KeroPay is an Italian fintech startup offering a biometric payment system that lets customers pay by simply holding their palm near a POS terminal. The platform combines palm-vein recognition with traditional card, smartphone, and contactless payments on a single device, with registration completed online and finalized in person at a KeroPay terminal. The company also provides payment APIs for e-commerce checkout and serves the vending machine sector with fingerprint authentication.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional payment methods require customers to carry physical cards, smartphones, or other devices, creating friction at the point of sale and excluding those who forget or lack these items. Biometric authentication, while more convenient, is often complex to deploy and raises concerns about security and privacy.
Solution
KeroPay provides a biometric payment system that allows customers to pay by simply holding their palm near a POS terminal, making the transaction as natural as a handshake. The system uses palm-vein recognition technology, with registration initiated online via a web app and completed in person at a KeroPay terminal to securely associate the biometric data with the user's payment method. The same POS also accepts traditional cards, smartphones, and contactless payments, giving merchants a unified solution. For businesses, KeroPay offers a dashboard to manage payments, direct support, and APIs to integrate checkout into e-commerce sites under a single contract.
Target Audience
Primary customers are merchants and businesses of all sizes, from single point-of-sale operations to multi-location networks, as well as vending machine operators seeking biometric authentication for their services.
Features
- Palm-vein biometric authentication for contactless payment at the POS
- Hybrid POS terminal supporting cards, smartphones, and contactless payments alongside palm recognition
- Two-step registration process: online account creation followed by in-person biometric enrollment at a KeroPay terminal
- Encrypted biometric data storage designed to protect authentication and respect privacy
- Payment APIs for e-commerce checkout integration with the same contract and rates as in-store
- Dedicated dashboard for merchants to manage payments and track transactions
- Vending machine authentication via fingerprint for existing vending clients