How to grow your payments app with lavender farms
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Lavender farms open their fields to visitors while the lavender is in flower, usually for a few busy weeks in summer. Visitors pay for entry, cut their own bunches, and buy oils, soaps, dried lavender and gifts in the farm shop or cafe. Many farms also take bookings for photo shoots, distilling demonstrations and craft workshops, and some sell online all year. A payments app that handles timed tickets, quick shop sales and bookings can win lavender farms, and every visitor who pays them sees your app.
Talk to lavender farms
Ask local lavender farms:
- How do visitors pay for entry on the busiest days?
- How do people pay in the farm shop and cafe?
- How do you take bookings for photo shoots and workshops?
- How do you sell oils and gifts outside the flowering season?
Sell tickets before the day
A ticket link for each time slot lets visitors pay before they arrive, so the farm knows how busy each day will be and the gate queue stays short.
Keep shop and field sales quick
A QR code at the till and in the cutting field lets visitors pay for bunches and gifts in seconds, and payment links let the farm keep selling online after the season ends.
Grow through farms and visitor attractions
Lavender farms sit alongside flower farmers, pick-your-own farms and farm shops that sell to the same visitors. When those businesses take payments through your app, each farm 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 flower farmers?
The flower farmers guide covers growers selling seasonal bunches at markets and the farm gate, wedding flowers, bucket deals to florists and pick-your-own days.
Flower farmers →What about pick-your-own farms?
The pick-your-own farms and pumpkin patches guide covers farms selling entry, fruit and pumpkins by weight or by the piece, and getting very busy for a few weekends a year.
Pick-your-own farms →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.