For banks & payment partners

How Nếp works with your banking app

Nếp is an expense log, not a payment service. It reads a VietQR code on the user's iPhone, saves the expense, then hands the transfer to the user's own banking app. The user confirms every transfer there.

Not a payment intermediary

Nếp never holds, routes or settles funds. It has no merchant account and no access to bank accounts.

No bank credentials

Users never log in to a bank inside Nếp. Nếp uses no bank API and stores no card or account passwords.

Log stays on the device

The expense log is kept on the iPhone, with optional backup to the user's own iCloud. Ordin Studio runs no server that holds it.

Data flow

Four steps, one handoff

Only step 3 involves your app. Nothing in Nếp happens after the handoff.

  1. 1

    Scan

    The user scans a VietQR code. Nếp reads the EMVCo payload on the iPhone.

    On device
  2. 2

    Save

    The user checks the amount and category. Nếp saves the expense first.

    On device
  3. 3

    Hand off

    Nếp opens the chosen banking app by one of three methods below.

    Method depends on the bank
  4. 4

    Confirm

    The user reviews and authenticates the transfer inside the banking app.

    In your app

Handoff methods

What each method carries

As of October 2026. We add a bank to a better method once its app accepts prefilled transfers.

Prefilled

VietQR link

MB · BIDV · VietinBank · ACB · OCB

Carries
Recipient account, bank, amount, transfer note, recipient name (if any)
Path
HTTPS link to dl.vietqr.io (operated by VietQR), which opens the banking app
Prefilled

Bank's own app link

Cake · MSB · TPBank · Timo · VIB

Carries
The scanned QR payload, or recipient account, amount and note
Path
App-to-app on the iPhone, no network call by Nếp
Open + paste

Open the app

Vietcombank · Techcombank · VPBank · Agribank · Sacombank · SHB · HDBank · LPBank · ABBank · PVcomBank · MoMo · ZaloPay

Carries
Nothing in the link. The recipient account number (or the QR code, for wallets) is copied to the iPhone's clipboard
Path
Local only; the copied number expires after 120 seconds

Banks not listed open the same way as the third method when their app is installed. A bank team can tell us which link format it supports and we will test it on a real device before release.

Talk to us

Integrations, data questions, press

Ordin Studio is a registered household business in Đà Nẵng, Vietnam. The founder answers partner email directly.

binh@nepcuaban.app
Publisher
Ordin Studio (Hộ kinh doanh Ordin Studio)
App
Nếp – Sổ chi tiêu tự động, iOS
Privacy policy
nepcuaban.app/privacy
Security contact
security.txt