How to grow your payments app with sheep shearers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Sheep shearers travel from farm to farm through the shearing season, and many charge per sheep shorn. Some work alone and others run small teams, often going back to the same farms every year. After a long day in the shed, the last thing a shearer wants is to chase a farmer for payment weeks later. A payments app that lets a shearer send a link for the day's count before leaving the yard, and split takings with the team, can win shearers, and every farmer who pays them sees your app.
Talk to shearers
Ask local sheep shearers:
- How do farmers pay you at the end of a job?
- How long do you wait to be paid, and how often do you chase?
- How do you share the money with the rest of your team?
- Do you also charge for crutching, dagging or travel?
Send a link for the day's count
A shearer can enter the number of sheep and the rate, and send the farmer a payment link before leaving the yard, so the money comes in while the job is fresh.
Split takings with the team
When a team shears together, the takings can be shared out to each member's account, so nobody has to handle cash or work out the split by hand.
Grow through farms and rural trades
Shearers work alongside farriers, farm supply shops and other rural contractors who visit the same farms. When those businesses take payments through your app, each shearer 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 farriers?
The farriers guide covers farriers who travel from yard to yard shoeing and trimming horses, often for the same owners every few weeks.
Farriers →What about wool and yarn sellers?
The knitting and yarn sellers guide covers hand dyers and yarn sellers selling yarn, kits and finished pieces at festivals, markets and online.
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.