How to grow your payments app with car and bike hire businesses
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Small car, scooter and bike hire businesses take bookings in advance, hold deposits, and sometimes add charges for fuel or late returns. Many of their customers are visitors who do not carry local cash. A payments app that handles bookings, deposits and refunds can win these firms and put your app in front of every visitor they serve.
Talk to hire businesses
Ask local car, scooter and bike hire firms:
- How do customers pay for bookings today?
- How do you take and return deposits?
- How often do visitors struggle to pay in local cash?
- What goes wrong with extra charges after a hire?
Take bookings and deposits by link
Send a payment link when a customer books, with the full cost and deposit shown before they pay, so there are no surprises at pick-up.
Make returns and refunds clear
When the vehicle comes back, the firm can return the deposit or add any agreed extra in a few taps, with a receipt for both sides.
Grow with the tourist trade
Hire firms work alongside guesthouses and tour guides. Win one and the others can follow, because they share the same visitors.
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 guesthouses?
The guesthouses guide covers taking bookings and deposits from guests.
Guesthouses →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.