How to grow your payments app with mural painters and street artists
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Mural painters and commissioned street artists design and paint walls for cafés, restaurants, shops, gyms, schools, offices and homes, and some also take part in paid festivals and council projects. A commission usually starts with a design fee or deposit, which pays for sketches and paint, and the balance is due when the wall is finished. Bigger walls are often paid in stages. A payments app that sends links for deposits and stages, shows what each client has paid and keeps a clear record can win artists, and every business that pays them sees your app.
Talk to mural painters and street artists
Ask local artists:
- How do clients pay a design fee or deposit before you start?
- Do you take stage payments on big walls, and how?
- How do businesses, schools and councils usually pay you?
- Do you sell prints or merchandise of your work, and how?
Send deposit and balance links
A payment link for the deposit and another when the wall is done means clients can pay from their phone on the spot, and the artist can buy paint and start sooner.
Make stage payments clear on big walls
For large walls, a link for each stage, such as design, halfway and finish, keeps the money flowing and gives both sides a clear record of what has been paid.
Grow through the businesses they paint for
Mural artists work for cafés, shops, decorators and galleries. When those businesses take payments through your app, each artist 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 artists and small galleries?
The artists and small galleries guide covers artists selling original work, prints and commissions at open studios, fairs, exhibitions and online, often with deposits for commissions.
Artists and small galleries →What about painters and decorators?
The painters and decorators guide covers decorators working in homes, offices and shops, often with a deposit for materials and the rest when the job is finished.
Painters and decorators →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.