Solid

👋 For side hustles, freelancers, shops and restaurants

Your till is
already in
your pocket.

Solid turns the keyboard you type with into a counter that takes Solana. No card machine to rent, no percentage taken out of every sale, and no waiting three days for money that is already yours.

Free for 30 daysOpen an account The honest bitWhat it costs
Plans in dollars, or rand in South Africa Customers pay with Solana Pay You pay us in stablecoins, not by card

A sale, on the phone already in the shop.

Is it only for shops?

From braids on a Saturday
to a busy restaurant.

No company registration needed: a name, an email address and your country open your till. Start with what you need today and add items, staff and invoices as you grow. Your own money and the business's stay apart, in the same app.

Side hustle · start-up

Nia's braids

Saturdays from home, bookings in the DMs.

  • Payment links nobody can edit
  • A code to scan, face to face
  • Receipts as PDFs, from the chain
Freelancer · consultant

Lena M. Design

Clients, invoices and due dates.

  • Numbered invoices with tax
  • Marked paid the moment it lands
  • Clients saved for next month
On the move

Maths with Sam

Tutors, plumbers, call-outs.

  • No fixed price? The till asks
  • The bill in the chat after the job
  • No card machine in the van
Stall · corner shop

Tina's Corner Shop

A busy counter and regulars.

  • Your prices as items
  • Pay by code, link or a tap
  • Snap your price list once
Salon · studio

Glow Studio

Three chairs, three phones.

  • Every sale carries a name
  • Only your phone sends refunds
  • Stamps for the regulars
Café · restaurant

Little Bean

A full menu and a full floor.

  • The whole menu as till items
  • Takings by day and by staff
  • Sales, staff and invoices on the web
Start free with payment links and a code. Open a till when you want items, staff and invoices.

So how does the money actually move?

Three taps, and the
money never touches us.

Watch where it goes. Solid writes the request and tells you when it landed. It is not in the middle, which is why there is nothing for it to take a percentage of.

✓

You

Ring it up

Tap the items, or type an amount. The till knows your prices, so a round of coffees is four taps.

✓

Your customer

They approve it

A link, a code on your screen, or their phone held against yours. They confirm it in their own wallet, on their own phone.

✓

Solana

It settles

Seconds, not days. Into the address you gave us, which you already control.

Their wallet Your account

The money goes straight across. It does not stop at Solid, at a bank, or in a balance somebody else is holding for you. There is nothing to withdraw and no payout day.

Do my customers need an app?

Your customer needs nothing.
Not even an app.

Every other way of taking crypto at a counter asks the person paying to have already done something. Solid asks for nothing. All three are Solana Pay, so any Solana wallet can pay them. Pick whichever is quickest at your counter.

Your shop: bill for 4.50 USDCsendsolid.app/q/…

Send them a link

In whatever chat you are already in. It opens a page in any browser showing the amount, where it is going and that the bill is from your shop, and hands the payment to whichever wallet they have. Nobody can edit the amount, and the page says Paid once it lands.

Turn the phone around

Any Solana wallet scans it. Nothing is paid until they approve it on their own phone, which is the part that makes a stranger comfortable doing this at all.

Or they just tap

Your phone holds the bill out over NFC. Theirs reads it like a tag and opens the link, with no app installed and nothing tapped first.

What about my staff?

Staff can take money
without being able
to move it.

A second phone joins your shop by typing a code. It rings up sales under its own name, so the day's takings say who took what.

Your phone

Holds the wallet. It is the only one that can sign anything, so it is the only one that can send a refund.

A staff phone

Holds no wallet and never will. It cannot sign, because there is no key on it to sign with. That is the shape of the thing rather than a setting somebody can switch off.

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Every sale carries a name

Not so you can watch anybody. So that a disputed sale has an answer, and so tips can be split on something better than memory.

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Refunds come from you

A staff phone cannot send a refund, because there is no wallet on it. Refunds go out from your phone, and your wallet signs each one.

▲

A phone leaves when the person does

Remove it from your list and its code stops working. It cannot remove itself, because anybody holding it could otherwise tidy themselves out of your records on the way out of the door.

What about my regulars?

The eleventh coffee
is on the house.

Every paid visit drops a stamp into your customer's wallet: a little Solana bolt they can't lose, and nobody can fake. When the card is full, the till knows.

Your shopLOYALTY

7 of 10. 3 more to a free flat white.

A reward you choose

A free item, a percentage off the bill, or a percentage off one thing. The till takes it off with one tap from the customer's pass.

A free coffee is free

A reward that covers the whole bill isn't charged at all. The till records it against the card, so the same card can't be used twice.

Perks for SKR stakers

Offer customers who stake SKR something extra: a free extra, a discount, or days to pay. Their pass shows the till what they qualify for.

Solid Business, on the web

Your sales, items, staff and invoices in a browser, for the admin you'd rather not do on a phone.

Can people find me?

A page of your own,
and a pin on the map.

01

Your page

Once we've checked your business, switch on your menu, opening hours and a pay button at sendsolid.app/b/your-shop. Share it anywhere: anybody with a Solana wallet can pay you from it, without an app.

02

On the map

Your live page joins sendsolid.app/find, and Google can find it, with your plan. Sorted nearest, newest or A to Z as the visitor chooses. The order is never sold: promoted offers sit apart, labelled as paid.

03

Verified on Solana

Once we've checked your business, you can publish that on chain, and the wallets that pay you can read it there, with nobody's word to take for it. Free with your plan, and only if you switch it on.

What if it's just me?

One person is not
a smaller version
of a shop.

Most point-of-sale software is built for a business with staff and then sold to a barber, a plumber and a woman with a stall, who pay for four tills they will never own and switch off half the screen.

Solid has no staff, no seats and no attribution until you add a second phone. There is nothing to configure and nothing to dismiss. The cheapest plan is the one-person plan rather than a trial of the real one, and an item with no fixed price simply asks at the till, which is what a call-out or a repair needs.

Okay. What does it cost?

A fee you can predict,
instead of a slice
of every sale.

Solid takes nothing out of a payment. Not a percentage, not a fixed fee, not a spread on a conversion. You pay for the software and keep the sale.

Showing rand. Businesses registered in South Africa are billed in rand.Showing dollars. Businesses registered outside South Africa are billed in dollars.

The first 30 days are free, and there is no card to start. Nothing is charged when they end - you choose monthly or yearly, and pay the first invoice from your wallet to keep the till open.

Or stake instead. Stake SKR from your shop's own wallet, the one your payments land in, and while it stakes the amount your account shows, the plan and then each add-on are covered. Your SKR stays staked where it is, and your personal stake stays yours.

Every shop

R199$18a month

Or $18 outside South AfricaOr R199 in South Africa

  • Your phone, and everything on this page
  • No percentage, no matter what you take
  • Cancel whenever, keep the month you paid for

Each extra phone

R15$2a month

Or $2 outside South AfricaOr R15 in South Africa

  • Staff names on every sale
  • No wallet on it, so it cannot move money
  • Add one mid-month, remove it when the season ends

Pay for a year

R1990$180a year

Or $180 outside South AfricaOr R1990 in South Africa

  • Ten months for twelve
  • R165.83 a month, and R150 a year for each extra phone$15 a month, and $20 a year for each extra phone
  • One decision instead of twelve

How you pay us: Solana Pay, in stablecoins

Each month, or each year if you choose, an invoice from Solid is emailed to you and waits in Solid Business with a Solana Pay link, with a reminder before it is due. Pay it from any Solana wallet, in ZARP, the rand stablecoinUSDC, the dollar stablecoin. No card, no debit order, and nothing ever taken out of your sales.

Businesses registered in South Africa pay in rand (ZARP) and everywhere else pays in dollars (USDC), so there is no exchange rate between the price you see and what you pay. Or stake SKR and the till opens without a subscription at all.

ZARP · rand USDC · dollars
$20 a day, one phone

The number that matters is not the price, it is the break-even. Card machines take roughly 2.6 to 3 per cent of every sale and often charge nothing monthly, so a flat fee is competing against "free until I transact".

Divide the fee by the percentage and you get the takings at which Solid becomes the cheaper one. $18 against three per cent is $600 a month, which is $20 a day. Five phones is roughly $29 a day. Above that line every extra sale is free.

The same sum works on a single phone you are thinking of adding: $2 against three per cent is about $67 a month through it, a little over $2 a day.

The gap widens the more you sell, because ours stops growing. A shop taking $100 a day hands roughly $3 of it to a machine and about 60 cents to us. At $250 a day it is about $7.50 against the same 60 cents.

R221 a day, one phone

The number that matters is not the price, it is the break-even. The machines you are choosing between take roughly 2.6 to 3 per cent of every sale and charge nothing monthly, so a flat fee is competing against "free until I transact".

Divide the fee by the percentage and you get the takings at which Solid becomes the cheaper one. R199 against three per cent is about R6,600 a month, which is R221 a day. Five phones is roughly R288 a day. Above that line every extra sale is free, and on a busy Saturday the difference is the day's wages.

The same sum works on a single phone you are thinking of adding: R15 against three per cent is R500 a month through it, about R17 a day. A counter that takes less than that is a counter to leave off.

The gap widens the more you sell, because ours stops growing. A shop taking R2,000 a day hands roughly R60 of it to a machine and R6.60 to us. At R5,000 a day it is about R150 against the same R6.60, because a percentage keeps taking and a monthly fee does not.

What a payment costs

The Solana network fee, which is a fraction of a cent, paid by whoever sends. The first time somebody is paid in a token they have never held, there is a one-off account rent on the chain. Both go to the network. Neither goes to us.

No chargebacks

A settled payment is settled. Nobody can reverse it six weeks later because a card was disputed, which is the risk that makes card processors hold your money in the first place.

Nothing to withdraw

There is no balance here and no payout day. The money was in your own account the moment it settled, and we could not hold it back if we wanted to.

Every extra phone is the same price, up to a hundred on one account. If you need more than that, say so and we will sort it out.

Why Solana?

We found our SOL mate.

Because the fee has to be smaller than the coffee. This only works on a chain where moving money costs almost nothing and finishes while somebody is still standing at your counter. That is a short list, and it is why the whole product is built on one chain rather than hedging across several.

01

The fee is a fraction of a cent

A chain with a one dollar fee cannot take a two dollar payment at all. Any percentage-based cost, however small, is a tax on every sale you make; a flat fraction of a cent is not.

02

It settles in seconds

Not a pending state, not a batch overnight, not three working days. The customer is still in front of you when the money is yours, which is the only kind of confirmation worth anything at a counter.

03

The stablecoins are there

Dollars that every wallet holds, and local money as it arrives: rands already. Being paid in a currency that is worth the same tomorrow is the difference between taking crypto and speculating with your takings, and most chains still cannot offer a shop its own.

04

Any wallet already works

Mobile Wallet Adapter is a standard rather than a partnership, so your customer uses whatever they already have and we never had to pick a winner on their behalf.

05

The record is public

Your day's takings sit on Solana against your own address. That is a better record than ours would be, it settles a dispute without our help, and no breach here could reach it.

Right. How do I start?

Open your till. In a few minutes.

A business name and an email. No password to forget and nothing to install before you find out whether it suits you. You tell us where to be paid once you are signed in, which is the only place it is safe to ask.

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