How to grow your payments app with PAT testers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
PAT testers visit offices, shops, schools, hotels and rented homes to check that kettles, computers, heaters and other portable appliances are safe to use. Most charge per item or a set price per visit, and many customers book again every year. Small businesses and landlords often want to pay on the day, while bigger customers ask for an invoice. A payments app that takes payment on the spot and handles invoices and repeat bookings can win PAT testers, and every business that pays them sees your app.
Talk to PAT testers
Ask local PAT testers:
- Do you charge per item or per visit?
- How do small businesses and landlords pay you?
- Do bigger customers ask for an invoice?
- How do you remind customers when the next test is due?
Get paid before you leave
A link sent at the end of the visit, with the number of items tested, lets the customer pay straight away, so the tester is not chasing small invoices.
Make repeat visits easy
When a customer has paid through your app before, booking and paying for next year's test is quick, which helps the tester keep the same customers year after year.
Grow through safety and property trades
PAT testers work alongside electricians, letting agents and workplace trainers. When those businesses take payments through your app, each tester 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 electricians?
The electricians guide covers small repairs, safety checks and rewires, getting paid on the day and taking deposits for materials.
Electricians →What about letting agents?
The letting and estate agents guide covers collecting holding deposits, rent and fees from landlords and tenants.
Letting and estate agents →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.