How to grow your payments app with tuition and exam prep centres
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
In many countries, students spend evenings and weekends at tuition or coaching centres preparing for school leaving exams, entrance tests and university admission. Centres charge monthly, termly or per-course fees, often in instalments, and staff spend a lot of time chasing late payments and handing out receipts. Parents want an easy way to pay and proof that they have paid. A payments app that sends fee links, takes instalments by phone and reminds parents automatically can win tuition centres, and every family that pays sees your app.
Talk to tuition centres
Ask local tuition and exam prep centres:
- How do parents pay fees today, and how often are payments late?
- Do you offer instalments, and how do you keep track of them?
- Do parents ask for receipts or proof of payment?
- How do you pay your tutors?
Send fee links and take instalments
Sending each family a payment link for the month or term, and letting them pay in instalments by phone, cuts chasing and gives parents a clear record.
Pay tutors from the same app
Centres can pay tutors per class or per month straight from the fees they collect, with a record of every payment.
Grow through parents
Parents often have more than one child in classes and talk to other parents at the gate. When paying fees through your app is easy, they will use it for other payments too.
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 private tutors?
The tutors and coaches guide covers private tutors, music teachers and sports coaches who chase small payments from many families.
Tutors and coaches →What about private schools?
The private schools guide covers term fees, exam fees and money for uniforms, trips and meals collected from hundreds of parents.
Private schools →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.