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Customers can now pay their Invoices with Bitcoin

We have recently implemented Bitcoin invoice payments ( through the excellent Coinbase.com service ).

Sign up for a coinbase.com account, enter your API keys into UCM, and you’re ready to start accepting bitcoin payments for your invoices.

Here’s some of the features:

  • invoice in your own local currency, bitcoin exchange is automatically calculated
  • restrict the bitcoin payment option to certain dollar vaules or invoice currencies (eg: only accept bitcoin for invoices under $100)
  • support for bitcoin recurring payments – for subscription payments like hosting services ( daily, weekly, every_two_weeks, monthly, quarterly and yearly repeat periods only )
  • ability to charge an extra bitcoin fee

Here’s a screenshot of the bitcoin settings area within UCM:

bitcoin-payment-settings-for-ucm

Here’s some screenshots showing the bitcoin purchase process:

1) Generate an invoice with UCM and send it to your customer. They will be able to choose Bitcoin as a payment method:

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2) The customer is taken to your Coinbase payment page. You can customise this page with a title and logo from within the coinbase management area. The customer can choose to send funds from their coinbase.com account or directly using a bitcoin address.

bitcoin-invoice-payments-step2

 

3) The customer pays the bitcoin address from their bitcoin wallet:

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4) As soon as the funds have been cleared the customer will be automatically taken to the thank you page:

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5) You will receive an email from coinbase confirming the payment:

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6) The invoice will be marked as paid within the UCM system, and some additional details will be made available next to the payment:

bitcoin-invoice-payments-step6

 

 

We hope you enjoy this new feature. If you would like to try it out, send me a priority support ticket and pay using bitcoins 🙂 everything will go towards future UCM development.

dtbakerCustomers can now pay their Invoices with Bitcoin
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