How to grow your payments app with ski and snowboard schools
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Ski and snowboard schools teach children and adults on mountains and indoor slopes, selling single lessons, week-long courses, private lessons and equipment hire. Most students are visitors who book weeks ahead, often from other countries, and the busiest weeks are school holidays. A payments app that takes a deposit or full payment by link when a lesson is booked, handles last-minute private lessons on the slope and sells hire with the lesson can win these schools, and every family who pays sees your app.
Talk to ski and snowboard schools
Ask local schools:
- How do students pay for lessons and courses today?
- Do you take a deposit when a course is booked?
- How do visitors from other countries pay?
- Do you sell equipment hire with lessons?
Take payment when lessons are booked
A payment link sent when a course or private lesson is booked secures the place, so instructors are not kept free for people who never arrive.
Take last-minute payments on the slope
A link or code an instructor can share on the spot lets a student pay for an extra private lesson without going back to the office.
Grow through resorts and hire shops
Ski schools work alongside hire shops, chalets and resort businesses, which see the same visitors. One school on your app can introduce the others.
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 surf and dive schools?
The surf and dive schools guide covers bookings from visitors, deposits and getting paid on the beach, far from a card machine.
Surf and dive schools →What about sports coaches?
The sports coaches guide covers selling blocks of sessions and holiday camps for children and adults.
Sports coaches →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.