How to grow your payments app with lactation consultants
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Private lactation consultants help parents in the first weeks and months with a new baby, often visiting them at home, and many also offer video calls. They usually charge for a first visit, which can be long, then for follow-up visits or calls, and some sell packages or antenatal sessions. Parents are tired and busy, and family members sometimes pay as a gift. A payments app that handles visit fees, packages and payments from relatives can win lactation consultants, and every family who pays them sees your app.
Talk to lactation consultants
Ask local lactation consultants:
- How do parents pay for a first home visit?
- How do parents pay for follow-ups or calls?
- Do you sell packages or antenatal sessions?
- Do relatives ever pay as a gift?
Take payment when the visit is booked
A link sent at booking means the visit is paid before the consultant arrives, so nobody has to deal with payment while caring for a newborn.
Let relatives pay
A link a grandparent or friend can pay makes feeding support an easy gift for new parents, and each one who pays sees your app.
Grow through baby and family businesses
Lactation consultants work alongside doulas, baby sleep consultants and baby classes who support the same families. When those businesses take payments through your app, each consultant can bring more of them onto 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 doulas?
The doulas and birth coaches guide covers packages sold to parents before, during and after birth, usually paid in instalments with a deposit to book.
Doulas and birth coaches →What about sleep consultants?
The baby sleep consultants guide covers packages that include a sleep plan and follow-up support by phone or message, and gift purchases from relatives.
Baby sleep consultants →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.