We started in Amsterdam
and stopped printing.
TapReceipt is a Dutch B.V. founded in 2023 to delete the paper receipt. We are 24 people, mostly in De Pijp, occasionally on a tram with a soldering iron.
Born in a specialty café.
In late 2022, two of our cofounders were running a tiny espresso bar on Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat. The till spat out a receipt for every flat white — about 220 a day, almost all of them ending up in the bin within a metre of the counter.
They added it up. A small café was burning through a kilometre of thermal paper a year, coated in a chemical the EU had just classified as substances of very high concern. Worse, the chemical was on their fingers every shift.
They tried QR codes — too clunky. Email at the till — too slow. SMS — wrong country. The fix turned out to be the same idea behind contactless payments: a tiny chip, a one-second handoff, no app. The first puck was glued to a saucer. The second went on the bar. The third caused a queue, in a good way.
By the end of the first quarter, half the cafés on the street had taken one. By the end of the year, TapReceipt was a B.V., funded, and shipping to fourteen cities.
Three things we keep writing on the wall.
The best receipt is the one nobody thinks about. Our job is to remove a small annoyance from a million counters at once.
Three point six grams. Eleven countries. KVK 89124021. We try to use the actual number whenever a vague word would do.
No customer accounts. No tracking. No selling derived data. The puck does cryptography so we never have to do surveillance.
Twenty-four people. One counter at a time.
Backed by people who know retail floors.
Seed and Series A from Project A, Cherry Ventures, Northzone, plus a long list of angel operators who used to print receipts for a living.