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How to grow your payments app with knitting and yarn sellers

By SendPay Business · · 2 min read

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  1. Customers pick what they want
  2. They pay by card at checkout
  3. The order lands with you

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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