How to grow your payments app with olive oil producers and sellers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Small olive oil producers and sellers grow, press and bottle their own oil, or bring it over from family groves abroad. They sell at farmers' markets and food fairs, supply delis, restaurants and shops, and take online orders and subscriptions. Many take pre-orders for the new season's oil after the harvest, and trade customers often pay on invoice. A payments app that takes stall and fair payments, sends pre-order and invoice links and handles repeat orders can win these sellers, and every customer who pays them sees your app.
Talk to olive oil producers and sellers
Ask local sellers:
- How do customers pay at markets and food fairs?
- Do you take pre-orders for the new harvest, and how are they paid?
- How do delis and restaurants pay for trade orders?
- Do you sell tins or bottles on a regular order or subscription?
Take pre-orders for the new harvest
A pre-order link lets regular customers reserve the new season's oil and pay ahead, so sellers know how much to bottle or ship before it arrives.
Send invoice links to trade customers
Delis, restaurants and shops can pay an invoice from a link in a tap, so sellers spend less time chasing and get paid sooner.
Grow through food businesses
Olive oil sellers trade alongside cheesemakers, delis and jam makers at the same markets and shops. When those businesses take payments through your app, each seller 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 cheesemakers and small dairies?
The cheesemakers and small dairies guide covers makers selling cheese, milk, butter and yoghurt at markets, farm vending machines, shops, delis and online.
Cheesemakers and small dairies →What about jam and chutney makers?
The jam and chutney makers guide covers small makers selling at markets, fairs and farm shops, taking online orders and supplying local shops.
Jam and chutney makers →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.