How to grow your payments app with tailors and dressmakers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Tailors and dressmakers often make clothes to measure, which means buying fabric and doing hours of work before the customer pays in full. A customer who never collects leaves them out of pocket. A deposit when the order is placed and an easy way to pay the balance can protect their work.
Talk to a few tailors
Ask tailors and dressmakers:
- How do customers pay for an order today?
- Do you take a deposit before you buy fabric or start work?
- How often does a customer not come back to collect?
- Do you have customers who order from another town or country?
Take a deposit with every order
A payment link sent when the order is agreed covers the fabric and confirms the job. The tailor only starts once the deposit is in.
Make the final payment easy
A link for the balance when the clothes are ready, or a QR code at collection, means the tailor gets paid without chasing.
Grow through events and communities
Tailors are busy before weddings, festivals and religious holidays, and many serve close communities. A tailor who trusts your app can bring many customers with them.
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 wedding suppliers?
The wedding suppliers guide covers deposits and staged payments for big days.
Wedding suppliers →How do I remind customers politely?
The payment reminder templates give ready-to-send wording.
Reminder templates →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.
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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.