How to grow your payments app with open water swimming coaches
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Open water swimming coaches run group sessions, one-to-one coaching, beginner courses and guided swims in lakes, rivers and the sea. Swimmers usually pay per session, buy a block of sessions or pay for a whole season, and some venues charge an entry fee on the day. Sessions depend on the weather, so coaches often need to move bookings around. A payments app that takes bookings, sells blocks and season passes and takes a card payment at the water's edge can win these coaches, and every swimmer who pays sees your app.
Talk to swimming coaches
Ask local open water swimming coaches:
- How do swimmers pay you today, and how often do you chase payments?
- Do swimmers pay by the session, the block or the season?
- What happens to bookings when the weather cancels a session?
- Do people ever turn up and want to pay on the day?
Take bookings and block payments
Payment at the time of booking fills sessions, and blocks or season passes give coaches steady income through the swimming season.
Take payments at the water's edge
A card or phone payment on the day means walk-up swimmers can join a session without cash.
Grow through swimming groups
Open water coaches know swimming teachers, lidos and sauna businesses near the water. One coach on your app can bring the swimming businesses 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 swimming teachers?
The swimming teachers guide covers blocks of lessons sold mostly to parents.
Swimming teachers →What about sauna and cold plunge businesses?
The sauna and cold plunge businesses guide covers timed sessions, memberships and private hire, often by the water.
Sauna and cold plunge businesses →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.