Accept Bitcoin

BECOMING A BITCOIN MERCHANT


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Become a Global Bitcoin Merchant

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Integrate Bitcoin and Lightning payments for your goods and services at your online / physical store.

Bitcoin payments can be integrated through:

  • hosting a BTCPay server
  • a third party payment processor
When you integrate Bitcoin payments, you are still accepting other forms of payments like credit cards. You are just adding bitcoin payments as another payment method. Accepting Bitcoin will give you the option to choose what % you want to keep in bitcoin and fiat.

“Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin, not converted to fiat currency."
- Elon Musk, Richest Person in the World (at time of writting), CEO of Tesla, Founder of SpaceX

Did you know companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Dell, NewEgg, AT&T, Overstock, PayPal, Foodler, Rakuten, Wikipedia, Twitch, Zynga, Humblebundle, Dish Network and many other large, medium and small businesses accept bitcoin?


Benefits of accepting bitcoin:

  • global reach
  • save on fees
  • no charge backs
  • collect less customer personal info
  • safer than physically holding cash since the receiving wallet doesn't have to be located in the actual store.

Benefits of accepting Lightning payments:

  • better all around user experience
  • designed for coffee payments
  • greatly reduce transaction fees
  • instant and secure transactions
  • can be more private than bitcoin payments
BTCPay: Self-Hosted Server

“Tesla is using only internal & open source software & operates Bitcoin nodes directly."
- Elon Musk, Richest Person in the World (at time of writting), CEO of Tesla, Founder of SpaceX


Supports Bitcoin only code to reduce attack surface of altcoins.
Supports Lightning payments.


Tips
  • If you are not tech savvy consider hiring a developer to setup BTCPay.
  • Enable Lightning payments.
  • Disable all altcoin payment options. They are unprofessional and confusing.
  • More BTCPay Video Guides
3rd Party Payment Processors


Supports Bitcoin only code to reduce attack surface of altcoins.
Supports Lightning payments.
Lists altcoins. Poses security risk.

Tips
  • Enable Bitcoin Lightning payments.
  • Disable all altcoin payment options. They are unprofessional and confusing.
Simple Method: Static Bitcoin Address

  1. Provide a bitcoin address generated from your wallet. Users can send bitcoin to the address.

    Example: 35JZ72myPm2HUNLHq2ozA6Z2dvbmSCFV3W

  2. Provide a bitcoin address in QR-code format. The receiver can use a barcode scanner like on a smartphone to scan it to autofill in the bitcoin address and/or amount requested.

    Example:
Tips
  • Not recommended for professional / business use. Address re-use is bad for sender & receiver privacy.
“I believe the internet will have a native currency [...] I think it will be [Bitcoin] because given all the tests it’s been through [...]”
Jack Dorsey - CEO of Twitter and Square