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Till transactions

Take a payment in person without a card terminal. Enter the amount, show the customer a QR code, and they pay from their own phone.

Taking a payment

  1. Open Till Mode

    Till Mode sits at the bottom of the portal sidebar, separate from the rest of the navigation. It is built to be used on a phone or a tablet on the counter.

  2. Enter the amount

    Type what the customer owes. This is the one number that matters, so it is the one thing on the screen.

  3. Choose what you will accept

    Accepted Payment Types is Open Banking, Card, or Open Banking + Card. Offering both lets the customer pick, which is usually the right call at a counter where you cannot predict what they are carrying.

  4. Show them the QR code

    Flik displays a Scan to Pay code. Turn the screen around and let the customer scan it with their own phone. The payment happens on their device, in their banking app or with their card — you never handle their details and nothing is typed into your device.

  5. Wait for the confirmation

    The screen updates when the payment completes. That is your receipt that it worked — not the customer saying it went through on their phone.

Wait for your own screen A customer showing you a success screen on their phone is not confirmation. Payments can be initiated and still fail, and a phone screen is the easiest thing in the world to fake. The till tells you when the money is actually moving.

Why a QR code rather than a terminal

The customer pays on their own phone, so there is no card reader to buy, maintain or replace, and no card details pass through your device or your staff. For account-to-account payments the money moves directly from their bank to yours, without card network fees in between.

Using it every day

Each till payment is a transaction like any other and appears under Transactions, so the day reconciles the same way the rest of your takings do.

If you would rather have one code on the counter permanently than generate a new one per sale, that is a payment square instead — the customer enters the amount themselves, which suits a tip jar or a donation box more than it suits a till.

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