How to grow your payments app with towing and vehicle recovery firms
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Towing and vehicle recovery firms move broken-down, crashed and abandoned vehicles, often at night, on busy roads or far from a cash machine. Private drivers usually pay at the roadside or when the car is dropped off, while garages, dealers and fleets often run an account. Some firms also charge daily storage for cars left in their yard. A payments app that takes payment at the roadside by phone or link, handles storage fees and makes trade accounts easy to settle can win these firms, and every driver who pays sees your app.
Talk to recovery firms
Ask local towing and vehicle recovery firms:
- How do drivers pay you at the roadside, especially at night?
- Do garages, dealers or fleets have accounts with you, and how do they pay?
- Do you charge storage for cars kept in your yard, and how is it paid?
- How often does a job go unpaid or get paid late?
Take payment at the roadside
Sending a payment link to the driver's phone before the car is loaded means the job is paid on the spot, with no cash and no chasing later.
Handle storage and trade accounts
A link for storage fees when the owner collects, and a single monthly link for each garage or fleet, keeps money coming in without paperwork.
Grow through garages and drivers
Recovery firms work with garages, body shops and insurers every day. When they get paid through your app, the businesses around them see it working.
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 mechanics and garages?
The mechanics and garages guide covers big bills, parts deposits and customers who want to pay later.
Mechanics and garages →What about removal firms?
The removal firms guide covers taking a deposit to book a slot and payment on the day.
Removal firms →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.