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Bech32 adoption

2022-06-01T06:46:25Z

Btcwarrior: Updated Blockonomics - https://twitter.com/blockonomics_co/status/1527178011514109953

[[Bech32]] is a bitcoin [[address]] format specified by [[BIP 0173]]. It is used for the native segwit version 0 output types, P2WPKH and P2WSH. The upcoming [[Taproot]] softfork will add another output type called Pay to Taproot (P2TR). P2TR outputs and future native segwit versions will be using an updated variant of [[Bech32]], called [[Bech32m]] (specified by [[BIP 0350]]). This page tracks the adoption of [[Bech32]] and [[Bech32m]].

Ideally wallets and services would first support ''sending to'' new addresses. When most wallets and services support sending to the new address type, people are more likely to adopt it for receiving.

The amount of bech32 addresses on the blockchain is tracked on this website: https://p2sh.info/dashboard/db/bech32-statistics?orgId=1

{| class="wikitable"
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| {{No}} ||
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| {{Evaluating|??}} || Maybe / Haven't checked / placeholder
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| {{Planned}} || The developers said they plan to
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| {{Acceptable|PR Merged}} || In the case of software, code has been written and merged, and it will be in next release.
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| {{Yes}} || Feature has been released
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=== Software Wallets ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Name !! Send to Bech32 !! Receive to P2WPKH/P2WSH !! Send to Bech32m !! Receive to P2TR !! Notes
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| Armory || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Planned|Planned around activation}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| AQUA || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| bcoin || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Since 2.2.0}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Bisq || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|Dependent on BitcoinJ}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || As of v1.5.0 https://bisq.network/blog/bisq-v1.5.0-highlights/
|-
| Bitcoin Core || {{Yes|Since 0.16.0}} || {{Yes|Since 0.16.0}} || {{Yes|Since 0.21.1}} || {{Yes|Since 22.0}} || Uses P2WPKH as default address since version [https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.20.0 0.20.0]. Creating P2TR addresses requires manual import for now.
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| Bitcoin Knots || {{Yes|Since 0.16.0}} || {{Yes|Since 0.16.0}} || {{Yes|Since 0.21.1}} || {{Yes|Since 22.0}} ||
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| Blockstream Green || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Mobile 3.7.6+, Desktop 1.0.4+}} || {{Planned|Planned}} || Bech32m sending support as of [https://github.com/Blockstream/gdk/releases/tag/release_0.0.47 GDK 0.0.47]
|-
| Breadwallet || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://www.reddit.com/r/BRDapp/comments/9xx1hq/as_of_today_brd_fully_supports_native_segwit/
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| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet Bitcoin Wallet for Android] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Since 9.0}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| BlueWallet || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Since 6.2.14}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|-
| Breez || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| BTC.com || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| [https://github.com/unchained-capital/caravan Caravan] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Casa || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Planned}} || {{Planned}} ||
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| C-Lightning || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Coinomi || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || [https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/865qn1/coinomi_wallet_beta_has_segwit_support/ reddit source]
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| Electrum || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Since 4.1.0}} || {{Planned|Descriptor-based keypath spends planned}} || https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/7544
|-
| Exodus || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No|Not yet planned}} || https://support.exodus.com/article/1480-bitcoin-faqs-learn-more-about-btc#
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| Fully Noded || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Since v0.2.26}} || https://twitter.com/FullyNoded/status/1438652812410298370
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| Guarda Wallet || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || [https://twitter.com/GuardaWallet/status/1194270398730448896 twitter announcement]
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| JoinMarket || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Since v0.9.5}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| LND || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Acceptable|Coming with v0.15}} || {{Acceptable|Coming with v0.15}} || The coming LND v0.15 release will introduce full P2TR support including scriptpath spends, PSBT signing, and a MuSig2 API.
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| Muun || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://twitter.com/MuunWallet/status/1459294066135474177
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| Mycelium || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Nunchuk || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://twitter.com/nunchuk_io/status/1511365917808103426
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| Phoenix || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Samourai Wallet || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Since v0.99.98}} || {{No|Currently not planned}} || https://twitter.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1415788631491497985?s=20
|-
| Sparrow Wallet || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://twitter.com/SparrowWallet/status/1415632270434705408
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| Specter Wallet || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://twitter.com/_benkaufman/status/1431293856675508228
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| Trust Wallet || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No|Not planned}} || https://github.com/trustwallet/wallet-core/releases/tag/2.6.5, https://twitter.com/catenocrypt/status/1520152930065817601
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| Uniblow || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes | Since v1.2.2}} || {{No|Not yet planned}} || [https://github.com/bitlogik/uniblow/releases/tag/v1.2.2 release1.2.2]
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| Wallet of Satoshi || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/walletofsatoshi/status/1459782761472872451
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| Wasabi Wallet || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes | Works in Wasabi 2.0 (release soon)}} || {{Planned|Planned: via NBitcoin}} || https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier/status/1413693010236170241 <br> https://mempool.space/testnet/tx/05a23151b6ad114fb71e851147861d6c992a438ad4f62d6f0749bc9f200ef254
|}

=== Hardware Wallets ===

Hardware wallet manufacturers typically publish a web wallet or browser add-on wallet for use with their hardware. Users can also sometimes connect their hardware wallet to a software wallet like [[Electrum]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Name !! Send to Bech32 !! Receive to P2WPKH/P2WSH !! Send to Bech32m !! Receive to P2TR !! Notes
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| Trezor + Trezor Suite || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || since [https://blog.trezor.io/trezor-suite-and-firmware-updates-december-2021-d1e74c3ea283 Trezor Suite 21.12.2] + Trezor Firmware 1.10.4 (Model One) / 2.4.3 (Model T)
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| Ledger Live (desktop app) || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || Ledger Live Desktop 2.35 + Bitcoin App 2.0.0, Ledger Live Mobile support TBD. https://blockstream.info/tx/41d46e6f6e58a325eb6c913aa603f4db313f4a1db0649952f06fe2cd70546451
|-
| KeepKey chrome app || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| BitBox Desktop app || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://twitter.com/_benma_/status/1504455969631350792
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| Trezor + Electrum || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned}} ||
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| Ledger + Electrum || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| BitBox + Electrum || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/_benma_/status/1504458280000761857
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| KeepKey + Electrum || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Archos + Electrum || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Coldcard + Electrum || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned}} || Work already in progress
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| Ballet + app || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| SeedSigner || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Tangem + app|| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Blockstream Jade + Blockstream Green || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned|Planned}} || Bech32m sending support as of [https://github.com/Blockstream/gdk/releases/tag/release_0.0.47 GDK 0.0.47] available via Blockstream Green mobile apps 3.7.6+ and desktop app 1.0.4+
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| Keystone || {{Yes}} || {{Acceptable|Yes, but only with BTC-only firmware}} || {{Planned|Planned for Q1 2022}} || {{Evaluating}} || https://twitter.com/KeystoneWallet/status/1460110906789031938
|}

=== Web Wallets / Wallet Service Providers ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Name !! Send to Bech32 !! Receive to P2WPKH/P2WSH !! Send to Bech32m !! Receive to P2TR !! Notes
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| Coinapult || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Coin.Space || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| BitGo || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || Full native segwit support on v2 platform, no plans to add native segwit support on v1 platform. Also see: https://blog.bitgo.com/native-segwit-addresses-via-bitgos-api-4946f2007be9, Taproot: https://blog.bitgo.com/taproot-support-for-bitgo-wallets-9ed97f412460
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| Bitnob || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://twitter.com/bernard_parah/status/1469962690483400706
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| blockchain.com web|| {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/Pellicceama/status/1436324051803414535
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| Fireblocks || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned|Nov 18, 2021}} || {{Planned|Planned for 2022}} ||
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| HolyTransaction || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| [https://coinb.in Coinb.in] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || open source JavaScript implementation
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| Guarda Wallet || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/GuardaWallet/status/1194270398730448896
|}

=== Exchanges ===



{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Name !! Send to Bech32 !! Receive to P2WPKH/P2WSH !! Send to Bech32m !! Receive to P2TR !! Notes
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| 1Fox || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://1fox.com/?c=en/content/blog&id=12
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| [[AgoraDesk]] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} ||
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| Anycoin Direct || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://anycoindirect.eu/en/news/details/segwit-activated
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| Binance || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || https://twitter.com/colemaktypo/status/1460337599499882502
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| Bitaroo || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} ||
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| BitBargain.co.uk || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Bitcoin.de || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || https://twitter.com/Ben_deWaal/status/1460464528181936130
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| Bitfinex || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Planned}} || {{No}} || https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1460620727342796800
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| BitMEX || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/BitMEXResearch/status/1492152557044654082
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| Bitonic || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/BitcoinenNL/status/1460284373291384833
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| Bitpanda || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/christiant5r/status/1461369956252139520
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| Bittrex || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/gqt1m6/bittrex_does_not_even_support_withdrawals_to/
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| Bittylicious || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/Bittylicious_/status/998881327347888128
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| Bitstamp || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://www.bitstamp.net/article/weve-added-support-bech32-bitcoin-addresses-bitsta/
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| Bitso || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/Bitso/status/1203784055340314624
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| Bottlepay || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://help.bottlepay.com/en/articles/4909780-what-bitcoin-addresses-do-you-support-for-on-chain-withdrawals, https://twitter.com/Stack_Russel_UK/status/1460330265751044097
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| Bitwage || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| BSDEX || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} ||
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| CardCoins.co || {{Yes}} || No deposits || {{Yes}} || No deposits || https://twitter.com/CardCoinsCo/status/1452680654030872589
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| CEX.IO || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Coinbase.com || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No|Currently not a priority}} || {{No}} ||
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| CoinFalcon || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| CoinCorner || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/CoinCorner/status/1461360995746545667
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| [https://coinmate.io Coinmate.io] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://coinmate.io/blog/important-coinmate-update/
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| Coinsbank.com || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Coinygram || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Flyp.me || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| FTX US Derivatives || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || Formerly LedgerX
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| GDax || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8c738k/coinbase_gdax_already_allows_sending_to_bc1/
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| Gemini || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/b66n0v/psa_gemini_is_full_on_with_native_segwit_and_uses/
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| Genesis || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Globitex || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| HitBTC || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Hodl Hodl || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://medium.com/@hodlhodl/hodl-hodl-segwit-compatible-exchange-a2231968ac56
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| Independent Reserve|| {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://www.independentreserve.com/bitcoin/investing
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| Itbit || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Kraken || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || https://twitter.com/murchandamus/status/1460399767830380564

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| Liberalcoins || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://liberalcoins.com
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| [[LocalBitcoins]] || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/LocalBitcoins/status/1322194709159301120
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| Luno || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Planned|Planned}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://www.luno.com/blog/en/post/luno-launches-support-for-bech32-addresses
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| Okcoin || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/Okcoin/status/1471563103049756672
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| Paxful.com || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://paxful.com/support/en-us/articles/360011766520-Can-I-Withdraw-Bitcoin-from-Paxful-Wallet-to-My-External-Wallet-
|-
| Poloniex.com || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/a3jhcf/you_can_now_withdraw_from_poloniex_to_bech32/
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| River.com || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned|Planned}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| Square CashApp || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://cash.app/help/us/en-us/20211114-bitcoin-taproot-upgrade
|-
| StackinSat.com || {{Yes}} || No deposits || {{Yes}} || No deposits || https://twitter.com/StackinSat_FR/status/1500898826416230401
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| Strike || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || https://twitter.com/BTCBoromir/status/1460373287792521232
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| Swan || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|No deposits}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|No deposits}} || https://twitter.com/SwanBitcoin/status/1468318386916663298
|-
| TheRockTrading.com || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/TheRockTrading/status/976787499648512003
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| Walltime || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://walltime.info
|-
| Purse.io || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| VBTC || {{Yes}} || {{Planned}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned}} || https://twitter.com/VBTC_Vietnam/status/1460978196816416775
|-
| www.bitwala.com || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|-
| Xapo || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|}

=== Bitcoin ATM Models ===

Hopefully when a model updates then all its ATMs everywhere will gain that feature. See https://coinatmradar.com/shop/buy-bitcoin-atm/

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Send to Bech32 !! Receive to P2WPKH/P2WSH !! Send to Bech32m !! Receive to P2TR !! Notes
|-
| Bitaccess BTM || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned|Work in progress}} || {{Planned}} || https://twitter.com/DylanSeago/status/1520212294898274305
|-
| GenesisCoin || {{No}} || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|-
| General Bytes || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || Depending on configuration. Since version 20190613 https://www.generalbytes.com/en/support/changelog
|-
| Lamassu || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Yes (optional)}} || {{Planned}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/LamassuBTC/status/1459918440303673349
|}

=== Blockchain Explorers ===

To investigate bech32 capability, you can use mainnet TXIDs <code>4ef47f6eb681d5d9fa2f7e16336cd629303c635e8da51e425b76088be9c8744c</code> and <code>514a33f1d46179b89e1fea7bbb07b682ab14083a276979f91038369d1a8d689b</code> or look up the addresses <code>bc1qar0srrr7xfkvy5l643lydnw9re59gtzzwf5mdq</code> and <code>bc1qc7slrfxkknqcq2jevvvkdgvrt8080852dfjewde450xdlk4ugp7szw5tk9</code>.

Some blockchain explorers can only parse the bech32 address and display it, they don't build an index so users cannot search for bech32 addresses.

To verify bech32m readiness, you can look up the mainnet TXID <code>b10c007c60e14f9d087e0291d4d0c7869697c6681d979c6639dbd960792b4d41</code> on which the first output should be addressed as <code>bc1pqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqsyjer9e</code>. Note that the superseded bech32 encoding only differs in the last six characters that encode the checksum: <code>bc1pqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqszqgpqyqs_3wf0qm_</code>.

See also: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Block_chain_browsers

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Display Bech32 !! Index Bech32 !! Display Bech32m !! Index Bech32m !! Notes
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| bitaps.com || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://bitaps.com
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| Bitflyer || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://chainflyer.bitflyer.jp
|-
| Blockbook || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://btc1.trezor.io
|-
| blockchain.com || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://www.blockchain.com/explorer
|-
| Blockchair || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Ready, but old txns not reindexed yet}} || {{Yes|Ready, but old txns not reindexed yet}} || https://github.com/Blockchair/Blockchair.Support/issues/567#issuecomment-966393097, https://twitter.com/Blockchair/status/1458817396433731585
|-
| Blockcypher || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || https://live.blockcypher.com/btc
|-
| Blockonomics || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://www.blockonomics.co
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| Blockpath || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || https://blockpath.com
|-
| BTC.com || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://BTC.com
|-
| Esplora || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || Open source explorer, instances are https://blockstream.info/ and https://www.localbitcoinschain.com/. [https://github.com/Blockstream/esplora/issues/323 Issue] for BIP350 support.
|-
| Insight || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || Open source explorer, instances include https://insight.bitpay.com/
|-
| Mempool || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || Open source explorer, instances include https://mempool.space https://mempool.ninja https://mempool.emzy.de https://mempool.bisq.services https://mempool.bitcoin.ninja https://mempool.bitaroo.net/
|-
| OKLink || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://www.oklink.com
|-
| OXT || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://oxt.me/
|-
| Tradeblock || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{No}} || {{No}} || https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin
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| WalletExplorer || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://walletexplorer.com/
|-
| Bitcoin Explorer || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://bitcoinexplorer.org, https://twitter.com/BitcoinExplorer/status/1425148093977309187
|}

=== Payment Processors ===



{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Name !! P2WPKH/P2WSH Invoices !! Bech32 Withdrawal addresses !! P2TR Invoices !! Bech32m Withdrawal addresses !! Notes
|-
| [https://apirone.com Apirone] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || Payment notifications, merchant dashboard, plugins for Magento, WooCommerce, OpenCart 2, Opencart 3.x, Virtuemart
|-
| [https://bitaps.com Bitaps] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || Payment forwarding API, Wallet API, fault tolerance callback.
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| [https://btcpayserver.org BTCPay Server] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Supported since 1.3.0}} || https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier/status/1432354289599451136, https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier/status/1457527754350415873
|-
| [https://coingate.com CoinGate] || {{No}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
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| [https://confirmo.net CONFIRMO] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|-
| [https://cryptochill.com CryptoChill] || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Planned}} || Highly customizable Bitcoin and Lightning Network payment gateway and custodial wallets provider. TSS/HD wallets, API, SDK.
|-
| [https://github.com/nickfarrow/SatSale SatSale] || {{Yes}} || n/a || {{Yes}} || n/a || Supports any address format supported by backend Bitcoin Core. Invoices use address format configured as default there. Has no withdrawal functionality in itself, payments are received in Core wallet.
|}

=== Mining Pools ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Payout to Bech32 !! Payout to Bech32m !! Notes
|-
| [https://pool.btc.com/ BTC.com Pool] || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|-
| [http://ckpool.org/ Ckpool] || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|-
| [https://kano.is/ KanoPool] || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.msg53374508#msg53374508 bitcointalk source]
|-
| [http://poolin.com/ Poolin] || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5169994.msg52184844#msg52184844 bitcointalk source]
|-
| [https://sbicrypto.com SBICrypto Pool] || {{Yes}} || {{Acceptable|Ready to release at activation}} ||
|-
| [https://slushpool.com/ Slush Pool] || {{Yes}} || {{Planned|At activation}} || [https://twitter.com/braiins_systems/status/1432376840484794375 Tweet]
|-
| [https://ukrpool.com/ Ukr Pool] || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5124825.msg51358033#msg51358033 bitcointalk source]
|-
| [https://pool.viabtc.com/ ViaBTC Pool] || {{No}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|}

=== Libraries ===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Name !! Language !! Send to Bech32 !! Receive to P2WPKH/P2WSH !! Send to Bech32m !! Receive to P2TR !! Notes
|-
| [https://github.com/bitcoin/libbase58 libbase58] || C || {{No}} || n/a || {{No}} || n/a
|-
| [https://github.com/MetacoSA/NBitcoin NBitcoin] || .NET || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier/status/1432354289599451136
|-
| [https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin bcoin] || JS || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://github.com/bcoin-org/bcoin/pull/1038
|-
| [https://github.com/btcsuite btcsuite/btcutil] || Go || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://github.com/btcsuite/btcutil/pull/202
|-
| [https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib bitcoinjs-lib] || JS || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Yes, since v6.0.0}} || {{Acceptable|Supported but needs manual involvement}} || https://github.com/bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-lib/issues/1522#issuecomment-887468902, https://twitter.com/junderwood4649/status/1459006392086372355
|-
| [https://bitcoinj.github.io/ bitcoinj] || Java || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj/commit/183986c9801f10f1bf46bd46621e535973d39ef8
|-
| [https://github.com/bitcoin-s/bitcoin-s-core bitcoin-s] || Scala || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned|Planned for 2021}} || https://twitter.com/Chris_Stewart_5/status/1459205497463136270
|-
| [https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin rust-bitcoin] || Rust || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || https://twitter.com/RCasatta/status/1423695925252329476
|-
| [https://lightningdevkit.org Lightning Dev Kit] || Rust || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Evaluating|Pending BOLT update}} ||
|-
| [https://bitcoindevkit.org Bitcoin Dev Kit] || Rust || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Yes, since [https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v0.14.0 0.14.0]}} || {{Planned|WIP}} || https://docs.rs/bdk https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/2021/11/first-bdk-taproot-tx-look-at-the-code-part-1/)
|-
| [https://github.com/ElementsProject/libwally-core libwally-core] || C || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Yes, since [https://github.com/ElementsProject/libwally-core/releases/tag/release_0.8.4 0.8.4]}} || {{Yes|Yes, since [https://github.com/ElementsProject/libwally-core/releases/tag/release_0.8.4 0.8.4]}} ||
|-
| [https://github.com/Blockstream/gdk GDK] || C || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes|Yes, since [https://github.com/Blockstream/gdk/releases/tag/release_0.0.47 0.0.47]}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|-
| [https://github.com/Simplexum/python-bitcointx python-bitcointx] || Python || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://github.com/Simplexum/python-bitcointx/issues/57
|-
| [https://github.com/dgarage/NBXplorer/ NBXPlorer] || C# || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier/status/1432354822888431619
|-
| [https://github.com/acinq/bitcoin-kmp Kotlin Multiplatform Bitcoin Library] || Kotlin || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Planned}} || https://twitter.com/realtbast/status/1458533450919649284
|-
| [https://github.com/libbitcoin Libbitcoin] || C++ || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} || {{Evaluating|??}} ||
|-
| [https://github.com/chaintope/bitcoinrb Bitcoinrb] || Ruby || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || {{Yes}} || https://github.com/chaintope/bitcoinrb/wiki/Taproot
|}


=== References ===

[[Category:Software]]

OpenCart Bitcoin

2018-08-01T11:20:15Z

Btcwarrior: Added blockonomics plugin

Sites using the Open Source OpenCart e-commerce system, available in many web hosting packages, can configure their stores to use third party payment processing companies. This enables companies using OpenCart to accept bitcoin from their customers with minimal effort or risk.

==European OpenCart Compatible Payment Providers==
BitcoinPay.com<ref>[https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay.com]</ref> is a European <ref>[http://cointelegraph.com/news/115421/opencart-online-shops-welcome-bitcoin-payments OpenCart Online Shops Welcome Bitcoin Payments]</ref> Bitcoin Payments processor. It has a OpenCart Bitcoin Payments Plugin which registered users can integrate into their e-commerce stores, to enable them to take payments within the Eurozone, as well as local payments in Czech Koruna, and Polish Zloty. Settlements can be set to remit in any percentage of fiat and bitcoin.

==Direct to Wallet OpenCart Module==
[[Blockonomics]] has an opencart module that allow merchants to receive bitcoin directly to wallet<ref>https://blog.blockonomics.co/how-to-accept-bitcoin-on-opencart-60df93c3f084</ref>. All major HD Wallets like blockchain.info, electrum, trezor are supported. The plugin is open source and can be access on github<ref>https://github.com/blockonomics/opencart3-plugin</ref>

==Old OpenCart Bitcoin Extension==
An older extension made by John Atkinson (jga) of <ref>[http://www.btcgear.com/closed.html BTC Gear]</ref> - the original source of this page - is no longer actively maintained as of mid 2013. Information relating to it is below to maintain the record.

An OpenCart payment module that communicates with a bitcoin client using JSON RPC.

This code accurately converts USD to BTC using the up-to-the-minute MtGox average. It is completely self contained and requires no cron jobs or external hardware other than a properly configured bitcoind server. Every order creates a new bitcoin address for payment and gives it a label corresponding to the order_id of the order. It installs like any other OpenCart plugin and it is completely integrated with OpenCart.

==History==

OpenCart Bitcoin was first made available on September 21, 2012<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110638.msg1208336#msg1208336 50 BTC BOUNTY: BITCOIN OPEN CART PAYMENT MODULE!]</ref>.

==External Links==
* [http://github.com/btcgear/OpenCart_Bitcoin OpenCart Bitcoin] project on GitHub
* [https://github.com/bitcoinpay/bitcoinpay-opencart-v2 Opencart_v2 Bitcoin] project on GitHub

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Shopping Cart Interfaces]]

Blockonomics

2017-10-10T10:14:11Z

Btcwarrior: Added cateogries

[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] is a payment processing system for merchants accepting bitcoin. It also allows for wallet monitoring and email notifications for anyone holding a Bitcoin public wallet (xpub wallet). With Blockonomics plugins or payment buttons, online merchants can accept bitcoins as payment for any item as easily as they’d accept other methods of payment.

=== Merchants ===

Merchants have the option of creating a payment button on their webpage next to items for sale or using a checkout invoice. Similar to accepting a credit card or PayPal payment, merchants can set up the Blockonomics plugins for [https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/ WordPress], [https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin Prestashop], and other merchant sites to generate invoices for customers using a shopping cart on their site.

=== Fees ===
Merchants pay a flat fee of 1% of the value of the sale of any items using Blockonomics to accept payments. Payments are sent instantly to your wallet.

=== Address/Wallet Watcher ===
[https://www.blockonomics.co/blockonomics Wallet Watcher] is a free tool offered on the Blockonomics site. Users can add public bitcoin [[Address| addresses]] and also label them using tags. Dashboard shows a quick overview of balances classified by each tag. Balances are shown in BTC as well as the fiat currency of users' choice. Address watcher supports monitoring an HD wallet using its extended public key. Account discovery follows BIP 32 guidelines.

=== Transaction History ===

Graph of balance is shown for various time periods. History of transactions involved is shown along with the graph. Pending transactions tab shows transactions happening on user addresses that are unconfirmed or partially confirmed (one confirmation).

=== Notifications ===
Users can subscribe to email notifications, showing a summary of transactions that happened in the last block. Email is sent only after 2 confirmations.

==History==

The service was first launched as address/wallet watcher in Dec, 2014<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=880995.0 Blockonomics announcement on bitcointalk]</ref>. Search feature was launched in 2015<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3dh839/instant_search_is_awesome/ Instant search using Blockonomics]</ref>.

Merchants support was officially announced on Oct 17, 2016<ref>[https://blog.blockonomics.co/accepting-bitcoins-made-easy-56b54a93ee9a Blockonomics announces merchant support]</ref>.

==External Links==
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] web site
*[https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/ WordPress Plugin] site
*[https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin Prestashop Plugin] on github
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/blockonomics WalletWatcher] tool site

==References==
<references>
</references>

[[Category:Shopping Cart Interfaces]]
[[Category:Payment Processors]]
[[Category:Block chain browsers]]

Blockonomics

2017-10-10T10:08:14Z

Btcwarrior: /* External Links */

Blockonomics

2017-10-10T10:07:51Z

Btcwarrior: Updated external links and references

Blockonomics

2017-10-10T09:48:54Z

Btcwarrior: /* See Also */

[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] is a payment processing system for merchants accepting bitcoin. It also allows for wallet monitoring and email notifications for anyone holding a Bitcoin public wallet (xpub wallet). With Blockonomics plugins or payment buttons, online merchants can accept bitcoins as payment for any item as easily as they’d accept other methods of payment.

=== Merchants ===

Merchants have the option of creating a payment button on their webpage next to items for sale or using a checkout invoice. Similar to accepting a credit card or PayPal payment, merchants can set up the Blockonomics plugins for [https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/ WordPress], [https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin Prestashop], and other merchant sites to generate invoices for customers using a shopping cart on their site.

=== Fees ===
Merchants pay a flat fee of 1% of the value of the sale of any items using Blockonomics to accept payments. Payments are sent instantly to your wallet.

=== Address/Wallet Watcher ===
[https://www.blockonomics.co/blockonomics Wallet Watcher] is a free tool offered on the Blockonomics site. Users can add public bitcoin [[Address| addresses]] and also label them using tags. Dashboard shows a quick overview of balances classified by each tag. Balances are shown in BTC as well as the fiat currency of users' choice. Address watcher supports monitoring an HD wallet using its extended public key. Account discovery follows BIP 32 guidelines.

=== Transaction History ===

Graph of balance is shown for various time periods. History of transactions involved is shown along with the graph. Pending transactions tab shows transactions happening on user addresses that are unconfirmed or partially confirmed (one confirmation).

=== Notifications ===
Users can subscribe to email notifications, showing a summary of transactions that happened in the last block. Email is sent only after 2 confirmations.

==History==

==External Links==
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] Website
*[https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/] WordPress Plugin Site
*[https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin] Prestashop Plugin on Github Site
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/blockonomics] WalletWatcher Tool Site

Blockonomics

2017-10-10T09:45:42Z

Btcwarrior: /* Fees */

[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] is a payment processing system for merchants accepting bitcoin. It also allows for wallet monitoring and email notifications for anyone holding a Bitcoin public wallet (xpub wallet). With Blockonomics plugins or payment buttons, online merchants can accept bitcoins as payment for any item as easily as they’d accept other methods of payment.

=== Merchants ===

Merchants have the option of creating a payment button on their webpage next to items for sale or using a checkout invoice. Similar to accepting a credit card or PayPal payment, merchants can set up the Blockonomics plugins for [https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/ WordPress], [https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin Prestashop], and other merchant sites to generate invoices for customers using a shopping cart on their site.

=== Fees ===
Merchants pay a flat fee of 1% of the value of the sale of any items using Blockonomics to accept payments. Payments are sent instantly to your wallet.

=== Address/Wallet Watcher ===
[https://www.blockonomics.co/blockonomics Wallet Watcher] is a free tool offered on the Blockonomics site. Users can add public bitcoin [[Address| addresses]] and also label them using tags. Dashboard shows a quick overview of balances classified by each tag. Balances are shown in BTC as well as the fiat currency of users' choice. Address watcher supports monitoring an HD wallet using its extended public key. Account discovery follows BIP 32 guidelines.

=== Transaction History ===

Graph of balance is shown for various time periods. History of transactions involved is shown along with the graph. Pending transactions tab shows transactions happening on user addresses that are unconfirmed or partially confirmed (one confirmation).

=== Notifications ===
Users can subscribe to email notifications, showing a summary of transactions that happened in the last block. Email is sent only after 2 confirmations.

==See Also==

==External Links==
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] Website
*[https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/] WordPress Plugin Site
*[https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin] Prestashop Plugin on Github Site
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/blockonomics] WalletWatcher Tool Site

Blockonomics

2017-10-10T09:44:14Z

Btcwarrior: /* Address/Wallet Watcher */

[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] is a payment processing system for merchants accepting bitcoin. It also allows for wallet monitoring and email notifications for anyone holding a Bitcoin public wallet (xpub wallet). With Blockonomics plugins or payment buttons, online merchants can accept bitcoins as payment for any item as easily as they’d accept other methods of payment.

=== Merchants ===

Merchants have the option of creating a payment button on their webpage next to items for sale or using a checkout invoice. Similar to accepting a credit card or PayPal payment, merchants can set up the Blockonomics plugins for [https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/ WordPress], [https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin Prestashop], and other merchant sites to generate invoices for customers using a shopping cart on their site.

=== Fees ===
Merchants pay a flat fee of 1% of the value of the sale of any items using Blockonomics to accept payments. Payments are sent instantly to your wallet and can be exchanged for fiat cash if desired.

=== Address/Wallet Watcher ===
[https://www.blockonomics.co/blockonomics Wallet Watcher] is a free tool offered on the Blockonomics site. Users can add public bitcoin [[Address| addresses]] and also label them using tags. Dashboard shows a quick overview of balances classified by each tag. Balances are shown in BTC as well as the fiat currency of users' choice. Address watcher supports monitoring an HD wallet using its extended public key. Account discovery follows BIP 32 guidelines.

=== Transaction History ===

Graph of balance is shown for various time periods. History of transactions involved is shown along with the graph. Pending transactions tab shows transactions happening on user addresses that are unconfirmed or partially confirmed (one confirmation).

=== Notifications ===
Users can subscribe to email notifications, showing a summary of transactions that happened in the last block. Email is sent only after 2 confirmations.

==See Also==

==External Links==
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] Website
*[https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/] WordPress Plugin Site
*[https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin] Prestashop Plugin on Github Site
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/blockonomics] WalletWatcher Tool Site

Blockonomics

2017-10-10T09:41:31Z

Btcwarrior: Updated links

[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] is a payment processing system for merchants accepting bitcoin. It also allows for wallet monitoring and email notifications for anyone holding a Bitcoin public wallet (xpub wallet). With Blockonomics plugins or payment buttons, online merchants can accept bitcoins as payment for any item as easily as they’d accept other methods of payment.

=== Merchants ===

Merchants have the option of creating a payment button on their webpage next to items for sale or using a checkout invoice. Similar to accepting a credit card or PayPal payment, merchants can set up the Blockonomics plugins for [https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/ WordPress], [https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin Prestashop], and other merchant sites to generate invoices for customers using a shopping cart on their site.

=== Fees ===
Merchants pay a flat fee of 1% of the value of the sale of any items using Blockonomics to accept payments. Payments are sent instantly to your wallet and can be exchanged for fiat cash if desired.

=== Address/Wallet Watcher ===
[https://www.blockonomics.co/views/wallet-watcher.html?next=%2Fblockonomics Wallet Watcher] is a free tool offered on the Blockonomics site. Users can add public bitcoin [Address addresses] and also label them using tags. Dashboard shows a quick overview of balances classified by each tag. Balances are shown in BTC as well as the fiat currency of users' choice. Address watcher supports monitoring an HD wallet using its extended public key. Account discovery follows BIP 32 guidelines.

=== Transaction History ===

Graph of balance is shown for various time periods. History of transactions involved is shown along with the graph. Pending transactions tab shows transactions happening on user addresses that are unconfirmed or partially confirmed (one confirmation).

=== Notifications ===
Users can subscribe to email notifications, showing a summary of transactions that happened in the last block. Email is sent only after 2 confirmations.

==See Also==

==External Links==
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] Website
*[https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/] WordPress Plugin Site
*[https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin] Prestashop Plugin on Github Site
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/blockonomics] WalletWatcher Tool Site

Blockonomics

2017-10-10T03:15:50Z

Btcwarrior:

[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] is a payment processing system for merchants accepting bitcoin. It also allows for wallet monitoring and email notifications for anyone holding a Bitcoin public wallet (xpub wallet). With Blockonomics plugins or payment buttons, online merchants can accept bitcoins as payment for any item as easily as they’d accept other methods of payment.

=== Merchants ===

Merchants have the option of creating a payment button on their webpage next to items for sale or using a checkout invoice. Similar to accepting a credit card or PayPal payment, merchants can set up the Blockonomics plugins for [https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/ WordPress], [https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin Prestashop], and other merchant sites to generate invoices for customers using a shopping cart on their site.

=== Fees ===
Merchants pay a flat fee of 1% of the value of the sale of any items using Blockonomics to accept payments. Payments are sent instantly to your wallet and can be exchanged for fiat cash if desired.

=== Address/Wallet Watcher ===
[https://www.blockonomics.co/views/wallet-watcher.html?next=%2Fblockonomics Wallet Watcher] is a free tool offered on the Blockonomics site. Users can add public bitcoin [https://web.archive.org/web/20170203061056/https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address addresses] and also label them using tags. Dashboard shows a quick overview of balances classified by each tag. Balances are shown in BTC as well as the fiat currency of users' choice. Address watcher supports monitoring an HD wallet using its extended public key. Account discovery follows BIP 32 guidelines.

=== Transaction History ===

Graph of balance is shown for various time periods. History of transactions involved is shown along with the graph. Pending transactions tab shows transactions happening on user addresses that are unconfirmed or partially confirmed (one confirmation).

=== Notifications ===
Users can subscribe to email notifications, showing a summary of transactions that happened in the last block. Email is sent only after 2 confirmations.

==See Also==

==External Links==
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] Website
*[https://wordpress.org/plugins/blockonomics-bitcoin-payments/] WordPress Plugin Site
*[https://github.com/blockonomics/prestashop-plugin] Prestashop Plugin on Github Site
*[https://www.blockonomics.co/views/wallet-watcher.html?next=%2Fblockonomics] WalletWatcher Tool Site
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170203061056/https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address addresses] Bitcoin Public Address Wiki Site

Blockonomics

2017-10-10T03:05:38Z

Btcwarrior:

Blockonomics

2017-10-09T07:35:57Z

Btcwarrior: Created page with "[https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] is a payment processing system for merchants accepting bitcoin. It also allows for wallet monitoring and email notifications for an..."

User talk:Midnightmagic

2017-10-06T10:50:08Z

Btcwarrior: /* Blockonomics page removed */ new section

Hello, thank you for your message on my talk page. Upon reflection I wholeheartedly agree, I acted improperly, and let groupthink / personal attitudes get the better of me. This won't happen again. Best, [[User:Gladoscc|Gladoscc]] ([[User talk:Gladoscc|talk]]) 04:24, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

I replied [[User talk:Bitcoinomy|here]], thanks. [[User:Bitcoinomy|Bitcoinomy]] ([[User talk:Bitcoinomy|talk]]) 12:45, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

== Comparison of cryptocurrencies ==

Thank you for taking your time. I added more questions in
* https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_cryptocurrencies#Scamcoin_removals again
* https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_cryptocurrencies#Anonymity
--[[User:Davidhedlund|Davidhedlund]] ([[User talk:Davidhedlund|talk]]) 19:09, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

== Bitcoin Cash ==

I added your text to https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash

== Blockonomics page removed ==

Hi,

Can you please explain the reasons for this when other page like https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CoinGate, https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BitPay and https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Gourl still exist

Bitcoin API Services

2017-03-02T12:22:16Z

Btcwarrior: Alphabetically sorted service, added blockonomics

Bitcoin API Services makes accepting Bitcoin payments as easy as handling HTTP requests.

Unlike most online payment notification services, payments are not actually sent to Bitcoin API Services, so there is no need of entrusting someone else with your wallet, or letting someone else manage one for you. Payments go directly from a customer to the merchant

Bitcoin API Services also delivers HTTP POST notifications about Bitcoin exchange rates, and difficulty rates.

== How it works ==
Bitcoin API Services works by monitoring the Bitcoin network for transactions sent to addresses you can specify in your account. Bitcoin API Services can currently:

* POST amounts for variable price transactions.
* POST amounts for fixed price transactions.
* Make POSTs on Mt Gox currency and difficulty updates.

== Integration Details ==
* Merchant generates a number of Bitcoin addresses and enters them into his account. At the same time, merchant places these addresses into his store.
* The store software assigns one of these addresses to each order, or session. Once the user sends bitcoins to this address, the order is completed for the user.
* Meanwhile, the back-end of the merchants store waits for the confirmation from Bitcoin API Services. Once a confirmation is received the merchants store can either display the product to the user, or send the user an e-mail letting them know that the payment has been accepted. The address used can be released again for future use.

==History==
The service was proposed in mid-December as a redundancy to [[BitcoinNotify]]. The service officially went into beta on Wednesday, December 21st.

==Services==
* [https://bitaps.com/api Bitaps.com] - Bitcoin developer API
* [http://blockchain.info/api Blockchain.info] - has a developer API
* [http://www.blockcypher.com/ BlockCypher] Get address and transaction information, notifications (WebHooks, WebSockets), issue your transactions
easily, etc. all through a simple web API.
* [https://www.blockonomics.co/views/api.html Blockonomics] - Address/ transaction information, websockets and http callback payment notifications
* [https://coinbase.com/docs/api/overview Coinbase] Features an API that lets you send, request, buy, sell, and accept bitcoin through a RESTful JSON interface.

==See Also==
* [[:Category:ECommerce|eCommerce]]

==External Links==
* [http://www.bitcoinapiservices.com BitcoinAPIServices web site]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Shopping Cart Interfaces]]
[[Category:Services]]

Bitcoin API Services

2017-03-02T12:18:20Z

Btcwarrior: Removed unreachable links

Bitcoin API Services makes accepting Bitcoin payments as easy as handling HTTP requests.

Unlike most online payment notification services, payments are not actually sent to Bitcoin API Services, so there is no need of entrusting someone else with your wallet, or letting someone else manage one for you. Payments go directly from a customer to the merchant

Bitcoin API Services also delivers HTTP POST notifications about Bitcoin exchange rates, and difficulty rates.

== How it works ==
Bitcoin API Services works by monitoring the Bitcoin network for transactions sent to addresses you can specify in your account. Bitcoin API Services can currently:

* POST amounts for variable price transactions.
* POST amounts for fixed price transactions.
* Make POSTs on Mt Gox currency and difficulty updates.

== Integration Details ==
* Merchant generates a number of Bitcoin addresses and enters them into his account. At the same time, merchant places these addresses into his store.
* The store software assigns one of these addresses to each order, or session. Once the user sends bitcoins to this address, the order is completed for the user.
* Meanwhile, the back-end of the merchants store waits for the confirmation from Bitcoin API Services. Once a confirmation is received the merchants store can either display the product to the user, or send the user an e-mail letting them know that the payment has been accepted. The address used can be released again for future use.

==History==
The service was proposed in mid-December as a redundancy to [[BitcoinNotify]]. The service officially went into beta on Wednesday, December 21st.

==Services==
* [https://bitaps.com/api Bitaps.com] - Bitcoin developer API
* [http://blockchain.info/api Blockchain.info] - has a developer API
* [https://coinbase.com/docs/api/overview Coinbase] Features an API that lets you send, request, buy, sell, and accept bitcoin through a RESTful JSON interface.
* [http://www.blockcypher.com/ BlockCypher] Get address and transaction information, notifications (WebHooks, WebSockets), issue your transactions easily, etc. all through a simple web API.

==See Also==
* [[:Category:ECommerce|eCommerce]]

==External Links==
* [http://www.bitcoinapiservices.com BitcoinAPIServices web site]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Shopping Cart Interfaces]]
[[Category:Services]]

How to accept Bitcoin, for small businesses

2016-11-30T12:19:53Z

Btcwarrior: edited text for blockonomics

{{merge|Merchant Howto}}

This guide is intended for small business owners who wish to help promote Bitcoin by accepting it as payment for goods and services. It's written with the assumption that you operate a regular business that sells goods or services for regular national currency such as dollars, and that you wish to accept Bitcoin as another legal way to pay, and that you intend to pay taxes on your Bitcoin income just like any other income.

With Bitcoin being touted as a way to conduct anonymous transactions and as way to compete with government currency, many small business owners wonder what's the right way to accept and account Bitcoin, or if it's legal or ethical, or whether and how they should pay taxes on income received through Bitcoin.

As far as we know, Bitcoin isn't yet formally recognized by governments and authorities as a "currency". But in practice, Bitcoin is likely no different than accepting payment in other forms, such as cash, or gold, or scrip, or gift cards or foreign currency. We think that it is pretty much the same as the local businesses of Great Barrington, Massachusetts choosing to accept their locally-printed [http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/19/us-usa-economy-berkshares-idUSN0530157720070619 "Berkshire Bucks"] to support their local economy.

====Starting to accept Bitcoin for transactions====
Accepting Bitcoin at a small business is best started in whichever manner keeps the accounting simple for you. This will vary by the type of business you are operating.

===Start with a sign===
[[{{ns:file}}:WeAcceptBitcoin.png‎]]

If you expect that the number of people interested in using Bitcoin is small, you might simply start by posting a sign or a note: "We Accept Bitcoin", and ask people to contact you directly in order to make a payment. Even if hardly anybody uses Bitcoin as a payment method, you're helping Bitcoin in two ways: one, by increasing awareness, and two, by making your customers more willing to accept Bitcoin as payment from others in the future, because now they know somewhere they can spend it.

===Utilize a merchant solution===
If you sell things on your website (goods or services), you'll want to use a [[#Merchant Services|Bitcoin merchant solution]] to accept the Bitcoins (you can usually opt to have them converted to USD or other currencies automatically with some services).

If you sell things in a brick and mortar shop, customers can pay using hardware terminals, touch screen apps or simple wallet addresses through QR Codes.

[[File:Easybitz bitcoin pointofsale.png|400 px|alt=Accept Bitcoin without internet|EasyBitz ZeroClick System|link=https://easybitz.com/merchant]][[File:Coinktie Bitcoin Payment Buttons.png|alt=Coinkite Bitcoin Payment Buttons|link=https://coinkite.com/merchants]]

[[File:Bitcoin-pos-terminal.png|200 px|alt=Bitcoin POS Terminal|Coinkite terminal]] [[File:Mobile_Web_App_Bitcoin_Register.jpeg|100 px|alt=Bitcoin POS Terminal|CoinBox terminal]]

[[File:Mobile_Checkout_Phone.png|200 px|alt=Bitcoin Mobile Checkout|Coinify Mobile Checkout|link=https://coinify.com]]

===Smart Phone or Tablet===
You can use a wallet address with any wallet. For that it's best if you can place a QR code near your cash register to which the customers can scan with their phone and pay (use http://bitcoinqrcode.org/ to make a QR code sign). For a more convenient solution you can use a dedicated app or webapp that generates a QR code on the fly including the amount.

==== Examples ====
Solutions for smart phones and tablets:
* [[File:Airbitz mobile logo.png|20px|https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet/]] [https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet/ Airbitz] Merchant Mode for Android and iOS
* [https://bitcoin.co.th/merchants/ bitcoin.co.th] mobile Bitcoin Point of Sale for Thailand
* [[File:favicon_bp.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com/static/img/]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay], Mobile payment terminal with EUR, USD, PLN and CZK settlements.
* [[File:BitKassa_favicon.png|20px|link=https://www.BitKassa.nl]] [https://www.BitKassa.nl BitKassa] accept Bitcoin on mobile phone, tablet, computer; converts to Euro/Bitcoin (any percentage)
* [https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-for-retail BitPay] Mobile Checkout
* [https://bitpos.me/demo.html BitPOS] Merchant POS solution for Australia
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.blockchain.merchant Blockchain] Merchant for Android
* [[File:CoinCorner_blue_logo.png|20px|link=https://coincorner.com]] [https://www.coincorner.com/ForBusiness CoinCorner] - Point of Sale solution available that allows physical retailers to easily accept bitcoin and automatically convert that to fiat, removing the risk of holding bitcoins.
* [[File:Coingate_favicon.png|16px|link=https://coingate.com/pos]] [https://coingate.com/pos CoinGate] Bitcoin Point of Sale apps for Android, iOS and Bitcoin Point of Sale web app which can be accessed from any internet enabled device directly in a web browser.
* [https://coinify.com Coinify] Bitcoin Point Of Sale
* [[File:Coin_Of_Sale_logo.png|20px|link=https://coinofsale.com]] [https://coinofsale.com Coin Of Sale] - device-independent Bitcoin POS payment system
* [https://coinbase.com Coinbase] Point Of Sale for Android
* [[File:BitcoinRegister.gif|20px|link=http://coinbox.it/merchant]][http://coinbox.it/merchant CoinBox] Bitcoin point of sale for Android
* [https://cryptopay.me/products/ Cryptopay] HTML5-based bitcoin POS
* [[File:Paxful_how-to-buy-bitcoin.png |20px|link=https://paxful.com]] [https://paxful.com Paxful] Simplest Point of Sale, No Fees and a peer to peer market to buy bitcoin instantly
* [https://gourl.io/ GoUrl] Bitcoin Mobile Checkout
* [[File:Rocketr.png|20px|link=https://rocketr.net]] [https://rocketr.net Rocketr] Sell digital products online and accept BTC, ETH, and more. Utilize their IPN/API for seamless integration into your website or app.

===Point-of-Sale hardware terminal===
With custom hardware you can integrate with existing registers and point-of-sales solutions (examples: [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com/promo/wikibiz]] [https://coinkite.com/promo/wikibiz Coinkite], [https://xbterminal.com/ XBTerminal], [http://www.bitstraat.nl BitStraat]).

===Accounting===
When a customer makes a payment, you might simply issue a credit to their account. Ideally, you want to enter it in a way that suggests you received a payment. You could consider entering it as a "discount", but you may want to consider whether this inappropriately disguises the nature of the transaction. If on the other hand, you're giving "discounts" for Bitcoins, but then you are selling the Bitcoins for currency and then counting that as income, then chances are good that your calculation of income is making up for it. Ask your accountant.

===Businesses that offer gift cards===
If your business sells gift cards or gift certificates, you may find that the easiest way to accept Bitcoin is to accept it only for the purchase of gift cards, and then require the gift cards to be used for actual purchases of goods or services. This way, the accounting practices you already have in place for processing gift cards can be put to use. The accounting for Bitcoins would then be minimized to tracking sales of a single SKU.

This method is also ideal for retail food establishments and convenience stores, where the payment of Bitcoins through a mobile phone for a small daily food purchase might be cumbersome or disruptive, especially in front of a line of other customers. Bitcoins in this case would be best used to reload prepaid cards that can then be swiped at point-of-sale.

If you don't accept gift cards, but you already accept credit cards through a swipe terminal, consider the possibility that you could add a retail gift card system through the swipe terminal you already own. Many point-of-sale terminals, including ones from VeriFone®, are designed around the ability to support multiple applications on the same terminal. Gift cards are also highly profitable because of "breakage", or in other words, the fact that a significant percentage of them never get redeemed.

You could consider adding a private label gift card program from a provider who specializes in this, not just as a jumpstart to accepting Bitcoins, but as an extra boost to income. A private label gift card service provider necessarily have to handle your funds - they can simply provide a solution that keeps track of the balance on the cards on your behalf, including features that allow users to check their balances by phone or by web. Such a solution, of course, is also what makes the cards swipeable through the card reader.

===Businesses that mail invoices===
Does your business send out invoices to customers? Adding one line may make a huge impact for the Bitcoin economy. Perhaps you list it as a payment option just after Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, even if that means your customer must call or e-mail to make a payment.

If you have access to the programming expertise such that you can generate Bitcoin addresses programmatically, consider generating a brand new Bitcoin address for each invoice, and print it on the invoice. When a Bitcoin payment arrives, you'll automatically know where it should arrive.

Customers might wonder how much BTC they should pay in order to satisfy an invoice in full. Your invoice might suggest an amount. For example, if your invoice is for $100 and BTC's are currently worth $1.24 each, your invoice might suggest that it can be paid in full ''"with a payment of 80.65 BTC if paid by (date)"''.

You might be able to anticipate the possibility that even though a Bitcoin address can be printed on an invoice or payment stub, that they are very cumbersome for most people to type, especially being a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters. However, you should probably still do it anyway. The customer is probably going to want some paper trail for his payment. Giving him a pre-printed payment stub with a pre-printed address will satisfy that, because the customer can independently and publicly prove through [[Block Explorer]] that the payment took place.

Does your business have a website? On your invoice, consider allowing them to go to a special URL to get the address to make a Bitcoin payment just by typing in their invoice number. For example, ''ht<nowiki>tps://ww</nowiki>w.yoursite.com/paybtc'' with a form they can enter their invoice number, or just ''ht<nowiki>tps://ww</nowiki>w.yoursite.com/paybtc/60365'' for paying invoice #60365. This way, they can see the Bitcoin address, copy and paste it directly into their Bitcoin client.

Use a brand new address for each invoice whenever possible, and use it only once. This benefits the customer as it removes any ambiguity as to which customer is making which payment and for which invoice.

Known payment systems supporting invoicing, and recurring invoice setup, [https://coinify.com/checkout/invoice/cb/bb Coinify]

Payment companion having peer to peer encrypted invoicing using your own bitcoin address [https://www.blockonomics.co Blockonomics]

===Avoiding fraud===

You should also consider the possible risk that fraudsters could send counterfeit invoices to your customers, and entice them to make a payment to a Bitcoin address they control, instead of you. While that isn't likely in general - it depends on how well a fraudster could find out who your customers are in the first place - it would certainly be an unpleasant situation if it ever happened. One way you could control that is, whenever possible, never let people try to type Bitcoin addresses off payment stubs - instead, force people to get the full Bitcoin address from your website via secure SSL. But, still print ''most'' of the address on the payment stub (perhaps with four or five characters starred out), so that the customer's need for a paper trail can be satisfied, so they can prove they paid if there is ever a dispute. Merchants can also use the IP address geolocation to understand the close proximity of users. There is automated solution such as [https://www.fraudlabspro.com FraudLabs Pro] that automates the screening of Bitcoin transactions to determine risk level.

==Setting Prices==

When a business accepts bitcoins for payment, there generally is the need to convert them to the currencies used for paying suppliers, employees and shareholders. Some merchants set prices based on the current market rate at the time the price quote is presented to the customer (merchant services like [[File:Favicon-32x32_.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay], [https://www.bitpay.com BitPay], [https://coinbase.com Coinbase], [[File:Coingate_favicon.png|16px|link=https://coingate.com/merchants]] [https://coingate.com/merchants CoinGate], [https://coinify.com Coinify], [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]] [https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay] or [[File:Rocketr.png|20px|link=https://rocketr.net]] [https://rocketr.net Rocketr] (only for digital products) do this automatically).

[[Bitcoin Prices]] lists the exchange rate for many currencies on multiple exchanges.

When prices are determined using an automated process, the current market rate can be based on either a current price or on a weighted average basis. [[Bitcoin Charts]] provides a [http://bitcoincharts.com/about/markets-api data feed that provides weighted prices]. [[Bitcoin Average]] also offers a weighted average price index, featuring average price across all exchanges reachable in the world and in over 150 currencies. 24h sliding average price index is also available and all data is [https://bitcoinaverage.com/api.htm reachable through the API].

When bitcoin funds for purchases are received, some merchants instantly exchange those proceeds into the preferred currency used (again done automatically by [[File:Favicon-32x32_.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay], [https://www.bitpay.com BitPay], [https://coinbase.com Coinbase], [[File:Coingate_favicon.png|16px|link=https://coingate.com/merchants]] [https://coingate.com/merchants CoinGate], [https://coinify.com Coinify], [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]] [https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay] or [[File:Rocketr.png|20px|link=https://rocketr.net]] [https://rocketr.net Rocketr] (only for digital products)). Hedging for each transaction can nearly entirely eliminate exchange rate risk that the business is exposed to when accepting bitcoins for payment.

==Contract==

A sales contract might be used to ensure that specific terms are met to lessen the chances of a misunderstanding. For instance, the party sending payment is responsible for paying any [[transaction fee]] that might be necessary. A contract might specify that a transaction fee must be paid and what amount, so as to prevent the situation where the transaction is considered a low priority transaction and thus isn't confirmed quickly.

Other items that might be addressed in a contract:

* Requirement and handling of escrow through an [[:Category:Escrow_services|escrow service]].
* Jurisdiction for disputes.
* Refund policy (particularly with the exchange rate being volatile)

==Paying taxes on Bitcoin income==
[[Tax compliance]] is a topic of concern for small businesses. We aren't accountants or lawyers, and can't give legal or accounting advice.

But in many respects, Bitcoin transactions work very much like cash. Just like Bitcoin, cash is anonymous and doesn't leave a paper trail, yet is widely used in commerce every day.

Ask yourself how you would handle a cash transaction. Do you accept cash transactions? Do you normally pay taxes on cash transactions? The answer for Bitcoin should probably be the same.

As for how to decide what a Bitcoin transaction is worth... the IRS, as far as we know, has never issued a guide mentioning how to value Bitcoin transactions. But they probably have rules and guidelines on how to value transactions made in foreign currency or "cash equivalents". We imagine the accounting would be similar.

With Bitcoins, there's likely to be some difference between the value of BTC when you received them as payment, versus when you go to exchange them for another currency like USD, should you decide to do so. This scenario, likewise, would be no different if you accepted foreign currency or gold as payment. Under some scenarios, it might make sense to book the dollar value of BTC income as it is received, and then to book any difference incurred when it is exchanged for fiat currency. Under others, it might make sense to book the whole thing at the time of exchange.

Perhaps you might talk to your accountant. You don't need to get into a discussion with your accountant about block chains and private keys or the philosophy behind a decentralized currency. By comparing the fundamentals of Bitcoins to accounting concepts already well understood by the public, you can probably get all the answers you need. What would you ask your accountant if you decided that you wanted to accept ''Berkshire Bucks'' or 1-ounce gold coins as payment?

== Merchant Services ==

See also [[Why Your Business Should Use a Full Node to Accept Bitcoin]]

* [https://bitaps.com/api Bitaps.com] APIs to process bitcoin payments. No sign up or account needed.
* [http://www.btc4erp.com Bitcoin Transaction Coordinator] Full Merchant Solution for organizations using the NetSuite Global ERP and eCommerce Platform
* [[File:favicon_bp.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com/static/img/]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay] Payment gateway for virtual currencies with direct settlement to PLN, CZK, EUR and USD. POS + API.
* [[File:Bitfavicon.png|20px|link=http://www.bitcoinpaygate.com]] [http://www.bitcoinpaygate.com Bitcoinpaygate] Bitcoin payment processing for the web & in store payments
* [[File:BitKassa_favicon.png|20px|link=https://www.BitKassa.nl]] [https://www.BitKassa.nl BitKassa] Merchant solution for accepting Bitcoin, getting Euro or Euro/Bitcoin percentage. The Netherlands.
* [https://www.bitpagos.net BitPagos] Bitcoin and Credit Card payment processor
* [https://www.bitpay.com BitPay] Bitcoin payment processor with mobile checkout solution
* [https://bitpos.me BitPOS] Bitcoin payment processor for online and brick and mortar stores
* [http://www.bitstraat.nl BitStraat] SiteCite: "As of 10-11-2015 BitStraat is discontinued as a company."
* [[File:Bitx-avatar.png|20px|link=https://bitx.co/api]] [https://bitx.co/api BitX API] Merchant API for registered businesses & developers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
* [http://blockchain.info/api/api_receive Blockchain.info] Free APIs to process bitcoin payments. No sign up or account needed. '''Update:''' Starting 01/2016 API2 requires an API key - account required!
* [https://www.blockonomics.co Blockonomics] Accept payment directly into your wallet. Peer to peer bitcoin invoices and integrated wallet watcher
* [https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payment_buttons Coinbase] Offers payment buttons, checkout pages, shopping cart integration, and daily cash out to USD.
* [[File:BitcoinRegister.gif|20px|link=http://coinbox.it/merchant]] [http://coinbox.it/merchant CoinBox] Bitcoin Point of Sales application for Android, with integration into various exchanges. Similar to Square.
* [[Cashila]] Online bank account and payment processor. Accepts bitcoin payments, SEPA transfers and [https://www.cashila.com/ pay bills with bitcoin]
* [[File:CoinCorner_blue_logo.png|20px|link=https://coincorner.com]] [https://www.coincorner.com/ForBusiness CoinCorner] - Integrate CoinCorner Checkout in to your eCommerce business using a simple plugin or the API for Bitcoin Payments. Point of Sale solution also available that allows physical retailers to easily accept bitcoin and automatically convert that to fiat, removing the risk of holding bitcoins.
* [[File:Coingate_favicon.png|16px|link=https://coingate.com/merchants]] [https://coingate.com/merchants CoinGate] Accept Bitcoin payments and receive payouts in Euros, U.S. Dollars or bitcoins. E-commerce plugins, API, Point of Sale app for Android / iOS / web, payment buttons.
* [https://coinify.com Coinify] Payment Service Provider (PSP) specializing in the technical aspects of accepting cryptocurrencies - such as bitcoin. Supports Bitcoin Web Payments, Mobile Checkout, In-store Bitcoin Payments and Bitcoin Invoicing with recurring billing in bitcoin.
* [https://coinpip.com CoinPip] Online and POS bitcoin payment processor for Asia.
* [[File:Coinsnap_favicon.jpg|20px|link=http://www.coinsnap.eu]] [[Coinsnap]] European Bitcoin Payment Provider
* [https://cryptopay.me Cryptopay] European payment gateway with daily payouts in GBP, EUR and USD. Exchange and wallet integrated.
* [https://cubits.com Cubits] Platform with multisignature wallets and merchant system Cubits Pay.
* [[File:gocoin-logo.png|20px|link=https://www.gocoin.com]] [https://www.gocoin.com/docs GoCoin International payment gateway and processing platform for Merchants]
* [https://gourl.io Gourl.io] Bitcoin Payment processor with ready to use php scripts - Pay-Per-Download, Pay-Per-Product, Pay-Per-Membership, Pay-Per-Registration.
* [https://www.okpay.com/en/services/accept-payments/index.html OKPAY] Bitcoin payment processing for merchants
* [[File:Payfast-400.png|20px|link=https://www.payfast.co.za]] [https://www.payfast.co.za PayFast] Merchant solution for South Africa. Integrated in 60+ shopping carts. Supports credit cards, EFT bank transfers and Bitcoin. When buyers pay with Bitcoin, merchants receive the South African rand equivalent, using BitX API
* [[File:Paxful_how-to-buy-bitcoin.png |20px|link=https://paxful.com]] [https://paxful.com Paxful] Accept Bitcoin with no internet then sell bitcoin for profit on our peer to peer exchange.
* [[File:Rocketr.png|20px|link=https://rocketr.net]] [https://rocketr.net Rocketr] Sell digital products online and accept BTC, ETH, and more. Utilize their IPN/API for seamless integration into your website or app.
* [[File:SpectroCoin.png|20px|link=https://spectrocoin.com]][https://spectrocoin.com SpectroCoin] Payment gateway with daily payouts in GBP, EUR, USD, CZK, PLN and other currencies. Debit card, exchange and wallet offered. Plugins for e-commerce and API offered for integration.
* [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]][https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay] Accept Bitcoin for payments at this bitcoin processor that targets Europe, Russia and Latin America.
* [http://xbterminal.com XBTerminal] Brick-and-mortar hardware POS terminals with payment processing integrations.

==See Also==

* [[Merchant Howto]]
* [[In-store Transactions]]
* [[:Category:Payment_Processors|Payment Processors]]
* [[Tax compliance]]
* [[Securing online services]]
* [[BitCoins Mobile]] provides accurate up to date pricing from multiple exchanges from your Apple iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.
* [[Bitcoin PayFlow]] automates the process for accepting bitcoins
* [[Lazy API]] The lazy (and possibly easiest?) way to accept bitcoin payments on your website

[[Category:ECommerce]]
[[Category:Local]]

[[de:Bitcoin_als_Geschäft_akzeptieren]]

How to accept Bitcoin, for small businesses

2016-08-06T13:41:13Z

Btcwarrior: Removed unreachable links

{{merge|Merchant Howto}}

This guide is intended for small business owners who wish to help promote Bitcoin by accepting it as payment for goods and services. It's written with the assumption that you operate a regular business that sells goods or services for regular national currency such as dollars, and that you wish to accept Bitcoin as another legal way to pay, and that you intend to pay taxes on your Bitcoin income just like any other income.

With Bitcoin being touted as a way to conduct anonymous transactions and as way to compete with government currency, many small business owners wonder what's the right way to accept and account Bitcoin, or if it's legal or ethical, or whether and how they should pay taxes on income received through Bitcoin.

As far as we know, Bitcoin isn't yet formally recognized by governments and authorities as a "currency". But in practice, Bitcoin is likely no different than accepting payment in other forms, such as cash, or gold, or scrip, or gift cards or foreign currency. We think that it is pretty much the same as the local businesses of Great Barrington, Massachusetts choosing to accept their locally-printed [http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/19/us-usa-economy-berkshares-idUSN0530157720070619 "Berkshire Bucks"] to support their local economy.

====Starting to accept Bitcoin for transactions====
Accepting Bitcoin at a small business is best started in whichever manner keeps the accounting simple for you. This will vary by the type of business you are operating.

===Start with a sign===
[[{{ns:file}}:WeAcceptBitcoin.png‎]]

If you expect that the number of people interested in using Bitcoin is small, you might simply start by posting a sign or a note: "We Accept Bitcoin", and ask people to contact you directly in order to make a payment. Even if hardly anybody uses Bitcoin as a payment method, you're helping Bitcoin in two ways: one, by increasing awareness, and two, by making your customers more willing to accept Bitcoin as payment from others in the future, because now they know somewhere they can spend it.

===Utilize a merchant solution===
If you sell things on your website (goods or services), you'll want to use a [[#Merchant Services|Bitcoin merchant solution]] to accept the Bitcoins (you can usually opt to have them converted to USD or other currencies automatically with some services).

If you sell things in a brick and mortar shop, customers can pay using hardware terminals, touch screen apps or simple wallet addresses through QR Codes.

[[File:Easybitz bitcoin pointofsale.png|400 px|alt=Accept Bitcoin without internet|EasyBitz ZeroClick System|link=https://easybitz.com/merchant]][[File:Coinktie Bitcoin Payment Buttons.png|alt=Coinkite Bitcoin Payment Buttons|link=https://coinkite.com/merchants]]

[[File:Bitcoin-pos-terminal.png|200 px|alt=Bitcoin POS Terminal|Coinkite terminal]] [[File:Mobile_Web_App_Bitcoin_Register.jpeg|100 px|alt=Bitcoin POS Terminal|CoinBox terminal]]

[[File:Mobile_Checkout_Phone.png|200 px|alt=Bitcoin Mobile Checkout|Coinify Mobile Checkout|link=https://coinify.com]]

===Smart Phone or Tablet===
You can use a wallet address with any wallet. For that it's best if you can place a QR code near your cash register to which the customers can scan with their phone and pay (use http://bitcoinqrcode.org/ to make a QR code sign). For a more convenient solution you can use a dedicated app or webapp that generates a QR code on the fly including the amount.

==== Examples ====
Solutions for smart phones and tablets:
* [https://bitcoin.co.th/merchants/ bitcoin.co.th] mobile Bitcoin Point of Sale for Thailand
* [[File:favicon_bp.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com/static/img/]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay], Mobile payment terminal with EUR, USD, PLN and CZK settlements.
* [[File:BitKassa_favicon.png|20px|link=https://www.BitKassa.nl]] [https://www.BitKassa.nl BitKassa] accept Bitcoin on mobile phone, tablet, computer; converts to Euro/Bitcoin (any percentage)
* [https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-for-retail BitPay] Mobile Checkout
* [https://bitpos.me/demo.html BitPOS] Merchant POS solution for Australia
* [[File:Airbitz mobile logo.png|20px|https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet/]] [https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet/ Airbitz] Merchant Mode for Android and iOS
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.blockchain.merchant Blockchain] Merchant for Android
* [http://www.btcxpos.com/ BTCX] POS for Sweden
* [[File:CoinCorner_blue_logo.png|20px|link=https://coincorner.com]] [https://www.coincorner.com/ForBusiness CoinCorner] - Point of Sale solution available that allows physical retailers to easily accept bitcoin and automatically convert that to fiat, removing the risk of holding bitcoins.
* [https://coinify.com Coinify] Bitcoin Point Of Sale
* [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com]] [https://coinkite.com/faq/pay Coinkite] Web Pay/Buy/Donate buttons with exchange rate and timers. Customizable via API and works over Tor.
* [[File:Coin_Of_Sale_logo.png|20px|link=https://coinofsale.com]] [https://coinofsale.com Coin Of Sale] - device-independent Bitcoin POS payment system
* [https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/point_of_sale Coinbase] Point Of Sale for Android
* [[File:BitcoinRegister.gif|20px|link=http://coinbox.it/merchant]][http://coinbox.it/merchant CoinBox] Bitcoin point of sale for Android
* [http://acceptbitcoin.coinpip.com CoinPip] - Bitcoin Payment Processor for Asia / Global Payment and Payouts for Businesses
* [https://cryptopay.me/products/ Cryptopay] HTML5-based bitcoin POS
* [[File:Paxful_how-to-buy-bitcoin.png |20px|link=https://paxful.com]] [https://paxful.com Paxful] Simplest Point of Sale, No Fees and a peer to peer market to buy bitcoin instantly
* [[File:Payful.png|20px|link=http://payful.io]] [http://payful.io Payful] Accept bitcoin - point of sale, shopping cart plugins and API. Supports USA, Europe and Canada.
* [https://pocketpos.ca/ PocketPOS] Bitcoin Point of Sale for Canadians, with exchange integration
* [https://gourl.io/ GoUrl] Bitcoin Mobile Checkout

===Point-of-Sale hardware terminal===
With custom hardware you can integrate with existing registers and point-of-sales solutions (examples: [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com/promo/wikibiz]] [https://coinkite.com/promo/wikibiz Coinkite], [https://xbterminal.com/ XBTerminal], [http://www.bitstraat.nl BitStraat]).

===Accounting===
When a customer makes a payment, you might simply issue a credit to their account. Ideally, you want to enter it in a way that suggests you received a payment. You could consider entering it as a "discount", but you may want to consider whether this inappropriately disguises the nature of the transaction. If on the other hand, you're giving "discounts" for Bitcoins, but then you are selling the Bitcoins for currency and then counting that as income, then chances are good that your calculation of income is making up for it. Ask your accountant.

===Businesses that offer gift cards===
If your business sells gift cards or gift certificates, you may find that the easiest way to accept Bitcoin is to accept it only for the purchase of gift cards, and then require the gift cards to be used for actual purchases of goods or services. This way, the accounting practices you already have in place for processing gift cards can be put to use. The accounting for Bitcoins would then be minimized to tracking sales of a single SKU.

This method is also ideal for retail food establishments and convenience stores, where the payment of Bitcoins through a mobile phone for a small daily food purchase might be cumbersome or disruptive, especially in front of a line of other customers. Bitcoins in this case would be best used to reload prepaid cards that can then be swiped at point-of-sale.

If you don't accept gift cards, but you already accept credit cards through a swipe terminal, consider the possibility that you could add a retail gift card system through the swipe terminal you already own. Many point-of-sale terminals, including ones from VeriFone®, are designed around the ability to support multiple applications on the same terminal. Gift cards are also highly profitable because of "breakage", or in other words, the fact that a significant percentage of them never get redeemed.

You could consider adding a private label gift card program from a provider who specializes in this, not just as a jumpstart to accepting Bitcoins, but as an extra boost to income. A private label gift card service provider necessarily have to handle your funds - they can simply provide a solution that keeps track of the balance on the cards on your behalf, including features that allow users to check their balances by phone or by web. Such a solution, of course, is also what makes the cards swipeable through the card reader.

===Businesses that mail invoices===
Does your business send out invoices to customers? Adding one line may make a huge impact for the Bitcoin economy. Perhaps you list it as a payment option just after Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, even if that means your customer must call or e-mail to make a payment.

If you have access to the programming expertise such that you can generate Bitcoin addresses programmatically, consider generating a brand new Bitcoin address for each invoice, and print it on the invoice. When a Bitcoin payment arrives, you'll automatically know where it should arrive.

Customers might wonder how much BTC they should pay in order to satisfy an invoice in full. Your invoice might suggest an amount. For example, if your invoice is for $100 and BTC's are currently worth $1.24 each, your invoice might suggest that it can be paid in full ''"with a payment of 80.65 BTC if paid by (date)"''.

You might be able to anticipate the possibility that even though a Bitcoin address can be printed on an invoice or payment stub, that they are very cumbersome for most people to type, especially being a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters. However, you should probably still do it anyway. The customer is probably going to want some paper trail for his payment. Giving him a pre-printed payment stub with a pre-printed address will satisfy that, because the customer can independently and publicly prove through [[Block Explorer]] that the payment took place.

Does your business have a website? On your invoice, consider allowing them to go to a special URL to get the address to make a Bitcoin payment just by typing in their invoice number. For example, ''ht<nowiki>tps://ww</nowiki>w.yoursite.com/paybtc'' with a form they can enter their invoice number, or just ''ht<nowiki>tps://ww</nowiki>w.yoursite.com/paybtc/60365'' for paying invoice #60365. This way, they can see the Bitcoin address, copy and paste it directly into their Bitcoin client.

Use a brand new address for each invoice whenever possible, and use it only once. This benefits the customer as it removes any ambiguity as to which customer is making which payment and for which invoice.

Known payment systems supporting invoicing, and recurring invoice setup, [https://coinify.com/checkout/invoice/cb/bb Coinify]

Payment companion having peer to peer encrypted invoicing using your own bitcoin address [https://www.blockonomics.co Blockonomics]

===Avoiding fraud===

You should also consider the possible risk that fraudsters could send counterfeit invoices to your customers, and entice them to make a payment to a Bitcoin address they control, instead of you. While that isn't likely in general - it depends on how well a fraudster could find out who your customers are in the first place - it would certainly be an unpleasant situation if it ever happened. One way you could control that is, whenever possible, never let people try to type Bitcoin addresses off payment stubs - instead, force people to get the full Bitcoin address from your website via secure SSL. But, still print ''most'' of the address on the payment stub (perhaps with four or five characters starred out), so that the customer's need for a paper trail can be satisfied, so they can prove they paid if there is ever a dispute. Merchants can also use the IP address geolocation to understand the close proximity of users. There is automated solution such as [https://www.fraudlabspro.com FraudLabs Pro] that automates the screening of Bitcoin transactions to determine risk level.

==Setting Prices==

When a business accepts bitcoins for payment, there generally is the need to convert them to the currencies used for paying suppliers, employees and shareholders. Some merchants set prices based on the current market rate at the time the price quote is presented to the customer (merchant services like [[File:Polycoin_favicon.png|20px|link=http://www.polycoin.io]] [http://www.polycoin.io Polycoin], [https://coinify.com Coinify], [[File:Favicon-32x32_.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay], [http://www.bit-pay.com Bit-pay], [https://coinbase.com Coinbase], [http://paysius.com Paysius] or [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]] [https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay] do this automatically).

[[Bitcoin Prices]] lists the exchange rate for many currencies on multiple exchanges.

When prices are determined using an automated process, the current market rate can be based on either a current price or on a weighted average basis. [[Bitcoin Charts]] provides a [http://bitcoincharts.com/about/markets-api data feed that provides weighted prices]. [[Bitcoin Average]] also offers a weighted average price index, featuring average price across all exchanges reachable in the world and in over 150 currencies. 24h sliding average price index is also available and all data is [https://bitcoinaverage.com/api.htm reachable through the API].

When bitcoin funds for purchases are received, some merchants instantly exchange those proceeds into the preferred currency used (again done automatically by [[File:Polycoin_favicon.png|20px|link=http://www.polycoin.io]] [http://www.polycoin.io Polycoin], [https://coinify.com Coinify], [http://www.bit-pay.com Bit-pay], [https://coinbase.com Coinbase], [[File:Favicon-32x32_.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay] or [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]] [https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay]). Hedging for each transaction can nearly entirely eliminate exchange rate risk that the business is exposed to when accepting bitcoins for payment.

==Contract==

A sales contract might be used to ensure that specific terms are met to lessen the chances of a misunderstanding. For instance, the party sending payment is responsible for paying any [[transaction fee]] that might be necessary. A contract might specify that a transaction fee must be paid and what amount, so as to prevent the situation where the transaction is considered a low priority transaction and thus isn't confirmed quickly.

Other items that might be addressed in a contract:

* Requirement and handling of escrow through an [[:Category:Escrow_services|escrow service]].
* Jurisdiction for disputes.
* Refund policy (particularly with the exchange rate being volatile)

==Paying taxes on Bitcoin income==
[[Tax compliance]] is a topic of concern for small businesses. We aren't accountants or lawyers, and can't give legal or accounting advice.

But in many respects, Bitcoin transactions work very much like cash. Just like Bitcoin, cash is anonymous and doesn't leave a paper trail, yet is widely used in commerce every day.

Ask yourself how you would handle a cash transaction. Do you accept cash transactions? Do you normally pay taxes on cash transactions? The answer for Bitcoin should probably be the same.

As for how to decide what a Bitcoin transaction is worth... the IRS, as far as we know, has never issued a guide mentioning how to value Bitcoin transactions. But they probably have rules and guidelines on how to value transactions made in foreign currency or "cash equivalents". We imagine the accounting would be similar.

With Bitcoins, there's likely to be some difference between the value of BTC when you received them as payment, versus when you go to exchange them for another currency like USD, should you decide to do so. This scenario, likewise, would be no different if you accepted foreign currency or gold as payment. Under some scenarios, it might make sense to book the dollar value of BTC income as it is received, and then to book any difference incurred when it is exchanged for fiat currency. Under others, it might make sense to book the whole thing at the time of exchange.

Perhaps you might talk to your accountant. You don't need to get into a discussion with your accountant about block chains and private keys or the philosophy behind a decentralized currency. By comparing the fundamentals of Bitcoins to accounting concepts already well understood by the public, you can probably get all the answers you need. What would you ask your accountant if you decided that you wanted to accept ''Berkshire Bucks'' or 1-ounce gold coins as payment?

== Merchant Services ==
* [https://apicoin.io Apicoin.io] A robust, secure api to connect to the bitcoin network. 12/2015: link dead.
* [http://www.btc4erp.com Bitcoin Transaction Coordinator] Full Merchant Solution for organizations using the NetSuite Global ERP and eCommerce Platform
* [[File:favicon_bp.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com/static/img/]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay] Payment gateway for virtual currencies with direct settlement to PLN, CZK, EUR and USD. POS + API.
* [[File:Bitfavicon.png|20px|link=http://www.bitcoinpaygate.com]] [http://www.bitcoinpaygate.com Bitcoinpaygate] Bitcoin payment processing for the web & in store payments
* [[File:BitKassa_favicon.png|20px|link=https://www.BitKassa.nl]] [https://www.BitKassa.nl BitKassa] Merchant solution for accepting Bitcoin, getting Euro or Euro/Bitcoin percentage. The Netherlands.
* [https://bitmerch.com BitMerch] Provides HTML buttons to start accepting bitcoins instantly. No server side setup required.
* [https://www.bitpagos.net BitPagos] Bitcoin and Credit Card payment processor
* [https://www.bitpay.com BitPay] Bitcoin payment processor with mobile checkout solution
* [https://bitpos.me BitPOS] Bitcoin payment processor for online and brick and mortar stores
* [http://www.bitstraat.nl BitStraat] SiteCite: "As of 10-11-2015 BitStraat is discontinued as a company."
* [[File:Bitx-avatar.png|20px|link=https://bitx.co/api]] [https://bitx.co/api BitX API] Merchant API for registered businesses & developers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
* [http://blockchain.info/api/api_receive Blockchain.info] Free APIs to process bitcoin payments. No sign up or account needed. '''Update:''' Starting 01/2016 API2 requires an API key - account required!
* [https://www.btcmerch.com BTCMerch] Payment processor for bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. 0.5% transaction fee. Sandbox is available.
* [https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payment_buttons Coinbase] Offers payment buttons, checkout pages, shopping cart integration, and daily cash out to USD.
* [[File:BitcoinRegister.gif|20px|link=http://coinbox.it/merchant]] [http://coinbox.it/merchant CoinBox] Bitcoin Point of Sales application for Android, with integration into various exchanges. Similar to Square.
* [[Cashila]] Online bank account and payment processor. Accepts bitcoin payments, SEPA transfers and [https://www.cashila.com/ pay bills with bitcoin]
* [[File:CoinCorner_blue_logo.png|20px|link=https://coincorner.com]] [https://www.coincorner.com/ForBusiness CoinCorner] - Integrate CoinCorner Checkout in to your eCommerce business using a simple plugin or the API for Bitcoin Payments. Point of Sale solution also available that allows physical retailers to easily accept bitcoin and automatically convert that to fiat, removing the risk of holding bitcoins.
* [https://coinify.com Coinify] Payment Service Provider (PSP) specializing in the technical aspects of accepting cryptocurrencies - such as bitcoin. Supports Bitcoin Web Payments, Mobile Checkout, In-store Bitcoin Payments and Bitcoin Invoicing with recurring billing in bitcoin.
* [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com]] [https://coinkite.com/faq/terminal Coinkite] Secure wallet multisig, payment buttons, invoice pages, hardware POS terminals, and Debit-Cards.
* [https://coinpip.com/ CoinPip] Online and POS bitcoin payment processor for Asia.
* [[File:Coinsnap_favicon.jpg|20px|link=http://www.coinsnap.eu]] [[Coinsnap]] European Bitcoin Payment Provider
* [https://coinvoice.com/ Coinvoice] Invoice in USD or BTC, Get paid in USD or BTC.
* [https://coinvoy.net Coinvoy] Free Payment Gateway with built-in exchange
* [https://cryptopay.me Cryptopay] European payment gateway with daily payouts in GBP, EUR and USD. Exchange and wallet integrated.
* [https://cubits.com Cubits] Platform with multisignature wallets and merchant system Cubits Pay.
* [[File:Paxful_how-to-buy-bitcoin.png |20px|link=https://paxful.com]] [https://paxful.com Paxful] Accept Bitcoin with no internet then sell bitcoin for profit on our peer to peer exchange.
* [http://fasterco.in Fasterco.in] Bitcoin payment processing for merchants and day-traders
* [[File:gocoin-logo.png|20px|link=https://www.gocoin.com]] [https://www.gocoin.com/docs GoCoin International payment gateway and processing platform for Merchants]
* [https://gourl.io Gourl.io] Bitcoin Payment processor with ready to use php scripts - Pay-Per-Download, Pay-Per-Product, Pay-Per-Membership, Pay-Per-Registration.
* [[File:inpay_favicon.png|link=https://inpay.pl/?lang=en]] [https://inpay.pl/?lang=en InPay.pl] InPay was created to enable entrepreneurs to accept Bitcoin in PLN, EUR and USD.
* [[File:MCS_200by200_logo-01.png|20px|link=http://www.mycoinsolution.com]][http://www.mycoinsolution.com My Coin Solution] - Bitcoin consulting services and solutions
* [https://www.okpay.com/en/services/accept-payments/index.html OKPAY] Bitcoin payment processing for merchants
* [[File:Payfast-400.png|20px|link=https://www.payfast.co.za]] [https://www.payfast.co.za PayFast] Merchant solution for South Africa. Integrated in 60+ shopping carts. Supports credit cards, EFT bank transfers and Bitcoin. When buyers pay with Bitcoin, merchants receive the South African rand equivalent, using BitX API
* [[File:Payful.png|20px|link=http://payful.io]] [http://payful.io Payful] Accept bitcoin - point of sale, shopping cart plugins and API. Supports payment processing in US dollars, Euros and Canadian dollars.
* [[File:Polycoin_favicon.png|20px|link=http://www.polycoin.io]] [http://www.polycoin.io Polycoin] Bitcoin payment processing platform with solutions for the financial sector
* [https://pocketpos.ca/ PocketPOS] Bitcoin Point of Sale for Canadians, including merchant integration for CAD / BTC exchange.
* [http://snowcron.com Snowcron] Bitcoin Store Engine: Handles payments, sends your customers information they ordered (reg. codes, passwords...) No web programming required.
* [[File:SpectroCoin.png|20px|link=https://spectrocoin.com]][https://spectrocoin.com SpectroCoin] Payment gateway with daily payouts in GBP, EUR, USD, CZK, PLN and other currencies. Debit card, exchange and wallet offered. Plugins for e-commerce and API offered for integration.
* [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]][https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay] Accept Bitcoin for payments at this bitcoin processor that targets Europe, Russia and Latin America.
* [https://xbterminal.com/ XBTerminal] Brick-and-mortar hardware POS terminals with payment processing integrations.
* [https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] Peer to peer bitcoin invoices using your own bitcoin address.

==See Also==

* [[Merchant Howto]]
* [[In-store Transactions]]
* [[:Category:Payment_Processors|Payment Processors]]
* [[Tax compliance]]
* [[Securing online services]]
* [[BitCoins Mobile]] provides accurate up to date pricing from multiple exchanges from your Apple iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.
* [[Bitcoin PayFlow]] automates the process for accepting bitcoins
* [[Lazy API]] The lazy (and possibly easiest?) way to accept bitcoin payments on your website

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How to accept Bitcoin, for small businesses

2016-08-06T13:38:51Z

Btcwarrior: /* Businesses that mail invoices */ Added blockonomics

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This guide is intended for small business owners who wish to help promote Bitcoin by accepting it as payment for goods and services. It's written with the assumption that you operate a regular business that sells goods or services for regular national currency such as dollars, and that you wish to accept Bitcoin as another legal way to pay, and that you intend to pay taxes on your Bitcoin income just like any other income.

With Bitcoin being touted as a way to conduct anonymous transactions and as way to compete with government currency, many small business owners wonder what's the right way to accept and account Bitcoin, or if it's legal or ethical, or whether and how they should pay taxes on income received through Bitcoin.

As far as we know, Bitcoin isn't yet formally recognized by governments and authorities as a "currency". But in practice, Bitcoin is likely no different than accepting payment in other forms, such as cash, or gold, or scrip, or gift cards or foreign currency. We think that it is pretty much the same as the local businesses of Great Barrington, Massachusetts choosing to accept their locally-printed [http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/19/us-usa-economy-berkshares-idUSN0530157720070619 "Berkshire Bucks"] to support their local economy.

====Starting to accept Bitcoin for transactions====
Accepting Bitcoin at a small business is best started in whichever manner keeps the accounting simple for you. This will vary by the type of business you are operating.

===Start with a sign===
[[{{ns:file}}:WeAcceptBitcoin.png‎]]

If you expect that the number of people interested in using Bitcoin is small, you might simply start by posting a sign or a note: "We Accept Bitcoin", and ask people to contact you directly in order to make a payment. Even if hardly anybody uses Bitcoin as a payment method, you're helping Bitcoin in two ways: one, by increasing awareness, and two, by making your customers more willing to accept Bitcoin as payment from others in the future, because now they know somewhere they can spend it.

===Utilize a merchant solution===
If you sell things on your website (goods or services), you'll want to use a [[#Merchant Services|Bitcoin merchant solution]] to accept the Bitcoins (you can usually opt to have them converted to USD or other currencies automatically with some services).

If you sell things in a brick and mortar shop, customers can pay using hardware terminals, touch screen apps or simple wallet addresses through QR Codes.

[[File:Easybitz bitcoin pointofsale.png|400 px|alt=Accept Bitcoin without internet|EasyBitz ZeroClick System|link=https://easybitz.com/merchant]][[File:Coinktie Bitcoin Payment Buttons.png|alt=Coinkite Bitcoin Payment Buttons|link=https://coinkite.com/merchants]]

[[File:Bitcoin-pos-terminal.png|200 px|alt=Bitcoin POS Terminal|Coinkite terminal]] [[File:Mobile_Web_App_Bitcoin_Register.jpeg|100 px|alt=Bitcoin POS Terminal|CoinBox terminal]]

[[File:Mobile_Checkout_Phone.png|200 px|alt=Bitcoin Mobile Checkout|Coinify Mobile Checkout|link=https://coinify.com]]

===Smart Phone or Tablet===
You can use a wallet address with any wallet. For that it's best if you can place a QR code near your cash register to which the customers can scan with their phone and pay (use http://bitcoinqrcode.org/ to make a QR code sign). For a more convenient solution you can use a dedicated app or webapp that generates a QR code on the fly including the amount.

==== Examples ====
Solutions for smart phones and tablets:
* [https://bitcoin.co.th/merchants/ bitcoin.co.th] mobile Bitcoin Point of Sale for Thailand
* [[File:favicon_bp.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com/static/img/]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay], Mobile payment terminal with EUR, USD, PLN and CZK settlements.
* [[File:BitKassa_favicon.png|20px|link=https://www.BitKassa.nl]] [https://www.BitKassa.nl BitKassa] accept Bitcoin on mobile phone, tablet, computer; converts to Euro/Bitcoin (any percentage)
* [https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-for-retail BitPay] Mobile Checkout
* [https://bitpos.me/demo.html BitPOS] Merchant POS solution for Australia
* [[File:Airbitz mobile logo.png|20px|https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet/]] [https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet/ Airbitz] Merchant Mode for Android and iOS
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.blockchain.merchant Blockchain] Merchant for Android
* [http://www.btcxpos.com/ BTCX] POS for Sweden
* [[File:CoinCorner_blue_logo.png|20px|link=https://coincorner.com]] [https://www.coincorner.com/ForBusiness CoinCorner] - Point of Sale solution available that allows physical retailers to easily accept bitcoin and automatically convert that to fiat, removing the risk of holding bitcoins.
* [https://coinify.com Coinify] Bitcoin Point Of Sale
* [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com]] [https://coinkite.com/faq/pay Coinkite] Web Pay/Buy/Donate buttons with exchange rate and timers. Customizable via API and works over Tor.
* [[File:Coin_Of_Sale_logo.png|20px|link=https://coinofsale.com]] [https://coinofsale.com Coin Of Sale] - device-independent Bitcoin POS payment system
* [https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/point_of_sale Coinbase] Point Of Sale for Android
* [[File:BitcoinRegister.gif|20px|link=http://coinbox.it/merchant]][http://coinbox.it/merchant CoinBox] Bitcoin point of sale for Android
* [http://acceptbitcoin.coinpip.com CoinPip] - Bitcoin Payment Processor for Asia / Global Payment and Payouts for Businesses
* [https://cryptopay.me/products/ Cryptopay] HTML5-based bitcoin POS
* [[File:Paxful_how-to-buy-bitcoin.png |20px|link=https://paxful.com]] [https://paxful.com Paxful] Simplest Point of Sale, No Fees and a peer to peer market to buy bitcoin instantly
* [[File:Payful.png|20px|link=http://payful.io]] [http://payful.io Payful] Accept bitcoin - point of sale, shopping cart plugins and API. Supports USA, Europe and Canada.
* [https://pocketpos.ca/ PocketPOS] Bitcoin Point of Sale for Canadians, with exchange integration
* [https://gourl.io/ GoUrl] Bitcoin Mobile Checkout

===Point-of-Sale hardware terminal===
With custom hardware you can integrate with existing registers and point-of-sales solutions (examples: [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com/promo/wikibiz]] [https://coinkite.com/promo/wikibiz Coinkite], [https://xbterminal.com/ XBTerminal], [http://www.bitstraat.nl BitStraat]).

===Accounting===
When a customer makes a payment, you might simply issue a credit to their account. Ideally, you want to enter it in a way that suggests you received a payment. You could consider entering it as a "discount", but you may want to consider whether this inappropriately disguises the nature of the transaction. If on the other hand, you're giving "discounts" for Bitcoins, but then you are selling the Bitcoins for currency and then counting that as income, then chances are good that your calculation of income is making up for it. Ask your accountant.

===Businesses that offer gift cards===
If your business sells gift cards or gift certificates, you may find that the easiest way to accept Bitcoin is to accept it only for the purchase of gift cards, and then require the gift cards to be used for actual purchases of goods or services. This way, the accounting practices you already have in place for processing gift cards can be put to use. The accounting for Bitcoins would then be minimized to tracking sales of a single SKU.

This method is also ideal for retail food establishments and convenience stores, where the payment of Bitcoins through a mobile phone for a small daily food purchase might be cumbersome or disruptive, especially in front of a line of other customers. Bitcoins in this case would be best used to reload prepaid cards that can then be swiped at point-of-sale.

If you don't accept gift cards, but you already accept credit cards through a swipe terminal, consider the possibility that you could add a retail gift card system through the swipe terminal you already own. Many point-of-sale terminals, including ones from VeriFone®, are designed around the ability to support multiple applications on the same terminal. Gift cards are also highly profitable because of "breakage", or in other words, the fact that a significant percentage of them never get redeemed.

You could consider adding a private label gift card program from a provider who specializes in this, not just as a jumpstart to accepting Bitcoins, but as an extra boost to income. A private label gift card service provider necessarily have to handle your funds - they can simply provide a solution that keeps track of the balance on the cards on your behalf, including features that allow users to check their balances by phone or by web. Such a solution, of course, is also what makes the cards swipeable through the card reader.

===Businesses that mail invoices===
Does your business send out invoices to customers? Adding one line may make a huge impact for the Bitcoin economy. Perhaps you list it as a payment option just after Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, even if that means your customer must call or e-mail to make a payment.

If you have access to the programming expertise such that you can generate Bitcoin addresses programmatically, consider generating a brand new Bitcoin address for each invoice, and print it on the invoice. When a Bitcoin payment arrives, you'll automatically know where it should arrive.

Customers might wonder how much BTC they should pay in order to satisfy an invoice in full. Your invoice might suggest an amount. For example, if your invoice is for $100 and BTC's are currently worth $1.24 each, your invoice might suggest that it can be paid in full ''"with a payment of 80.65 BTC if paid by (date)"''.

You might be able to anticipate the possibility that even though a Bitcoin address can be printed on an invoice or payment stub, that they are very cumbersome for most people to type, especially being a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters. However, you should probably still do it anyway. The customer is probably going to want some paper trail for his payment. Giving him a pre-printed payment stub with a pre-printed address will satisfy that, because the customer can independently and publicly prove through [[Block Explorer]] that the payment took place.

Does your business have a website? On your invoice, consider allowing them to go to a special URL to get the address to make a Bitcoin payment just by typing in their invoice number. For example, ''ht<nowiki>tps://ww</nowiki>w.yoursite.com/paybtc'' with a form they can enter their invoice number, or just ''ht<nowiki>tps://ww</nowiki>w.yoursite.com/paybtc/60365'' for paying invoice #60365. This way, they can see the Bitcoin address, copy and paste it directly into their Bitcoin client.

Use a brand new address for each invoice whenever possible, and use it only once. This benefits the customer as it removes any ambiguity as to which customer is making which payment and for which invoice.

Known payment systems supporting invoicing, and recurring invoice setup, [https://coinify.com/checkout/invoice/cb/bb Coinify]

Online wallet supporting invoicing, subscriptions and recurrent payments, [https://www.xcoinmoney.com/info/sending-paying-invoices xCoinMoney]

Payment companion having peer to peer encrypted invoicing using your own bitcoin address [https://www.blockonomics.co Blockonomics]

===Avoiding fraud===

You should also consider the possible risk that fraudsters could send counterfeit invoices to your customers, and entice them to make a payment to a Bitcoin address they control, instead of you. While that isn't likely in general - it depends on how well a fraudster could find out who your customers are in the first place - it would certainly be an unpleasant situation if it ever happened. One way you could control that is, whenever possible, never let people try to type Bitcoin addresses off payment stubs - instead, force people to get the full Bitcoin address from your website via secure SSL. But, still print ''most'' of the address on the payment stub (perhaps with four or five characters starred out), so that the customer's need for a paper trail can be satisfied, so they can prove they paid if there is ever a dispute. Merchants can also use the IP address geolocation to understand the close proximity of users. There is automated solution such as [https://www.fraudlabspro.com FraudLabs Pro] that automates the screening of Bitcoin transactions to determine risk level.

==Setting Prices==

When a business accepts bitcoins for payment, there generally is the need to convert them to the currencies used for paying suppliers, employees and shareholders. Some merchants set prices based on the current market rate at the time the price quote is presented to the customer (merchant services like [[File:Polycoin_favicon.png|20px|link=http://www.polycoin.io]] [http://www.polycoin.io Polycoin], [https://coinify.com Coinify], [[File:Favicon-32x32_.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay], [http://www.bit-pay.com Bit-pay], [https://coinbase.com Coinbase], [http://paysius.com Paysius] or [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]] [https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay] do this automatically).

[[Bitcoin Prices]] lists the exchange rate for many currencies on multiple exchanges.

When prices are determined using an automated process, the current market rate can be based on either a current price or on a weighted average basis. [[Bitcoin Charts]] provides a [http://bitcoincharts.com/about/markets-api data feed that provides weighted prices]. [[Bitcoin Average]] also offers a weighted average price index, featuring average price across all exchanges reachable in the world and in over 150 currencies. 24h sliding average price index is also available and all data is [https://bitcoinaverage.com/api.htm reachable through the API].

When bitcoin funds for purchases are received, some merchants instantly exchange those proceeds into the preferred currency used (again done automatically by [[File:Polycoin_favicon.png|20px|link=http://www.polycoin.io]] [http://www.polycoin.io Polycoin], [https://coinify.com Coinify], [http://www.bit-pay.com Bit-pay], [https://coinbase.com Coinbase], [[File:Favicon-32x32_.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay] or [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]] [https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay]). Hedging for each transaction can nearly entirely eliminate exchange rate risk that the business is exposed to when accepting bitcoins for payment.

==Contract==

A sales contract might be used to ensure that specific terms are met to lessen the chances of a misunderstanding. For instance, the party sending payment is responsible for paying any [[transaction fee]] that might be necessary. A contract might specify that a transaction fee must be paid and what amount, so as to prevent the situation where the transaction is considered a low priority transaction and thus isn't confirmed quickly.

Other items that might be addressed in a contract:

* Requirement and handling of escrow through an [[:Category:Escrow_services|escrow service]].
* Jurisdiction for disputes.
* Refund policy (particularly with the exchange rate being volatile)

==Paying taxes on Bitcoin income==
[[Tax compliance]] is a topic of concern for small businesses. We aren't accountants or lawyers, and can't give legal or accounting advice.

But in many respects, Bitcoin transactions work very much like cash. Just like Bitcoin, cash is anonymous and doesn't leave a paper trail, yet is widely used in commerce every day.

Ask yourself how you would handle a cash transaction. Do you accept cash transactions? Do you normally pay taxes on cash transactions? The answer for Bitcoin should probably be the same.

As for how to decide what a Bitcoin transaction is worth... the IRS, as far as we know, has never issued a guide mentioning how to value Bitcoin transactions. But they probably have rules and guidelines on how to value transactions made in foreign currency or "cash equivalents". We imagine the accounting would be similar.

With Bitcoins, there's likely to be some difference between the value of BTC when you received them as payment, versus when you go to exchange them for another currency like USD, should you decide to do so. This scenario, likewise, would be no different if you accepted foreign currency or gold as payment. Under some scenarios, it might make sense to book the dollar value of BTC income as it is received, and then to book any difference incurred when it is exchanged for fiat currency. Under others, it might make sense to book the whole thing at the time of exchange.

Perhaps you might talk to your accountant. You don't need to get into a discussion with your accountant about block chains and private keys or the philosophy behind a decentralized currency. By comparing the fundamentals of Bitcoins to accounting concepts already well understood by the public, you can probably get all the answers you need. What would you ask your accountant if you decided that you wanted to accept ''Berkshire Bucks'' or 1-ounce gold coins as payment?

== Merchant Services ==
* [https://apicoin.io Apicoin.io] A robust, secure api to connect to the bitcoin network. 12/2015: link dead.
* [http://www.btc4erp.com Bitcoin Transaction Coordinator] Full Merchant Solution for organizations using the NetSuite Global ERP and eCommerce Platform
* [[File:favicon_bp.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com/static/img/]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay] Payment gateway for virtual currencies with direct settlement to PLN, CZK, EUR and USD. POS + API.
* [[File:Bitfavicon.png|20px|link=http://www.bitcoinpaygate.com]] [http://www.bitcoinpaygate.com Bitcoinpaygate] Bitcoin payment processing for the web & in store payments
* [[File:BitKassa_favicon.png|20px|link=https://www.BitKassa.nl]] [https://www.BitKassa.nl BitKassa] Merchant solution for accepting Bitcoin, getting Euro or Euro/Bitcoin percentage. The Netherlands.
* [https://bitmerch.com BitMerch] Provides HTML buttons to start accepting bitcoins instantly. No server side setup required.
* [https://www.bitpagos.net BitPagos] Bitcoin and Credit Card payment processor
* [https://www.bitpay.com BitPay] Bitcoin payment processor with mobile checkout solution
* [https://bitpos.me BitPOS] Bitcoin payment processor for online and brick and mortar stores
* [http://www.bitstraat.nl BitStraat] SiteCite: "As of 10-11-2015 BitStraat is discontinued as a company."
* [[File:Bitx-avatar.png|20px|link=https://bitx.co/api]] [https://bitx.co/api BitX API] Merchant API for registered businesses & developers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
* [http://blockchain.info/api/api_receive Blockchain.info] Free APIs to process bitcoin payments. No sign up or account needed. '''Update:''' Starting 01/2016 API2 requires an API key - account required!
* [https://www.btcmerch.com BTCMerch] Payment processor for bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. 0.5% transaction fee. Sandbox is available.
* [https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payment_buttons Coinbase] Offers payment buttons, checkout pages, shopping cart integration, and daily cash out to USD.
* [[File:BitcoinRegister.gif|20px|link=http://coinbox.it/merchant]] [http://coinbox.it/merchant CoinBox] Bitcoin Point of Sales application for Android, with integration into various exchanges. Similar to Square.
* [[Cashila]] Online bank account and payment processor. Accepts bitcoin payments, SEPA transfers and [https://www.cashila.com/ pay bills with bitcoin]
* [[File:CoinCorner_blue_logo.png|20px|link=https://coincorner.com]] [https://www.coincorner.com/ForBusiness CoinCorner] - Integrate CoinCorner Checkout in to your eCommerce business using a simple plugin or the API for Bitcoin Payments. Point of Sale solution also available that allows physical retailers to easily accept bitcoin and automatically convert that to fiat, removing the risk of holding bitcoins.
* [https://coinify.com Coinify] Payment Service Provider (PSP) specializing in the technical aspects of accepting cryptocurrencies - such as bitcoin. Supports Bitcoin Web Payments, Mobile Checkout, In-store Bitcoin Payments and Bitcoin Invoicing with recurring billing in bitcoin.
* [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com]] [https://coinkite.com/faq/terminal Coinkite] Secure wallet multisig, payment buttons, invoice pages, hardware POS terminals, and Debit-Cards.
* [https://coinpip.com/ CoinPip] Online and POS bitcoin payment processor for Asia.
* [[File:Coinsnap_favicon.jpg|20px|link=http://www.coinsnap.eu]] [[Coinsnap]] European Bitcoin Payment Provider
* [https://coinvoice.com/ Coinvoice] Invoice in USD or BTC, Get paid in USD or BTC.
* [https://coinvoy.net Coinvoy] Free Payment Gateway with built-in exchange
* [https://cryptopay.me Cryptopay] European payment gateway with daily payouts in GBP, EUR and USD. Exchange and wallet integrated.
* [https://cubits.com Cubits] Platform with multisignature wallets and merchant system Cubits Pay.
* [[File:Paxful_how-to-buy-bitcoin.png |20px|link=https://paxful.com]] [https://paxful.com Paxful] Accept Bitcoin with no internet then sell bitcoin for profit on our peer to peer exchange.
* [http://fasterco.in Fasterco.in] Bitcoin payment processing for merchants and day-traders
* [[File:gocoin-logo.png|20px|link=https://www.gocoin.com]] [https://www.gocoin.com/docs GoCoin International payment gateway and processing platform for Merchants]
* [https://gourl.io Gourl.io] Bitcoin Payment processor with ready to use php scripts - Pay-Per-Download, Pay-Per-Product, Pay-Per-Membership, Pay-Per-Registration.
* [[File:inpay_favicon.png|link=https://inpay.pl/?lang=en]] [https://inpay.pl/?lang=en InPay.pl] InPay was created to enable entrepreneurs to accept Bitcoin in PLN, EUR and USD.
* [[File:MCS_200by200_logo-01.png|20px|link=http://www.mycoinsolution.com]][http://www.mycoinsolution.com My Coin Solution] - Bitcoin consulting services and solutions
* [https://www.okpay.com/en/services/accept-payments/index.html OKPAY] Bitcoin payment processing for merchants
* [[File:Payfast-400.png|20px|link=https://www.payfast.co.za]] [https://www.payfast.co.za PayFast] Merchant solution for South Africa. Integrated in 60+ shopping carts. Supports credit cards, EFT bank transfers and Bitcoin. When buyers pay with Bitcoin, merchants receive the South African rand equivalent, using BitX API
* [[File:Payful.png|20px|link=http://payful.io]] [http://payful.io Payful] Accept bitcoin - point of sale, shopping cart plugins and API. Supports payment processing in US dollars, Euros and Canadian dollars.
* [[File:Polycoin_favicon.png|20px|link=http://www.polycoin.io]] [http://www.polycoin.io Polycoin] Bitcoin payment processing platform with solutions for the financial sector
* [https://pocketpos.ca/ PocketPOS] Bitcoin Point of Sale for Canadians, including merchant integration for CAD / BTC exchange.
* [http://snowcron.com Snowcron] Bitcoin Store Engine: Handles payments, sends your customers information they ordered (reg. codes, passwords...) No web programming required.
* [[File:SpectroCoin.png|20px|link=https://spectrocoin.com]][https://spectrocoin.com SpectroCoin] Payment gateway with daily payouts in GBP, EUR, USD, CZK, PLN and other currencies. Debit card, exchange and wallet offered. Plugins for e-commerce and API offered for integration.
* [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]][https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay] Accept Bitcoin for payments at this bitcoin processor that targets Europe, Russia and Latin America.
* [https://xbterminal.com/ XBTerminal] Brick-and-mortar hardware POS terminals with payment processing integrations.
* [https://www.xcoinmoney.com/ xCoinMoney] Online wallet for instant payment and subscriptions.
* [https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] Peer to peer bitcoin invoices using your own bitcoin address.

==See Also==

* [[Merchant Howto]]
* [[In-store Transactions]]
* [[:Category:Payment_Processors|Payment Processors]]
* [[Tax compliance]]
* [[Securing online services]]
* [[BitCoins Mobile]] provides accurate up to date pricing from multiple exchanges from your Apple iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.
* [[Bitcoin PayFlow]] automates the process for accepting bitcoins
* [[Lazy API]] The lazy (and possibly easiest?) way to accept bitcoin payments on your website

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[[Category:Local]]

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How to accept Bitcoin, for small businesses

2016-06-25T06:21:04Z

Btcwarrior: Added Blockonomics in Merchant Services

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This guide is intended for small business owners who wish to help promote Bitcoin by accepting it as payment for goods and services. It's written with the assumption that you operate a regular business that sells goods or services for regular national currency such as dollars, and that you wish to accept Bitcoin as another legal way to pay, and that you intend to pay taxes on your Bitcoin income just like any other income.

With Bitcoin being touted as a way to conduct anonymous transactions and as way to compete with government currency, many small business owners wonder what's the right way to accept and account Bitcoin, or if it's legal or ethical, or whether and how they should pay taxes on income received through Bitcoin.

As far as we know, Bitcoin isn't yet formally recognized by governments and authorities as a "currency". But in practice, Bitcoin is likely no different than accepting payment in other forms, such as cash, or gold, or scrip, or gift cards or foreign currency. We think that it is pretty much the same as the local businesses of Great Barrington, Massachusetts choosing to accept their locally-printed [http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/19/us-usa-economy-berkshares-idUSN0530157720070619 "Berkshire Bucks"] to support their local economy.

====Starting to accept Bitcoin for transactions====
Accepting Bitcoin at a small business is best started in whichever manner keeps the accounting simple for you. This will vary by the type of business you are operating.

===Start with a sign===
[[{{ns:file}}:WeAcceptBitcoin.png‎]]

If you expect that the number of people interested in using Bitcoin is small, you might simply start by posting a sign or a note: "We Accept Bitcoin", and ask people to contact you directly in order to make a payment. Even if hardly anybody uses Bitcoin as a payment method, you're helping Bitcoin in two ways: one, by increasing awareness, and two, by making your customers more willing to accept Bitcoin as payment from others in the future, because now they know somewhere they can spend it.

===Utilize a merchant solution===
If you sell things on your website (goods or services), you'll want to use a [[#Merchant Services|Bitcoin merchant solution]] to accept the Bitcoins (you can usually opt to have them converted to USD or other currencies automatically with some services).

If you sell things in a brick and mortar shop, customers can pay using hardware terminals, touch screen apps or simple wallet addresses through QR Codes.

[[File:Easybitz bitcoin pointofsale.png|400 px|alt=Accept Bitcoin without internet|EasyBitz ZeroClick System|link=https://easybitz.com/merchant]][[File:Coinktie Bitcoin Payment Buttons.png|alt=Coinkite Bitcoin Payment Buttons|link=https://coinkite.com/merchants]]

[[File:Bitcoin-pos-terminal.png|200 px|alt=Bitcoin POS Terminal|Coinkite terminal]] [[File:Mobile_Web_App_Bitcoin_Register.jpeg|100 px|alt=Bitcoin POS Terminal|CoinBox terminal]]

[[File:Mobile_Checkout_Phone.png|200 px|alt=Bitcoin Mobile Checkout|Coinify Mobile Checkout|link=https://coinify.com]]

===Smart Phone or Tablet===
You can use a wallet address with any wallet. For that it's best if you can place a QR code near your cash register to which the customers can scan with their phone and pay (use http://bitcoinqrcode.org/ to make a QR code sign). For a more convenient solution you can use a dedicated app or webapp that generates a QR code on the fly including the amount.

==== Examples ====
Solutions for smart phones and tablets:
* [https://bitcoin.co.th/merchants/ bitcoin.co.th] mobile Bitcoin Point of Sale for Thailand
* [[File:favicon_bp.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com/static/img/]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay], Mobile payment terminal with EUR, USD, PLN and CZK settlements.
* [[File:BitKassa_favicon.png|20px|link=https://www.BitKassa.nl]] [https://www.BitKassa.nl BitKassa] accept Bitcoin on mobile phone, tablet, computer; converts to Euro/Bitcoin (any percentage)
* [https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-for-retail BitPay] Mobile Checkout
* [https://bitpos.me/demo.html BitPOS] Merchant POS solution for Australia
* [[File:Airbitz mobile logo.png|20px|https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet/]] [https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet/ Airbitz] Merchant Mode for Android and iOS
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.blockchain.merchant Blockchain] Merchant for Android
* [http://www.btcxpos.com/ BTCX] POS for Sweden
* [[File:CoinCorner_blue_logo.png|20px|link=https://coincorner.com]] [https://www.coincorner.com/ForBusiness CoinCorner] - Point of Sale solution available that allows physical retailers to easily accept bitcoin and automatically convert that to fiat, removing the risk of holding bitcoins.
* [https://coinify.com Coinify] Bitcoin Point Of Sale
* [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com]] [https://coinkite.com/faq/pay Coinkite] Web Pay/Buy/Donate buttons with exchange rate and timers. Customizable via API and works over Tor.
* [[File:Coin_Of_Sale_logo.png|20px|link=https://coinofsale.com]] [https://coinofsale.com Coin Of Sale] - device-independent Bitcoin POS payment system
* [https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/point_of_sale Coinbase] Point Of Sale for Android
* [[File:BitcoinRegister.gif|20px|link=http://coinbox.it/merchant]][http://coinbox.it/merchant CoinBox] Bitcoin point of sale for Android
* [http://acceptbitcoin.coinpip.com CoinPip] - Bitcoin Payment Processor for Asia / Global Payment and Payouts for Businesses
* [https://cryptopay.me/products/ Cryptopay] HTML5-based bitcoin POS
* [[File:Paxful_how-to-buy-bitcoin.png |20px|link=https://paxful.com]] [https://paxful.com Paxful] Simplest Point of Sale, No Fees and a peer to peer market to buy bitcoin instantly
* [[File:Payful.png|20px|link=http://payful.io]] [http://payful.io Payful] Accept bitcoin - point of sale, shopping cart plugins and API. Supports USA, Europe and Canada.
* [https://pocketpos.ca/ PocketPOS] Bitcoin Point of Sale for Canadians, with exchange integration
* [https://gourl.io/ GoUrl] Bitcoin Mobile Checkout

===Point-of-Sale hardware terminal===
With custom hardware you can integrate with existing registers and point-of-sales solutions (examples: [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com/promo/wikibiz]] [https://coinkite.com/promo/wikibiz Coinkite], [https://xbterminal.com/ XBTerminal], [http://www.bitstraat.nl BitStraat]).

===Accounting===
When a customer makes a payment, you might simply issue a credit to their account. Ideally, you want to enter it in a way that suggests you received a payment. You could consider entering it as a "discount", but you may want to consider whether this inappropriately disguises the nature of the transaction. If on the other hand, you're giving "discounts" for Bitcoins, but then you are selling the Bitcoins for currency and then counting that as income, then chances are good that your calculation of income is making up for it. Ask your accountant.

===Businesses that offer gift cards===
If your business sells gift cards or gift certificates, you may find that the easiest way to accept Bitcoin is to accept it only for the purchase of gift cards, and then require the gift cards to be used for actual purchases of goods or services. This way, the accounting practices you already have in place for processing gift cards can be put to use. The accounting for Bitcoins would then be minimized to tracking sales of a single SKU.

This method is also ideal for retail food establishments and convenience stores, where the payment of Bitcoins through a mobile phone for a small daily food purchase might be cumbersome or disruptive, especially in front of a line of other customers. Bitcoins in this case would be best used to reload prepaid cards that can then be swiped at point-of-sale.

If you don't accept gift cards, but you already accept credit cards through a swipe terminal, consider the possibility that you could add a retail gift card system through the swipe terminal you already own. Many point-of-sale terminals, including ones from VeriFone®, are designed around the ability to support multiple applications on the same terminal. Gift cards are also highly profitable because of "breakage", or in other words, the fact that a significant percentage of them never get redeemed.

You could consider adding a private label gift card program from a provider who specializes in this, not just as a jumpstart to accepting Bitcoins, but as an extra boost to income. A private label gift card service provider necessarily have to handle your funds - they can simply provide a solution that keeps track of the balance on the cards on your behalf, including features that allow users to check their balances by phone or by web. Such a solution, of course, is also what makes the cards swipeable through the card reader.

===Businesses that mail invoices===
Does your business send out invoices to customers? Adding one line may make a huge impact for the Bitcoin economy. Perhaps you list it as a payment option just after Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, even if that means your customer must call or e-mail to make a payment.

If you have access to the programming expertise such that you can generate Bitcoin addresses programmatically, consider generating a brand new Bitcoin address for each invoice, and print it on the invoice. When a Bitcoin payment arrives, you'll automatically know where it should arrive.

Customers might wonder how much BTC they should pay in order to satisfy an invoice in full. Your invoice might suggest an amount. For example, if your invoice is for $100 and BTC's are currently worth $1.24 each, your invoice might suggest that it can be paid in full ''"with a payment of 80.65 BTC if paid by (date)"''.

You might be able to anticipate the possibility that even though a Bitcoin address can be printed on an invoice or payment stub, that they are very cumbersome for most people to type, especially being a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters. However, you should probably still do it anyway. The customer is probably going to want some paper trail for his payment. Giving him a pre-printed payment stub with a pre-printed address will satisfy that, because the customer can independently and publicly prove through [[Block Explorer]] that the payment took place.

Does your business have a website? On your invoice, consider allowing them to go to a special URL to get the address to make a Bitcoin payment just by typing in their invoice number. For example, ''ht<nowiki>tps://ww</nowiki>w.yoursite.com/paybtc'' with a form they can enter their invoice number, or just ''ht<nowiki>tps://ww</nowiki>w.yoursite.com/paybtc/60365'' for paying invoice #60365. This way, they can see the Bitcoin address, copy and paste it directly into their Bitcoin client.

Use a brand new address for each invoice whenever possible, and use it only once. This benefits the customer as it removes any ambiguity as to which customer is making which payment and for which invoice.

Known payment systems supporting invoicing, and recurring invoice setup, [https://coinify.com/checkout/invoice/cb/bb Coinify]

Online wallet supporting invoicing, subscriptions and recurrent payments, [https://www.xcoinmoney.com/info/sending-paying-invoices xCoinMoney]

===Avoiding fraud===

You should also consider the possible risk that fraudsters could send counterfeit invoices to your customers, and entice them to make a payment to a Bitcoin address they control, instead of you. While that isn't likely in general - it depends on how well a fraudster could find out who your customers are in the first place - it would certainly be an unpleasant situation if it ever happened. One way you could control that is, whenever possible, never let people try to type Bitcoin addresses off payment stubs - instead, force people to get the full Bitcoin address from your website via secure SSL. But, still print ''most'' of the address on the payment stub (perhaps with four or five characters starred out), so that the customer's need for a paper trail can be satisfied, so they can prove they paid if there is ever a dispute. Merchants can also use the IP address geolocation to understand the close proximity of users. There is automated solution such as [https://www.fraudlabspro.com FraudLabs Pro] that automates the screening of Bitcoin transactions to determine risk level.

==Setting Prices==

When a business accepts bitcoins for payment, there generally is the need to convert them to the currencies used for paying suppliers, employees and shareholders. Some merchants set prices based on the current market rate at the time the price quote is presented to the customer (merchant services like [[File:Polycoin_favicon.png|20px|link=http://www.polycoin.io]] [http://www.polycoin.io Polycoin], [https://coinify.com Coinify], [[File:Favicon-32x32_.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay], [http://www.bit-pay.com Bit-pay], [https://coinbase.com Coinbase], [http://paysius.com Paysius] or [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]] [https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay] do this automatically).

[[Bitcoin Prices]] lists the exchange rate for many currencies on multiple exchanges.

When prices are determined using an automated process, the current market rate can be based on either a current price or on a weighted average basis. [[Bitcoin Charts]] provides a [http://bitcoincharts.com/about/markets-api data feed that provides weighted prices]. [[Bitcoin Average]] also offers a weighted average price index, featuring average price across all exchanges reachable in the world and in over 150 currencies. 24h sliding average price index is also available and all data is [https://bitcoinaverage.com/api.htm reachable through the API].

When bitcoin funds for purchases are received, some merchants instantly exchange those proceeds into the preferred currency used (again done automatically by [[File:Polycoin_favicon.png|20px|link=http://www.polycoin.io]] [http://www.polycoin.io Polycoin], [https://coinify.com Coinify], [http://www.bit-pay.com Bit-pay], [https://coinbase.com Coinbase], [[File:Favicon-32x32_.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay] or [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]] [https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay]). Hedging for each transaction can nearly entirely eliminate exchange rate risk that the business is exposed to when accepting bitcoins for payment.

==Contract==

A sales contract might be used to ensure that specific terms are met to lessen the chances of a misunderstanding. For instance, the party sending payment is responsible for paying any [[transaction fee]] that might be necessary. A contract might specify that a transaction fee must be paid and what amount, so as to prevent the situation where the transaction is considered a low priority transaction and thus isn't confirmed quickly.

Other items that might be addressed in a contract:

* Requirement and handling of escrow through an [[:Category:Escrow_services|escrow service]].
* Jurisdiction for disputes.
* Refund policy (particularly with the exchange rate being volatile)

==Paying taxes on Bitcoin income==
[[Tax compliance]] is a topic of concern for small businesses. We aren't accountants or lawyers, and can't give legal or accounting advice.

But in many respects, Bitcoin transactions work very much like cash. Just like Bitcoin, cash is anonymous and doesn't leave a paper trail, yet is widely used in commerce every day.

Ask yourself how you would handle a cash transaction. Do you accept cash transactions? Do you normally pay taxes on cash transactions? The answer for Bitcoin should probably be the same.

As for how to decide what a Bitcoin transaction is worth... the IRS, as far as we know, has never issued a guide mentioning how to value Bitcoin transactions. But they probably have rules and guidelines on how to value transactions made in foreign currency or "cash equivalents". We imagine the accounting would be similar.

With Bitcoins, there's likely to be some difference between the value of BTC when you received them as payment, versus when you go to exchange them for another currency like USD, should you decide to do so. This scenario, likewise, would be no different if you accepted foreign currency or gold as payment. Under some scenarios, it might make sense to book the dollar value of BTC income as it is received, and then to book any difference incurred when it is exchanged for fiat currency. Under others, it might make sense to book the whole thing at the time of exchange.

Perhaps you might talk to your accountant. You don't need to get into a discussion with your accountant about block chains and private keys or the philosophy behind a decentralized currency. By comparing the fundamentals of Bitcoins to accounting concepts already well understood by the public, you can probably get all the answers you need. What would you ask your accountant if you decided that you wanted to accept ''Berkshire Bucks'' or 1-ounce gold coins as payment?

== Merchant Services ==
* [https://apicoin.io Apicoin.io] A robust, secure api to connect to the bitcoin network. 12/2015: link dead.
* [http://www.btc4erp.com Bitcoin Transaction Coordinator] Full Merchant Solution for organizations using the NetSuite Global ERP and eCommerce Platform
* [[File:favicon_bp.png|20px|link=https://bitcoinpay.com/static/img/]] [https://bitcoinpay.com BitcoinPay] Payment gateway for virtual currencies with direct settlement to PLN, CZK, EUR and USD. POS + API.
* [[File:Bitfavicon.png|20px|link=http://www.bitcoinpaygate.com]] [http://www.bitcoinpaygate.com Bitcoinpaygate] Bitcoin payment processing for the web & in store payments
* [[File:BitKassa_favicon.png|20px|link=https://www.BitKassa.nl]] [https://www.BitKassa.nl BitKassa] Merchant solution for accepting Bitcoin, getting Euro or Euro/Bitcoin percentage. The Netherlands.
* [https://bitmerch.com BitMerch] Provides HTML buttons to start accepting bitcoins instantly. No server side setup required.
* [https://www.bitpagos.net BitPagos] Bitcoin and Credit Card payment processor
* [https://www.bitpay.com BitPay] Bitcoin payment processor with mobile checkout solution
* [https://bitpos.me BitPOS] Bitcoin payment processor for online and brick and mortar stores
* [http://www.bitstraat.nl BitStraat] SiteCite: "As of 10-11-2015 BitStraat is discontinued as a company."
* [[File:Bitx-avatar.png|20px|link=https://bitx.co/api]] [https://bitx.co/api BitX API] Merchant API for registered businesses & developers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.
* [http://blockchain.info/api/api_receive Blockchain.info] Free APIs to process bitcoin payments. No sign up or account needed. '''Update:''' Starting 01/2016 API2 requires an API key - account required!
* [https://www.btcmerch.com BTCMerch] Payment processor for bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. 0.5% transaction fee. Sandbox is available.
* [https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/payment_buttons Coinbase] Offers payment buttons, checkout pages, shopping cart integration, and daily cash out to USD.
* [[File:BitcoinRegister.gif|20px|link=http://coinbox.it/merchant]] [http://coinbox.it/merchant CoinBox] Bitcoin Point of Sales application for Android, with integration into various exchanges. Similar to Square.
* [[Cashila]] Online bank account and payment processor. Accepts bitcoin payments, SEPA transfers and [https://www.cashila.com/ pay bills with bitcoin]
* [[File:CoinCorner_blue_logo.png|20px|link=https://coincorner.com]] [https://www.coincorner.com/ForBusiness CoinCorner] - Integrate CoinCorner Checkout in to your eCommerce business using a simple plugin or the API for Bitcoin Payments. Point of Sale solution also available that allows physical retailers to easily accept bitcoin and automatically convert that to fiat, removing the risk of holding bitcoins.
* [https://coinify.com Coinify] Payment Service Provider (PSP) specializing in the technical aspects of accepting cryptocurrencies - such as bitcoin. Supports Bitcoin Web Payments, Mobile Checkout, In-store Bitcoin Payments and Bitcoin Invoicing with recurring billing in bitcoin.
* [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com]] [https://coinkite.com/faq/terminal Coinkite] Secure wallet multisig, payment buttons, invoice pages, hardware POS terminals, and Debit-Cards.
* [https://coinpip.com/ CoinPip] Online and POS bitcoin payment processor for Asia.
* [[File:Coinsnap_favicon.jpg|20px|link=http://www.coinsnap.eu]] [[Coinsnap]] European Bitcoin Payment Provider
* [https://coinvoice.com/ Coinvoice] Invoice in USD or BTC, Get paid in USD or BTC.
* [https://coinvoy.net Coinvoy] Free Payment Gateway with built-in exchange
* [https://cryptopay.me Cryptopay] European payment gateway with daily payouts in GBP, EUR and USD. Exchange and wallet integrated.
* [https://cubits.com Cubits] Platform with multisignature wallets and merchant system Cubits Pay.
* [[File:Paxful_how-to-buy-bitcoin.png |20px|link=https://paxful.com]] [https://paxful.com Paxful] Accept Bitcoin with no internet then sell bitcoin for profit on our peer to peer exchange.
* [http://fasterco.in Fasterco.in] Bitcoin payment processing for merchants and day-traders
* [[File:gocoin-logo.png|20px|link=https://www.gocoin.com]] [https://www.gocoin.com/docs GoCoin International payment gateway and processing platform for Merchants]
* [https://gourl.io Gourl.io] Bitcoin Payment processor with ready to use php scripts - Pay-Per-Download, Pay-Per-Product, Pay-Per-Membership, Pay-Per-Registration.
* [[File:inpay_favicon.png|link=https://inpay.pl/?lang=en]] [https://inpay.pl/?lang=en InPay.pl] InPay was created to enable entrepreneurs to accept Bitcoin in PLN, EUR and USD.
* [[File:MCS_200by200_logo-01.png|20px|link=http://www.mycoinsolution.com]][http://www.mycoinsolution.com My Coin Solution] - Bitcoin consulting services and solutions
* [https://www.okpay.com/en/services/accept-payments/index.html OKPAY] Bitcoin payment processing for merchants
* [[File:Payfast-400.png|20px|link=https://www.payfast.co.za]] [https://www.payfast.co.za PayFast] Merchant solution for South Africa. Integrated in 60+ shopping carts. Supports credit cards, EFT bank transfers and Bitcoin. When buyers pay with Bitcoin, merchants receive the South African rand equivalent, using BitX API
* [[File:Payful.png|20px|link=http://payful.io]] [http://payful.io Payful] Accept bitcoin - point of sale, shopping cart plugins and API. Supports payment processing in US dollars, Euros and Canadian dollars.
* [[File:Polycoin_favicon.png|20px|link=http://www.polycoin.io]] [http://www.polycoin.io Polycoin] Bitcoin payment processing platform with solutions for the financial sector
* [https://pocketpos.ca/ PocketPOS] Bitcoin Point of Sale for Canadians, including merchant integration for CAD / BTC exchange.
* [http://snowcron.com Snowcron] Bitcoin Store Engine: Handles payments, sends your customers information they ordered (reg. codes, passwords...) No web programming required.
* [[File:SpectroCoin.png|20px|link=https://spectrocoin.com]][https://spectrocoin.com SpectroCoin] Payment gateway with daily payouts in GBP, EUR, USD, CZK, PLN and other currencies. Debit card, exchange and wallet offered. Plugins for e-commerce and API offered for integration.
* [[File:Spicepay-bitcoin-payment-gateway-96x96.png|20px|link=https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/]][https://www.spicepay.com/bitcoin-payment-gateway/ SpicePay] Accept Bitcoin for payments at this bitcoin processor that targets Europe, Russia and Latin America.
* [https://xbterminal.com/ XBTerminal] Brick-and-mortar hardware POS terminals with payment processing integrations.
* [https://www.xcoinmoney.com/ xCoinMoney] Online wallet for instant payment and subscriptions.
* [https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics] Peer to peer bitcoin invoices using your own bitcoin address.

==See Also==

* [[Merchant Howto]]
* [[In-store Transactions]]
* [[:Category:Payment_Processors|Payment Processors]]
* [[Tax compliance]]
* [[Securing online services]]
* [[BitCoins Mobile]] provides accurate up to date pricing from multiple exchanges from your Apple iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.
* [[Bitcoin PayFlow]] automates the process for accepting bitcoins
* [[Lazy API]] The lazy (and possibly easiest?) way to accept bitcoin payments on your website

[[Category:ECommerce]]
[[Category:Local]]

[[de:Bitcoin_als_Geschäft_akzeptieren]]

Category:Block chain browsers

2015-12-06T05:23:28Z

Btcwarrior: /* List of online block chain browsers */

A [[block chain browser]] is an application, typically web-based, that allow users to search and navigate a [[block chain]].

== List of online block chain browsers ==
* [https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/explorer/ BitInfoCharts]
* [https://blockexplorer.com/ Bitcoin Block Explorer]
* [https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/ BitcoinChain]
* [https://www.biteasy.com/blockchain/blocks bitEasy]
* [https://blockchain.info/ Blockchain.info]
* [https://live.blockcypher.com/ BlockCypher]
* [https://btc.blockr.io/ blockr]
* [https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC BlockTrail]
* [https://chain.btc.com/ BTC Chain]
* [http://chainflyer.bitflyer.jp/ chainFlyer]
* [http://coinbelly.io/ Coinbelly]
* [https://explorer.coinpayments.net/ CoinPayments]
* [https://www.coinprism.info/ Coinprism]
* [https://chain.localbitcoins.com/ LocalBitcoins]
* [https://chain.so/btc SoChain]
* [https://tradeblock.com/blockchain/ TradeBlock]
* [https://www.walletexplorer.com/ WalletExplorer]
* [http://webbtc.com/ webBTC]
* [https://www.blockonomics.co/ Blockonomics]

== List of online block chain browsers (testnet3) ==
* [https://tbtc.blockr.io/ blockr]
* [https://tchain.btc.com/ BTC Chain]

User talk:Btcwarrior

2015-10-03T05:23:41Z

Btcwarrior:

Hi there. For Category:Block_chain_browsers the rationale for adding Blockonomics is that it "now has search and is classified as blockexplorer by many". Perhaps the category itself should be amended, in that case, to include everything that people feel like is something sort of like bc.i? As it is, there's no way to browse (title) or navigate (top sentence) the block chain through Blockonomics. [[User:TheRealSteve|TheRealSteve]] ([[User talk:TheRealSteve|talk]]) 10:35, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi ,

I understand your concerns. As you can see there is also https://www.walletexplorer.com/ which in the list which doesn't allow block number lookup. Actually we also show tx inputs/outputs https://www.blockonomics.co/api/tx?txid=3b14f2b256a5fad043311e4b36674d455d4ff22db404e8e205af29fafcd0870c&addr=1MZakirz92c76pK6BNy1NAEmbWYpDcP7mh. So we actually show most of the block information (the UI is different) , except block header information like block number, block hash etc. I am open to adding a new category maybe 'Wallet Explorers' . Let me know your thoughts

Category:Block chain browsers

2015-08-08T06:41:41Z

Btcwarrior: source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3fvoxm/a_list_of_block_explorers_more_than_10/

A [[block chain browser]] is an application, typically web-based, that allow users to search and navigate a [[block chain]].

== List of online block chain browsers ==
* [https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/explorer/ BitInfoCharts]
* [https://blockexplorer.com/ Bitcoin Block Explorer]
* [https://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/ BitcoinChain]
* [https://www.biteasy.com/blockchain/blocks bitEasy]
* [https://blockchain.info/ Blockchain.info]
* [https://live.blockcypher.com/ BlockCypher]
* [https://btc.blockr.io/ blockr]
* [https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC BlockTrail]
* [http://chainflyer.bitflyer.jp/ chainFlyer]
* [http://coinbelly.io/ Coinbelly]
* [https://explorer.coinpayments.net/ CoinPayments]
* [https://www.coinprism.info/ Coinprism]
* [https://chain.localbitcoins.com/ LocalBitcoins]
* [https://chain.so/btc SoChain]
* [http://insight.thebit.info/ thebit.info]
* [https://tradeblock.com/blockchain/ TradeBlock]
* [http://webbtc.com/ webBTC]
* [https://www.blockonomics.com/ Blockonomics]

Software

2015-07-06T05:38:57Z

Btcwarrior: added blockonomics

List of Bitcoin-related '''software'''. See also [[:Category:Software|Category:Software]].

Be sure to keep on top of the latest [[CVEs|security vulnerabilities]]!

==Bitcoin clients==
===Bitcoin clients===
::''Main article and feature comparison: [[Clients]]''
*[[Bitcoin Core]] - C++/Qt based tabbed UI. Linux/MacOSX/Windows. Full-featured [[Thin Client Security|thick client]] that downloads the entire [[block chain]], using code from the original Bitcoin client.
*[[bitcoind]] - GUI-less version of the original Bitcoin client, providing a [[API reference (JSON-RPC)|JSON-RPC]] interface
*[[MultiBit]] - lightweight [[Thin Client Security|thin client]] for Windows, MacOS and Linux with support for opening multiple wallets simultaneously
*[[Electrum]] - a "blazing fast, open-source, multi-OS Bitcoin client/wallet with a very active community" - also a [[Thin Client Security|thin client]].
*[[Bitcoin-js-remote]] - JavaScript RPC client, support for QR codes
*[https://github.com/TheSeven/Bitcoin-WebUI Bitcoin WebUI] - JavaScript RPC client
*[https://github.com/zamgo/bitcoin-webskin Bitcoin Webskin] - PHP web interface to bitcoind
*[https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/wiki Bitcoin Explorer (BX)] - Bitcoin command line tools for Linux, OSX and Windows
*[[Bitcoiner]] - Java RPC client (Android)
*[[Armory]] - Enterprise grade Python-based client
*[[Spesmilo]] - Python/PySide RPC client (abandoned)
*[[Gocoin bitcoin software|Gocoin]] - WebUI client written in Go language, with a cold deterministic brain-wallet.
*[https://github.com/conformal/btcd btcd] An alternative full node bitcoin implementation written in Go (golang).
*[http://www.blockcypher.com BlockCypher] Full node bitcoin client built for scale and data centers, exposed through web APIs.
*[[Mycelium]] Awarded the prestigious "Best Mobile App" award by Blockchain.info in 2014, the Mycelium wallet for Android provides several security features.

====Frontends to eWallet====
*[https://blockchain.info/wallet Blockchain] - Javascript bitcoin client with client side encryption.
*[https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Xcoinmoney xCoinMoney] Advanced API to create invoices for subscription.

====Experimental====
*[[Freecoin]] - C++ client, supports alternative currencies like [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9493.0 Beertoken]
*[[BitDroid]] - Java client
*[[Bitdollar]] - C++/Qt client, unstable beta version

==Bitcoin software==

===Exchange Platform Software===
*[https://www.alphapoint.com/ Alphapoint] - Bitcoin Exchange Software. Full system to run a digital currency exchange. Customize and launch your own digital currency and Bitcoin exchange in less than 20 days with AlphaPoint. Also supports automatic market-making on your exchange using 3rd party exchanges such as Bitfinex, BTCChina, and others. Supports many exchanges and smart routing, with automated account management.
*[http://www.merkeleon.at/ex%D1%81hange/ Merkeleon] - Bitcoin Exchange Software. A fully online software solution to launch a secure and reliable platform for crypto- and main world fiat currencies sale and purchase. Supports any currency integration, provides wide monetization opportunity for the owner.

===Shopping Cart Integration in eCommerce-Systems===
*[[GoCoin]] - Plugin for WooCommerce support and coming soon Magento
*[[Zen Cart Bitcoin Payment Module]] - a payment module that interacts with bitcoind for the Zen Cart eCommerce shopping chart.
*[https://coinbase.com/docs/merchant_tools/shopping_cart_plugins Coinbase Shopping Cart Plugins] - Supports Wordpress, WooCommerce, Magento, Zencart, WP e-commerce, and more.
*[[Karsha Shopping Cart Interface]] - is a mobile payment-interface which enables its users to accept payments.
*[[Bitcoin-Cash]] - an easy to use payment module for xt:Commerce
*[[BitPay]] - bitcoin plugins for Magento, Opencart, Zencart, PHP, JSON API
*[[WalletBit]] - Plugins for PrestaShop, OpenCart, PHP, JSON API
* [https://www.xcoinmoney.com/info/api-general-info xCoinMoney] Advanced API for instant payment and subscriptions
*[[OpenCart Bitcoin]] - An OpenCart payment module that communicates with a bitcoin client using JSON RPC.
* [[File:MCS_200by200_logo-01.png|20px|link=http://www.mycoinsolution.com]][http://www.mycoinsolution.com My Coin Solution] - Bitcoin consulting services and solutions; custom payment integrations
*[[OsCommerce_Bitcoin_Payment_Module|OsCommerce Bitcoin Payment Module]] - a payment module that uses a python monitoring script to interact with bitcoind for OsCommerce
* [http://drupal.org/project/uc_bitcoin Drupal Ubercart Bitcoin payment method] enables you to accept Bitcoin as payment for your Drupal/Ubercart enabled website product/services.

=== Enterprise server ===
*[https://apicoin.io Apicoin] First bitcoin PaaS (Platform as a Service)
*[http://bitsofproof.com Bits of Proof] - a modular enterprise-ready implementation of the Bitcoin protocol.
*[http://www.blockcypher.com BlockCypher] Full node bitcoin client built for scale and data center environments.

===Web apps===
*[[Abe]] — block chain viewer
*[[Bitcoin Central]] — currency exchange
*[[Bitcoin Poker Room]] — poker site
*[[bitcoin_simple_php_tools]] — simple php tools for webmasters
*[[Blockonomics]] - Easy to use bitcoin financial tracker
*[https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Coinbase_(business) Coinbase] — an international digital wallet that allows you to securely buy, use, and accept bitcoin currency
*[[Coinnext]] — Cryptocurrency Exchange
*[http://www.coinsummary.com/ CoinSummary] — multi-coin wallet manager with built-in valuation in Bitcoin and major world currencies.
* [[File:Paxful_how-to-buy-bitcoin.png |20px|link=https://paxful.com]] [https://paxful.com Paxful] Accept Bitcoin and Sell bitcoin on Peer to peer market.
*[[Pocket Dice]] — First realistic bitcoin dice game.
*[[Simplecoin]] — PHP web frontend for a pool

===White label software===
*[https://www.alphapoint.com/ Alphapoint] - Bitcoin Exchange Software. Full system to run a digital currency exchange. Customize and launch your own digital currency and Bitcoin exchange in less than 20 days with AlphaPoint. Also supports automatic market-making on your exchange using 3rd party exchanges such as Bitstamp and others. Supports many exchanges and smart routing, with automated account management.

*[https://www.draglet.com/ draglet] - Bitcoin Exchange Software / white label solution

*[https://www.casinoevolution.com/ '''Casino Evolution'''] gaming software developed by '''www.SoftSwiss.com'''

===Browser extensions===
*[[Bitcoin Extension]] - check balance and send bitcoins (Chrome)
*[[Bitcoin Prices (extension)]] - monitoring price (Firefox)
*[[Bitcoin Ticker]] - monitoring price (Chrome)
*[[Biticker]] - Bitcoin ticker, currency converter and history price graph (Chrome)
*[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitcoin-microformats/bkanicejfbhlidgjkpenmddnacjengld?hl=en Bitcoin Microformats] Show bitcoin address metadata embedded in a page (Chrome)
*[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitcoin-address-lookup/pmlblkdmadbidammhjiponepngbfcpge?hl=en Bitcoin Address Lookup] Right click an address to view its value. (Chrome)

===PC apps===
*[https://centrabit.com/?m0prm=6 Qt Bitcoin Trader] - Open Source Multi exchange trading client for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
*[http://www.mybtc-trader.com MyBTC-Trader.com] - a MtGox Bitcoin trading client for windows with GUI
*[[Mining Explorer]] - monitoring tool for bitcoin mining
*[[Bitcoin SMS Alert]] - sends SMS text alerts to a user's phone based on BTC price / percent thresholds.
*[[BTConvert]] - currency conversion
*[[Sierra Chart MtGox Bridge]] - real-time charting
*[[BitTicker]] - monitoring price (Mac OS X)
*[[ToyTrader]] - a command line trading tool for [[MtGox]]
*[[goxsh]] - a command-line frontend to the [[MtGox|Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange]] (Python)
*[[MyBitcoins gadget]] - monitoring pool earnings / price (Windows gadget)
*[[Bitcoin QR Popup]] - streamlined interface to bitcoin for POS systems (Windows)
*[http://gnome-help.org/content/show.php/Bitcoin+Rate?content=138572 Bitcoin Rate] - Desktop widget with BTC exchange rate (KDE)
*[http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=142344 Bitcoin Monitor] - Desktop widget to monitor status of your Bitcoin miners on mining pools (KDE)
*[https://www.cortex7.net Cortex7] - Multi exchange charting and trading application for Windows, Mac and Linux.

===Mobile apps===
==== iPhone / iPad ====
*[https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet Airbitz Bitcoin Wallet] - Full featured iPhone bitcoin wallet & directory map (finds businesses that accept bitcoin near you). Airbitz wallet also automatically implements encryption, backup, and multidevice synchronization.
*[https://blockchain.info/wallet/iphone-app Blockchain] - Fully featured iphone bitcoin app.
*[[Bitcoin Ticker (iPhone)]] - monitoring price w/push notifications
*[[BitCoins Mobile]] - First iPad native app! Live market data, news feeds, mining pool statistics, full screen exchange price charts, bitcoin network statistical charts. (iPad only, iPhone/iPod Touch coming soon!)
*[https://github.com/teeman/BitcoinTrader BitcoinTrader] - Spend/receive BTC via QR codes, trade, deposit/withdraw, etc. Supports Mt. Gox, TradeHill, ExchB, CampBX, and InstaWallet.
*[[Bit-pay]] - Mobile Checkout, set prices in any currency and receive mobile-to-mobile payment
*[http://blog.coinbase.com/post/64824441934/the-coinbase-ios-app-has-launched Coinbase iPhone App]
*[[Easywallet.org]] - Web based wallet, works with QR Code scanner on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch
*[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/btc-miner/id648411895?ls=1&mt=8 BTC Miner (iPhone)] - monitor mining results from various mining pools on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch
*[[BitStore]] - Simple and secure native iOS wallet
*[[BitTick]] - Real-time Bitcoin ticker. Real-time currency convert(support 50+ currency. USD, GBP, EUR, CNY, JPY, CAD, RUB, AUD, BRL, NZD, PLN, KRW…)

==== Android ====
* Direct link to Android Market bitcoin apps. https://play.google.com/store/search?q=bitcoin
*[https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet Airbitz Bitcoin Wallet] - Full featured Android bitcoin wallet & directory map (finds businesses that accept bitcoin near you). Airbitz wallet also automatically implements encryption, backup, and multidevice synchronization.
*[[BitCare]] - Track bitcoin wallet balance, trade on Mt.Gox, monitor mining pool hashrate, balance, worker status.
*[[Bitcoin Alert]] - monitoring price (Android)
*[[Bitcoin-android]] - Does not appear to be being maitained anymore. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bitcoinandroid
*[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobnetic.coinguardian&hl=pl Bitcoin Checker] - Monitors the prices of cryptocurrencies on over 70 exchanges
*[[Bitcoin Wallet Balance]] - view your balance in real time on your android phone
*[[Bitcoin Wallet]] - This is the most functional Android bitcoin wallet application. https://market.android.com/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet
*[[BitcoinSpinner]] - Single address, easy to use, lightweight and open source client. Keys stored on device.
*[[BitcoinX]] - monitoring price (Android)
*[[BitPay]] - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bitcoin.bitpay (Is not related to the bit-pay.com online payment processor.)
*[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=st.brothas.mtgoxwidget&hl=pl Bitcoin Ticker Widget] - displays and monitors the current BTC and LTC exchange rates.
*[[Bridgewalker]] - euro-denominated wallet for the Bitcoin economy
*[https://blockchain.info/wallet/android-app Blockchain] - Lightweight Android Bitcoin Client - Also works with blockchain.info web interface and iphone app.
*[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coinbase.android&hl=en Coinbase Wallet] - supports buying, selling, sending, requesting, and more.
*[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coinbase.android.merchant&hl=en Coinbase Merchant] - makes it easy to accept bitcoin at a retail location
*[http://coincliff.com CoinCliff] - Monitors price and fires alarms to wake you up, or notifications, as in text messages (Android)
*[http://coinomi.com/ Coinomi] - Coinomi is a very secure and lightweight, universal, open-source HD wallet for Bitcoin and many altcoins. ([https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coinomi.wallet Android])
*[https://www.cortex7.net Cortex7] - Multi exchange charting and trading application for Android.
*[[Easywallet.org]] - Web based wallet, works with QR Code scanner on Android devices
*[[Miner Status]] - monitoring miner status (Android)
*[[SMS Bitcoins]] - transactions by SMS
*[http://tab-trader.com/ TabTrader] - monitoring and trading(Android)

==== Windows Phone 7 ====
*Direct link to Windows Phone Marketplace Bitcoin apps: [http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/search?q=bitcoin]

==== Windows Phone 8 ====
*[[Bitcoin Can]] - Monitoring prices, account balances and mobile trading on multiple exchanges including Coinbase, BTC-E, CampBX, and MtGox. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/bitcoin-can/57fcf4d6-497a-4663-8da3-93cb26c83b11

see also [[Bitcoin Payment Apps]]

===Operating systems===
*[[MinePeon]] - Bitcoin mining on the Raspberry PI
*BAMT - a minimal Linux based OS intended for headless mining. Initially announced [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65915.0 here] (not maintained)
*[[LinuxCoin]] - a lightweight Debian-based OS, with the Bitcoin client and GPU mining software (not maintained)

===Mining apps===
Main page: [[Mining software]]

*[[BFGMiner]] - Modular ASIC/FPGA/GPU miner in C
*[http://www.groupfabric.com/bitcoin-miner/ Bitcoin Miner by GroupFabric] - Free easy-to-use DirectX GPU miner on the Windows Store
*[[CGMiner]] - ASIC/FPGA/GPU miner in C
*[http://fabulouspanda.co.uk/macminer/ MacMiner] - A native Mac OS X Bitcoin miner based on cgminer, bfgminer, cpuminer and poclbm
*[[Asteroid]] - Mac-specific GUI based on cgminer
*[[MultiMiner]] - GUI based on cgminer/bfgminer for Windows, OS X and Linux, allows switching between currencies based on profitability

====Unmaintained====
*[[50Miner]] - A GUI frontend for Windows(Poclbm, Phoenix, DiabloMiner, cgminer)
*[[BTCMiner]] - Bitcoin Miner for ZTEX FPGA Boards
*[[Bit Moose]] - Run Miners as a Windows Service.
*[[Poclbm]] - Python/OpenCL GPU miner ([[Poclbm-gui|GUI(Windows & MacOS X)]])
*[[Poclbm-mod]] - more efficient version of [[Poclbm]] ([[Poclbm-mod-gui|GUI]])
*[[DiabloMiner]] - Java/OpenCL GPU miner ([[DiabloMiner.app|MAC OS X GUI]])
*[[RPC Miner]] - remote RPC miner ([[RPCminer.app|MAC OS X GUI]])
*[[Phoenix miner]] - miner
*[[Cpu Miner]] - miner
*[[Ufasoft miner]] - miner
*[[Pyminer]] - Python miner
*[[Open Source FPGA Bitcoin Miner]] - a miner that makes use of an FPGA Board
*[https://github.com/mkburza/Flash-Player-Bitcoin-Miner Flash Player Bitcoin Miner] - A proof of concept Adobe Flash Player miner

===Mining Pool Servers (backend)===
Main page: [[Poolservers]]

*[[CoiniumServ]] - High performance C# Mono/.Net poolserver.
*[[ecoinpool]] - Erlang poolserver (not maintained)
*[[Eloipool]] - Fast Python3 poolserver
*[[Pushpoold]] - Old mining poolserver in C (not maintained)
*[[Poold]] - Old Python mining poolserver (not maintained)
*[[PoolServerJ]] - Java mining poolserver (not maintained)
*[[Remote miner]] - mining pool software
*[[ckpool]] - Open source pool/database/proxy/passthrough/library in c for Linux

===Libraries===

=====C=====
*[https://github.com/jgarzik/picocoin picocoin] - Tiny bitcoin library, with lightweight client and utils

=====C++=====
*[[Libbitcoin]] - Comprehensive set of C++ libraries: key formats, crypto, math, encodings, urls, mnemonics, blockchain, full node, client-server, etc. Linux and OSX Autotools builds. Visual Studio solutions for Windows, with Unicode support. Extensive test suite and [https://travis-ci.org/libbitcoin continuous integration builds]. Core dependencies limited to [http://www.boost.org Boost] and [https://github.com/bitcoin/secp256k1 Libsecp256k1] with [http://zeromq.org ZeroMQ] and [http://doc.libsodium.org Libsodium] required for client-server API.

====C / C++====
*[https://airbitz.co/bitcoin-wallet-api-library Bitcoin Wallet API Library] - Airbitz Core (ABC) C/C++ Library implements user authentication, account wallet creation, multi device synchronization and backup, transaction meta data management, Bitcoin address generation, key management, decentralized access to bitcoin network, shared wallets w/multisig (Q1 2015)
*[https://github.com/luke-jr/libbase58 libbase58] - C library implementation of [[Base58]] and [[Base58Check]] encodings
*[[libblkmaker]] - C library implementation of [[getblocktemplate]] decentralized mining protocol

====Java====
*[[bitcoinj]] - popular client library for Java, currently used in several desktop/mobile applications.
*[[BCCAPI]] (BitCoin Client API) - a java library designed for making secure light-weight bitcoin clients.
*[[BitcoinCrypto]] - a lightweight Bitcoin crypto library for Java/Android.

====Objective-C====
*[https://github.com/keeshux/BitcoinSPV BitcoinSPV] - A native Bitcoin SPV client library for iOS with BIP32 support.

====Perl====
*[[Finance::MtGox]] - a Perl module which interfaces with the Mt. Gox API

====Python====
*[[python-blkmaker]] - Python module implementation of [[getblocktemplate]] decentralized mining protocol

===Development utilities===
*[[Bitcoin Dissector]] - a wireshark dissector for the bitcoin protocol
*[[Bitcointools]] - a set of Python tools accessing the transaction database and the wallet

===Lists of software===
*[[BitGit]] - list of Bitcoin-related opensource projects hosted at Git

===Developer resources===
*[[:Category:Developer|Category:Developer]]
*[[:Category:Technical|Category:Technical]]
*[[Original Bitcoin client/API calls list]]
*[[API reference (JSON-RPC)]]
*[[PHP_developer_intro|PHP Developer Introduction]]

===Other===
*[http://www.phyramid.com/ Phyramid] Digital Agency offering software development and design services for Bitcoin businesses.
*[[Bitcoin Consultancy]] - an organization providing open source software and Bitcoin-related consulting
*[[Open Transactions]] - a financial crypto and digital cash software library, complementary to Bitcoin
*[[Moneychanger]] - Java-based GUI for [[Open Transactions]]
*[http://btcnames.org/ BTCnames] - a webbased aliasing service which allows to handle unlimited names for your BTC deposit hashes
* [http://www.bitcoinmining.com/bitcoin-mining-software/ Bitcoin Mining Software] - A helpful list of various Bitcoin software options

== Webservices / APIs ==

===Bitcoin Infrastructure===
* [[BlockTrail.com]] - Bitcoin API and platform for developers, complete with SDKs for PHP, Python, NodeJS and more

===Bitcoin Trade Data===
*[[Bitcoin Charts]] – Prices, volume, and extensive charting on virtually all Bitcoin markets.
*[[MtGox Live]] - An innovative chart showing a live feed of [[MtGox]] trades and market depth. (Must Use Chrome)
*[http://btccharts.com BTCCharts] - An innovative chart showing a live feed of multiple markets, currencies and timeframes.
*[http://MY-BTC.info MY-BTC.INFO] - A free profit/loss portfolio manager for Bitcoins and other digital currencies including many charts.
*[http://BitcoinExchangeRate.org BitcoinExchangeRate.org] - Bitcoin and USD converter with convenient URL scheme and Auto-updating Portfolio Spreadsheet.
*[[Bitcoin Sentiment Index]] - A financial index that collects and disseminates sentiment data about bitcoin.
*[[Preev]] - Bitcoin converter with live exchange rates.
*[[Skami]] - Bitcoin Market Exchange comparison charts.
*[[BitcoinSentiment]] - Crowdvoting site offering means of voting and viewing voters sentiment towards bitcoin.
*[[TradingView]] – network where traders exchange ideas about Bitcoin using advanced free online charts

===Web interfaces for merchants===

*[[File:Easybitz.png|20px|link=https://github.com/goethewins/EzBitcoin-Api-Wallet]] Simplest Web API for processing transactions with your own server. php code igniter, database and logging auth system included. Same as block chain.info api
*[[BitMerch]] - Embeddable HTML buttons, instant sign-up, instant payouts, automatic price adjustment for other currencies. No programming skills required to set up.
*[[Bitcoin Evolution]] - Non wallet-based Buy Now button to insert into websites (handles sales tracking; client must be used for actual transaction)
*[[BitPay]] - Buy Now buttons, Checkout posts/callbacks, Mobile Checkout, JSON API
*[[Btceconomy]] - a JavaScript widget listing items for sale
*[[BTCMerch]] - Payment processor for bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. 0.5% transaction fee. Sandbox is available.
*[https://coinbase.com/merchants Coinbase] - Provides bitcoin payment processing for Overstock.com, Reddit, Khan Academy, OkCupid, and more.
*[[GoCoin]] - Payment gateway for bitcoin. Supports JavaScript, PHP, Java, Ruby, and .NET
*[[Javascript Bitcoin Converter]] - currency conversion
*[[WalletBit]] - Easy JavaScript Buy Now buttons, Instant Payment Notification, Application Programming Interface (JSON API), Mobile Checkout, QR-Code
* [https://www.PikaPay.com PikaPay] ([[PikaPay|info]]) The PikaPay service will be retiring as of March 1st, 2015

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== Summary ==
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== Licensing ==
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