How to grow your payments app with ice sculptors
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Ice sculptors carve wedding centrepieces, ice bars and vodka luges, company logos, and live carving shows for parties, hotels and brand launches. Each piece is made to order and has to be delivered on the day, so most jobs start with a deposit to book the date and cover the ice, with the balance due before delivery. Companies and hotels often pay by invoice. A payments app that sends deposit and balance links and makes invoices easy to pay can win ice sculptors, and every client who pays them sees your app.
Talk to ice sculptors
Ask local ice sculptors:
- How do clients pay a deposit to book a date?
- When is the balance due, and how often do you chase it?
- How do hotels and companies pay your invoices, and how long do they take?
- How do you take payment for last-minute orders?
Send deposit and balance links
A payment link to book and another before delivery means couples and event planners can pay from their phone, and the sculptor only buys and carves the ice once the date is secured.
Get corporate invoices paid sooner
Hotels, venues and brands can pay an invoice from a link in a tap, so sculptors spend less time chasing and get paid closer to the event.
Grow through event businesses
Ice sculptors work alongside caterers, mobile bars and wedding planners at the same events. When those businesses take payments through your app, each sculptor 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 mobile bars and cocktail caterers?
The mobile bars guide covers bars serving drinks at weddings, parties and festivals, taking booking deposits and selling drinks on the night.
Mobile bars and cocktail caterers →What about wedding planners?
The wedding planners guide covers planners charging fees in stages over many months, who often handle deposits to venues and suppliers for the couple.
Wedding planners →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.