Tide
Last verified 2026-06-02
Tide is a mainstream acquirer operating across in-person card payments. Full rate, settlement and contract terms are in the commercial profile below.
Verifiable identifier chain
- Legal entity
- Tide Platform Limited
- Companies House
- 09595646 ↗
- OpenCorporates
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Commercial profile
- Headline rate
- 1.5% per transaction
- Settlement
- Same-day to Tide Business account
- Contract
- No contract
- Channels
- In-person card payments
- Tier
- Mainstream acquirer
Editorial notes
Conditional on Tide Business banking. £49 hardware.
Hardware reviews
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Official site: Tide
Founder & Managing Director, Muswell Rose, founder and PSC of Best Business Loans Ltd
Adam is the founder and managing director of Muswell Rose and a founder of Best Business Loans Ltd, the company behind MerchantHQ. His career runs through insurance, mortgages, commercial finance and fintech lending, including payments and merchant services. He writes the MerchantHQ library.
Last reviewed: 2 June 2026
Payments review: Derren Powell, payments and fintech specialist, formerly Vice President, Business Development (Merchants) at Mastercard. Reviewed 2026-08-19. Independent reviewer; the MerchantHQ editorial team retains control of the final content.