“Sorry, I don’t carry cash” — solved. Wear a Tip Me badge or a TapAPI wristband. The person tipping scans the badge’s QR code or taps the wristband with their own phone, a payment page opens, and they tip you free from their TapAPI wallet, or by card, PayShap or instant EFT. Nothing to install, on either side.
The person tipping uses the phone in their pocket. You need no card machine and no app.
A Tip Me badge carries a QR code for tips linked to your wallet. A TapAPI wristband works the same way with a tap.
Their phone opens a TapAPI payment page. No app to download.
Free from their own TapAPI wallet, or by card, PayShap, instant EFT or a voucher. The tip lands in your TapAPI wallet.
The driver with no coins taps or scans and tips by card.
A tip straight to the person who served, not into a shared jar.
Thank the attendant who checked the oil and tyres.
Stylists, barbers and nail technicians.
Tip at the door without hunting for change.
Wear the badge where people stop to watch.
Tipping someone yourself? How to tip without cash.
A Tip Me badge is R35 once. A tip from a TapAPI wallet costs nothing. On a card, PayShap, bank or voucher payment TapAPI takes no cut and charges no monthly fee: only the cost of the payment method is passed on. What each way of paying costs on a tip.
Spend at any TapAPI shop with a tap and your PIN, buy airtime, data, electricity and vouchers, send money to family, or send it to your bank once your ID is verified.
Restaurants, car washes, hotels and venues can give their staff Tip Me badges in the business’s own brand, with an optional short rating before the tip. Each tip goes to the staff member who earned it. Write to help@tapapi.co.za. How staff tipping works.
No. Their phone’s camera reads the QR code on the badge, or the phone reads the wristband with a tap, and a payment page opens in the browser.
If they have a TapAPI wallet, they tip you from it, and that is free. Anyone else pays by card, PayShap, instant EFT from their bank, or a voucher, on TapAPI’s payment page. Card and bank details are typed only on that page, never given to you.
A tip from a TapAPI wallet costs nothing. On a card, PayShap, bank or voucher payment TapAPI takes no cut: only the cost of the payment method is passed on, and the worker carries it unless the tipper ticks the box to cover it on PayShap, bank or card. What a tip costs.
Yes. Tell them about the wallet. If you are the first to bring someone to TapAPI, you earn a reward every time they buy electricity, airtime or data from their wallet, for as long as they use it. What you can earn.
Not without your PIN. Anyone can tip you with the badge, but paying from your wallet always needs your PIN, which you never share.
One per wallet. That keeps every badge tied to one real person.
Order one online for R35, delivered to a PAXI point, or get one from a TapAPI shop. Order a Tip Me badge.