How to grow your payments app with traffic management firms
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Traffic management firms keep roads safe while work goes on: temporary traffic lights, signs, cones and barriers for roadworks, building sites, skip drops and events. Jobs are usually booked by the day, and small firms often wait weeks for builders and event organisers to pay. A payments app that makes booking payments and invoices simple can win traffic management firms, and every contractor and organiser who pays them sees your app.
Talk to traffic management firms
Ask local traffic management firms:
- Do you take payment or a deposit when a job is booked?
- Do you charge by the day or by the job?
- Who usually pays you: builders, utilities or event organisers?
- How long do invoices take to be paid?
Take payment when the job is booked
A link sent with the booking lets the customer pay straight away, so the firm can confirm the crew, lights and signs.
Get paid for extra days
If a job runs over, the firm can send a link for the extra days before packing up, instead of chasing it on a later invoice.
Grow through building and event trades
Traffic management firms work alongside groundworkers, plant hire firms and event organisers. When those businesses take payments through your app, each firm 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 groundworks?
The groundworkers guide covers deposits and stage payments for foundations, drainage and site preparation.
Groundworkers →What about events?
The event organisers guide covers selling places and collecting money from many guests.
Event organisers →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.