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How to grow your payments app with Christmas tree sellers

By SendPay Business · · 2 min read

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  1. Customers pick what they want
  2. They pay by card at checkout
  3. The order lands with you

Christmas tree sellers run farms, garden centre yards and pop-up lots that open for only a few weeks each year. Most of their money comes in over a handful of weekends, often outdoors, in the cold and with poor signal. Many also sell stands, wreaths and delivery, and some collect old trees in January. A payments app that takes tap payments on a phone at the lot, sells delivery slots and pre-orders by link and works on a weak connection can win these sellers, and every family who buys a tree sees your app.

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Take payments at the lot

Tap payments on a phone, with more than one phone on busy days, keep queues short and mean less cash to look after outdoors.

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Grow through seasonal sellers

Tree sellers often also run pumpkin patches, farm shops or garden centres. One seller on your app can bring the rest of their seasonal business with them.

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Questions people ask

What about pick-your-own farms and pumpkin patches?

The pick-your-own farms and pumpkin patches guide covers farms that sell entry, fruit and pumpkins by weight or by the piece, and get very busy for a few weekends a year.

Pick-your-own farms and pumpkin patches →
What about tree surgeons?

The tree surgeons guide covers people who fell, prune and clear trees for homes, farms and councils, often quoting on site and getting paid when the job is done.

Tree surgeons →
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.

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Pick a template, name it and preview every page before you launch. Your platform can be live on your own domain within 24 hours of confirmation.

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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. Other companies named in this guide are reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.