How to grow your payments app with water kiosks and water points
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
- 1Your card appears in your app
- 2Tap it to pay in a shop
- 3See every payment as it happens
In many towns and villages, households buy their drinking water from a kiosk or a community water point rather than a tap at home. Each jerrycan costs very little, so kiosk attendants handle hundreds of tiny payments a day, often in coins, and the owners, water committees or utilities have to collect and count it all. A payments app that lets people pay for water by phone, buy credit in advance and lets owners see every day's takings without counting cash can win water kiosks, and every household that fetches water sees your app.
Talk to water kiosk operators
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Let people pay by phone
Letting households pay for each jerrycan by phone, or scan a code at the kiosk, means fewer coins to count and a record of every sale.
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Offer prepaid water credit
Households, schools and small businesses can top up credit in advance and draw it down as they collect water, which smooths income for the kiosk.
Grow through water committees and operators
Many kiosks are run by water committees, community groups or small operators with several sites. Win one of them and every kiosk they run, and every household that uses it, comes with it.
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Questions people ask
What about water delivery?
The water and gas delivery sellers guide covers sellers who deliver drinking water and cooking gas and get paid at the door, often in cash.
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Is there a step-by-step plan I can follow?
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