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💳 How to use Tap to Pay

Tap to Pay allows you to accept card payments directly on your smartphone, without any extra card terminal if you have an Accountable Banking account ✨

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Once Tap to Pay is activated and you have accepted the terms and conditions, you can immediately start accepting payments.

🚀 How to accept a payment with Tap to Pay

Follow these simple steps:

  1. Go to the Bank page in the Accountable Banking app

  2. Tap the + button in the bottom right corner

  3. Select Tap to Pay

  4. Enter the amount

  5. (Optional) Add a description / communication, for example: Haircut

  6. Tap Continue

👉 Your phone is now ready to accept the payment.

Ask your client to simply hold their card or smartphone against your phone, near the NFC sensor 📲 (on iPhone this is the top of the device, on Android it is usually the back)

Once the payment is successful, it will be confirmed instantly ✅. Tap to Pay payments typically arrive one business day after the transaction happened.

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💰 How to add the payment as revenue

After the payment has been accepted:

  1. A green button will appear: “Add as non-invoice revenue”

  2. Tap this button

  3. Enter a item name (for example: Haircut)

  4. Tap Add as revenue

🎉 Done! The payment is now correctly added to your bookkeeping as income.

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💡 Good to know

  • Tap to Pay works directly from your phone (iPhone or Android), no extra device needed

  • You can always add the transaction as revenue afterwards for your accounting

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