How to grow your payments app with venue and hall hire
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Community halls, function rooms and small venues are hired for parties, meetings, classes and celebrations. Each booking usually needs a deposit, a final payment and sometimes a refundable damage deposit, and many are run by volunteers or small teams. A payments app that sends a link for each payment can win these venues, and everyone who books sees your app.
Talk to venue managers
Ask local halls and venues:
- How do people pay to book today?
- How do you take and return deposits?
- How much time do you spend chasing payments?
- What would make bookings easier to manage?
Take deposits by link
A payment link sent when a date is agreed secures the booking and saves the venue chasing cash or bank transfers.
Keep regular hirers simple
Groups that hire the hall every week can pay by the same link each time, which suits volunteers who manage the bookings.
Grow through events
Everyone who hires a venue, and many of their guests, deal with caterers, entertainers and suppliers. One venue on your app puts it in front of all of them.
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 event organisers?
The event organisers guide covers tickets and event payments.
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.