Serving businesses on every corner

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.

About Tillside

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.

42products
11countries served
3.1Bindividual sales transactions processed in 2024*
$164.8Bin payments processed in 2024*

* Source: 2024 Annual Report

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A continuous evolution

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.

2025

Tillside Handheld launches, giving businesses a portable, powerful point of sale that fits in a pocket.

2024

Tillside Book launches, our first client-facing app for booking personal care services.

2022

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.

Helping operators do more

“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.”
FERRY LANE PROVISIONS

Marisol Quintero

owner, Ferry Lane Provisions

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“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.”
CANTINA DEL FARO

Isabella Baptista

co-owner, Cantina del Faro

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*These businesses were paid for their time by Tillside.

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Awards & recognition

Named best point-of-sale platform by Counterline 2024

Split Pay voted among the best pay-later apps by the Ledger Weekly 2024

Listed among Forward Index's Brands That Matter 2023

All builders welcome

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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The next chapter starts with you.

Rebuild your counter — and everywhere else you sell — with tools shaped around the way you actually trade.