More than 3.7 million merchants* run on Tillside, the only platform of its kind built for one-person studios and the largest international chains alike.
Twelve years ago, plenty of small businesses still could not take a card. Tillside set out to change that — building a pocket reader that turned any phone into a register. It let shops sell wherever their customers were, and it changed how the wider financial system thinks about small operators. From there the company moved well past card processing into the software and hardware that runs a whole business.
Today, Tillside is a full commerce platform serving every kind of trade. The Tillside operating system lets owners sell anywhere, work more efficiently, track inventory, stay in touch with regulars, take bookings, plan menus, sell online, and a good deal more. Those tools open real room to move for any operation, from international groups to a two-person bakery.
* Source: 2024 Annual Report
Tillside started in 2013 with a card reader for mobile phones — the first of its kind. That single opening helped grow the company from one product into a full suite for running every side of a business, hardware and software together.
Tillside Handheld launches, giving businesses a portable, powerful point of sale that fits in a pocket.
Tillside Book launches, our first client-facing app for booking personal care services.
Tap to Pay on phone launches, letting sellers accept card payments with no additional hardware needed.
Tillside arrives in Portugal and, later, becomes available in Portuguese.
Tillside Stand launches, integrating tap payments and the buyer display into a single counter unit.
The Tillside Reader launches, giving anyone a way to take card payments on the go.
“As we've expanded the shop and taken on more categories, and as the day-to-day got genuinely complicated, Tillside matched exactly what we needed. Since we moved over, we've close to tripled the business.”
“We opened a second room and a small roastery in the same year. Tillside kept one view of stock, staff and takings across both — we stopped guessing and started scheduling against real numbers.”
*These businesses were paid for their time by Tillside.
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Tillside builds, collaborates, and learns for the businesses that use it and for each other. A global footprint, a genuinely distributed workforce, and high expectations of one another have made it one of the better places to work.
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