How to grow your payments app with fishing charters
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Fishing charter skippers take anglers out for half-day, full-day and evening trips, from small groups of friends to work outings and stag parties. Most take a deposit when a trip is booked and the rest on the quay, often in cash, and trips are cancelled when the weather turns. Groups often want to split the cost between them. A payments app that sends payment links for deposits, lets each angler pay their share and takes the balance by phone on the quay can win these skippers, and every angler who pays sees your app.
Talk to charter skippers
Ask local fishing charter skippers:
- How do anglers pay deposits and balances, and how much is still cash?
- Do groups ask to split the cost between them?
- What happens to deposits when the weather cancels a trip?
- Do you sell bait, tackle hire or food on board?
Send payment links for deposits
A payment link sent when a trip is booked secures the date, and a clear record of who has paid makes moving a trip after bad weather simpler.
Let each angler pay their share
Letting each person in a group pay their own share by phone saves the organiser from collecting cash, and every angler in the group sees your app.
Grow through tackle shops and harbours
Charter skippers get bookings through tackle shops, harbour offices and angling clubs. One skipper on your app can bring the businesses around the harbour.
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 fishing tackle shops?
The fishing tackle shops guide covers selling bait, tackle and day tickets, often early in the morning to anglers in a hurry.
Fishing tackle shops →What about boat and ferry operators?
The boat and ferry operators guide covers selling tickets at the jetty and taking bookings for trips.
Boat and ferry operators →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.