Accept Bitcoin Cash payments
The big-block fork kept the people who wanted Bitcoin to stay pocket money, and they spend like it. A Bitcoin Cash customer lands on your checkout already convinced, because the community treats paying merchants as the whole point of the coin. Few coins send you a buyer that motivated to finish a purchase.
How BCH 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.
| Network | Confirmation rule (live) | Typical time |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin Cash | Payments confirm after 8 block confirmations. | about 80 minutes |
Why merchants take Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash earns a spot on your checkout because its holders actually spend. The fork kept Bitcoin's address-and-key model and made room for cheap everyday transactions, and its community has spent years recruiting merchants, which makes listing BCH a signal those buyers actively look for. Each invoice shows its own receiving address, generated from the extended public key you registered, and the coins settle into a wallet only you hold. If your store runs on WooCommerce or OpenCart, the NoHoldPay plugin adds Bitcoin Cash without custom integration work, so reaching this audience takes almost no effort.
Worth knowing
BCH uses the CashAddr format, so buyers see addresses that look nothing like Bitcoin's even though the underlying key math is shared. The visual difference is protective: it makes a wrong-chain paste obvious before it happens. Fees on Bitcoin Cash stay low even while Bitcoin's mempool is congested, because both networks price block space independently. Payments also tend to come from self-custodied wallets rather than exchange withdrawals, a habit of the coin's community, which usually means the buyer knows exactly what they are doing.
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
- How do I keep Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash payments from getting mixed up?
- You do not manage it by hand. Each invoice shows the buyer its own Bitcoin Cash address, distinct in format from a Bitcoin address, and payments are matched per address, per invoice. The formats do the sorting for you, so the two coins never blur together in your records.
- Do Bitcoin Cash buyers really pay from their own wallets?
- More often than buyers of most coins. The BCH community formed around self-custody and direct merchant payments, so its members tend to hold their own keys and pay straight from a wallet instead of withdrawing from an exchange at checkout. For you that means cleaner, easier-to-read incoming transactions.
- Is Bitcoin Cash worth listing if my customers mostly hold Bitcoin?
- Yes, because the audiences barely overlap. BCH holders keep directories of merchants who accept the coin and go out of their way to shop there, so listing it can bring buyers who would never have found you otherwise. The payment settles to your own wallet like any other coin.
Take your first BCH payment
Add a wallet, create a payment, and watch it confirm on a testnet before going live.
Accept Bitcoin Cash