How to grow your payments app with sauna and cold plunge businesses
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Sauna and cold plunge businesses have grown fast, from mobile wood-fired saunas on beaches and lakesides to small permanent sites in towns. Customers book timed sessions, buy bundles or memberships, hire the whole sauna for a group and give sessions as gifts. Many sites have no staffed till, so bookings and payments need to happen on a phone before people arrive. A payments app that takes session bookings, collects membership payments and sells gift vouchers can win these businesses, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to sauna businesses
Ask local sauna and cold plunge businesses:
- How do customers book and pay today?
- Do you sell bundles, memberships or gift vouchers?
- Do you take private hire for groups or events?
- Do people ever turn up and want to pay on the spot?
Take bookings and memberships
Payment at the time of booking fills sessions without no-shows, and regular membership payments give the business steady income through quiet months.
Sell gift vouchers and private hire
Gift vouchers sell well at Christmas and for birthdays, and one link for a group booking makes private hire easy to pay for.
Grow through wellness businesses
Sauna businesses often work alongside yoga teachers, wild swimming groups and day spas. One sauna on your app can bring the wellness businesses around 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 day spas?
The day spas guide covers treatments, spa days and gift vouchers, often booked weeks ahead.
Day spas →What about swimming pools and lidos?
The swimming pools and lidos guide covers swim sessions, memberships, lessons and café snacks.
Swimming pools and lidos →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.