How to grow your payments app with wheelie bin cleaners
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Wheelie bin cleaners follow the bin collection round, washing and sanitising bins with a van-mounted pressure washer straight after they are emptied. Most customers pay a small fee every few weeks, and the round only works if lots of homes on the same streets sign up. Collecting many small payments, often from people who are out at work, is the hard part. A payments app that signs customers up to a regular payment with one link and takes one-off cleans by tap or link can win these businesses, and every customer who pays sees your app.
Talk to bin cleaners
Ask local wheelie bin cleaners:
- How do customers pay for regular cleans today?
- How much time do you spend chasing small unpaid amounts?
- How do new customers on a street sign up and pay?
- Do you clean bins for businesses, and how do they want to pay?
Sign customers up to regular payments
A sign-up link on a leaflet or a street's community group lets customers join the round and pay automatically each time, with nothing to chase.
Take one-off cleans on the spot
A payment link sent after a one-off clean, or a tap on the phone at the door, gets the cleaner paid the same day.
Grow through local service rounds
Bin cleaners know window cleaners, gutter cleaners and gardeners who work the same streets. One business on your app can introduce you to the rest.
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 window cleaners?
The window cleaners guide covers cleaners who visit many homes on a round and often have to come back to collect payment.
Window cleaners →What about driveway and patio cleaners?
The driveway and patio cleaners guide covers pressure washing paths, drives and decking, usually as one-off jobs paid when the work is done.
Driveway and patio cleaners →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.