How to grow your payments app with market traders
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Market traders serve many customers quickly, often outdoors and with weak phone signal. Customers carry less cash than they used to, so a trader who can take other payments easily sells more.
Walk the market
Visit on a busy day and ask a few traders:
- How much do you lose when customers have no cash?
- Is the phone signal good enough at your stall?
- How do you count up the day's takings?
- Which days and times are busiest?
Make paying quick
A printed QR code on the stall lets customers pay while the trader serves the next person.
Work when signal is weak
Make sure your app works well on a slow connection and tells the trader clearly when a payment has arrived.
Grow stall by stall
Traders see what their neighbours use. One busy stall that takes payments through your app will make others ask about 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 slow internet?
The slow internet guide covers making your app work on weak connections.
Work on slow internet →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.