Tap to Pay on Android
Accept contactless payments right on an Android smartphone or tablet.
With Tap to Pay on Android, your merchants can accept all types of in-person, contactless payments including physical debit and credit cards, Google Pay, and other digital wallets. It's easy and secure. No additional hardware is needed. All your merchants need is a compatible Android smartphone or tablet.
How it works.
Your merchant's customer taps their card, or an NFC-enabled phone or watch, to the back of the Android device. They wait for the authorization. And that is it.
No terminal to order. No cables. No restarting the Wi-Fi router to get the terminal to reconnect.
Expand where you do business.
A terminal is bolted to the reception desk. Tap to Pay on Android goes wherever your merchants go: the driveway, the treatment room, the sideline, the rental unit. They get paid on the spot, the moment the job is done, instead of emailing an invoice and waiting for it. That is the difference between "invoice sent" and "payment received." No chasing. No awkward follow-up calls. The payment is collected before your merchant moves on to the next appointment.
No additional hardware.
A terminal is a device cost, a support ticket when it doesn’t connect, and a warranty swap when it breaks. Worse, it is the merchant who signs up, gets excited, and then never takes a payment because step one was "wait for a box." Tap to Pay on Android works the moment a merchant is onboarded, on a device they already own. Want dedicated hardware anyway? Buy an Android device off the shelf. No proprietary supply chain required.
Make it yours.
A terminal is a locked box that maybe lets you put a logo on the splash screen. Tap to Pay on Android is yours to build on. With Rainforest's SDK, you own the entire payment experience: the checkout flow, the tipping screen, the branding. It looks and feels like your product, because it is your product.
Better economics for your platform.
The alternative to terminals used to be payment links or pay by phone. But those often mean higher interchange rates. A card tapped to a phone or tablet is a card-present transaction. Card-present interchange runs lower than keyed or card-not-present, so more basis points stay with your platform.
Built for security and privacy.
Tap to Pay on Android uses the device’s native security and privacy features to help keep your merchants' and their customers' data safe. Card details are encrypted on the device to prevent the exposure of sensitive data. And Tap to Pay on Android is designed to block recording when a payment is processed, so card numbers are not captured through photo, video, or screenshot, or screen-recording.
Easily enable Tap to Pay on Android in your app.
Using Tap to Pay on Android with Rainforest removes the complexity of building and maintaining a custom payment product. It is one more payment method on the same Rainforest you already run:
Get started with Tap to Pay on Android and Rainforest today.
