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How To Set Up: Tap to Pay

Learn how to enable tap to pay

Updated over a month ago

This article will talk you through how to enable you to take tap to pay payments in your clinic. With this payment feature, there are no card terminals required. Simply send the payment, tap and pay.


Before you start:

Make sure your account has an active Stripe account connected.

This can be added within ‘Take payments’ under the heading ‘Online bookings’ within your settings page.

Please follow the prompts to either create or login to your account.

Step 1

- Navigate to the app store on your iPhone/ IOS device.

- Within the search bar, search ‘ANS pay’

- Click to download the ANS Pay App.

Step 2

- Once downloaded click to open the app

- Enter your ANS credentials, these must be the same credentials used to login to the software to send the payment from.


Step 3

The App will prompt you to turn your locations on- Please select to allow ANS to use your locations.


Step 4

The app will prompt you to enable tap to pay, if this doesn’t please select the ‘Tap to pay on iphone’ icon.

Step 5

Select the blue ‘Enable Now’ button

Step 6

- Select the location of where you will be taking payments

- Carefully read the information displayed on each page, selecting next after each screen.

- Once successfully connected the ‘Tap to pay enabled’ button will be greyed out.

Step 7

Navigate to the web-version of ANS (https://portal.aestheticnursesoftware.com) on a different device, logging in with the same credentials used to login to the ANS pay app.

Taking payments from the invoice

Step 8

Navigate to the patient record and select the appointment from the list that you would like to take payment for.

Step 9

Ensure the treatment has been added to the treatment details section and the price has been added correctly.

Step 10

Navigate to the invoice page, and select the green ‘pay by card’ button.


​Step 11

- Use the drop down to select what type of payment you are taking is.

- Enter the amount of the payment you want to charge

- Enter a description for the payment

- Select the ‘pay by card’ option.

Step 12

This will transfer the payment through the ANS pay app. If the payment isn’t showing please navigate to the ‘Transactions’ list at the bottom of the screen

Step 13

Select the blue ‘Tap to pay on iphone’ button and tap the card/ contactless device onto the phone screen to make payment. Most visa, mastercard, American express cards and apple, google and Samsung pay are supported methods of contactless payments.

Step 14

Once payment has been taken, refresh the invoice page on the ANS to show the itemised payment.

Taking payments from the diary

Step 15

- Navigate to the calendar page within the software.

- Select the appointment you would like to take payment for

- When the appointment details show select the ‘Payments’ toggle, then ‘Take payments’

Step 16

- Use the drop down to select what type of payment you are taking is.

- Enter the amount of the payment you want to charge

- Enter a description for the payment

- Select the middle ‘pay by card’ option.


Step 17

This will transfer the payment through the ANS pay app. If the payment isn’t showing please navigate to the ‘Transactions’ list at the bottom of the screen

Step 18

Select the blue ‘Tap to pay on iphone’ button and tap the card/ contactless device onto the phone screen to make payment. Most visa, mastercard, American express cards and apple, google and Samsung pay are supported methods of contactless payments.

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