How to grow your payments app with knitting and yarn sellers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Hand dyers and small yarn sellers sell skeins, kits and patterns at yarn festivals, markets and online, often in limited batches that sell out fast. Knitwear makers sell finished hats, jumpers and baby clothes and take made-to-order work, and many sellers run knitting groups, classes and workshops. A payments app that takes card payments at festival stalls, sends payment links for online and pre-orders and handles class bookings can win these sellers, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to yarn sellers and knitters
Ask local hand dyers, yarn sellers and knitwear makers:
- Where do you sell, and how do customers pay at festivals and markets?
- Do you take pre-orders for new colours or limited batches?
- Do you take made-to-order knitwear commissions?
- Do you run knitting groups, classes or workshops?
Take card payments at festivals and markets
Taking card and phone payments at yarn festivals helps sellers make bigger sales, since many buyers pick up several skeins at once.
Send payment links for pre-orders and classes
A payment link for pre-orders of a new batch, and payment at the time of booking for classes, keep money coming in before the yarn is dyed or the class runs.
Grow through knitting groups and shops
Yarn sellers know knitting groups, fabric shops and other makers. One seller on your app can bring the knitters and shops 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 fabric and haberdashery shops?
The fabric and haberdashery shops guide covers shops that sell by the metre, run sewing and knitting classes and post orders to crafters.
Fabric and haberdashery shops →What about art and craft teachers?
The art and craft teachers guide covers classes, workshops and sales of materials.
Art and craft teachers →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.