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How to grow your payments app with hydroponic and urban farms

By SendPay Business · · 2 min read

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Hydroponic and urban farms grow salad leaves, herbs and microgreens in warehouses, greenhouses, rooftops and shipping containers close to the people who eat them. Many supply restaurants and greengrocers on standing weekly orders, sell boxes to households and trade at markets. Keeping track of regular orders and chasing restaurant invoices takes time for small teams. A payments app that sends invoices with payment links, collects regular box payments and takes quick payments at markets can win urban growers, and every restaurant and household that buys from them sees your app.

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Sending an invoice with a payment link for each weekly delivery, or taking a regular payment, keeps cash coming in without chasing.

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Sell boxes and subscriptions

Households who buy a weekly salad or herb box can pay by regular payment, so growers know what to harvest and when.

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Grow through the kitchens they supply

Urban farms supply restaurants, cafés and greengrocers who all buy from other suppliers too. When those kitchens pay through your app, one farm can bring many businesses onto it.

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Questions people ask

What about mushroom growers?

The mushroom growers guide covers small growers selling at markets, by veg box and online, supplying restaurants and greengrocers, and selling grow kits.

Mushroom growers →
What about veg box schemes and farm shops?

The veg box schemes and farm shops guide covers selling to the same customers week after week and taking regular payments and orders.

Veg box schemes and farm shops →
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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.

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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. Other companies named in this guide are reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.