one is a 100 percent online store.
Are you using ecommerce / online shopping cart software? If so, which?
My other business is a brick and morter that also deals with only credit cards/checks. I also want to accept bitcoins here..
Are you using point of sale software or old school cash register / drawer ?
There really is little available today for brick and mortar merchants, but at the same even a low-tech version would work because there probably isn't much bitcoin business yet.
From another thread:
There is a pretty low-tech method for doing this available now.
Launch a mobile app (Blockchain for Android) .
Click Request money.
For the amount, click the pen icon to enter USD amount.
After entering the amount it will show a QR code.
Tap the QR code to make it larger and present that to the customer..
Using a web-based EWallet this can be done as well, use Preev to convert USD to BTCs:
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http://www.Preev.comI think if a lot of businesses thought this way, it would really help out the bitcoin. I just dont know the best/easiest way for my businesses.
The solutions available to merchants are improving but there's no doubt the ones available today are sub-optimal. The e-commerce options align the best with bitcoin, so expect those options to gain wider use, But for the brick and mortar side this isn't a problem unique to bitcoin. The entire payments industry is trying to figure out a mobile payments solution that will gain traction. What bitcoin has going for it is that once the right formula gets figured out, it can be used globally. All these others are generally specific to retailers in specific jurisdictions.
