Accept Litecoin payments

Litecoin buyers are veterans. Most have held the coin longer than most merchants have accepted crypto, they know what a network fee ought to cost, and they reach for LTC because moving it stays cheap when Bitcoin gets expensive. Put it on your checkout and that habit starts working in your favor.

How LTC 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.

NetworkConfirmation rule (live)Typical time
LitecoinPayments confirm after 6 block confirmations.about 15 minutes

Why merchants take Litecoin

A merchant adds Litecoin for the buyer who refuses to pay Bitcoin's network fee just to spend a modest amount. LTC has settled payments since crypto's early years on the same address-and-key model as Bitcoin, so nothing about your setup changes: NoHoldPay derives a fresh address from your extended public key for every invoice and the coins land in your own wallet. The practical difference shows up in order sizes. Litecoin attracts the mid-range purchase a Bitcoin holder hesitates over, filling the space between pocket change and a savings-account decision. Your prepaid fee credit covers the platform's share, so the payment itself arrives whole.

Worth knowing

Litecoin blocks arrive faster than Bitcoin's, so buyers watch their payment start moving sooner, which quietly cuts down on anxious mid-checkout emails. Modern LTC addresses carry their own prefix, and a Bitcoin wallet refuses to send to one, so cross-coin mixups are rare in practice. Some wallets also support Litecoin's privacy-focused MWEB feature, but invoice addresses derived from your xpub are ordinary transparent ones, payable by every mainstream wallet.

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

Why would a customer pick Litecoin when Bitcoin is on the same checkout?
Cost and habit. Long-time holders treat BTC as savings and LTC as spending money, so given both options they route the purchase through the coin that is cheaper to move. Listing Litecoin lets that instinct finish the sale instead of stalling it while the buyer reconsiders the fee.
Can a buyer accidentally send Bitcoin to my Litecoin address?
Modern wallets make that mistake hard. Litecoin addresses use their own format, and a Bitcoin wallet will not accept one as a destination. The residual risk sits with very old software and legacy address styles, which almost no buyer still runs, so in practice the mixup has become rare.
Does Litecoin's MWEB privacy feature change how I get paid?
No. MWEB is an opt-in layer some wallets use for shielded transfers between themselves. Your invoice addresses, derived from your extended public key, are standard Litecoin addresses, so a buyer's wallet pays them the ordinary way whether or not it supports MWEB, and the funds arrive in your wallet as usual.

Take your first LTC payment

Add a wallet, create a payment, and watch it confirm on a testnet before going live.

Accept Litecoin