How to grow your payments app with interior designers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Interior designers plan and furnish homes, offices, shops and restaurants. They charge design fees, often in stages, and many order furniture, fabrics and lighting on the client's behalf, which needs paying up front. A payments app that sends deposit and stage links can win these designers, and every client who pays sees your app.
Talk to designers
Ask local interior designers:
- How do clients pay your fees today?
- How do you get paid for furniture you order for clients?
- Do you chase payments between stages?
- What would make getting paid easier?
Take design fees by link
A payment link sent with each stage of the project keeps money coming in without chasing.
Get paid before ordering
A link sent with the furniture list lets the client pay before the designer orders, so the designer is never out of pocket.
Grow through the trade
Designers work with upholsterers, furniture makers and builders. One designer on your app can bring many trades 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 upholsterers?
The upholsterers guide covers furniture repairs and fabric deposits.
Upholsterers →What about furniture makers?
The furniture makers guide covers made-to-order pieces and deposits.
Furniture makers →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.