VSPR was founded in Sharjah, and Tabz is backed by Sharjah-based investors — so the first tables Tabz lives on are Sharjah tables. Guests scan the QR on the table, split the bill, tip the team by name and pay in the browser. No app, no hardware, AED 0 diner fee.
Most payment products launch on a waitlist. Tabz launches on real tables, because its backers hold direct ownership ties to popular cafés in Al Jada, Sharjah — the launch network is not a promise of venues to come, it is a district of counters the people behind Tabz actually run.
That is also why no café is named on this page: Tabz does not do borrowed logos or invented client walls. The tie is described exactly as it is — Sharjah-based investors, popular Al Jada cafés, direct ownership — and the product was shaped on those real counters before it ever chased a signature.
VSPR, the software & systems studio that engineers and operates Tabz, was founded in Sharjah too. The emirate is not a market on a map; it is where the whole thing is from.
Unnamed by design — real tables, no borrowed logos.
The everyday order is the honest test. A flat white and a pastry land on the table; the guest scans the card standing beside them, the live bill is already in the browser, the tip goes to the barista by name, and Apple Pay closes it — before the crema settles. No app, no queue at the counter, AED 0 diner fee.
Sharjah is in the middle of a café boom, and Al Jada is its centre of gravity — a district built around walkable blocks where speciality coffee is the anchor tenant. That is exactly the terrain pay at table was shaped for: quick orders, full counters, and bills that should never queue behind a card machine.
The launch district. Tabz goes live here first, on the tables of its own launch network — speciality cafés where the QR stand is the only new thing on the table.
Café row after café row, and evenings that fill every seat. High turnover is the whole business — paying at the table keeps the queue at the door, not at the till.
Student coffee culture: long study sessions, shared plates, split bills. Each guest pays their share and tips from their own phone — no one fronts for the table.
* Commission and payout figures are indicative targets, subject to final payment-processing terms.
Sharjah — specifically Al Jada, where the launch network lives. Tabz is backed by Sharjah-based investors with direct ownership ties to popular Al Jada cafés, so the first live tables are tables its backers actually own. Dubai and Abu Dhabi follow as rollout cities.
Because Tabz is from here. VSPR, the studio that engineers and operates Tabz, was founded in Sharjah, and the product was shaped on real café counters in Al Jada. Launching at home means launching on tables the team knows — not on a waitlist.
Yes — the network is growing beyond its founding tables. A café needs a table QR and nothing else: no hardware to buy, no terminal, no app for guests. Write to tabz@vspr.ae and the team will set you up.
AED 0 — guests never pay to pay. Scanning, splitting, tipping and paying in the browser are all free for the diner. Venue-side, the published figures are indicative targets: commission under 2% and payout in about 48 hours, subject to final payment-processing terms.