started to work at Tapp Commerce a week ago. When I tell my friends about my new job, one of the first things they ask is: What does Tapp Commerce do? I have noticed that I start the answer with a question: Did you know more people in the world have a mobile phone than a bank account? This baffles my friends, who are mostly from Europe. Can it really be so? They ask. Yes it can, I answer: This is normal for billions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America.
Not having a bank account or a credit card makes small things, that are taken for granted by my friends, impossible to many people around the world. Imagine that you can browse Facebook, take selfies, and use WhatsApp with your phone, but as soon as you want to download an app that costs five cents, or pay your electricity bill, you can’t do it. That’s where Tapp Commerce steps in. We give everybody an access to online commerce