How to grow your payments app with egg sellers and smallholders
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Smallholders keep hens, ducks, pigs, sheep and bees and grow veg on a few acres. Many sell eggs, meat boxes, veg and plants from a roadside stall or the farm gate, often through an honesty box that customers pay in cash. Others sell at farmers' markets or deliver to regular customers, and some take orders for meat boxes or Christmas birds with a deposit. A payments app with a QR code for the honesty box, card payments at markets and payment links for orders and deposits can win these growers, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to smallholders
Ask local smallholders:
- How do customers pay at your stall or farm gate, and do you lose money from the honesty box?
- Do you sell at farmers' markets, and how do customers pay there?
- Do you take orders or deposits for meat boxes or Christmas birds?
- Do you deliver eggs or veg to regular customers?
Replace the honesty box
A QR code on the stall lets customers pay by phone when they have no cash, so the smallholder sells more and keeps less cash out on the road.
Take orders, deposits and delivery payments
Payment links for meat box orders, deposits for Christmas birds and regular links for delivery customers keep payments coming without chasing.
Grow through farms and markets
Smallholders know farm shops, beekeepers and other market traders. One smallholder on your app can bring the growers around 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 veg box schemes and farm shops?
The veg box schemes and farm shops guide covers selling to the same customers week after week and taking regular payments and orders.
Veg box schemes and farm shops →What about beekeepers and honey sellers?
The beekeepers and honey sellers guide covers honey sales at markets, from home and to local shops.
Beekeepers and honey sellers →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.