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title: "Taking payment in person · BlastoClean docs"
description: "Tap to Pay on iPhone and Android, the hosted card page on the phone, and recording cash or a check — all from the visit, at the customer’s door."
url: "https://www.blastoclean.com/docs/taking-payment-in-person"
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# Taking payment in person

Getting paid · Mobile app · 2 min read · updated August 13, 2026

**The phone is the card reader: Tap to Pay on supported iPhones and Androids, a hosted Stripe card page for everything else, and cash or checks recorded with no payment account connected at all.**

The money panel is on the visit, so taking payment is something that happens
where the work happened rather than back at the office three days later.

![A visit in the mobile app with the payment panel and Record payment button](/images/docs/mobile-visit-detail.webp)

## Tap to Pay

With your Stripe account linked, the phone **is** the terminal: Tap to Pay on
supported iPhones, NFC on supported Androids. The customer taps their card or
their phone against yours.

The division of labour is deliberate: **the server sets the amount**, the phone
collects the card, and the ledger settles from Stripe's answer — so a phone that
dies mid-tap cannot leave you with a payment that happened and a record that
does not know about it.

## The hosted card page

No tap — an older phone, a card that will not read, a customer who would rather
type it? Open the hosted **Stripe Checkout** card page on the phone. It is the
same page a payment link opens. The customer enters their card there, and **the
card number goes straight to Stripe** — it never touches this app.

Tap to Pay and card entry are offered independently of each other. The server
advertises each on its own and the app renders exactly what it is told, rather
than guessing at what the device can do and quietly hiding the option that would
have worked.

## Cash, checks and everything else

**This needs no payment account at all**, and that is the point rather than a
consolation prize. Record cash, a check, a bank transfer, or any method your
company has defined, and refund them later if you need to.

## Tips

Where your company has switched tips on for the working location, every
in-person flow asks once, up front: preset percentages with their real amounts
shown, a typed amount, or no tip. The tip goes to the server, which owns the
arithmetic, and the ledger row afterwards says "includes … tip". See
[Tips, fees and refunds](/docs/tips-fees-and-refunds).

## The other two ways

From the same panel you can also **charge the card on file**, or **email a
payment link** — for the customer who wants to pay later, or who is not there.