How to grow your payments app with mushroom growers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Small mushroom growers raise oyster, shiitake and other mushrooms indoors, often in sheds, cellars or small units. They sell fresh and dried mushrooms at farmers' markets, through veg box schemes and online, supply restaurants, cafés and greengrocers every week, and sell grow-at-home kits and workshops. A payments app that takes card payments at markets, sends payment links for online orders and handles regular trade customers can win these growers, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to mushroom growers
Ask local mushroom growers:
- Where do you sell, and how do customers pay at markets?
- Do you sell grow kits or dried mushrooms online?
- Do you supply restaurants or greengrocers, and how quickly do they pay?
- Do you run workshops or growing courses?
Take card payments at markets
Taking card and phone payments at markets helps growers sell bigger bags, dried mushrooms and grow kits, not only a single punnet.
Send payment links for online and trade orders
Payment links for grow kits, workshops and online orders, and regular links for restaurants and shops, get money in before the mushrooms go out and cut down on chasing.
Grow through restaurants and food producers
Mushroom growers supply restaurants and shops and share markets with other food producers. One grower on your app can bring the kitchens and producers around them.
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 greengrocers and fruit shops?
The greengrocers and fruit shops guide covers lots of small counter sales, plus regular orders from cafés, restaurants and offices.
Greengrocers and fruit shops →What about veg box schemes and farm shops?
The veg box schemes and farm shops guide covers selling to the same customers week after week and taking regular payments and orders.
Veg box schemes and farm shops →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.