How to grow your payments app with pig farmers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Pig farming runs from backyard pens to large commercial units. Farmers sell weaned piglets to other farmers, and fattened pigs to traders, butchers and processors, often in cash and often on the farm. Feed is the biggest cost, bought every week or two, alongside vet visits and medicine. A payments app that lets farmers take deposits for piglets, get paid safely for pigs and pay feed suppliers from a phone can win these farmers, and every buyer and supplier they deal with sees your app.
Talk to pig farmers
Ask local pig farmers:
- How do buyers pay for piglets and pigs, and do they pay a deposit first?
- How do you pay for feed and vet care, and how often?
- Do you sell to butchers or processors, and how do they pay?
- Have you ever been paid late or short for pigs you sold?
Take deposits for piglets
Piglets are often booked before they are weaned. A payment link for a deposit holds the booking and makes it clear who has paid.
Get paid safely for pigs
When traders and butchers pay by phone before a pig leaves the farm, the farmer carries no cash and has a record of the sale.
Grow through feed suppliers and buyers
Pig farmers buy from feed mills and agro-dealers and sell to traders, butchers and processors. When a farmer pays and gets paid through your app, each of them sees it working.
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 poultry farmers?
The poultry farmers guide covers selling birds, meat and eggs, often in cash, and buying chicks and feed on tight margins.
Poultry farmers →What about abattoirs?
The abattoirs and meat processors guide covers slaughter fees, selling carcasses to butchers and paying many suppliers, often in cash.
Abattoirs and meat processors →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.