WaPay pricing
pay as you earn

Only when a customer actually pays. On Cards, fees are deducted from the payment before it lands in your bank. On Pay by Bank, the full payment lands in your account and we sweep the WaPay fee weekly via SEPA Direct Debit. Either way, if a payment never clears you pay nothing.

The rate starts at 1% per payment and slides down as your monthly volume grows: 0.9% after €10k, 0.8% after €20k, 0.7% after €30k, 0.6% after €40k. Every payment adds €0.50 on top of the percentage (that covers the bank rail), and the two together are capped at €10 — so a €5,000 payment costs €10 in fees, not €50. The % component is capped at €250/month above the floor — beyond that, only the €0.50-per-payment floor continues. No card processing fee on top; fees are collected weekly via SEPA Direct Debit.

1% WaPay platform fee per payment, capped at €10 — so a €10,000 invoice still only costs you €10 in WaPay fees. On top, Stripe charges its standard processing fee, which depends on the card: ~1.5% + €0.25 for EEA cards, ~2.5% for UK, ~3.25% for non-EEA / Amex. Both fees come out of the payment automatically before it lands in your bank. On a €10,000 invoice that's ~€150–€325 in Stripe fees (by card type) + €10 in WaPay fees.

No. Sign-up is free, the dashboard is free, the WhatsApp messages are free, the VAT exports are free. WaPay only earns a fee when a payment clears — whether via Pay by Bank (sliding rate) or Cards (1% capped at €10 + Stripe's processing fee).

Cards: if you refund a customer, the WaPay 1% is refunded on full refunds. Stripe's per-transaction processing fee on the original payment is generally not returned (standard Stripe policy). Chargebacks (disputes via the card network) are handled by Stripe — the standard chargeback fee is around €15 if you lose the dispute; we don't add anything on top.

Pay by Bank: refunds are pushed from your account back to the customer's bank. The WaPay fee attached to that payment is credited on the next weekly sweep. Because Pay by Bank is a customer-authorised push, chargebacks don't apply in the card-network sense — disputes are extremely rare.

EUR, GBP, USD, AUD, CAD on launch. Stripe handles the conversion to your bank's home currency at their standard FX rate (~1% above mid-market). The currency on the invoice is set per-customer — so an Irish business with a UK customer can bill in GBP.

Pay by Bank: seconds. It runs on SEPA Instant, so the money lands in your account before the customer has closed WhatsApp.

Cards: T+2 to T+7 depending on your bank — that's Stripe's standard payout schedule for new accounts. After your first month it usually settles at T+2 for Irish banks. You'll see "Payout pending" in your dashboard the moment the customer pays.

For Cards, Stripe handles disputes via the card network. You'll get an email and a dashboard notification. We strongly recommend attaching work photos to the invoice (the photo feature) — it's the single biggest factor in winning a dispute.

Pay by Bank payments are customer-authorised at their own bank, so disputes are extremely rare. If one does arise we help you resolve it directly with the customer.

For Cards, we onboard you directly to Stripe Connect during sign-up — takes about 5 minutes. You'll get your own Stripe dashboard if you want it; most businesses never need to look at it because everything important is in your WaPay dashboard.

For Pay by Bank, you set up a one-time SEPA Direct Debit mandate against your business bank so we can sweep the weekly fee — under a minute. You can offer either method, or both.

Yes. Export invoices, payments, customers, and VAT reports as CSV at any time from the dashboard. We don't lock data in. We also delete it on request — covered in the Privacy Policy.

Less common than you'd think — WhatsApp's at 90%+ adoption in Ireland and the UK. But yes, you can also share the payment link via SMS, email, or just paste it anywhere. The link itself is a standard URL.