How to grow your payments app with fire alarm and emergency lighting engineers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Fire alarm and emergency lighting engineers design, fit, test and service fire alarms and emergency lights in shops, offices, schools, care homes and blocks of flats. New systems usually start with a deposit, and most buildings then book regular service visits, with call-outs charged when something goes wrong. A payments app that handles deposits, service contracts and call-outs can win fire alarm engineers, and every building owner that pays them sees your app.
Talk to fire alarm engineers
Ask local fire alarm and emergency lighting engineers:
- Do you take a deposit before fitting a new system?
- How do customers pay for regular service visits?
- How do you charge for call-outs?
- How long do invoices take to be paid?
Take a deposit when the job is booked
A link sent with the quote lets the customer pay a deposit straight away, so the engineer can order panels, detectors and lights.
Make service contracts regular
Customers can pay for regular service visits on a plan, so the engineer gets steady income and never has to chase a renewal.
Grow through fire safety trades
Fire alarm engineers work alongside fire risk assessors, extinguisher firms and managing agents. When those businesses take payments through your app, each engineer 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 fire risk assessments?
The fire risk assessors guide covers assessment fees, deposits and invoices for checking fire safety in shops, offices and flats.
Fire risk assessors →What about fire extinguishers?
The fire extinguisher servicing firms guide covers one-off sales, yearly service fees and invoices for shops, offices and landlords.
Fire extinguisher servicing firms →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.