Tap to Pay on Android
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With unTill Air, you can use your Android devices with a NFC (Near Field Communication) reader to accept payments directly on your smartphone or tablet - no extra hardware needed.
Note: You can take advantage of Tap to Pay on Android feature only with enabled unTill Payments for your account. unTill Payments is a payment system to accept integrated into POS transactions. Find out more about unTill Payments here.
Once you have enabled unTill Payments for your account, you can get started with Tap to Pay on your Android devices. Follow the mentioned steps to get Tap to Pay on your device up and running.
Install the unTill Air app on your Android device that aligns with the requirements mentioned here.
Open unTill Air and link this screen to your location as explained here.
After it's done, you will see a pop-up prompting you to enable Tap to Pay on Android.
Select 'Enable Tap to Pay' and go ahead accepting payments using the Tap to Pay on Android.
After enabling Tap to Pay on Android on your device, you can watch a video tutorial on how to accept payments directly in the app. We recommend to watch this tutorial to learn how to use Tap to Pay properly.
If you decided to not enable Tap to Pay right after entering the app for the first time or you want to activate Tap to Pay for the screen that already has been linked to your location, go to the Equipment page and open settings of your screen by double-clicking on the screen's line. Here, you will see a toggle to enable Tap to Pay for this device.
Using this toggle, enable Tap to Pay on your Android tablet or smartphone.
To accept a payment using the Tap to Pay feature:
Go to checkout.
Press the 'Tap to Pay' button.
Ask your client to tap their card or smartphone on the back of your device - on most of Android devices a NFC reader is located on the back of the device but check yours whether it has a NFC reader on the back side or somewhere else.
Wait until the transaction is complete.
Congratulations! You just accepted your first Tap to Pay transaction 🎉
A payment error? Oh, sorry to hear that! It may have reasons caused the issue. Check out our troubleshooting steps here first. If none of them resolve the issue, contact your reseller for support.
