How to grow your payments app with go-karting tracks
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Go-karting tracks, indoor and outdoor, sell arrive-and-drive sessions, group races for stag parties and work outings, children's parties and memberships for regular drivers. Group events are often booked by one person who then has to collect money from everyone else, and a deposit holds the slot. A payments app that takes a deposit when a group books, lets each driver pay their own share and sells sessions by link can win these tracks, and every driver who pays sees your app.
Talk to karting tracks
Ask local tracks:
- How do people pay for sessions and group events today?
- Do you take a deposit when a group books?
- Does one person pay for the whole group?
- Do you sell memberships or race series?
Take deposits for group events
A deposit link holds a group race or party slot, and the balance can be paid closer to the day.
Let each driver pay their share
A link each driver can use means the organiser no longer has to chase friends or workmates for money.
Grow through leisure venues
Karting tracks sit alongside bowling alleys, escape rooms and trampoline parks, and groups visit many of them. One track on your app can introduce the others.
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 bowling alleys and escape rooms?
The bowling alleys and escape rooms guide covers group bookings, parties and split payments.
Bowling alleys →What about trampoline parks?
The trampoline parks guide covers timed sessions, party deposits and café sales.
Trampoline parks →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.