How to grow your payments app with ironing services
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Ironing services are often run from home or a small shop, pressing shirts, uniforms and bedding for busy families and working people. Many collect and deliver, charging per item or per bag, and have regular customers who send a bag every week. Payments are usually small and frequent, and chasing cash on delivery takes time. A payments app that sends a payment link when the bag is ready, takes regular weekly payments and lets customers pay by tapping a phone can win these businesses, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to ironing services
Ask local ironing services:
- How do customers pay for each bag today?
- Do you have weekly customers, and how do they pay?
- What happens when a customer isn't home to pay on delivery?
- Do you also do alterations or dry cleaning, and how are those paid for?
Send a link when the bag is ready
A payment link sent with a message that the ironing is ready means the customer pays before delivery, with no cash to collect at the door.
Take weekly payments automatically
Regular customers can pay a set weekly amount automatically, so the service knows what is coming in each week.
Grow through home services
Ironing services often work alongside cleaners, laundries and tailors. One business on your app can bring you the others.
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 laundries and dry cleaners?
The laundries and dry cleaners guide covers lots of small payments, often with collection and delivery, and keeping track of orders.
Laundries and dry cleaners →What about cleaners?
The cleaners guide covers cleaners who work in many homes and offices each week and often wait to be paid.
Cleaners →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.