How to grow your payments app with home carers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Self-employed home carers and companions help older and disabled people at home with meals, shopping, company and everyday tasks. They are often paid weekly, and the person paying is usually a son or daughter who lives in another town or country. A payments app that sends the family a weekly link, or takes a regular payment, can win these carers, and every family that pays sees your app.
Talk to home carers
Ask local self-employed carers:
- How do families pay you today?
- Do you bill weekly or monthly?
- Is the person paying often far away?
- What would make getting paid easier?
Send a weekly link
A payment link each week with the hours worked lets families pay from wherever they are, without cash left in the house.
Set up regular payments
A regular payment for a set number of visits gives carers steady income and families one less thing to remember.
Grow through families and carers
Carers often know other carers, and families talk to other families. One carer on your app can bring others to 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 cleaners?
The cleaners guide covers getting paid on time for every visit to homes and offices.
Cleaners →What about physiotherapists?
The physiotherapists and massage therapists guide covers appointments, deposits and missed sessions.
Physiotherapists →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.