How to grow your payments app with knife sharpeners
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
- 1Your card appears in your app
- 2Tap it to pay in a shop
- 3See every payment as it happens
Knife sharpeners sharpen kitchen knives, scissors and garden tools. Many work from a stall at farmers' markets, some run a van that visits villages and restaurants, and others take knives by post. Market customers pay small amounts per knife, postal customers pay before or after the knives come back, and restaurants and butchers often have knives done on a regular round. A payments app that takes card payments at the stall, sends payment links for postal orders and handles regular trade customers can win these sharpeners, and every customer who pays sees your app.
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Take card payments at the stall
Taking card and phone payments at markets helps sharpeners take more knives per customer, since many shoppers carry little cash.
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Send payment links for postal and trade work
A payment link when knives are sent back, and a regular link for restaurants and butchers on a round, keep payments coming without invoices to chase.
Grow through markets and food trades
Knife sharpeners share markets with other traders and sharpen for butchers and chefs. One sharpener on your app can bring the traders and kitchens around them.
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Questions people ask
What about market traders?
The market traders guide covers stallholders who sell fast, often with poor signal and lots of cash.
Market traders →What about butchers and fishmongers?
The butchers and fishmongers guide covers quick counter payments and orders for busy seasons.
Butchers and fishmongers →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?
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