How to grow your payments app with small travel agents
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Small travel agents organise holidays, family visits, group trips and pilgrimages. Customers often pay a deposit to book, then the rest in parts before they travel. A payments app that makes deposits and part payments clear and easy to track can win these agents, and every traveller who books with them sees your app.
Talk to agents and travellers
Ask local travel agents and people who have booked with them:
- How do customers pay deposits and balances today?
- How do you keep track of who has paid what for a group trip?
- How often do you chase payments before a departure date?
- What would make paying feel safer for travellers?
Take deposits and part payments by link
Send a payment link for the deposit and for each part payment, with the trip and the dates written clearly, so both sides can see what is paid and what is left.
Keep group trips in order
For group trips, one link per traveller makes it easy to see who has paid, and reminders before each due date save the agent from chasing.
Grow through travellers
Travellers tell family and friends about trips they enjoyed. An agent who takes payments through your app puts it in front of whole families and communities.
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
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.