How to grow your payments app with immigration and visa advisers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Immigration and visa advisers help people apply for work, study, family and visitor visas, extend their stay and apply for citizenship. Many charge a fixed fee for each application, often split into a deposit and a final payment, and many of their clients or their families pay from another country. A payments app that sends payment links for deposits and stage payments and accepts cards and phone payments from abroad can win these advisers, and every client who pays sees your app.
Talk to immigration and visa advisers
Ask local immigration and visa advisers:
- How do clients pay your fees, and do they pay in stages?
- Do family members pay for clients from another country, and how?
- How much time do you spend chasing unpaid fees?
- Do you work with translators, solicitors or other advisers?
Send payment links for deposits and stage payments
A payment link sent when a case starts, and another when each stage is done, gets fees in on time without cash or bank details changing hands.
Let families pay from abroad
Letting a relative in another country pay by card or phone makes it easier for clients to get started, and brings your app to families in more than one country.
Grow through translators and community groups
Advisers work with translators, solicitors and community groups who serve the same people. One adviser on your app can bring the businesses around them.
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 translators and interpreters?
The translators and interpreters guide covers working for clients in other countries and waiting a long time to be paid.
Translators and interpreters →What about solicitors and legal advisers?
The solicitors and legal advisers guide covers fixed fees and hourly bills for wills, contracts and advice sessions, and waiting weeks to be paid.
Solicitors and legal advisers →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.