True Tap to Pay turns a crew iPhone into both the point of sale and the payment device - so passengers tap their card directly on the phone, online or offline.
Most onboard tap to pay is not tap to pay. It is contactless acceptance on a separate card terminal - one more device to charge, track, reconcile and replace, and one more thing to go wrong at 35,000 feet.
Omnevo's Tap to Pay is the real thing. The passenger taps their card, Apple Pay directly on the crew member's iPhone. No terminal, no peripheral, no three-in-one hardware. The same device that runs your POS takes the payment - and it keeps working when the cabin has no connectivity.
Why airlines modernising onboard payment are moving from terminals to the devices their crew already carry.
Crew POS and card acceptance on the same iPhone. No docks, cases or paired terminals.
Take payments with no connectivity and settle once the aircraft is back online.
Tap a card, Apple Pay: the gesture they already use on the ground.
Apple and your acquirer handle the transaction; card data never touches the POS app.
Fewer devices to charge, track and replace across rotations, and less weight on board.
Crew keep the POS app they already know. Nothing changes except the hardware you no longer need.
Tap to Pay is an addition to Omnevo's onboard POS, not a replacement. Same app, same workflow, one less device.
Launching in the US and Canada
Apple processes the transaction on the device itself. No new hardware to certify, no terminal estate to procure.
Where offline handling is supported, crew keep selling without connectivity and transactions settle on reconnection.
Payments land in the same reporting as the rest of your onboard retail, route by route.
Removing the external payment device removes the last piece of dedicated hardware between your crew and a sale. Start with Tap to Pay on your existing POS and scale across your onboard and pre-order estate.
Offline support depends on the market. Book a discovery call and we will tell you exactly where Tap to Pay is available today - and where it is coming next.
