How to grow your payments app with gelato and ice cream parlours
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Gelato and ice cream parlours make their own ice cream, sorbet and desserts and sell cones, cups, sundaes and tubs to take home. Summer weekends bring long queues of small payments, and many also run an ice cream cart for weddings and parties, supply cafés and restaurants, or sell cakes for birthdays. A payments app that takes fast card and phone payments at the counter, sends payment links for event bookings and handles regular trade customers can win these parlours, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to gelato and ice cream parlours
Ask local ice cream parlours:
- How do customers pay at the counter on busy days?
- Do you cater weddings or parties with an ice cream cart, and how do you take deposits?
- Do you supply cafés or restaurants, and how quickly do they pay?
- Do you sell ice cream cakes or take pre-orders?
Take fast payments at the counter
Quick card and phone payments keep summer queues moving, so parlours serve more people on their busiest days.
Send payment links for events and trade orders
Payment links for wedding and party bookings, cake orders and regular café customers get money in before the ice cream goes out and cut down on chasing.
Grow through cafés and event suppliers
Parlours supply cafés and work alongside other event and wedding suppliers. One parlour on your app can bring the businesses 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 ice cream vans?
The ice cream vans guide covers quick, small orders on streets, in parks and at events, where many people no longer carry cash.
Ice cream vans →What about cafes and coffee shops?
The cafes and coffee shops guide covers taking many small payments every day, cutting card fees and queues, and keeping regulars coming back.
Cafes and coffee 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.