In-person payments with a QR code

Collect in person from any phone, tablet or computer with a browser. There is no card reader to buy: your customer pays on their own phone, with Apple Pay, Google Pay or their card, by scanning a QR code you show them. The product overview is at In-person payments.

How it works

1. Open Checkout tools → Collect in person in the dashboard.
2. Key in the amount ($1.00 to $10,000.00) on the keypad, or type it, and add an optional note such as the item or table.
3. Show the full-screen QR code to your customer.
4. They scan it with their phone's camera and pay on their own phone.
5. Your screen changes to Paid as soon as the payment goes through. Start the next sale.

Each sale is a one-time payment link: it closes after its payment and appears in Payment Links and Orders like any other, with receipts in your branding. You can cancel a sale from the QR screen before it's paid.

Tap to Pay on iPhone (coming soon)

We're bringing Tap to Pay on iPhone to the Anytime Capital app: your customer taps their contactless card, phone or watch on your iPhone, and you see Approved or Declined right away. It isn't available yet. The QR code works today on any phone, tablet or computer, and stays as the fallback once Tap to Pay on iPhone arrives.

• It will sit next to the QR code in Checkout tools → Collect in person, in the Anytime Capital app on iPhone.
• An owner or admin turns it on once for the business, by accepting Apple's terms with their Apple ID.
• It needs iPhone XS or later on a recent version of iOS. On other devices, the keypad shows the QR code as it does today.
• Tapped payments appear in Orders with the same receipts and payouts as every other payment.

Build it into your own point of sale

The same flow works from your own app through the API: create a singleUse link for the sale, render its url as a QR code, and mark the sale paid when the payment.succeeded webhook arrives with data.source.id equal to the link's id.

curl -X POST https://anytime-capital.com/api/v1/payment-links \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYTIME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: pos-7781" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "title": "Table 12",
    "amountCents": 4850,
    "singleUse": true,
    "metadata": { "saleId": "pos-7781" }
  }'

Then show the returned url as a QR code with any QR library, and deactivate the link (POST /api/v1/payment-links/{id}/deactivate) if the customer walks away.