How to grow your payments app with chess coaches and clubs
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Chess coaches teach beginners and improving players, often children, in schools, clubs and online. Many run after-school clubs paid for by the term, private lessons paid per session, and holiday camps. Chess clubs collect yearly memberships and entry fees for tournaments, sometimes from players who travel to take part. A payments app that handles term fees, lessons, memberships and tournament entries can win chess coaches and clubs, and every parent or player who pays them sees your app.
Talk to chess coaches and clubs
Ask local chess coaches and clubs:
- How do parents pay for after-school clubs?
- How do students pay for private or online lessons?
- How do members pay their yearly fee?
- How do players pay tournament entry fees?
Collect term fees in one go
A link for the whole term lets parents pay once, so the coach knows who is coming and is not chasing weekly payments.
Take tournament entries online
A link for each tournament means players pay when they enter, so the organiser knows the numbers before the day and handles less cash at the door.
Grow through games and learning businesses
Chess coaches work alongside games shops, tutors and kids' clubs. When those businesses take payments through your app, each coach 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 games shops?
The games and comic shops guide covers selling board games, trading cards and comics, taking pre-orders and running paid game nights and tournaments.
Games and comic shops →What about kids' clubs?
The kids' coding and STEM clubs guide covers weekly sessions, holiday camps and birthday parties, mostly paid for by parents by the term.
Kids' coding and STEM clubs →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.