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Taler logo

{{ _("Independent One-Click Payments!") }}

{% trans %} Taler is an electronic payment system under development at Inria. We expect to make it operational in 2017. Meanwhile you can learn about Taler on this website, try the demo and look at our developer and API documentation. {% endtrans %}

Design goals of Taler

{{ _("Practical") }}

{% trans %} Taler is easy to integrate with existing Web applications. Payments are cryptographically secured and are confirmed within milliseconds with extremely low transaction costs. {% endtrans %}

{{ _("Stable") }}

{% trans %} Taler does not introduce a new currency with fluctuation risks, and instead uses a digital wallet holding coins in reserve. Taler's cryptographic coins correspond to existing currencies, such as US Dollars, Euros or even Bitcoins. {% endtrans %}

{{ _("Security-focused") }}

{% trans %} By design Taler does not suffer from many classes of security problems such as phishing or conterfeit. Despite its security features, Taler never rejects a legitimate customer due to a fraud-detection false positive. {% endtrans %}

{{ _("Taxable") }}

{% trans %} When using Taler, merchants cannot hide their income from tax collection authorities. Unlike cash and most digital currencies, Taler helps prevent black markets. Taler is not suitable for illegal activities. {% endtrans %}

{{ _("Privacy-friendly") }}

{% trans %} When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to be revealed to the merchant. Just like payments in cash, nobody else can track how you spent your electronic money. However, you obtain a legally valid proof of payment. {% endtrans %}

{{ _("Libre") }}

{% trans %} Taler provides protocols and reference implementations that in principle enables anybody to run their own payment infrastructure, be it individuals, organizations or whole countries. Since the reference implementation is a GNU package, it will always remain free software. {% endtrans %}

{{ _("Paying with Taler") }}

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To pay with Taler, customers install an electronic wallet on their device. Before the first payment, the wallet's balance must be charged in the desired currency by some other means of payment.

Once the wallet is charged, payments on websites take only one click, are never falsely rejected by fraud detection and do not post any risk of phishing or identity theft.

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{{ _("Receiving payments with Taler") }}

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To receive Taler payments, a merchant needs a bank account in the desired currency. We provide SDKs in various languages to makes the integration painless. The merchant's backend for Taler transaction processing can run on the mechant's premises or hosted.

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{{ _("Taler News") }}

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{{ _("Financial News") }}

{% include "financial-news.html.j2.inc" %}
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