Accept Tap Payments
payments on J2Commerce
Install the free PaymentHood plugin for J2Commerce, connect your Tap Payments account, and Tap Payments appears as a payment option at checkout. No custom gateway code, and no second integration when you add another provider later.
- SAR
- KWD
- AED
- BHD
- QAR
- OMR
- EGP
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- Platform
- Joomla 4.0+
- Provider
- Tap Payments
- Install via
- Extensions → Manage → Install
- Billing
- One-time
- PaymentHood fee
- None
Tap Payments on J2Commerce at a glance
- Joomla version
- Joomla 4.0+
- Where you install it
- Joomla admin → Extensions → Manage → Install
- Coverage
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- Saudi Arabia
- Kuwait
- United Arab Emirates
- Bahrain
- Qatar
- Oman
- Egypt
- Currencies
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- SAR
- KWD
- AED
- BHD
- QAR
- OMR
- EGP
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- Billing models
- One-time checkout payments. Recurring billing is not supported by the J2Commerce plugin yet.
- Cost
- The plugin is free and open source. You pay Tap Payments's own fees, published on their pricing page (opens in new tab). PaymentHood adds nothing on top.
Coverage, currencies and payment methods as published by Tap Payments, who set and update them. For the current list see Tap Payments's own documentation (opens in new tab).
What J2Commerce customers can pay with
Each method Tap Payments supports appears in your J2Commerce checkout. Enabling one is a PaymentHood dashboard setting — nothing changes on the Joomla side.
Local schemes
mada, KNET, Benefit and Fawry
Cards
Visa, Mastercard and American Express
Digital wallets
Apple Pay and Google Pay
Buy now, pay later
Tabby and regional instalment providers
Connect Tap Payments to J2Commerce
Four steps, no code. The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the J2Commerce installation guide.
Open a Tap Payments account
Register with Tap Payments and finish their onboarding. Funds settle from Tap Payments to your own bank account.
Add it in PaymentHood
Paste your Tap Payments credentials into the PaymentHood dashboard. They stay server-side and never reach your storefront.
Install the plugin
Download the J2Commerce plugin and install it from Extensions → Manage → Install in your Joomla admin.
Enable and test
Paste your PaymentHood API key into the plugin settings, run a sandbox order end to end, then switch to live.
Rather than a direct Tap Payments plugin
A single-provider plugin works until you need a second provider. These are the parts you would otherwise build and maintain yourself.
- Webhook security
- Signed charge notification, validated before an order is released
- Payment verification
- Server-side charge status re-check against the Tap API before fulfilment
- Credentials
- Secret API key, held server-side in PaymentHood
- Add a second provider without touching your J2Commerce checkout
- Automatic failover when Tap Payments is unreachable, instead of a failed order
- Idempotent charge creation, so a double-submitted order is not a double charge
- One reconciliation view across every provider you run
- Free and open source — read the plugin on GitHub (opens in new tab)