How to grow your payments app with will writers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Will writers help people put their wishes in writing, often visiting them at home or meeting them online. Most charge a fixed fee for a single will or a pair of mirror wills for a couple, and many offer extras such as secure storage, lasting powers of attorney or yearly updates. Clients are often older and may want to pay by link rather than hand over card details on the phone. A payments app that handles fixed fees, deposits and yearly storage charges can win will writers, and every client who pays them sees your app.
Talk to will writers
Ask local will writers:
- How do clients pay the fee for a will?
- Do you take a deposit before drafting?
- How do clients pay for extras such as storage or powers of attorney?
- How do you collect yearly storage fees?
Take a deposit before drafting
A link sent after the first meeting lets the client pay a deposit, so the will writer is paid for their time before drafting starts.
Collect yearly fees without chasing
For storage or update plans, a link sent each year lets the client pay in a few taps instead of the will writer posting invoices and waiting.
Grow through later-life professionals
Will writers work alongside solicitors, financial advisers and funeral directors who serve the same families. When those businesses take payments through your app, each will writer can bring more of them onto it.
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 solicitors?
The solicitors and legal advisers guide covers small firms charging fixed fees and hourly bills for work such as wills, contracts and advice sessions, and often waiting weeks to be paid.
Solicitors and legal advisers →What about funeral directors?
The funeral directors guide covers funeral costs that are often shared between family members, some living far away, and how to make paying simpler at a hard time.
Funeral directors →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.