How to grow your payments app with language schools
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Language schools often teach students from many countries, who pay deposits and course fees before they arrive and in instalments while they study. Chasing payments across borders and currencies takes time. A payments app that makes fees clear and easy to pay can win schools, and every student who pays through it learns your name.
Talk to schools and students
Ask local language schools and their students:
- How do students pay deposits and fees today?
- Which countries do most students come from?
- How much time goes on chasing late payments?
- What would make paying easier for students abroad?
Make deposits simple
Let the school send a payment link for the deposit as soon as a student books, with the full cost shown before they pay.
Offer instalments
Longer courses are easier to afford in parts. Scheduled payments help students budget and help schools know what is coming in.
Grow through agents and alumni
Many schools work with agents who send students from abroad, and past students recommend schools to friends. Both can carry your app to new countries.
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
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.