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Tap to Pay on iPhone is a helpful feature that businesses can leverage to accept contactless, in-person payments from almost anywhere – no extra fees or additional hardware needed.
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As a business owner, you should have the freedom to accept in-person, contactless payments from almost anywhere with ease. Whether you’re taking your business on the road or setting up a stall at a neighbourhood market, accepting payments almost wherever your customer is should be smooth so you can attract new shoppers and expand your customer base.
Enter Tap to Pay on iPhone and the Point of Sale app.
This smartphone solution is ready to help revolutionise the way you accept contactless payments from credit and debit cards, Apple Pay® and other digital wallets.
Now, you can meet shoppers with the experience they crave by using Tap to Pay on iPhone. It’s quick and easy to get started with this contactless payment acceptance solution, available in the Point of Sale app.
Learn how to use Tap to Pay on iPhone and set up this feature for your business.
Tap to Pay on iPhone lets you accept in-person, contactless payments on your iPhone – so you can accept payments almost anywhere you do business. In fact, you don't even need a store or office.
You just need your iPhone and the Point of Sale app to start accepting contactless payments on the go. No extra hardware needed.
What type of contactless payments, exactly?
With Tap to Pay on iPhone, you can accept any form of contactless payment, including contactless debit and credit cards from Visa, Mastercard and American Express. You can also accept Apple Pay® and other digital wallets.
Tap to Pay on iPhone can be a game-changing tool for growing businesses. Whether you have the best coffee shop in town, run a mobile dog grooming company, or make artisanal ice cream, Tap to Pay on iPhone gives you the power to accept payments straight from your iPhone.
As you expand your business, Tap to Pay on iPhone can help you:
Tap to Pay on iPhone isn’t just perfect for traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers.
Any retail situation where you meet customers face-to-face will only be improved by the ability to Tap to Pay on iPhone.
Whether you’re a food truck owner ringing up orders without bulky equipment, a craft fayre vendor trying to keep the lines moving or a mobile hairdresser that would love to be able to accept payments by just pulling out their phone, it’s a practical and painless process.
For any mobile service provider, Tap to Pay on iPhone allows for collecting payments on the spot. No more awkward follow-up invoicing. This allows tradespeople like plumbers or electricians to finalise jobs with a quick tap.
This convenience is only going to improve cash flow, and the ability to give customers instant receipts via email or SMS will help turn one-off bookings into regular customers.
Even event organisers and fundraisers can use an iPhone to accept contactless donations or ticket fees. That could mean less time handling cash and more time taking payments.
Wherever you sell, Tap to Pay on iPhone slots smoothly into your workflow and means one less gadget to carry and one more way to close the sale.
No more fumbling with cash or a card reader.
And no more paying extra fees just to process a new type of transaction.
With Tap to Pay on iPhone, customers can simply pay with their contactless card, Apple Pay® and other digital wallets. Tap to Pay on iPhone also uses the built-in security features of iPhone to help keep your customer and business data safe.
Already using a point-of-sale (POS) solution to accept in-store payments?
Simply complement it with Tap to Pay on iPhone, making in-person, contactless payments even easier to accept.
When you take card payments on iPhone, the information will be filtered through Apple’s Secure Element.
This tamper-resistant security chip encrypts card data at the moment of the tap. No sensitive information ever touches your app or server.
Each transaction is tokenised, meaning a one-time code replaces the actual card details. Even if the code is somehow intercepted by rogue elements, it’ll be unusable to them.
All data in transit is protected by end-to-end encryption, and iOS’s built-in biometric or passcode locks support that only authorised staff can process payments.
PayPal’s Point of Sale app also undergoes rigorous PCI DSS compliance audits, giving you enterprise-grade security without the complexity (or cost) of managing it yourself.
It’s easy to set up this new feature. Just pull out your iPhone and follow a few key steps to start accepting contactless payments right away:
Before you tap into contactless on iPhone, make sure:
Once you’ve checked these boxes, you’re likely to be ready to accept in-person contactless payments with just your iPhone.
Learn more with these Tap to Pay on iPhone FAQs.
Start accepting contactless credit card payments on iPhone.
Growing a business from scratch takes a lot of work. You need tools that can streamline your sales and take your company to the next level.
That’s why Tap to Pay on iPhone exists: to help you meet shoppers with a quick and painless payment experience.
The good news is getting started is simple. What you need is your iPhone, an internet connection and the Point of Sale app. Once Tap to Pay on iPhone is set up, you can start accepting contactless payments from almost anywhere.
Download the Point of Sale app to get started and learn more about how to use Tap to Pay on iPhone.
Growing a business from scratch takes a lot of work. You need tools that can streamline your sales and take your company to the next level.
That’s why Tap to Pay on iPhone exists: to help you meet shoppers with a quick and painless payment experience.
The good news is getting started is simple. What you need is your iPhone, an internet connection and the Point of Sale app. Once Tap to Pay on iPhone is set up, you can start accepting contactless payments from almost anywhere.
Download the Point of Sale app to get started and learn more about how to use Tap to Pay on iPhone.