For Merchants
Turn one-off customers
into loyal members.
Tapvela gives your business a branded prepaid card programme. Members load credit, tap to pay, and keep coming back. You skip the cash handling and get the data.
Tapvela gives your business a branded prepaid card programme. Members load credit, tap to pay, and keep coming back. You skip the cash handling and get the data.
Most retail businesses lose 8–15% to friction every month — and don't even know it.
No way to lock in their next visit. They walk past your door tomorrow and walk into your competitor instead.
Counting, change, reconciliation, theft, mistakes. Every shift change is a 15-minute audit.
No customer data, no repeat visit incentive, no loyalty. Your best customers are invisible to you.
Your customers carry your card, top it up themselves, and tap to pay. You get a dashboard, your staff get a POS, and Tapvela handles the plumbing.
Prepaid means customers fund their balance up front. That's working capital instead of unpaid receivables.
Any phone or tablet your team already has is the terminal. Tap the card, enter the bill, done.
Built-in dashboard shows balances, top-ups, spend history, and which staff member ran each sale.
The core platform — included whether or not you're issuing physical cards.
A page customers find at your own URL — menu, hours, location, all in their browser. No app, no friction.
Customers order straight from your menu and pay by Mobile Money. Orders land in your dashboard, ready to prep.
Every customer who's ordered, their repeat rate, and sales reports you can export — on every plan.
Promo cards with your own headline, image, and call to action — shown right on your mini-site.
Message your customers on WhatsApp or email — new offers, reminders, updates. WhatsApp from UGX 25/message, email is free.
Upload and manage your menu photos, logo, and cover images in one place.
Start with the menu and ordering platform, or go straight to the full prepaid card programme.
A menu, online ordering, and marketing — no cards needed.
The full prepaid card programme.
Same programme, a lower rate at scale.
Setup fees are one-time. Upgrading from Starter to Growth credits what you've already paid — you only cover the difference.
Everything above, plus a full prepaid card programme for your regulars.
Your logo, your colors. We print and ship the cards; you hand them out.
A dashboard terminal for owners, plus a PIN-protected public terminal staff can use without a Tapvela login.
Members load credit, tap to pay, and earn points on every spend automatically.
Named tiers with join bonuses and perks — reward your most loyal members differently.
Invite waitresses, cashiers, or attendants. Each gets their own login. Audit who did what.
Lost card? Block it in one click. Issue a fresh one to the same member, balance intact.
Built for the owner who's often not at the till. See balances, transactions, staff activity, card lifecycle — all from your phone.
If customers come back, a prepaid programme pays for itself.
No commitment. We'll review your application, design a mockup of your branded card, and get on a quick call to walk through the setup.