Tap Payments Gateway (GCC) connects your Shopify store to Tap Payments so you can charge customers in KSA, UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain using the rails they actually use at checkout: KNET, mada, Benefit, Apple Pay and Visa/Mastercard — not just generic international cards that get declined locally.

This is not an instant App Store download. ECOSIRE builds, installs and supports the gateway for your specific store. We register a Shopify Payments App (custom app via the Partner Dashboard / OAuth), wire it to your Tap merchant account, and configure currency, settlement and country routing for each market you sell in. Because it's a real Payments App extension, the customer pays inside Shopify's native checkout — no off-site redirect to a hosted page that leaks conversions.

Under the hood we implement the full session lifecycle: payment session create → 3-D Secure (3DS2) challenge → tokenization for returning customers → capture/void/refund, all reconciled back to the Shopify order via Admin GraphQL API mutations and orders/paid / refunds/create webhooks. We store gateway references in order metafields so your finance team can match Shopify orders to Tap settlements without exporting CSVs.

The checkout renders in Arabic and English with correct RTL layout, and we handle the GCC-specific edge cases — KNET's Kuwaiti dinar 3-decimal handling, mada BIN routing, and per-country acquiring.

Onboarding takes days, not the months a from-scratch PSP integration usually needs. You own the Tap merchant relationship and the funds; ECOSIRE owns the engineering. After go-live we provide ongoing maintenance against Shopify API version deprecations and Tap API changes, so the gateway keeps working as both platforms evolve.