TinCan
For community fundraisers

Never hear "Sorry, I don't have cash" again.

The five saddest words at a sausage sizzle, right before the awkward shuffle back to the car. Hiring an EFTPOS machine for one Saturday can run $150–200 in hire and courier fees before you've sold a single sausage, so TinCan turns the phone already in your pocket into the checkout. Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay. Nothing for them to download, nothing for you to apologise for.

Free to set up, about two minutes, no card details. You only pay when someone actually buys something, which is sort of the whole point.

Spring Gala · Sausage SizzleLive orders
Open
Raised today
$1,284.50
#48Family pack ×2Paid$24.00
#47Sausage, drinkPaid$6.50
#46Sausage ×3Collected$9.00
#45Cake slice ×2Collected$10.00
Before TinCan: "Sorry, I don't have cash."After TinCan: "Oh sweet, is that a QR code?"
Who TinCan is for

For the fundraiser, not the side hustle.

The rugby team chasing new jerseys. One person and a folding table at the Saturday fair. A cake stall staffed by whoever said yes at the meeting. If it's raising money for something bigger than you, TinCan is yours.

If you're running an actual shop, you want an actual shop system. No hard feelings, we just don't do barcode scanners.

Sports team fundraisers
Single stallholders at a fair
School gala stalls
Scout, guide & youth groups
Church & community fairs
Sizzles, cake stalls & raffles
On the day

One QR. Thirty seconds of training.

Your volunteer has never seen the software before and there's a queue forming. That's the whole design brief. Here's every step, start to finish.

Before the dayYou
Print the code once

Your menu, logo and colours on one QR poster. Print it once, keep it with the tongs.

Step 01Them
They point their camera

The poster opens your stall in their browser. Nothing to download.

Step 02Them
One order for the family

Four sausages and two drinks go in one cart, not six separate taps.

Step 03Them
They pay, however they like

Apple Pay, Google Pay or card. No account, no sign-up, nothing to download.

Step 04You
Order lands, stamped paid

Number 48, paid. Call it, hand it over, tap collected. No arguments.

Step 05You
One total, then your bank

The total is there the moment you pack down. Stripe pays it out to your bank a couple of business days later.

Why TinCan

Just enough to make the day easy.

Not a ledger, not a report. The few things that make one afternoon behind a table easier, and nothing else.

No terminal to hire

A phone and a printed QR code replace the EFTPOS machine. Nothing to hire, nothing to plug in, nothing to send back.

Nothing for them to download

The person paying uses their own phone camera. No app, no account, no password at a trestle table.

One number when you're done

A running total on the screen all afternoon, and the same number at the end of it. No spreadsheet, no adding up by hand.

Set up in minutes

Sign up, add your menu, print your QR code. Nobody should need a business registration just to sell a sausage.

What it costs

Free to your group. One fee per card payment.

That's the only charge there is, no signup fee, no monthly fee, no fine print hiding under the QR code.

3.7% + 30c

Per card payment. The only charge there is.

You choose who covers the fee.

Add it to the price so the buyer covers it, or absorb it and make it free for them. Drag the order size and watch both play out.

An order this size$12.00
one sausagea family ordera raffle bundle
Buyer taps$12.77
Fee on payment (covered by client)$0.77
Your group keeps$12.00
Upfront

Nothing. No $150+ terminal hire before you've sold a thing.

Contract

None. Nothing to sign, nothing to cancel.

Where it goes

Your bank. Straight from Stripe, funds never sit with us.

Good questions

What people ask before they sign up.

Course it does. TinCan is only for the moment right after someone pats their pockets, pulls a face, and says the five sad words. Cash is still very welcome, we just log it alongside the card sales so it counts toward the same total.

Never hear "Sorry, I don't have cash" again.

Set your stall up in about the time it takes the barbecue to warm up. Free until someone buys something. No cash required, which is sort of the whole pitch.