How to grow your payments app with foraging courses and wild food walks
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Foraging guides lead wild food walks and courses in woods, hedgerows and along the coast, teaching people what can be picked safely and how to cook it. Places are usually sold in advance for set dates, while private walks for groups, hen parties and team days are booked with a deposit. Gift vouchers are popular presents too. A payments app that makes booking links, vouchers and group payments easy can win foraging guides, and every guest who books sees your app.
Talk to foraging guides
Ask local foraging guides:
- How do guests book and pay for a place on a walk?
- How do you take deposits for private group walks?
- How do you sell and track gift vouchers?
- What happens to payments when a walk is moved for bad weather?
Sell places with a booking link
A payment link for each walk or course lets guests book a place from their phone, and the guide knows who has paid before the day.
Make vouchers and group payments simple
Gift vouchers can be sold and redeemed through the app, and a group organiser can pay a deposit and share the rest out between guests.
Grow through outdoor and food businesses
Foraging guides work alongside forest schools, cookery schools and local tour guides. When those businesses take payments through your app, each foraging guide 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 forest schools?
The forest schools guide covers outdoor sessions in woods for young children, home-educated families and school groups, paid by the term, the block or the session.
Forest schools →What about cookery schools?
The cookery schools guide covers hosts selling places on classes, gift vouchers and private sessions, who need paying before they buy ingredients.
Cookery schools and cooking classes →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.