How to grow your payments app with small music festivals
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Small and local music festivals run for a day or a weekend in fields, parks and village greens, often organised by a small team or volunteers. They sell tickets and camping passes months in advance, charge food, drink and craft traders for their pitches, and take thousands of quick bar payments over a few days, sometimes with poor signal. A payments app that sells tickets by link, collects pitch fees from traders and lets bars and stalls take tap payments can win these festivals, and every trader and festivalgoer who pays sees your app.
Talk to festival organisers
Ask local festival organisers:
- How do you sell tickets and camping passes today, and what do the fees cost you?
- How do traders pay for their pitches, and how do you chase late payers?
- How do your bars take payments, and what happens when signal is poor?
- How do you pay bands, crew and suppliers after the weekend?
Sell tickets and passes by link
A ticket link shared on social pages and posters lets people buy early, and the organiser sees sales grow week by week.
Collect pitch fees from traders
A pitch fee link sent to each food, drink and craft trader gets the money in before the festival, with a clear record of who has paid.
Grow through the traders
Festival traders work many events each summer. Every trader who takes payments on your app at one festival can bring it to the next.
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 event organisers?
The event organisers guide covers people who run parties, workshops, trips and community events and collect money from many guests.
Event organisers →What about music venues and comedy clubs?
The music venues and comedy clubs guide covers selling tickets, taking bar payments on busy nights and paying performers after each show.
Music venues and comedy clubs →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.