Biometric payment infrastructure

The payment card
you never carry.

PALMA is biometric payment infrastructure that lets people authenticate physical purchases with their palm - securely connecting customers, merchants and payment networks.

Palm
Identity
Payment
Merchant
Receipt
PALMA Terminal

NGN 30,000

GreenMart - Bodija

Payments were built around things you carry.

Card

Phone

Cash

Wallet

PALMA is built around something you are.

Today, physical payments often require a customer to carry a card, phone or cash. PALMA introduces another interaction model — one where identity itself becomes the starting point of the transaction.

How it works

Three seconds. No card. No phone.

01

Walk in.

Customer enters a PALMA-enabled merchant.

02

Shop.

Customer selects what they need.

03

Present your palm.

The PALMA terminal securely authenticates the customer.

04

Approved.

The payment is authorized through the customer's selected funding source.

05

Receipt delivered.

The purchase immediately appears inside the PALMA app.

The PALMA ecosystem

Infrastructure, not just an app.

We’re building the infrastructure layer that allows biometric identity to become a payment interface — sitting between physical commerce and the payment networks behind it.

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For customers

Your palm becomes the simplest way to pay.

Every purchase lives in one place — merchant, items, price and payment method, the moment you walk out the door.

  • Itemized digital receipts
  • Manage funding sources & limits
  • Freeze biometric payment instantly
  • Review security activity
PALMA

Wallet

₦100,000

Recent activity

GreenMart

Groceries

-₦30,000

GreenMart — Bodija
15 Aug, 18:42
Rice 5kg₦15,000
Chicken₦8,500
Bread ×2₦4,000
Milk₦2,500
Paid with PALMA WalletSuccessful
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Order

Rice 5kg15,000
Chicken8,500
Bread ×24,000
Milk2,500
Total30,000

Palm recognized

For merchants

Checkout without the checkout friction.

One terminal, one integration — everything a merchant needs to accept, reconcile and report on palm-authenticated payments.

  • PALMA terminal
  • Payment APIs
  • Merchant dashboard
  • Product & catalog integration
  • Itemized receipts
  • Staff management
  • Transaction reporting
  • Refunds & settlement tracking

The wallet

Your money, ready when you are.

A secure digital wallet experience designed to work with PALMA’s regulated financial infrastructure and partners — one funding source among several a customer can choose at the terminal.

  • Add money
  • Transfers, where supported
  • Payment limits
  • Security controls
  • Statements & history
PALMA Wallet

₦100,000

Available balance

Biometric security

Your palm isn’t a password.

It is an authentication signal, protected by layers of security.

PALMA is designed so biometric authentication authorizes a payment — it does not directly move money by itself.

  • Protected biometric credentials
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Secure terminal communication
  • Transaction challenges
  • Fraud monitoring
  • Credential revocation
  • Audit trails
01Palm
02Liveness detection
03Biometric verification
04Device trust
05Risk engine
06Payment authorization
07Settlement

Identity should give you control. Not give away your data.

PALMA is designed around privacy and security from the beginning — not added afterward.

Data minimization
Protected biometric credentials
Encryption
Strict access controls
Auditability
Explicit user controls
Credential revocation
Defined retention policies
Regulatory compliance

Built for physical commerce

One identity. Everywhere you shop.

Supermarkets
Restaurants
Retail stores
Pharmacies
Campuses
Events
Transport
Hospitality
Enterprise

Developer platform

Build PALMA into your checkout.

Merchants and payment partners will be able to integrate PALMA into existing commerce systems through APIs, SDKs and terminal infrastructure.

Payment intentPalm authenticationRisk decisionAuthorizationReceipt
Explore the developer platform
payment-intents.http
POST /v1/payment-intents

{
  "amount": 30000,
  "currency": "NGN",
  "order_id": "ord_123",
  "preferred_method": "palm"
}

The future

We’re starting with the palm.

But the vision is bigger.

Palm
Face
Wearables
Other secure authenticators

PALMA is building an identity layer for physical commerce.

The palm is our first interface.
The infrastructure is the real product.

Payments are invisible when the infrastructure works.

Production target

99.99%

Availability — target, not a measured result

Secure authentication

Real-time authorization

Transaction monitoring

Settlement

Reconciliation

Auditability

Be there before the first tap.

PALMA is currently being built for the next generation of physical commerce.