent means couples and clients can pay from their phone, and the calligrapher starts only once the date is secured.
Take workshop bookings with payment
A booking link that takes payment up front fills workshop seats, cuts no-shows and makes it easy to sell gift places.
Grow through wedding and design businesses
Calligraphers work alongside wedding stationers, designers and craft teachers. When those businesses take payments through your app, each calligrapher can bring more of them onto it.
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 wedding stationers and invitation designers?
The wedding stationers guide covers designers making save-the-dates, invitations, place cards and signs, usually with a deposit before design and the rest before printing.
Wedding stationers and invitation designers →What about illustrators and graphic designers?
The illustrators and graphic designers guide covers designers creating logos, branding, book covers, commissions and prints, usually with a deposit before they start.
Illustrators and graphic designers →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.