Another consideration may be your accounting strategy. You could generate an address per customer in one business, while an address per transaction makes more sense in another.
I would think a restaurant could work fine with a basic QR at the register. If you do carry-out you may also want to have the address handy on the website. Using just the address like this means employees need little training to transact and are not themselves handling bitcoins. A customer pays to the provided address, the waitress checks a site blockexplorer.com to see the transaction. The wallet itself does not have to be online. It can be sitting in your safe deposit box.
THANKS, that is my next question............
you say "check a site blockexplorer"
Like I've any idea how.
I've been to them, but it seems to be lots of irrelevant numbers, often flying by.
is the waitress supposed to get some number, or address from the customer once they pay?
??
is does MY wallet have some kind of identifier that she punches in to see what has just transpired?
THANKS!!
Every transaction creates a unique transaction ID that is posted to the block. Just paste the transaction ID into the search bar, and view the transaction there.
I greatly appreciate trying to help,
Problem is, I still have no idea where to find this "unique transaction ID that is posted to the block"
LIKE I said those numbers on that block just go flying by super fast and even if they didn't, I've no idea what they mean nor which one is mine, or the transaction that just happened.
sorry to be so ignorant on this, but I have not ever done this and everyone always answers me like I know SOME thing.
again, My thought was, I could post my wallet address or QR code for it,
without a quantity requested (cause it's always different for each customer), letting the customer enter how many btc
then a Customer will send to that address, from their smart phone or from one of the many notebooks many of them bring in to use my WIFI.
so you're telling me there is a "unique transaction ID", that part I get,
HOW and WHERE DO I GET TO BE ABLE TO SEE IT?
?? to then enter it into the BlockChain,
THIS I NEED TO KNOW.
Look at the customers phone and write down all those numbers?
give cashier access to my computer while I'm not here, with it's password and the password to my wallet so she can see it come in there?
HELP PLEASE