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Topic: Would like to accept BitCoins for my wife's Boutique (Read 3432 times)

edd
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I use wordpress and Cart66 Lite with very little modification to accept BTC.
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My wife has a boutique, I have set up a web site for her (http://www.heidijosboutique.com) and have set it up to sell some of her items online.

I am using Wordpress with the eshop plugin.

How would I go about accepting bitcoins for clothing when the customer goes to checkout online?


If you want to stick with Wordpress and eShop, you'll have to write (or hire someone to write) a bitcoin payment gateway for eShop, as one doesn't currently exist.  If you're willing to switch to another shopping cart platform, there are various options available.  I've set up OpenCart with the bitcoin payment module, and it seems to work pretty well.
XIU
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Nice looking site, good luck with it  Smiley
legendary
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vip
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For in person customers,  you may want to use this to make a sign near the register.

http://leetcoin.appspot.com/merch/

I'm not sure many of your walk-in customers are ready to pay with bitcoins from their smartphone.
hero member
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My gf wants that mask, in case you sell it.
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My wife has a boutique, I have set up a web site for her (http://www.heidijosboutique.com) and have set it up to sell some of her items online.

I am using Wordpress with the eshop plugin.

How would I go about accepting bitcoins for clothing when the customer goes to checkout online?

The first boutique in the world that accepts bitcoins. Smiley
legendary
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Democracy is the original 51% attack
It does look great.

Please report when you can accept BTC payments because my GF has some and she doesn't know where to spend them =)
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Site looks great good luck to you!
legendary
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Democracy is the original 51% attack
Keep your eyes on bit-pay.com. It's still in testing right now but is going to be a very cool ecommerce solution I think.

legendary
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I am using Wordpress with the eshop plugin.

How would I go about accepting bitcoins for clothing when the customer goes to checkout online?

 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin-wp-e-commerce

Though it may need an update or only work with certain versions, according to:
 - http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24737.0
newbie
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The best ways I have seen are either providing the customer with a Bitcoin address (generate a unique one for each transaction) to send their payment to once they've finalized their order.  Or you can try integrating with a bitcoin wallet service, like MyBitcoin for customers who don't want to bother with downloading the client. 

MyBitcoin set up and integration is known to be kind of a pain from your end, though. 

As another alternative, you could try listing her items on a site that is already set up to accept Bitcoins in the checkout process, for instance *cough* http://bitcoinharbor.com *cough* 
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My wife has a boutique, I have set up a web site for her (http://www.heidijosboutique.com) and have set it up to sell some of her items online.

I am using Wordpress with the eshop plugin.

How would I go about accepting bitcoins for clothing when the customer goes to checkout online?
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