How to grow your payments app with Christmas tree sellers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
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.
Talk to tree sellers
Ask local Christmas tree sellers:
- How do customers pay today, and how busy are your peak weekends?
- Do you sell delivery, stands or wreaths as extras?
- Do customers ever pre-order or reserve a tree?
- What is the phone signal like where you take payments?
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.
Sell delivery and pre-orders by link
A payment link for delivery slots, reserved trees and January collection lets customers pay ahead, so the seller knows how many trees and vans they need.
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.
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 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.
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.