How to start a payments app for food trucks and street food traders
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
Food trucks and street food traders serve fast-moving queues, cater private events and pay pitch fees to markets and festivals. A payments app built for them, under your own brand, can give each trader a QR payment link, catering invoices and an account, and you can offer it to traders across a city or festival circuit.
What food trucks need
- A payment link shown as a QR code at the hatch.
- Invoices and deposits for weddings, parties and corporate catering.
- Transfers to pay pitch fees and suppliers.
- An account that keeps takings apart from personal money.
Who could launch it
A street food market operator, a festival organiser, a traders' collective or an entrepreneur who knows the street food scene.
How to get your first users
Start with traders at one market, print their QR codes and help them take catering deposits by link. Traders talk to each other constantly, so good results spread fast.
Where SendPay fits
SendPay lets you launch your own payments platform under your brand, with GBP, EUR and USD accounts, transfers, branded Visa cards, payment links, invoices and subscriptions, powered by licensed partners. SendPay doesn't offer card machines, isn't a bank and doesn't offer lending.
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 market traders?
A similar guide for stallholders and pop-ups.
Payments for market traders →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.