How to grow your payments app with energy assessors
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Energy assessors visit homes, flats and business premises to measure how energy efficient they are and produce the certificate and advice that landlords and sellers often need. Most jobs are a fixed fee, booked by a homeowner, a landlord or an estate agent, and many assessors work alone, fitting several visits into a day. Getting paid at booking saves wasted trips when nobody is in. A payments app that takes payment when a visit is booked, or on the day, can win energy assessors, and every landlord, seller or agent who pays them sees your app.
Talk to energy assessors
Ask local energy assessors:
- Do customers pay when they book or after the visit?
- How do letting and estate agents pay you?
- How often do you arrive and find nobody home?
- How long do you wait to be paid?
Take payment when the visit is booked
A link sent with the booking confirmation lets the customer pay up front, so a missed visit does not cost the assessor a wasted trip.
Make agent payments simple
Agents who book many visits can pay each one with a link, or pay together, so the assessor is not chasing a pile of small invoices.
Grow through property businesses
Energy assessors work alongside letting agents, surveyors and insulation installers. When those businesses take payments through your app, each assessor 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 surveyors?
The architects and surveyors guide covers charging fees in stages, from first drawings to planning and sign-off.
Architects and surveyors →What about insulation installers?
The damp proofing and insulation installers guide covers survey fees, deposits and final payments for treating damp and fitting insulation.
Damp proofing and insulation installers →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.