List of plugins for organizing the acceptance of cryptocurrencies on your website

After 2018, the owners of online stores began to think more often how to set up accepting cryptocurrencies on their website. We have compiled a list of plugins for accepting payments in BTC and other coins.

New but safe options
The Lightning Network (LN) functions as an add-on to the Bitcoin blockchain that offloads its blocks. Now the network is not experiencing scalability problems and the second level may seem superfluous, but everything will change with the increase in the number of BTC transactions. Forward-thinking developers are looking towards LN, avoiding a number of future problems. Starting last year, the technology began to gain popularity and the first instructions for setting up the Lightning channel appeared. Now the technology is applied by two companies:

Lightning Labs.
BitFury teamed up with HadePay.
The first solution is based on Loop In – Loop Out methods. If your online store begins to experience problems with loading channels, Lightning Loops can help organize the transfer of funds to an external crypto wallet or even an exchange in order to free up the main channel. Instructions for adding this interface and all the documentation can be found on the project’s official website. It should be noted that this option has disadvantages: the maximum transaction size is only 0.01 BTC, there is no function of replenishing your own channel through an on-chain transaction.

HadePay service tools are focused only on accepting payments in Bitcoin. HadePay interacts with PayPal and ApplePay, which means it has a separate mobile application. At the time of this writing, it was installed only 74 times, which indicates the dampness of the project. You can find instructions on how to install the API on the LightningPeach website – this is the name of the LN add-on developed by BitFury for implementation into the HadePay system.

B2BinPay
The first step is to take into account that B2BinPay charges a commission of 0.5% for its services to merchants. Enterprise clients receive a functional cryptocurrency payment API that includes all major coins from Coinmarketcup, including tokens. The interface is based on the Laravel framework. The company’s programmers promise that the implementation of the interface on the site will not take more than an hour. Customers can choose between fiat-fiat or cryptocurrency fiat.

In addition to all the listed possibilities, the consumer’s personal account is provided. It contains information about all wallets and transactions that interact with the online store or any other site where B2BinPay is installed. The cabinet itself was created using the Yii2 framework and supports two-factor authentication.

In addition, the system allows you to create a technical base for a turnkey ICO. Data storage is implemented by an encrypted database, and the fault tolerance of the entire service lies on the shoulders of separate servers. The company’s blog on Habrahabr says that each node has a separate server. Integration with CMS is implemented in plugins for Magento, Woocomerce, PrestaShop and WordPress.

On the official website of B2Broker, you need to fill out an application, after which instructions should be sent on how to accept payments in cryptocurrency using the B2BinPay API. Before this step, you can familiarize yourself with all the necessary commands in pdf format only. It is reported that all necessary licenses have been obtained in the name of an Estonian legal entity.