How to grow your payments app with shepherd hut makers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Shepherd hut makers build huts on wheels for garden offices, guest rooms and holiday lets, and supply farms and glamping sites with several huts at a time. Most builds start with a deposit to secure a slot in the workshop, often with a stage payment once the chassis and frame are done and the balance before the hut is delivered. Glamping businesses may order in batches and pay by invoice. A payments app that sends deposit, stage and balance links and keeps a clear record of each build can win hut makers, and every customer who pays them sees your app.
Talk to shepherd hut makers
Ask local shepherd hut makers:
- How do customers pay a deposit to book a build slot?
- Do you take stage payments during the build, and how?
- How is the balance paid before delivery?
- How do glamping sites and farms pay for bigger orders?
Send deposit and stage payment links
A payment link to book and another at each stage of the build keeps money coming in over weeks of work, so makers can buy timber, steel and fittings without waiting.
Get the balance paid before delivery
A final payment link sent when the hut is finished means the customer can pay from their phone, and the maker can book the delivery lorry with the money already in.
Grow through glamping and outdoor builders
Hut makers sell to glamping sites and work alongside garden room builders and carpenters. When those businesses take payments through your app, each hut maker 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 garden room builders?
The garden room builders guide covers builders of garden offices, studios and summer houses, usually with a deposit to book, a stage payment when work starts and the rest when it is finished.
Garden room builders →What about glamping sites?
The glamping sites guide covers sites renting yurts, bell tents, pods, shepherd's huts and treehouses, often taking a deposit at booking and the balance before arrival.
Glamping sites →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.