How to grow your payments app with stairlift and home lift installers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Stairlift and home lift installers survey homes, fit new or reconditioned lifts, and come back to service and repair them. A new lift usually means a deposit when it is ordered and the balance when it is fitted, and many customers also pay for a yearly service plan or call-out repairs. Often a son or daughter who lives elsewhere pays on behalf of an older parent. A payments app that sends deposit and balance links to whoever is paying, collects service plans as regular payments and keeps a clear record can win installers, and every family that pays them sees your app.
Talk to stairlift and home lift installers
Ask local installers:
- How do customers pay the deposit and the balance today?
- How often does a family member pay instead of the customer?
- Do you sell yearly service plans, and how are they paid?
- How do you charge for call-out repairs?
Send deposit and balance links to whoever pays
Sending payment links by text or email means a family member far away can pay the deposit or balance in minutes, without cheques or bank details over the phone.
Collect service plans as regular payments
A monthly or yearly payment for servicing keeps customers covered and gives installers steady income between new fittings.
Grow through mobility and care businesses
Installers work closely with mobility shops, occupational therapists and home carers. When those businesses take payments through your app, each installer 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 mobility shops?
The mobility shops guide covers shops selling and hiring scooters, wheelchairs and daily living aids, often to older customers whose families help pay.
Mobility shops →What about home carers?
The home carers guide covers self-employed carers and companions visiting older and disabled people at home, often paid weekly by families who live elsewhere.
Home carers →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.