Accepting Bitcoin on a Woocommerce website

[joostonteldoos]

What will be the best solution in South Africa to accept Bitcoin on a online retail Woocommerce website?
The idea is to let someone buy using bitcoin or altcoins at the current real time ZAR-BTC rate from an exchange
like ex Luno and to store and hold these bitcoins, not to convert it to ZAR. Any help with tried and tested plugins or API's
regarding this will be appreciated.

 

[SauRoNZA]

I would imagine with Luno integrating everything into Zapper now there should be an avenue there.

 

[NotFound]

BitPay has a Woocommerce plugin, not sure if that is suitable for what you want since they won't store the bitcoins for you.

WooCommerce

Accept blockchain payments on your WordPress site with BitPay's open source plugin for Woocommerce.

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The biggest issue you face with this is that BTC transactions aren't real time and can take a while to be confirmed.

 

[joostonteldoos]

Thanks will check it out. The transactions don't have to be in real time as we will only ship the product out once the payment has cleared, similar to receiving an EFT payment. Bitcoins needs to be stored in our own wallet. So in theory someone makes a normal Bitcoin payment using our public key, the plugin / API must determine the real time value of BTC in ZAR during checkout. It also doesn't matter if the price of Bitcoin fluctuates after the transaction as the intention is to store the BTC received for the long term.

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

easiest is for one of the gateway payment plug-ins to support crypto, Payfast actually supported it like 7 or so years ago, then stopped

the Zapper tip is a good one though

 

[SauRoNZA]

Zapper does seem the simplest and hits many birds with one stone as it’s ubiquitous.

I just don’t know if you receive the payment in BTC or it’s already converted to ZAR…I suspect the latter.

Apparently Luno will support this exact kind of thing directly in the very near future.

 

[BitcoinZAR]

Use blink lightning wallet on your phone, then install the blink woocommerce plugin on your website, and link it to your blink wallet with their API. It takes about 10min to setup.