Check your phone

Your phone will become your payment device.

This quick check makes sure your phone supports tap payments and that everything is ready.

This test must be done on your phone, not your computer.

Scan the QR code below with your phone.

Can’t scan it? Open tapapi.co.za on your phone.

Can this phone do the job?

Let’s see if this phone can read a tap. Any card that taps works, even a bank card.

• Tap — move the card slowly over the back of the phone (up, down, middle) until it reads.
• Scan — we read the barcode on the back of your SA Smart ID to open your wallet.

Any contactless card works for the tap. You still need your SA Smart ID for the wallet.

Tap a card or tag on the phone

READER ON — TAP NOW

Put the card flat on the BACK of the phone.

Move it slowly up, down, middle. If nothing happens, this phone may have no reader.

Now the camera.

Turn your SA Smart ID over — the back has a barcode. Hold it like you are taking a photo of the card, then move it until the barcode sits inside the gold frame.

Eish — the tap did not work

1. NFC is turned off. Swipe down from the top of the screen and tap NFC (or Settings → NFC), then tap Try again.

2. This phone has no tap. It cannot be a till, but you can still open a wallet with your camera.

This phone can be a till

It can take payments from wristbands and tags, hand out wristbands to new customers, and grow the network in your area.

This phone can hold your wallet.

This phone cannot tap, so it cannot be a till. It can hold a wallet: open one with your cell number, then add your SA Smart ID inside it.

Your wallet works on this phone

This phone cannot be a till, but it can hold your wallet. Open it right here.