Empowering Success: The Transformative Collaboration of Tifo and XPay
How Tifo leveraged XPay's payment infrastructure to scale their sports platform and deliver seamless experiences for fans and organizations alike.
A football talent discovery platform embeds XPay directly into its mobile app, turning club trial registration into a frictionless, cashless experience for aspiring players across Egypt.
At a glance: 8 hours From integration start to live and active · 650,000+ EGP Collected during Pyramids Club trials · Mobile-native Payments embedded directly in Tifo's app
The challenge
Football talent discovery in Egypt has historically been informal: aspiring players relied on personal connections, word-of-mouth, and ad-hoc local trials to access top clubs. Tifo set out to change that with a mobile platform that lets players register for verified club trials, pay a registration fee, and receive trial details directly in-app. To make that experience work on mobile, Tifo needed a payment partner whose infrastructure could embed natively into their app and handle high-throughput moments like a major club trial without breaking the user flow.
The solution
Tifo integrated XPay's payment infrastructure directly into its mobile application in June 2023. The integration moved unusually fast: in precisely 8 hours, XPay was live and active inside the Tifo app, with the full integration completed in under 24 hours. From day one, players could register for trials and pay their registration fee in-app, with no redirects or external checkout flows breaking the experience.
The results
The partnership's first major test came with the Pyramids Club trials, where XPay processed more than 650,000 EGP in registration fees through Tifo's app. The platform handled the volume cleanly, players had a frictionless in-app payment experience, and Tifo's team spent the trial cycle scouting talent rather than troubleshooting payments.
Built for platforms that need to move at startup speed
Tifo's experience captures how XPay shows up for platform partners: integration in hours rather than weeks, the ability to embed payments natively in a mobile app rather than redirecting users out, and the operational support to handle high-throughput moments like a club trial without bottlenecking the partner's product team.