How to grow your payments app with stonemasons and memorial makers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Stonemasons and memorial makers carve headstones, add new inscriptions to existing memorials and restore old stonework on homes and churches. Most work starts with a deposit, and the balance is due when the stone is finished and fitted, often weeks later. The cost is often shared by family members who live far apart. A payments app that takes a deposit by link, lets each family member pay their share and takes the final balance on fitting can win these masons, and every family who pays sees your app.
Talk to stonemasons
Ask local masons:
- How do families pay for a headstone today?
- Do you take a deposit before starting work?
- Do family members often split the cost?
- How do customers pay for restoration or building work?
Take a deposit before work starts
A deposit link covers the stone and the mason's time before carving begins, and the balance is paid when it is fitted.
Let families share the cost
A payment link each family member can use means relatives far away can pay their share without one person chasing the others.
Grow through funeral directors
Masons work closely with funeral directors and churches, who often recommend them to families. One mason 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 funeral directors?
The funeral directors guide covers making it simpler for families, some living far away, to share and pay funeral costs at a hard time.
Funeral directors →What about roofers and builders?
The roofers and scaffolders guide covers deposits for materials and staged payments on bigger jobs.
Roofers →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.