How to grow your payments app with horse-drawn carriage hire
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Horse-drawn carriage firms drive couples to weddings, carry coffins for horse-drawn funerals, take students to proms, and give short rides at fairs, Christmas events and tourist spots. Weddings and proms are usually booked months ahead with a deposit to hold the date, and the balance is due before the day. Funerals are often paid through the funeral director. Short rides are paid on the spot. A payments app that sends deposit and balance links, handles invoices for funeral directors and takes quick payments for rides can win carriage firms, and every customer who pays them sees your app.
Talk to carriage firms
Ask local horse-drawn carriage firms:
- How do couples and families pay a deposit to hold a date?
- When is the balance due, and how often do you chase it?
- How do funeral directors pay you, and how long do they take?
- How do people pay for short rides at fairs and events?
Send deposit and balance links
A payment link to book and another before the day means couples and prom groups can pay from their phones, and the firm only turns down other bookings once the date is paid for.
Take quick payments for rides and invoices
Riders at fairs and Christmas events can pay with a tap before they climb aboard, and funeral directors can pay an invoice from a link.
Grow through weddings and funerals
Carriage firms work alongside wedding car firms, funeral directors and riding stables. When those businesses take payments through your app, each carriage firm 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 chauffeurs and wedding cars?
The chauffeurs and wedding cars guide covers firms taking bookings months ahead, with a deposit to hold the date and the balance before the day.
Chauffeurs and wedding cars →What about funeral directors?
The funeral directors guide covers how funeral costs are often shared between family members, some living far away, and how a payments app can make paying simpler at a hard time.
Funeral directors →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.