Tippy
Tip the waiter even when not carrying any cash with Tippy. Ask the waiter for his unique Tippy ID and pay the tip from the app over the integrated Stripe payment gateway.
Tippy is a mobile app for iOS and Android that lets a diner to tip the waiter without cash. The tip-amount is credited directly to Tip receiver’s bank account linked with a unique Tippy ID.
Exclusive Features
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Tip Details
Rate your tip receiver, enter tip amount, and add a message if you want to and proceed to pay tip.
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Pay Tip
Paying tip is as simple as entering the Tippy number, finding the receivers location, or select from a list.
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Tip Detail
The tipper can learn the tip amount, rating, location, and message he delivered alongside the tip.
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Tip History
Check to whom you tipped, how much, their Tippy ID, what they look like and where they work at
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Workplace
To start receiving tip from customers, a user must confirm his workplace’s location from Google Maps
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Location List
A tipper can also tip based on the tip receiver’s location. This comes handy when you don’t know the tip ID
The Challenges & Solutions
- To manage tip receiver’s transactions and display amount received in the bank account
- To manage Tipper’s Account flow and secure it against unauthorized tipping
- There may come across a situation when a user wants to be a Tipper as well as Tippy
- Every Tippee required to enter his bank details to receive the unique Tippy ID. Integrated Stripe Connected Account APIs then creates a Stripe account on his behalf with the bank details
- We used a custom API for the complex flow of Tippy charges and Stripe Charges. Moreover, we added Security Questions and PIN Mechanism to protect the Tipper’s Account.
- We managed all the complex scenarios of becoming tip giver to tip receiver and vice versa by fetching the current state of the user and data provided through custom API.
8 People
Team Size
16 Weeks
Project Duration
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