How to grow your payments app with sawmills and timber yards
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Sawmills and timber yards cut logs into planks, beams, posts and boards, and sell them to builders, roofers, carpenters, furniture makers, fencers and farmers. Some customers pay at the counter, trades often buy on account, and big orders are delivered to site, with payment wanted before the lorry leaves or when it arrives. Many sawmills also buy logs from landowners and loggers. A payments app that takes payment at the counter, sends links for orders and deliveries, and makes trade accounts easy to settle can win these yards, and every trade who pays sees your app.
Talk to timber yards
Ask local sawmills and timber yards:
- How do walk-in customers pay for timber at the yard?
- Do builders and carpenters buy on account, and how long do they take to pay?
- How is payment taken for orders you deliver to site?
- How do you pay the people who sell you logs?
Take payment for orders by link
Sending a payment link when an order is cut and ready means it is paid before it leaves the yard, with no cash on the lorry and no chasing later.
Make trade accounts easy to settle
A single monthly link for each builder or workshop, showing what they bought, helps trade customers pay on time without paperwork.
Grow through the trades
Builders, carpenters and furniture makers buy timber week after week. When they pay through your app, they see how it could work for their own customers.
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 furniture makers and carpenters?
The furniture makers and carpenters guide covers deposits for made-to-order work and final payments on delivery.
Furniture makers and carpenters →What about hardware and building supply shops?
The hardware and building supply shops guide covers selling to builders, trades and homeowners, often on account.
Hardware and building supply shops →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.