How to grow your payments app with self-storage businesses
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Self-storage businesses rent out rooms, lockers and shipping containers to people moving home, small businesses keeping stock and students between terms. Customers usually pay a deposit and then rent every week or month, and late payments take time to chase. A payments app that sends a regular link for rent can win these businesses, and every renter who pays sees your app.
Talk to storage businesses
Ask local self-storage and container storage businesses:
- How do customers pay rent today?
- How often do payments come in late?
- How do you take and return deposits?
- What would make collecting rent easier?
Send rent links on time
A payment link sent before rent is due makes it easy for renters to pay on time, and saves staff chasing them.
Take deposits at booking
A link sent when a unit is booked means the deposit and first rent are paid before move-in day.
Grow through moves
People who rent storage are often moving home or running a small business, and they work with removal firms, landlords and letting agents. One storage business on your app puts it in front of all of them.
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 removal firms?
The removal firms guide covers deposits and payments for house moves.
Removal firms →What about landlords?
The small landlords guide covers collecting rent for homes and rooms.
Small landlords →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.