How to grow your payments app with food trucks
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Food trucks serve burgers, tacos, curries, pizza and more from a van or trailer. They park up for office lunch crowds, markets and festivals, and get booked for weddings, parties and company events, often with a deposit. Service is fast, queues are long and signal can be patchy. A payments app that takes quick card and phone payments at the hatch, sends payment links for event deposits and helps pay pitch fees can win these traders, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to food truck owners
Ask local food truck owners:
- Where do you trade, and how do customers pay at the hatch?
- Do you get booked for weddings, parties or company events, and how do you take deposits?
- How do you pay pitch fees to markets and festivals?
- Do you take pre-orders or sell meal deals to regulars?
Take fast payments at the hatch
Quick card and phone payments keep the queue moving at lunch and festivals, so trucks serve more people in a busy hour.
Send payment links for event bookings
Payment links for deposits and final balances on weddings and private events get money in before the truck turns up and cut down on chasing.
Grow through markets and festivals
Food trucks trade side by side at markets and festivals. One truck on your app can bring the traders, organisers and customers 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 hot food takeaways?
The hot food takeaways guide covers pizza, kebab, fish and chip and curry shops, with busy evening rushes and orders by phone.
Hot food takeaways →What about small music festivals?
The small music festivals guide covers selling tickets months ahead, renting pitches to food and craft traders and taking bar payments over a busy weekend.
Small music festivals →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.