How to grow your payments app with quilters and patchwork makers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Quilters and patchwork makers sell finished quilts at shows, fairs and online, take commissions such as memory quilts made from a loved one's clothes, finish other people's quilt tops on a longarm machine, and run classes and retreats. Commissions and longarm jobs usually start with a deposit, with the balance paid before the finished quilt is posted or collected. Classes and retreats are paid up front. A payments app that sends deposit and balance links, takes class bookings and handles show sales can win quilters, and every customer who pays them sees your app.
Talk to quilters
Ask local quilters and patchwork makers:
- How do customers pay a deposit for a commission or memory quilt?
- How are longarm quilting jobs priced and paid?
- How do people book and pay for your classes and retreats?
- How do customers pay at quilt shows and craft fairs?
Send deposit and balance links
A payment link when a commission or longarm job is booked in, and another when it is finished, means customers can pay from their phone and the quilter isn't left holding finished work.
Take class and retreat bookings with payment
A booking link that takes payment up front fills class and retreat places, cuts no-shows and makes it easy to sell gift places.
Grow through the craft community
Quilters buy from fabric shops and sell alongside knitters and craft teachers at the same shows. When those businesses take payments through your app, each quilter 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 fabric and haberdashery shops?
The fabric and haberdashery shops guide covers fabric, wool and haberdashery shops selling by the metre, running sewing and knitting classes and posting orders to crafters.
Fabric and haberdashery shops →What about knitting and yarn sellers?
The knitting and yarn sellers guide covers hand dyers, yarn sellers and knitwear makers selling at yarn festivals, markets and online, many of whom run knitting groups and workshops.
Knitting and yarn sellers →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.