How to grow your payments app with heating oil suppliers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Heating oil suppliers deliver oil by tanker to homes, farms and businesses in rural areas that are not on the gas grid. Prices change often, so many customers order and pay when the price suits them, and some spread the cost over the year with a monthly budget plan. A payments app that handles orders, prepayments and regular plans can win heating oil suppliers, and every household and business that buys from them sees your app.
Talk to heating oil suppliers
Ask local heating oil suppliers:
- Do customers pay before or after delivery?
- Do you offer a monthly budget plan?
- How do farms and businesses pay you?
- How do drivers take payment on the round?
Take payment when the order is placed
A link sent with the order confirmation lets the customer pay at the quoted price straight away, so the delivery can go on the next round.
Spread the cost with a monthly plan
Customers on a budget plan can pay the same amount each month, so they are not hit with one big bill in winter and the supplier gets steady income.
Grow through rural trades
Heating oil suppliers serve the same rural homes and farms as heating engineers, stove fitters and sweeps. When those businesses take payments through your app, each supplier 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 boiler services?
The plumbers and heating engineers guide covers getting paid on the day for call-outs and boiler services, and taking deposits for larger jobs.
Plumbers and heating engineers →What about stoves?
The chimney sweeps and stove fitters guide covers deposits for stoves and getting paid when the job is done.
Chimney sweeps and stove fitters →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.