How to grow your payments app with solicitors and legal advisers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Small law firms, sole practitioners and legal advisers charge for work such as wills, lasting powers of attorney, contracts and one-off advice sessions, often at a fixed fee. Clients are usually asked to pay by bank transfer from an invoice, which means chasing, mistyped references and time spent matching payments. A payments app that sends a payment link with each invoice, takes a card payment for an advice session and keeps a clear record of what each client has paid for the firm's own fees can win these firms, and every client who pays sees your app. Money that law firms hold for clients follows its own rules, so this guide is about paying the firm's fees.
Talk to law firms
Ask local solicitors and legal advisers:
- How do clients pay your fees today, and how long do you wait to be paid?
- Which of your services have a fixed fee?
- Do clients ever ask to pay by card or in instalments?
- How much time do you spend matching payments to invoices?
Send a link with each invoice
A payment link on every fee invoice lets clients pay in a few taps, with the right reference every time.
Take payment for advice sessions
A link sent when a client books a fixed-fee advice session means the firm is paid before the meeting, and fewer people fail to turn up.
Grow through professional networks
Solicitors work closely with accountants, estate agents and other advisers. One firm on your app can bring the other professionals it works with.
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 accountants and bookkeepers?
The accountants and bookkeepers guide covers advisers to many small businesses who can turn into a source of new business customers.
Accountants and bookkeepers →What about translators and interpreters?
The translators and interpreters guide covers people who often work for clients in other countries and wait a long time to be paid.
Translators and interpreters →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.