How to grow your payments app with health food shops
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Independent health food shops sell wholefoods, free-from products, vitamins, supplements and natural toiletries. Many customers are regulars who come back every few weeks for the same items, and some ask the shop to order products in or put them aside. Small shops watch card fees closely and often keep loyalty stamps on paper. A payments app that takes tap to pay at the counter, sends payment links for special orders and rewards regulars can win these shops, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to health food shop owners
Ask local health food shop owners:
- How do customers pay at the counter today?
- What do card fees cost you each month?
- How do customers pay for products you order in for them?
- How do you reward customers who come back?
Make counter payments quick
Tap to pay or a QR code at the till keeps queues moving, and fair fees matter to small independent shops.
Take special orders by link
A payment link when a customer asks for a product to be ordered in means the shop is not left holding stock nobody collects.
Grow through local wellbeing
Health food shops know nutritionists, refill shops and farm shops. One shop 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 zero-waste and refill shops?
The zero-waste and refill shops guide covers small counter payments for food and toiletries sold by weight, and local deliveries.
Zero-waste and refill shops →What about veg box schemes and farm shops?
The veg box schemes and farm shops guide covers taking regular payments and orders from the same customers week after week.
Veg box schemes and farm 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.