Car guards, petrol attendants and waiters still work for tips, but fewer of us carry coins. If the person who helped you wears a Tip Me badge or a TapAPI wristband, tip them from the phone in your pocket: scan the badge’s QR code or tap the wristband, choose an amount and pay. No app to install.
Everything happens on your own phone.
Point your phone camera at the QR code on their Tip Me badge, or hold your phone to their TapAPI wristband.
A TapAPI payment page opens in your browser. Choose how much to tip.
Pay by card, PayShap or instant EFT, or free from your own TapAPI wallet. The tip goes straight into their wallet.
Tip from the driver’s seat without searching the car for coins.
Thank the attendant who checked the oil and tyres, even when you paid for the fuel by card.
Tip the person who served you, separately from the bill.
Tip at the door, even when the order was paid online.
Tip your stylist, barber or nail technician.
Tip the performer when you have no change on you.
TapAPI adds nothing. The payment’s own cost comes off the tip the worker receives, unless you tick the box to cover it so that they get the full tip. What a tip costs.
Free. Wallet to wallet costs nothing, on either side, and a TapAPI wallet is free to open on your cell number. Open a free wallet.
Digital tipping has raised car guards’ and fuel attendants’ takings by as much as 40%, with an average tip of about R30 (TopAuto, EWN). For a worker on the national minimum wage of R30.23 an hour, one R30 tip is about an hour’s pay. The figures and their sources.
No. Your 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.
No. Anyone can tip by card, PayShap or instant EFT. If you have a free TapAPI wallet, tipping from it costs nothing.
Your card and bank details are typed only on TapAPI’s payment page and are never given to the person you tip.
All of it except the payment’s own cost: TapAPI takes no cut. Tick the box to cover that cost and they get at least the full tip. What a tip costs.
Tell them about it. A Tip Me badge is R35, delivered to a PAXI point or from a TapAPI shop, and a TapAPI wallet is free. If you have a TapAPI wallet and 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.
Spend it at any TapAPI shop with a tap and their PIN, buy airtime, data, electricity and vouchers, send money to family, or send it to a bank account once their ID is verified.