Shopify Integrates Coinbase Merchant Services
Merchants using Shopify as their e-commerce platform now have the opportunity to accept bitcoin payments thanks to an integration with San Francisco-based Coinbase's merchant services starting today. The way it works is simple: the merchant signs up for an account on Coinbase, enables the integration on the Shopify backend, and then enters their credentials to complete the process. From there, it's bitcoin madness. Already, four merchants have decided to use the integration. They are: Leap Motion, Boosted Boards, Soylent, and iOgrapher. A statement from Soylent on the integration: We have....
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Online e-commerce marketplace platform Shopify has announced a new partnership with bitcoin financial services provider Coinbase that will allow its roughly 70,000 merchants to integrate bitcoin processing services on their websites. The move is notable as Shopify began accepting bitcoin payments in November, electing at the time to offer BitPay as a payment option to its merchants. As a result, the announcement with Coinbase means Shopify merchants can now elect which major bitcoin processor they wish to use. Speaking to CoinDesk, Shopify director of payments Louis Kearns framed the....
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One of the big news items in the realm of e-commerce over the past year has been Shopify's movement into the bitcoin space by allowing their 120,000+ merchants to accept bitcoin. It call started last November with a partnership with Atlanta-based BitPay, then followed by another partnership with San Francisco-based Coinbase. Today, it's been announced that yet another digital currency payment processor is partnering up with Shopify, and that's Santa Monica-based GoCoin. This effectively enables merchant to not only accept bitcoin, but to also expand that to litecoin and dogecoin should....
Shopify merchants can now accept cryptocurrency payments from within the e-commerce platform. GoCoin has partnered with Shopify to enable the e-commerce service's 120,000 merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments. This announcement follows GoCoin's recent partnerships with other e-commerce services, including PayPal. Also Read: GoCoin Partnership Brings Bitcoin Payment Option to More than 1,000 Businesses. Shopify Partners with GoCoin to Bring Bitcoin Payment Option to 120,000 Merchants. On Wednesday, GoCoin announced a new partnership with online e-commerce platform Shopify. The....