How to grow your payments app with murder mystery events
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Murder mystery companies run interactive evenings where guests play characters and try to solve a crime, often over dinner at a hotel or restaurant, at private parties or as team days for businesses. Public nights are sold as tickets, while private events are booked with a deposit and the rest paid before the day, often split between many guests. A payments app that sells tickets, takes deposits and lets each guest pay their own share can win murder mystery organisers, and every guest who pays sees your app.
Talk to murder mystery organisers
Ask local murder mystery companies:
- How do people buy tickets for public nights?
- How do you take deposits for private parties and team days?
- How do groups share the cost between guests?
- How do you pay actors and venues after an event?
Sell tickets and take deposits
A payment link for each public night sells tickets from a phone, and a deposit link for private events secures the date before scripts and actors are booked.
Let each guest pay their share
The organiser of a party or team day can pay the deposit and send each guest a link for their share, so nobody has to chase friends or colleagues for money.
Grow through venues and event businesses
Murder mystery companies work with hotels, restaurants and event hosts. When those businesses take payments through your app, each organiser 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 event MCs and hosts?
The event MCs and hosts guide covers hosts running weddings, parties and corporate events, usually with a deposit to hold the date and the rest before or on the day.
Event MCs and hosts →What about music venues and comedy clubs?
The music venues and comedy clubs guide covers small venues selling tickets, taking bar payments and paying performers after each show.
Music venues and comedy clubs →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.