Bitcoin Forum

Hello guys,

Simple question - can we find bitcoin as a payment option useful in our fashion shop? I was reading a lot about it and didn't get clear idea.
We have added this option today, but not sure if it will decrease the value of the brand as it could look "not standart'y"..

On the other hand - we should look very innovative.

Do you think there are many ladies who are using bitcoins in Europe?

Feel free to check our shop ( www.shopyte.eu ), maybe you will find something what you love for yourself (if you are a lady) or for your loved one!


Hoping to get any kind of replies

id say it wouldnt devalue your brand,

people dont scream at each other:
EG "dont shop there, they accept discover card"

what usually devalues a brand is if you limit the payment options:
EG "there's no point shopping there, they only accept euro's"

i would say the more payment options the better. just ensure the lay out is equal and not busy to confuse people with too many options on a screen
(feng shui)

I would say that if you could implement this at a low cost, why not try it? (I know that you've already implemented it, but this is what I would say to shops that haven't)  
Perhaps you'll get some new customers that will use your shop just because you offer Bitcoin payments. I know that I've personally bought certain things that I normally wouldn't have, just because the shop in question accepted Bitcoin. (Shoutout to BeesBrothers)

As to offering Bitcoin payments devalueing your brand, I do not see why it would. It's just another payment option, so you're offering a better service to your customers.

I don't think there are many ladies using bitcoins, most bitcoin users are men. This idea is nice to allow bitcoin payments, but it won't be a big success as most population in the world don't use bitcoins and people buying fashion items principally.
Most bitcoin users are from poor countries and don't have much interest or money yet to buy fashion items. But your idea is nice and innovative, in the future many persons will be glad to your choice to implement this payment method.

On the other hand,adding an option to pay with bitcoin will add to your brand value as the perception about bitcoin is changing very fast.I have seen a lot of people now specifically ask for bitcoin payment for the convenience it offers.You can also come across as innovative business enterprise if you add bitcoin payment

Those are some pretty huge generalizations that you're making, not saying that you're wrong, just that if you're stating such things you should be backing it up by statistics.

It does not mean that only ladies should buy why mens will also buy for their wife, girlfriend or sisters for any functions, and keeping more options of payment will only give more improvement and popularity to your business

Excellent and very smart I can say your idea to add bitcoin as a possibility of payment choice except paypal. Even though I live in a European country and there are some merchants who accept bitcoin none of them deals with fashion. As others members before me they posted, in my country too there only few women using bitcoins but may be some of them have friends with a bitcoin wallet. I wish many others like you to follow your way for retail, given that you are, if I am not mistaken, exclusively an online shop. 

I think it will be a great idea to add bitcoin for the payment , there are a lot of female bitcoin users, and by adding more payment option the customer will be happy, don't worry it can't devalue the brand because the brand is not depend on payment option and i believe by adding more payment option it will increase your customer rate

I don't know any fashion company which directly accepts bitcoin. Maybe it would be actually good marketing move to start doing this?
Then you could advertise yourself as "First fashion company to ever accept Bitcoin". It certainly won't harm your reputation but rather made you more popular.
In the future - where bitcoin will hopefully be more recognized you would be labeled as "Company which accepted Bitcoin since 2017". Pretty amazing deal IMO.

I agree it is always an advantage to be the first one to implement a payment in a certain sector of business industry but make sure you make noise out of it.  Advertisement always came handy every time you have an add on feature in your site.   It is also wise to use Bitcoin as mode of payment because you automatically remove the boundaries of your business.

Bitcoin for fashion business
is a great idea if that happens
it will become more popular
around the world. You will be
recognize in the different countries.

I think bitcoin is more popular in Porn fashion industry. Since Viewers love to hide their identity in the porn, so they choose bitcoin as their best source of transactions. On the other hand I think if Hollywood starts accepting Bitcoins, then all the other countries film making industries will be encouraged to use bitcoins.

Whether its fashion business or something else, implementing bitcoin into it is good as it gives you assured profit. You need to promote your business with statements representing that you accept bitcoin. By situation if you don't have any people around your locality at least in the future you'll be benefited.

Do keep the option added. It won't hurt your marketing or the value of the brand and indeed make you guys look more innovative by adding technologically advanced payment option. You aren't just helping your site but the whole bitcoin community. :)

Very well said Franky1, In fact, I am hunting for the shops in my town or even in the country which accepts bitcoin as a payment option. I a not able to spend my single bitcoin just because there are no bitcoin accepted shops in my town, all I have to do is to spend it online. A customer is always pleased to choose from multiple payment options.

Thank you all for the replies! Now I have a clear idea about it and we will definately keep it as a payment option!

Warm wishes!

Bitcoin is useful for all retail establishment, it gives you another payment option, people love to use their bitcoin.  and not only that you can be guaranteed that you have been paid with out fear of charge backs.

It is very useful indeed on using bitcoin as an another payment option on purchasing goods.Regarding on the OP I could say that you should try it out to implement bitcoin payments on your business I don't know if there are lots of ladies who are using bitcoin on your place but Knowing EU place which bitcoin adoption is high.

This is right, I think having more payment options can help the customer to have easy payment . It is helpful to the bitcoin users who can't cash out every time their btc. Same with it will attract more people to use bitcoin. Just make sure payment via btc will be explained well to the customer.

In my opinion adding bitcoin as payment option is really a good idea .It will help to increase your sales. It  Moreover it is convenient for those who are having bitcoin to buy from your shop. It will increase your brand value .Very Soon in the near future bitcoin is going to dominate all currencies and at that time your shop will be one of the first in retail business who offer payment in bitcoin.What about the shipping? Do you ship your products all over the world? Dont think about anything, just go ahead and keep bitcoin as one of the payment options. All the best for your new venture.

I appreciate you this idea to add bitcoin as a payment system in your shop. If you can deliver your products to any county of the world then you will get a good number of clients to your shop. But first you need to advertise your shop on this forum so that people come to know that you have started bitcoin as payment.

This business will certainly benefit all. we know that fashion is one of the largest market share at this time.
we are just waiting for the birth of a new innovative business pitch is so great with their bitcoin.

Today this idea sound crapy to ladies in the Europe use bitcoin for their buyings in fashion stores. I don't think that at least a one of such kind ladies know about bitcoin or use it. But who know about the future?! In the case if bitcoin would be accepted as some ordinary way of payment one day, those ladies simply can spend bitcoins of their husbands for some elite shopping the same way as they spend Euro of their husbands for that.

Honestly it's an overwhelming majority of men that use bitcoins but you could always market toward men buying for their ladies. That would make more sense to me. But of course if that isn't the direction you're looking to go then having another payment method really can't hurt either way!

A good idea, fashion is one of the basic human needs. Just like food, fashion business there is no death. When we open the fashion business and accept bitcoin as a means of payment, of course, is great for transactions and as a means of introducing bitcoin.

Bitcoin for fashion industry is very feasible. In the Philippines there are many merchants online that are selling their products online and accepts bitcoin as payment. This includes fashion products such as trendy bags, make-up, accessories, perfumes, shoes, jewelries, dresses and clothings including electronic gadgets such as cellphones and other products.

In Europe I am not sure if there are many women using bitcoin but in the Philippines there are a lot of women that are engaging in bitcoins. That kind of business is very feasible in the Philippines and Im sure it will be a hit.

Nice idea including bitcoin as a payment option in your website. It will not devalue your brand instead it will attract bitcoin users and adding value to your brand. You are also spreading awareness of bitcoin to your non bitcoin-user customers if they see bitcoin as payment option. They might get curious and try bitcoin.

Nice website by the way.

I am with Franky1 on this one... If I {Bitcoin users} had a choice between two businesses and the one accepts Bitcoin and the other not, then

I would opt to use the business that accepts Bitcoin. Some people like to be "edgy" and would welcome something fresh and new, even as a

new payment option. Most online shoppers hate to hand over their credit card details, and would also welcome a payment option, where they

have full control.  ;D

Why not?Bitcoin could be the best payment processor of any online/offline business.Easily it will attract bitcoin users.Accepting bitcoins as a currency people going to more interest with bitcoin.Any business that accepts bitcoin as payment option.Hope coming days bitcoin will dominate most of business not only fashion accessories company but also Online retailer.

Yes, we do ship worldwide

It's not a great idea because mostly men's are interested in bitcoins and maybe that's why newegg has added bitcoin payment. But the fact that starbucks added bitcoin payment makes me to think about if women are using bitcoin. To my mind it's earlier to carry about women here but maybe fashion website for men with bitcoin payment would be a better idea.

Every time I'm on a gaming site or any online business that I see accepting paypal visa or master cards and I see no bitcoin logo, I tell my self look at these idiots and move on to next available service accepting bitcoin. use blockchain.io's APIs to do all the transactions automatically for you and I really hope you a great successful business my friend. anyone not accepting bitcoin as a currency in online and then shopping stores imho are losing costumers.

It shouldn't cost a lot of money to implement it in your shop, so why not?

It opens a new channel for promoting your website as you are doing here now. I would simply go for it and monitor the traffic and payments it generates and go from there.

Well i just make suggest for move this thread on service or service discussion section on bitcointalk, because you are talking about online stores www.shopyte.eu and i think you must need adding on your website announcement that bitcoins be accepted on there.
And you must support for international costumers if you have plan accept bitcoins on your online stores, because the bitcoins can be used for all of countries not euro only.

For me, I believe there are some business that will thrive highly largely due to proximity and one of them is the fashion business because merely seeing a cloth online and liking it, after that place an order does not necessarily mean its going to fit and I might have to return who will bear the cost? Even after I would have paid a premium on the cloth in the first place to cover for shipping cost and the couple of days I will have to wait for it to arrive in the first instance. I will prefer to order from somewhere within my own vicinity to be able to beat to encumbrances to a large extent.

In my opinion, you might find it hard to sell your products online.
Fashion products need to be fitted by the customer.
I personally do not order clothes from online shops even if the site has a facility for measurements.
And given your products, they look elegant. Your target market is middle to high class. They need to be fitted well.
It's a little bit of a challenge.

although most bitcoin users are male, create new innovations like this one is a good thing. perhaps by forming a fashion shop with bitcoin, you will make it easier for women to learn about bitcoin. besides, it probably will bring many benefits, because until now, still a little fashion shop that accepts bitcoin.

I think this is a grand idea of bringing bitcoin into the fashion world as this will stimulate bitcoin's growth and promote its uses to the public more. For bitcoin lovers, they would be crazy with this and for the ones who know nothing about bitcoin, they would be like "Hey, this is new, we should check it out" ;D So it's good for bitcoin in many ways. And also, there are women using bitcoin just like men so it's no need to be worried.

Well, for that reason we are offering free returns with pickup service.  :)

Well he has a point well thats a good strategy also you are offering free returns so it is a bit nice to your customers but the problems is if the customer is lazy sort of tired of returning it or something busy all day how do you do that? Though he already paid but he is not happy or satisfiy with it. Most of the people are not buying clothes online because they cant fit it.

If the person is lazy then the problem solved because a lazy person do not care that how is the thing he ordered and use it no matter how is it. The ther point is that if the person is lazy and cannot return the thing then there is no any fault of the service provider because they are doing their job well to provide best fitted goods.

Why not , everything is possible here . But here you will face a problem of customers because it is not much simple to get customers who only buy fashions things only for the bitcoin .
Because on small part of the world's population knows about bitcoin , So it is a bug complicated thing to understand for new peoples .
But here I will advice you to I areas of only start your fashion shoo , you should advertise your fashion shop with bitcoin payment option , So then everyone will attract toward this with tax free payment system .

yes it is the very good idea and most of the people in europe are using it for business purpose but it is not as common as  dollar or any other currency but i think after few years people became use to of it also and it will became the main purpose of income.....

It is very good to accept bitcoin payment for your business but i see most of your belong the ladies only, i think till now mostly bitcoin are being used by mens only but i see most of your listing belong to ladies better list some items for mens. So your business will boost in your local area by paying through bitcoin.

Porn and fashion are two different target market, I would understand the reason why someone would prefer to use BTC for porn, but the fashion industry I don't see any incentive for using BTC especially in a market dominated by ladies

bitcoin fashion in use bitcoin payment is good optional
but i think you must reseach, who is bitcoin user
if you want open bussines and payment use bitcoin, you must know is want something in bitcoin user

To add one more payment option is always good, but I don't think that a lot of ladies will use bitcoin as a payment tool for cloth. First of all women have no clue what is bitcoin and sometimes when parcels are lost or sellers are just regular scammers (I'm not talking about this specific shop but in general), as a buyer you can protect yourself and do charge back, in this case if you pay with bitcoin it is impossible to return the money. I have bitcoins but I won't use it in a fashion shop.

I guess not only for fashion shop but for all business online can use bitcoin as a payment option, many benefit if you use bitcoin for buy something in online, like you can get confirmation, you dont need to give ur real name.

I dont see how accepting more payment options csn ever be a bad thing. It broadens your customer audience. Why would it devalue it ?
You should add as many payment options as you can. Maybe even advertise bitcoin or make a special deal for those paying with bitcoin to attract more customers to your shop and to bitcoin.