About Tapid
Every city runs on its locals: the café that knows your order, the pub where the barman nods you in, the restaurant you take everyone who visits. Tapid is our way of making loyalty to those places actually pay off.
Dublin
Dublin
LondonLoyalty cards don't work. They live in jacket pockets, go through the wash, and ask the busiest person in the room, the one behind the counter, to do the admin. Big chains solved this with apps and data teams. Local spots got left with a rubber stamp.
Tapid, founded in Dublin in 2025 and backed by NovaUCD, levels that field. By using regulated open banking instead of hardware, we let any independent business run a loyalty programme that works automatically, and give their customers rewards for doing what they were doing anyway.
Today Tapid tracks over €1.5m in local spend across 250+ businesses, with Dublin and London live and more European cities on the roadmap. Every city has locals. We intend to reward all of them.
Tapid exists for independent cafés, pubs and restaurants, the places that give a city its character. No chains, no airports, no exceptions.
The best loyalty programme is one you forget about until it pays off. We build for the background: no scanning, no stamps, no nagging.
Bank linking is explicit, regulated and revocable. We use transaction data to count your visits, never to sell you out.
Co-founder & CEO
Started Tapid in Dublin to give independents the loyalty intelligence chains have had for years. Leads product and engineering, from the app and merchant matching to open-banking integrations and everything in between. Believes the best loyalty tech disappears at the till and only shows up when a regular comes back.
tim@tapid.ieCo-founder & COO
Runs day-to-day operations and merchant growth across Dublin and London. Works directly with café, pub and restaurant owners to get them live and winning regulars back. The person merchants talk to when something needs fixing on a Tuesday morning.
alex@tapid.ie