How to accept Bitcoin through a WordPress plugin

How to accept Bitcoin through a WordPress plugin

Are you a merchant and would you like to accept Bitcoin payments on your ecommerce? Do you have a blog and want to give your readers the opportunity to give you BTC or pay for a subscription?

Here all the answers to integrate a plugin on WordPress and start accepting payments in Bitcoin today, the most known and used cryptocurrency in the world. There are several different plugins and ways to accept Bitcoin, not only in WordPress but also in your Shopify store.

Plugins for WordPress and Woocommerce

One of these solutions is definitely Go Url.io WooCommerce that you can install directly on your WordPress blog. This plugin is free to use and provides prices in pairs with various fiat currencies such as USD, EUR, AUD, RUB and more. Thanks to this plugin it will be possible to accept not only Bitcoin but also Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Litecoin, Dash, Dogecoin and others.

Another plugin, but this time for ecommerce built with WooCommerce is poi Cryptowoo which always shows the current price and supports not only Bitcoin but also Litecoin, Dogecoin, Dash, Ethereum and other tokens of the latter blockchain. The plugin is free in its basic version, if you want to have a Cryptowoo wallet, or it is paid according to the different needs you may have, for example to receive funds in your wallet and not having to create one from scratch.

You can also install it on WordPress Blockonomics, which also serves to accept Bitcoin Cash and is compatible with the major wallets in circulation such as Ledger, Trezor, Blockchani.info and others.

Also in this case the installation is very simple and there are several tutorials and guided videos online.

How to accept Bitcoin with Shopify

Finally, if you have a Shopify store, there are even more solutions that can be integrated. For example, it can be integrated in a few clicks, even if with the need to do a sort of KYC for your business, Coinbase Commerce or Coinpayments. Above all, the latter guarantees that it can accept hundreds of different cryptocurrencies.

Furthermore, if the crypto or token you would like to accept is really missing, Shopify offers the possibility of configuring manual payment methods that allow the merchant to provide the customer with instructions for completing a payment with cryptocurrencies different from those supported by the different circuits aforementioned.