How to grow your payments app with glassblowers and glass artists
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Glassblowers and glass artists make vases, bowls, paperweights, ornaments, lighting and one-off commissions in their own studios. They sell from the studio, at craft fairs and online, and many run taster sessions or gift experiences where visitors blow their own bauble or paperweight. Commissions usually start with a deposit, sessions are booked and paid in advance, and finished pieces made in a session are often collected or posted later. A payments app that takes studio and fair sales, sends deposit links and handles session bookings can win glass studios, and every customer who pays them sees your app.
Talk to glassblowers and glass artists
Ask local glass studios:
- How do visitors pay for taster sessions and gift experiences?
- How do customers pay a deposit for a commission?
- How do you take payments at craft fairs and markets?
- Do customers pay for postage when pieces are sent on later?
Take session bookings with payment
A booking link that takes payment up front fills sessions and cuts no-shows, and gift experiences can be sold as vouchers that are easy to pay for and share.
Send deposit links for commissions
A payment link for the deposit lets a customer secure a commission from home, and the balance can be paid by link when the piece is ready to collect or post.
Grow through makers and craft shops
Glass studios sell alongside stained glass makers, artists and craft shops. When those businesses take payments through your app, each studio 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 stained glass makers?
The stained glass makers guide covers makers who design windows and door panels, repair old glass, sell smaller pieces at fairs and run workshops, usually with a deposit for commissions.
Stained glass makers →What about artists and small galleries?
The artists and small galleries guide covers artists selling original work, prints and commissions at open studios, fairs, exhibitions and online, often with deposits for commissions.
Artists and small galleries →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.