How to grow your payments app with heat pump installers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Heat pump installers replace or sit alongside boilers, fitting air source or ground source heat pumps that warm homes and water. A job usually starts with a survey and a heating design, then a deposit to order the equipment, a payment when work starts or finishes, and often a yearly service. The amounts are large and spread over weeks, and chasing a final payment slows the next job. A payments app that handles survey fees, deposits, stage payments and service plans can win heat pump installers, and every household that pays them sees your app.
Talk to heat pump installers
Ask local heat pump installers:
- Do you charge for a survey or heating design?
- How do customers pay the deposit for equipment?
- How are stage and final payments made?
- How do customers pay for yearly servicing?
Take the deposit before ordering equipment
A link sent with the quote lets the customer pay the deposit straight away, so the installer can order the heat pump without waiting on a bank transfer.
Make stage and final payments clear
A link for each stage, sent when that part of the work is done, shows the customer exactly what they are paying for and gets the installer paid on the day.
Grow through home energy trades
Heat pump installers often work with electricians, insulation installers and solar installers on the same homes. When those trades take payments through your app, each installer 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 solar installers?
The solar installers guide covers taking deposits, stage payments and sometimes regular payments for systems, and making them clear and on time.
Solar installers →What about insulation installers?
The damp proofing and insulation installers guide covers surveying homes and fitting loft, wall and floor insulation, often with a survey fee, a deposit and the balance when the work is done.
Damp proofing and insulation installers →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.