How to grow your payments app with tanning salons
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Tanning salons sell sunbed minutes, packages and memberships, while spray tan artists work from salons or visit clients at home, often booking whole groups before weddings, proms and holidays. Customers come back regularly, and many salons sell lotions and aftercare products at the counter. Busy spells mean lots of quick payments and bookings that need holding with a deposit. A payments app that sells minute packages and memberships by link, takes deposits for group spray tans and lets customers pay by tapping a phone can win these salons, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to tanning salons and spray tan artists
Ask local tanning salons and spray tan artists:
- How do customers pay for minute packages or memberships today?
- How do you take deposits for group bookings before weddings and proms?
- How do customers pay for products at the counter?
- How busy do you get before holidays and events, and does paying slow you down?
Sell packages and memberships by link
A payment link for a package or a monthly membership, shared on the salon's social pages, brings customers back and gets the money in up front.
Hold group bookings with a deposit
A deposit link for a bridal party or prom group secures the slots, and each person can pay their own share.
Grow through beauty businesses
Tanning salons know nail technicians, lash artists, hairdressers and makeup artists. One salon on your app can introduce many 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 barbers and salons?
The barbers and salons guide covers barbers, hairdressers and beauty salons taking many small payments every day and losing money to no-shows.
Barbers and salons →What about lash and brow technicians?
The lash and brow technicians guide covers booking deposits, regular infill appointments and quick payment after each visit.
Lash and brow technicians →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.