The number of companies across the world receiving cryptocurrency as payment for goods and services grows every year, and so does the demand for payment processors. CoinFox picks up 5 promising regional platforms.

The selected providers have such common features as API for developers and a wide range of plug-ins for integration with existing commercial software. Moreover, the mobile version and the multi-user option may allow you to accept bitcoin being a taxi driver or trading at a marketplace.

BitPay

Geography: United States

Features:

• the ability to accept payment in bitcoins on iOS and Android smartphones/tablets using the application
• the multi-user option
• can be integrated into numerous POS and e-commerce software
• easy to integrate into a shop site
• zero transaction fees for the first 30 days.

GoCoin

Geography: United States

Features:

• accepts bitcoin, litecoin, dogecoin
• can be integrated into numerous POS and e-commerce software
• lower fees for merchants conducting a higher volume of transactions

Cryptopay

Geography: Europe

Features:

• prints a QR-code for the customer to scan with their smartphone
• easy to install payment buttons on a website
• API available for programming languages Ruby, Node.js, PHP, C# and Python
• fees charged on withdrawal, not on a transaction

BitPagos

Geography: Latin America

Features:

• one tool to process payments both in fiat money from plastic cards and in bitcoin
• easy to install payment buttons on a website
• offers a special app BitBookings for hotels and restaurants, available for desktops, smartphones and tablets

Coinify

Geography: Europe

Features:

• supports 17 digital currencies
• available for computers, smartphones and tablets
• for safety reasons, payments in fiat currency are converted to a digital currency such as bitcoin, and the customer can pay using any wallet of their choice; Coinify locks in the exchange rate, and the following business day the money will be sent to the seller's or bank account
• the payment arrives at the seller's account on the next business day after the transaction
• zero commission for individual entrepreneurs and growing businesses.

And one non-competitive nomination for a very well known worldwide bitcoin service, which is only represented by an API.

Blockchain

Geography: Worldwide

Features:

• the system is reduced to the API allowing to receive payments from a web site to a bitcoin wallet; suitable for those who do not need instant conversion of bitcoins into fiat currencies
• no registration, no fees.

Lyudmila Brus