Please note Tap to Pay Ready is not a standalone point-of-sale app so you cannot interact with it. Reach out to your pre-existing payment acceptance app to see if you are eligible to use Tap to Pay Ready to power contactless payments on your device.

For eligible users, once you’ve downloaded Tap to Pay Ready, you can:

- Accept contactless payments from any card brand your point-of-sale app takes
- Offer customers a secure and convenient way to pay
- Take touch-free payments without additional hardware or technical setup

HOW IT WORKS

Visa’s Tap to Pay Ready works with your point-of-sale app so you can take contactless payments on your Android. You won’t have to open or switch to Tap to Pay Ready to take a payment.

Start the checkout process using your preferred point-of-sale app
When your customer is ready to pay, ask them to tap an accepted contactless card or mobile wallet to your Android device
Tap to Pay Ready opens automatically to accept the contactless payment, then closes until the next contactless transaction

USING TAP TO PAY READY

Tap to Pay Ready is developed and controlled by Visa, Inc. and is fully secure, as certified by these PCI standards. You should have received instructions for your point-of-sale app to download Tap to Pay Ready. 

While using Tap to Pay Ready, keep these things in mind:  
Your phone needs a stable internet connection to process payments
Customers paying with a contactless card should tap the Contactless Indicator on their card to the back of your Android device
Customers paying with a mobile wallet or smartwatch should hold their device to the back of your device to capture their payment properly
Keep auto-updates on to avoid interruptions while taking a payment