Accept Bitcoin payments

How BTC settles here

Each payment gets a fresh address derived from your extended public key, so customers pay your wallet directly and no forwarding step exists. The platform's only role is observation: it follows the chain, ties the incoming transaction to the right invoice, and notifies your store with a signed webhook once the confirmation rule is met.

Why merchants take Bitcoin

Bitcoin is the coin a first-time crypto customer already owns, which makes it the floor of any acceptance strategy: a checkout without BTC turns away the largest pool of holders for no reason. Every invoice gets a fresh address derived from your own extended public key, so funds land in a wallet only you control and the payment matches itself to the order without manual reconciliation. Because Bitcoin buyers skew toward larger baskets, each recovered sale is worth more than a typical card order. NoHoldPay never holds the funds at any point, and the prepaid fee credit means the platform's cut is settled separately instead of being skimmed off the payment.

Worth knowing

Bitcoin's fee market is set by the sender, so a thrifty buyer can attach a low fee and wait out congestion, which means some payments sit visible but unconfirmed longer than others. High-ticket buyers often pay from cold storage, and a pause between opening the invoice and broadcasting is usually just someone fetching a hardware wallet. Every payment is public on a block explorer, so a customer asking where their order stands can be answered with a link instead of a support thread.

The platform fee is 0.5% per confirmed payment, prepaid. New accounts start with $50 of live credit, covering roughly the first $10,000 processed. Checkout ships hosted, or through the WooCommerce and OpenCart plugins.

Common questions

What happens if a Bitcoin payment stays unconfirmed during a fee spike?

The transaction is visible on the network from the moment the buyer broadcasts it, and it stays valid while it waits. Miners clear the backlog as fees fall, and the payment confirms without anyone resending anything. The invoice tracks the same transaction throughout, so a slow confirmation does not put the order at risk.

Is Bitcoin the right coin for large invoices?

It is the coin most buyers trust with a serious amount, which matters more as the ticket grows. A large payment settles to an address only your keys control, with no intermediary holding it along the way, and the public ledger gives both sides a permanent receipt that neither can edit.

Does accepting Bitcoin expose my sales history on the blockchain?

Each invoice pays a fresh address derived from your extended public key, so an outside observer sees scattered, unrelated-looking addresses rather than a steadily growing balance. Only someone holding the xpub itself can connect them. Your revenue pattern stays your business even though the ledger is public.