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How to start a payments app for language schools and international students

By SendPay Business · · 2 min read

Money moving around the world
  1. Start from the UK
  2. Send to the countries you choose
  3. It arrives in their own currency

Language schools often take fees from students and agents in other countries, plus deposits for accommodation and activities. A payments app built for them, under your own brand, can take payments in more than one currency and keep everything in one place, and you can offer it to schools across a city or country.

What language schools need

  • Invoices for course fees that students can pay from abroad.
  • GBP, EUR and USD accounts to receive money in those currencies.
  • Payment links for accommodation deposits and trips.
  • Transfers to pay host families, agents and teachers.
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Who could launch it

A group of language schools, an education agency, a homestay network or an entrepreneur who knows international education.

Try it

Name your platform and watch it come to life

Type a name, tap a colour and pick what it does. The phone changes as you go.

Colour

What it does

Build mine

Design and preview your whole platform free, then launch when you are ready.

How to get your first users

Start with a school that struggles with payments from abroad, show how a multi-currency account and invoice links help, then share the results through school associations and agent networks.

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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 isn't a bank and doesn't offer lending.

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How it works

Your own money app
  1. Name it and pick your colours
  2. Choose what it does
  3. Launch when you are ready

Why sign up

Create your free SendPay account

It's all about creating your own financial platform with ease. Start with a free account today.

  • A free business accountOpen it in about a minute with your business name, email, password and mobile. No card and no documents to start.
  • Get paid from day oneTake card payments, and share your own payment link and invoices so customers pay in a click.
  • A free business websiteFree to build, free to publish and free to keep, with unlimited visits.
  • Your own financial platformDesign and preview your whole platform free, then launch when you are ready.

SendPay Business is a technology company, not a bank. Accounts, cards and payments are powered by licensed partners.

Questions people ask

What is a multi-currency account?

An account that holds more than one currency.

Multi-currency accounts →
What about schools?

A similar guide for schools collecting fees.

Payments for schools →
What about students?

How to launch a money app for students.

Money app for students →

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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. Other companies named in this guide are reference points only and are not affiliated with SendPay Business.