TapCard has moved closer to you

Every time a customer saves a card or gets a stamp at your counter, a tiny message makes a round trip from Pakistan to our servers and back. The shorter that trip, the snappier everything feels.

So we brought our servers closer. TapCard now runs on Google Cloud's Doha region, much closer to Pakistan.

Distance matters on the internet, even at the speed of light. Before the move, a round trip from Pakistan to our servers took about 220 milliseconds. From Doha, it takes about 60.

That's under a third of the time, on every single tap. Scans land faster, sign-ups finish sooner and your dashboard feels snappier. And it all runs on Google Cloud, so you get sturdier, more reliable infrastructure too.

We made the move while most of Pakistan was asleep: Wednesday 21 October 2026, 4:00 to 4:30 AM PKT. For the night owls, that was late Tuesday night.

We set aside half an hour, and the actual interruption was just a few minutes.

Your customers didn't lose a thing. Cards saved in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet stayed on their phones and kept showing their stamps the whole time.

For those few minutes, scanning stamps, new sign-ups and card saves, the merchant dashboard and POS till connections took a short break. Everything is back and running on the new servers.

Nope. Same app, same addresses, same cards. Merchants and POS partners don't need to change a thing.

The only difference you should notice is the speed.