Accept Tap Payments
without building the integration
Tap Payments is a Gulf-focused payment gateway offering the local methods that dominate the region's checkouts — mada in Saudi Arabia, KNET in Kuwait, Benefit in Bahrain, Fawry in Egypt — alongside international cards. In these markets local schemes carry more volume than global cards, which is why a card-only checkout underperforms there.
- SAR
- KWD
- AED
- BHD
- QAR
- OMR
- EGP
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- Region
- MENA
- Methods
- 4
- Credentials
- Server-side only
- PaymentHood fee
- None
- Status
- Live
What is Tap Payments?
- Coverage
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- Saudi Arabia
- Kuwait
- United Arab Emirates
- Bahrain
- Qatar
- Oman
- Egypt
Among the markets Tap Payments serves — their own list is authoritative (opens in new tab).
- Currencies
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- SAR
- KWD
- AED
- BHD
- QAR
- OMR
- EGP
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
Among those supported. Which ones your account can charge in depends on its registered country.
- Fees
- Set and billed by Tap Payments, and published on their pricing page (opens in new tab). PaymentHood adds nothing on top, at any volume.
- Official resources
- Website (opens in new tab) · Developer docs (opens in new tab)
Written against Tap Payments's own documentation on . This page deliberately states no fees, no counts and no completeness claims, because those change without notice — for anything you are about to build on, Tap Payments's own documentation (opens in new tab) is the authority.
Tap Payments payment methods
Every method below runs through the same PaymentHood checkout. Turning one on or off is a dashboard setting, not a code change.
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
Tap Payments fees and pricing
Two separate bills, and only one of them exists.
- What PaymentHood charges
- Nothing on your Tap Payments transactions. No percentage and no per-transaction cut, at any volume. Every payment feature is free, and the optional Premium plan only adds white-label checkout branding.
- What Tap Payments charges
- Tap Payments sets its own rates and bills you directly. PaymentHood never sits between you and that invoice, so switching to or from Tap Payments changes what you pay Tap Payments and nothing else.
- What moves the rate
- Payment providers price per market and per method rather than as a single global figure. Tap Payments operates across 7 countries, so the country the payment is taken in matters. It settles in SAR, KWD, AED, BHD, QAR, OMR, EGP, USD, EUR, GBP, and cross-currency transactions are not priced the same as domestic ones. It also accepts 4 different payment methods, and card, transfer and wallet rails each carry their own cost.
- Where to check the figure
- Tap Payments publishes current rates on their pricing page (opens in new tab). That is the authority, not this page. We deliberately quote no numbers here, because a rate that has quietly changed is worse than no rate at all.
How PaymentHood works with Tap Payments
A direct Tap Payments integration is not just an API call. These are the parts every team ends up rebuilding — and the parts PaymentHood ships already done.
- Credentials
- Secret API key, held server-side in PaymentHood
- 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
- Idempotent charge creation, so a retried request never double-charges a customer
- Automatic failover to another configured provider when Tap Payments is unreachable
- One reconciliation view across Tap Payments and every other provider you run
- Provider credentials never reach the storefront or the customer's browser
- Adding or switching a provider later is a dashboard change, not a re-integration
Tap Payments integrations by platform
Install the free PaymentHood plugin for your store, then enable Tap Payments in your dashboard.
How to connect Tap Payments
Open your Tap Payments account
Register directly with Tap Payments and complete their onboarding. Funds settle from Tap Payments into your own bank account — PaymentHood never holds merchant money.
Add the credentials to PaymentHood
Paste your Tap Payments API credentials into the PaymentHood dashboard. They are stored server-side and never exposed to your storefront.
Enable it at checkout
Install the PaymentHood plugin for your platform, paste your PaymentHood API key, and Tap Payments appears as a payment option. Test in sandbox, then switch to live.