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Topic: Best way for small online shop to accept Bitcoin? - page 2. (Read 1331 times)

legendary
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Hi, I run a couple of online shops and manage a few others for clients - they all use WooCommerce running on Wordpress and are fairly small. They all make 1 or 2 sales a day, so not major traffic, although transaction values are quite high as they sell high value items.

What would be the easiest way for me to integrate Bitcoin payment into these businesses? I have seen various services such as BitPay but don't know if any of them are recommended over any others. In some ways it seems like these guys act as a "middle man" which kind of defeats some of the benefits of using Bitcoin, if you ask me - is there a simple way to set it up without having to use such a service? (A plugin or something similar which simply works out the currency conversion and then connects to my wallet).

Any ideas or help appreciated.

Join Coinbase. Are mainly a web wallet (with to many security measures) and lately even even a very successful exchange. They have an impeccable service for merchants. I am not an expert in such kind of things but know that to many of those collaborate with it (are more than 41 000 businesses work with them). I cannot tell if is the best choice for your case but I can tell for sure that it is worth to give a luck yourself and to evaluate using your eyes and your mind if it is good for you.
sr. member
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Could you link us your store? I'm bored and want to spend my money. Is it physical or digital goods you sell?  I'm highly interested if it's some kind of digital good.

I know, bitpay is basically turning bitcoin into another PayPal, do why don't you use the blockchain.info API?
hero member
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Bitpay is one of the most popular so i would go with them if i were you.

There are some others like GoCoin or the other one "coinify" which are similar

But better try to search in google for "bitcoin payment processor"

Yeah. Bitpay is probably your best option for integrating bitcoin into your online stores. Also, what items do you sell on the site?
hero member
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I just use purse.io. Great website, but it only delivers to America. The site gives you a discount just for paying in bitcoin.
hero member
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Bitpay is one of the most popular so i would go with them if i were you.

There are some others like GoCoin or the other one "coinify" which are similar

But better try to search in google for "bitcoin payment processor"
legendary
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simplist way if the business is thinking of just storing the bitcoin (not converting to fiat)
is create a single address and make it into a QR code image.

easiest way go to: blockchain.info/address/your address
on the right is the QR code.. right click image, save image as..


then using a few lines of code you can get a price.

googling "bitcoin price api"

gives you
https://bitcoinaverage.com/api
http://www.coindesk.com/api/
https://bitcoincharts.com/about/markets-api/
https://blockchain.info/api/exchange_rates_api

if you want a bit more professionalism then bitpay can help
https://bitpay.com/integrations/woocommerce

legendary
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★YoBit.Net★ 350+ Coins Exchange & Dice
Ive paid using bitpay and it worked as it should, couldnt comment on the others.
legendary
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If the transaction volume is so low, why not setup a wallet address to send the coins to and an alert for any movements to that wallet?

You only need to be willing to accept bitcoins instead of fiat this way (or send to exchange and auto trade to fiat) and you need a simple convertor tool with the exchange rates you will be using for the payment.
member
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Hi, I run a couple of online shops and manage a few others for clients - they all use WooCommerce running on Wordpress and are fairly small. They all make 1 or 2 sales a day, so not major traffic, although transaction values are quite high as they sell high value items.

What would be the easiest way for me to integrate Bitcoin payment into these businesses? I have seen various services such as BitPay but don't know if any of them are recommended over any others. In some ways it seems like these guys act as a "middle man" which kind of defeats some of the benefits of using Bitcoin, if you ask me - is there a simple way to set it up without having to use such a service? (A plugin or something similar which simply works out the currency conversion and then connects to my wallet).

Any ideas or help appreciated.
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