How to grow your payments app with dry stone wallers and hedge layers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Dry stone wallers rebuild tumbled field walls, build new garden and boundary walls, and repair walls for farmers, estates and homeowners. Hedge layers cut and lay hedges, mostly in the winter season. Jobs are often priced by the metre, with a deposit to book and buy stone, stage payments on long runs, and the balance when the work is finished. Many also run weekend courses. A payments app that sends deposit, stage and final payment links, and keeps a clear record for each job, can win these trades, and every customer who pays them sees your app.
Talk to wallers and hedge layers
Ask local dry stone wallers and hedge layers:
- How do customers pay a deposit to book a job or buy stone?
- Do you take stage payments on long walls, and how?
- How long do farmers and estates take to pay a final invoice?
- How do people book and pay for your courses?
Send deposit and stage payment links
A payment link to book, then one for each stretch of wall finished, keeps money coming in on long jobs and means the waller never has to fund stone out of their own pocket.
Get final invoices paid sooner
Farmers, estates and homeowners can pay the final bill from a link in a tap, so wallers and hedge layers spend less time chasing and more time on the next job.
Grow through rural trades
Wallers and hedge layers work alongside thatchers, stonemasons and landscapers on the same farms and estates. When those trades take payments through your app, each one 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 thatchers?
The thatchers guide covers trades rethatching and repairing thatched roofs, usually with a deposit to book the job and buy reed or straw, then the balance when the roof is finished.
Thatchers →What about stonemasons and memorial makers?
The stonemasons guide covers masons carving headstones, adding inscriptions and restoring stonework, usually with a deposit and a balance weeks later.
Stonemasons and memorial makers →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.