Take payments, send invoices, pay your staff and see every sale, on the phone you already own. You pay only for the days you use the till, and TapAPI takes no cut of any sale.
A tap of a wristband or Magic tag, or a scan of the customer’s SA Smart ID, then their PIN. The money is in your shop wallet at once. Tap to pay.
Send a customer an invoice with your trading name, and your registration number if you are a registered company.
Upload a spreadsheet on your computer and pay each worker into their own TapAPI wallet, approved on your phone. Payroll.
Every payment is listed on your till with its time and amount.
Send a payment request by WhatsApp or as a link.
Sell airtime, data, electricity and vouchers from your wallet and earn R2 on every R100.
R95 once to open your shop. R25.25 for each day a till is used; a day with no taps costs nothing. No monthly fee, no card machine and no cut of any sale. Every fee.
Send your takings to your bank from your wallet: R2.88 by PayShap or R5.18 by RTC EFT. A registered company is paid to its business account in a daily settlement, starting on a date announced in the till.
TapAPI is not accounting software: it handles the payments and keeps the record of them. Every sale, invoice and wage payment is on record, so you and your bookkeeper can see where the money went.
No. Your Android phone is the till if it can tap (NFC). No tapping phone? A Windows PC can be the till with a once-off R499 kit.
No. Opening your shop is R95 once, and each till costs R25.25 for a day it is used. A day with no taps costs nothing.
Open Payroll on your computer, link it to your phone with a code, upload the spreadsheet, and approve the payments on your phone. Each worker is paid into their own TapAPI wallet.
No. TapAPI handles the payments and keeps the record of them: sales, invoices and wages paid. Your books stay with your bookkeeper or accounting app.
Anyone 18 or older, on their own wallet with their ID checked. The Shop Terms list the businesses a shop may not run. How to open a shop.