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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

{{ _("Taxable") }}

{% trans %} When using Taler, merchants can't hide their income from tax collection authorities. Unlike cash and most digital currencies, Taler helps preventing black markets. {% 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 everybody 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 %}

{{ _("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 %}

Paying with Taler

In order to pay with Taler, users install a wallet browser extension or app on their device. Before a payment is possible, the wallet's balance must be charged by some other means of payment for the desired currency.

Receiving payments with Taler

To receive Taler payments, a merchant only needs a bank account (or any other kind of payment address) in the desired currency. We provide an SDK in various languages that makes the integration into a merchant's store painless.

Learn more

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