How to grow your payments app with scuba diving centres
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
- 1Your card appears in your app
- 2Tap it to pay in a shop
- 3See every payment as it happens
Scuba diving centres run try-dives for beginners, training courses over several days, boat dives and trips, and sell or hire equipment and air fills. Holidaymakers often book before they travel, courses usually take a deposit with the balance paid before the first dive, and boat trips can change at short notice when the weather turns. A payments app that handles deposits, group bookings, refunds for cancelled trips and quick shop sales can win dive centres, and every diver who pays them sees your app.
Talk to dive centres
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Take course deposits before divers arrive
A deposit link secures a place on a course or trip before the diver travels, and a balance link before the first dive means less money to collect on the day.
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Handle weather changes and group trips
When a boat dive is cancelled, the centre can move the booking or refund it from the app, and a group link lets each member of a dive club pay their own share.
Grow through watersports businesses
Dive centres work alongside swimming teachers, watersports hire and coasteering providers that serve the same visitors. When those businesses take payments through your app, each dive centre can bring more of them onto it.
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Questions people ask
What about watersports hire?
The jet ski and watersports hire guide covers businesses renting jet skis and running banana boat, parasailing and snorkelling trips, often with a deposit against damage.
Jet ski and watersports hire →What about coasteering?
The coasteering providers guide covers guided groups along rocky coastlines, with places sold in advance to holidaymakers, stag and hen groups and school trips.
Coasteering providers →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?
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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. Other companies named in this guide are reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.