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How to start a payments app for photographers and videographers

By SendPay Business · · 2 min read

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  2. Tap it to pay in a shop
  3. See every payment as it happens

Photographers and videographers take deposits to hold a date, send balances before the shoot and sell prints or extra edits afterwards. A payments app built for them, under your own brand, can handle all of it with links and invoices, and you can offer it to creatives across a region or community.

What photographers need

  • A deposit link to hold a booking date.
  • An invoice for the balance before the shoot.
  • Payment links for prints, albums and extra edits.
  • An account that keeps business income apart.
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Who could launch it

A photography school or collective, a studio hire business, a creative agency or an entrepreneur who knows the photography world.

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 photographers you know, show how a deposit link cuts last-minute cancellations, then share it in photography groups and at studio hire spaces.

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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 about wedding suppliers?

A similar guide for the wedding trade.

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Payment link or invoice?

When each works best for getting paid.

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Spotted a mistake or something out of date? and we'll fix it. How our guides are made

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.