How to grow your payments app with private occupational therapists
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Private occupational therapists help children and adults manage everyday tasks, such as handwriting, dressing, sensory needs or getting back to work after an injury. They visit homes, schools and workplaces, and usually charge for an initial assessment, a written report and then regular sessions or blocks of sessions. Families often pay themselves, and some therapists also bill schools or employers. A payments app that handles assessment fees, report payments and session blocks can win private occupational therapists, and every family who pays them sees your app.
Talk to occupational therapists
Ask local private occupational therapists:
- How do families pay for the first assessment?
- How do clients pay for written reports?
- Do clients buy blocks of sessions or pay each time?
- How do you bill schools or employers?
Take the assessment fee up front
A link sent when the assessment is booked means the therapist is paid before travelling to the home or school.
Sell blocks of sessions
A link for a block of sessions lets families pay once for regular therapy, and a separate link can go to a school or employer when they are paying.
Grow through therapy and care professionals
Occupational therapists often work alongside speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and counsellors who support the same families. When those professionals take payments through your app, each therapist 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 speech and language therapists?
The private speech and language therapists guide covers therapists seeing children and adults for assessments and regular sessions, usually paid by parents or the client.
Speech and language therapists →What about physiotherapists?
The physiotherapists and massage therapists guide covers therapists working by appointment, often alone, who lose money when clients miss sessions.
Physiotherapists and massage therapists →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.