How to grow your payments app with farm parks and petting farms
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Farm parks and petting farms sell entry tickets, bags of animal feed, pony rides, school trips and birthday parties. Queues build up at the gate in school holidays, and many visits are booked ahead. A payments app that sells tickets by link before the day, takes quick payments at the gate and the café, and collects party and school trip deposits can win these farms, and every family who pays sees your app.
Talk to farm parks
Ask local farm parks:
- How do families pay for entry today?
- Do you sell tickets before the day?
- How do schools pay for trips?
- Do you host birthday parties?
Sell tickets before the day
A payment link for entry tickets lets families pay at home, so the gate moves faster on busy days.
Take deposits for parties and school trips
A deposit link holds a party or school trip booking, and the balance can be paid closer to the day.
Grow through family days out
Farm parks sit alongside play centres, cafés and farm shops, and families visit many of them. One farm on your app can introduce the others.
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 play centres?
The play centres guide covers entry fees, party bookings and café sales at indoor play and soft play venues.
Play centres →What about farm shops?
The veg box schemes and farm shops guide covers taking regular payments and orders from the same customers week after week.
Farm shops →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.