Accept Ethereum payments
ETH is the settlement asset of habit for anyone who came up through DeFi: the unit they price positions in, take profits in, and leave sitting unallocated between trades. No other coin puts this much ready liquidity on the customer side of a checkout. For a merchant courting self-custodied buyers, leaving it off the list is the omission that gets noticed.
How ETH settles here
Each payment gets its own forwarding address whose destination is fixed to your treasury when the address is created, and where the setup allows it the payment settles into your treasury directly. NoHoldPay's job is narrow: watch the chain, match the transfer to your invoice, and sign the webhook that tells your store it confirmed. Custody never enters the picture.
| Network | Confirmation rule (live) | Typical time |
|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | Payments confirm when the network finalizes the block that contains them. | varies |
| Base | Payments confirm when the network finalizes the block that contains them. | varies |
Why merchants take Ethereum
An ETH checkout removes the biggest source of abandonment in crypto payments: the buyer who holds the wrong asset. Ethereum users keep ETH because everything they do on the network is priced in it, so anyone active there can settle an invoice without a swap, a bridge, or a trip to an exchange. On NoHoldPay each payment gets its own forwarder address fixed to your treasury, so the ETH lands in a wallet you control instead of a platform balance. For an asset this liquid that matters: you decide when to convert and when to hold, with no withdrawal queue between you and the money.
Worth knowing
Mainnet fees breathe with the market, and buyers know it. During quiet hours an ETH transfer costs little, and during a frenzy it costs real money, so expect some customers with small orders to wait out a spike before paying. Because ETH is the network's native coin, payment is a plain value transfer: no token contract, no approval, nothing for an unfamiliar wallet to mishandle. And because settlement arrives as ETH itself, decide up front how quickly receipts should become your pricing currency, so the exchange rate is a policy you set once instead of a daily judgment call.
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
- Does the customer pay the network fee on top of the invoice amount?
- Yes. The buyer's wallet adds Ethereum's transaction fee to the transfer, the way postage sits on top of a bill, and the invoiced amount is what arrives at the payment address. You are not billed for the customer's gas, and the customer cannot subtract it from your total.
- The ETH price moves constantly. What amount does my customer actually pay?
- The checkout converts your invoice price into a fixed amount of ETH and shows the customer that exact figure to send. The quoted figure is what matching looks for, so the customer pays a known amount. What you receive is ETH, and any movement after payment happens in your own wallet, on your own terms.
- Do I need to run my own Ethereum node to accept ETH?
- No. Watching the chain is the platform's job. Your side is a treasury wallet that stays under your keys, payment addresses are derived so funds settle there, and the downloadable Recovery Kit lets you re-derive every address on your own machine, so access to your money does not depend on this service existing.
Take your first ETH payment
Add a wallet, create a payment, and watch it confirm on a testnet before going live.
Accept Ethereum