How to grow your payments app with cold storage and ice plants
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Cold stores and ice plants help fish traders, farmers, butchers and market sellers stop their goods from spoiling. Some rent space in a cold room by the crate or by the day, others sell blocks or bags of ice to fishermen, drink sellers and market stalls every morning. Customers come and go all day, often paying small amounts in cash, and regular users run up bills that are hard to track. A payments app that takes quick payments for ice, collects storage fees when goods are taken out and keeps a running record for regular users can win these businesses, and every trader who pays sees your app.
Talk to cold stores and ice plants
Ask local cold stores and ice plants:
- How do customers pay for ice, and how busy are your mornings?
- How do you charge for cold room space, and when is it paid?
- Do regular traders run a bill with you, and how do they settle it?
- How much of your takings are cash, and how do you keep track of it?
Speed up ice sales
Letting buyers pay by phone at the counter keeps the morning queue moving and cuts the cash kept on site.
Collect storage fees on the way out
Sending a link for the days used when goods are collected, or a weekly link for regular traders, keeps storage fees paid without arguments.
Grow through traders
Fish traders, farmers and market sellers all use the same cold stores. When they pay through your app, they see how it could work for their own customers.
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 fish farmers?
The fish farmers guide covers harvest-day sales, orders and paying for feed.
Fish farmers →What about crop buyers?
The crop buyers and produce aggregators guide covers paying many small farmers faster and more safely at harvest.
Crop buyers and produce aggregators →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.