ABOUT TAPOWNED

A plastic card on a counter,
run like a real business.

Tapowned is the operating system for tap-to-review route operators — the people who put NFC cards on local counters and get paid every month for it.
1 TAP
FROM COUNTER TO GOOGLE REVIEW PAGE
4 IN 10
COUNTERS PITCHED TYPICALLY CLOSE
$15/MO
TYPICAL PRICE AN OPERATOR CHARGES A CLIENT
90%
OF EVERY CLIENT PAYMENT KEPT ON PRO
WHAT IT IS
Simple hardware. A surprising amount of moving parts.

A card sits on a counter. A customer taps it with their phone and lands straight on that business's Google review page. No app, no QR code, no printed link to type. That's the product the business owner buys.

Running it as a route is the hard part: knowing which businesses to walk into, remembering who said come back Thursday, tracking which of your cards are programmed, shipped, in your bag or live on a counter, and making sure the money actually arrives every month. Tapowned is where all of that lives, in one place, built for the person doing the driving.

LEAD FINDER
Know which door to walk into
Real nearby businesses with live Google ratings, review counts and weekly opening hours — so you knock while they're open and pitch the ones with the most to gain.
PIPELINE
Every pitch, one board
Move a business from first walk-in to signed. Days-waiting, close streaks and the price you quoted stay attached to the deal instead of your memory.
CARDS
Track every card you own
Ordered, encoded, shipped, sitting in your bag, or live on a counter. Taps, review growth and the cards that need repositioning, all in one list.
PAYOUTS
See the money land
Client payments run through Stripe, our fee comes off automatically, and your share lands in your own account. No invoicing, no chasing.
HOW A ROUTE WORKS
01
Walk in
You find nearby businesses in the app, drive over with cards in your bag, and pitch the counter.
02
Drop a card
They tap it once, land on their own Google review page, and see the whole product in three seconds.
03
They subscribe
You set the price. Stripe collects it, our fee comes off, your share hits your account monthly.
WHO IT'S FOR
Solo operators and small crews.
The person driving between cafés, gyms, barbershops and dentists with a stack of cards — and the small teams building out a whole city together. Order printed, encoded cards from us, or register NFC hardware you bought elsewhere and keep 100% of your hardware margin either way. No territory fees, no lock-in, and your clients are yours.
WHO BUILDS IT
Operators who got tired of spreadsheets.
Tapowned is built and run by the Kaarat team — a small independent group of operators and engineers out of Melbourne who ran review routes themselves before building the tooling they wished existed. We ship continuously, take support requests from operators directly, and only grow when our operators do.
Start your route this week.
Free to start. Cards from $1.99. You keep 82% on free, 90% on Pro.
LIVE
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Tactical Penguin Layton went live +$1/mo·Amber s beauty and lash studio went live +$30·Sharetea Orana went live +$30·Tapowned client · went live +$1/mo·Tapowned client · went live +$1/mo·Tapowned client · went live +$1/mo·Tapowned client · went live +$1/mo·Tempe, AZ — Barbershop closed +$19/mo·Atlanta, GA — Nail salon closed +$15/mo·Dallas, TX — Taco spot went live +$25/mo·Chicago, IL — Dentist signed +$29/mo·Miami, FL — Coffee bar closed +$15/mo·Denver, CO — Gym hit 40 new reviews·Nashville, TN — Tattoo studio closed +$19/mo·Seattle, WA — Bakery went live +$15/mo·Austin, TX — Food truck closed +$12/mo·Las Vegas, NV — Detail shop closed +$25/mo·Charlotte, NC — Pet groomer signed +$19/mo·Detroit, MI — Pizza shop went live +$15/mo·Portland, OR — Yoga studio closed +$29/mo·Tampa, FL — Med spa closed +$35/mo·San Diego, CA — Surf shop went live +$15/mo·Phoenix, AZ — Auto shop hit 100 taps·Houston, TX — Juice bar closed +$19/mo·Boston, MA — Barber closed +$15/mo·Columbus, OH — Smoke shop went live +$12/mo·Sacramento, CA — Hair salon closed +$25/mo·