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Charge a card at the counter with Tap

With Tap, Mollie's app turns your phone into a card reader. There is no terminal to buy, and the money lands in your own Mollie balance, just like your online payments. You charge a booking from Bookbaar, and your customer taps their card or phone on yours.

What you need

• A Mollie account connected to Bookbaar (connect Mollie).
• A phone that supports Tap to Pay: an iPhone XS or newer on iOS 16 or later, or an Android phone with NFC on Android 11 or later. Not every Android phone with NFC can do it; Mollie's app tells you if yours can't.
• The Mollie Tap app on that phone, from the App Store or Google Play.

Tap is available where Mollie offers it. If your Mollie dashboard has a Point-of-Sale section, you can use it.

Set up your phone (once)

1. In your Mollie dashboard, open Point-of-Sale and choose Add terminal → Activate Tap app.
2. Open Mollie Tap on your phone and follow the steps: scan the QR code, or type the setup code Mollie shows you.
3. That's it. Your phone now appears in Bookbaar as a device you can charge on. Using more than one phone? Activate each one, and Bookbaar asks which one when you charge.

Charge a booking

1. Open the booking in your calendar or bookings list and press Charge with Tap.
2. Press Send €… to your phone. Bookbaar sends exactly what the booking's invoice still owes.
3. The payment appears in Mollie Tap on your phone. Hand it to your customer to tap their card or phone. If it doesn't appear, open Mollie Tap.
4. As soon as it's paid, Bookbaar shows Paid! and the invoice is marked paid, with the receipt sent as for any other payment.

Any unpaid invoice works the same way: open it under Invoices and press Charge with Tap.

If something goes wrong

• The card is declined. Bookbaar tells you, and you can send the amount again or take payment another way.
• You sent it by mistake. Press Cancel while Bookbaar is waiting. If Mollie can no longer cancel it, cancel it on the phone.
• Your customer is paying online at the same moment. Bookbaar won't send the invoice to your phone while your customer is in the middle of an online payment, and your customer's payment link waits while your phone is charging. Nobody pays twice.
• A tip. If your customer adds a tip in Mollie Tap, Bookbaar records it with the payment.

Costs

Mollie charges a small fee per Tap payment, on its own invoice to you, as it does for online payments. Bookbaar takes nothing. Mollie's Tap page has the current rates.

Only the studio owner, for now

Only the studio's owner can charge with Tap, the same as marking a booking paid by hand.