Catch every Apple Pay tap.

Pay with your iPhone and the spend appears in Blink's Money page within seconds, already sorted. It takes about three minutes and uses Apple's Shortcuts app; there's no Blink app to install on the iPhone.

Before you start

Blink on your Mac, signed in to your server.
An iPhone with Apple Pay and the Shortcuts app (it's built in).
The Mac and iPhone on the same Apple Account, so you can copy on one and paste on the other.

On your Mac

Open Money in Blink.On the Apple Pay card, click Set Up on iPhone…
Make a link.Name it after the iPhone (say “iPhone 15”) and click Make Link. Blink shows an Address and a Key, each with a Copy button. The key is shown only now, so keep this window open until you're done.

On your iPhone

Start a new automation.Open Shortcuts › Automation › + and pick Transaction. Choose your cards, select Run Immediately, then New Blank Automation.
Add “Get Contents of URL”.Search for it and add it. Paste the Address from your Mac. Tap › and set Method to POST.
Add the key.Under Headers, add Authorization and paste the Key as its value. It starts with “Bearer”.
Send the payment.Under Request Body choose JSON and add three text fields: amount with Shortcut Input › Amount, merchant with Merchant, and card with Card or Pass.
Optional: see what Blink saved.Add Show Notification with Contents of URL.
Pay once to test.Tap your iPhone to pay. The spend shows up in Money; change or delete it there.

What it looks like when it's right

Get contents of https://…/functions/v1/capture

Method: POST
Headers: Authorization Bearer ••••••
Request Body: JSON
amount: Amount
merchant: Merchant
card: Card or Pass

Blue words are what you paste or pick; the orange ones are taken from each payment.

Which account it goes to

Blink names the account from the card: a card called “Visa Debit” goes to your Visa account. If no account matches, the spend goes to your default account. Receipts that also arrive by mail are added only once.

Private by design

Each tap goes straight from your iPhone to your own server, with a key only that iPhone has. Pexilim never sees your spending. To stop an iPhone sending taps, click Remove next to it on the Apple Pay card; make a new link to start again.

If a tap doesn't show up

Nothing at all: check the automation is set to Run Immediately, and that the Address was pasted whole.
The notification says “unauthorized”: the Key is missing “Bearer” or a character; copy it again from a new link.
Wrong amount or merchant: make sure each JSON field uses the payment's own value (orange), not typed text.
Several iPhones: make one link per iPhone with Add Another iPhone.

Need help?

Write to hello@blinkk.app.