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