Tyro Tap to Pay brings your POS and Tyro payments together on the same device, giving your merchants a flexible way to take payments without needing a separate EFTPOS terminal. With Tyro Tap to Pay, businesses can accept secure contactless payments on any compatible iPhone or NFC-enabled Android device, seamlessly integrated with your POS.
Tap to Pay supports contactless debit and credit cards (Mastercard®, Visa, eftpos and American Express) and digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay).
This isn't just payments on a phone — it supports a range of in-store experiences:
- Dual-screen setups, where staff enter the order on one screen and the customer views their order and taps to pay on the customer-facing screen.
- Handheld tablet or mobile devices, allowing staff to take orders and payments at the table, anywhere in-store, around a venue or out on the road.
- Self-service kiosks, where customers can order and pay on the kiosk.
Dual-screen and kiosk deployments need Tyro's approval before you roll them out — see Device requirements.
If you're using Android devices, you have two integration options available: the Tap to Pay app or the Tap to Pay SDK. To use Tap to Pay on an Android device, the device requires:
- NFC capability
- Android 12.0 or above
- Google Mobile Services, and certification with CTS
- online capability
For any Android dual-screen or kiosk device — that is, any device other than a mobile or tablet — obtain specific approval from Tyro before deploying those devices in market.
For iOS, the only supported integration option is the Tap to Pay SDK. iPhone is the only device with payments processing capabilities. iPad is currently not supported.
The iOS SDK supports a minimum of iOS 18.6, which is also the threshold the SDK certification tests use. Confirm the current minimum with your Partner Manager before you rely on it.
Tyro provides two integration options:
- Tap to Pay app (App to app integration) — for Web POS and Android POS applications that want the fastest path to market with no MPoC compliance responsibilities. Your POS initiates the payment request, the Tyro Tap to Pay app securely processes the payment, and your POS receives the transaction result once processing is complete.
- Embedded Tap to Pay SDK — for iOS and Android POS applications, where Tyro's payment capabilities are embedded directly within your POS application.
Both options let merchants run their POS and accept payments on one device, with the same underlying customer experience — they differ in implementation effort, maintenance and MPoC compliance responsibilities. Find more details here.
The merchant must first authorise the intergrating POS provider via the Tyro Integration Portal. The merchant must authorise that POS provider for all applicable Merchant ID (MID). This applies to every integration path. See merchant authorisation flow.
- Read how integration works for your platform: Android app or Web POS.
- Implement merchant authorisation — the same Integration Portal flow used by the SDK path below.
- Follow the Android app or Web POS integration guide to pair your POS and start taking payments.
- Read through the intended Customer Experience Journey document: this will help you understand how the merchant interacts with Tyro's integration portal, authorises a device and accepts a payment.
- Implement the merchant authorisation flow: this workflow allows your merchant's POS and device to be enabled for Tap to Pay.
- Integrate the SDK: documentation is available for Android and iOS.
- Certify your app: your app must pass a series of tests before it can go live. These tests can be found here. When you're ready to proceed, reach out to your Partner Manager to get started.
Important: if you're developing an iPhone app, don't forget to include Apple's mandatory educational elements — see the iOS UI guidelines.