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Title: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: Jahreer on October 24, 2017, 05:29:38 PM
Is anybody running an etsy.com store and accepting bitcoin payments there?
I guess that the only way to do it is to set up "Other" payment option and process it manually.
Any more ideas how to?


Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: maynguyen on October 24, 2017, 05:35:17 PM
I think it is hard to be because the bitcoin is very popular nowadays and pretty much everyone knows bitcoin but it is not a payment method and no country has accepted it as a payment method, You can also sell bitcoin in cash and can buy from their website. I still hope that there are sites that accept bitcoin so that people who do not have a Visa or Paypal card like me can buy on it without the other card.


Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: player514 on October 24, 2017, 05:39:29 PM
Have you checked out this article?

https://99bitcoins.com/get-accept-bitcoin-for-business-bitcoin-etsy/

It seems like it's basically what you said, you need to use the other payment for the etsy store. However, you should look into bitpay in order to process transactions. They offer bitcoin payments and are able to process them fairly quickly, and I know that a lot of services (like gyft) use it. It seems fairly reliable and a suitable payment processor for your store.


Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: Jahreer on October 24, 2017, 06:04:10 PM
player514, interesting info about btc payment processor, thanx!
So the basic scheme remains the same.. actually, I've tried it without much success..
Maybe just need to wait for some time))


Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: masterbt on October 24, 2017, 06:52:13 PM
Is anybody running an etsy.com store and accepting bitcoin payments there?
I guess that the only way to do it is to set up "Other" payment option and process it manually.
Any more ideas how to?
Infact doing this thing manually will help you as well. Because, you can track the rate fluctuations and decide on when to provide that option or not. You can always redirects the user to your site with the QR code to scan and pay.


Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: Jahreer on October 25, 2017, 11:03:22 AM
Also nice, but i'm not sure about linking to external resource for payment.. - is it a good idea?
Maybe I can just put QR-code image inside of a listing description (instead of a secondary photo)?  ;D


Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: alyssa85 on October 25, 2017, 01:23:34 PM
Rather than selling on etsy, you could try selling on a platform like Peerhub:

https://www.peerhub.com/

It depends very much on who your customers are - if they are cryptocurrency nerds, peerhub might suit you better.


Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: Jahreer on October 26, 2017, 07:10:46 PM
alyssa85, like it, cozy place, thanx)) Is it completely based on Steem$, or any other coins are accepted?

Look, actually, OpenBazaar is my really favourite kind of a marketplace. decentralized, peer-to-peer, BTC-based, non-censored.. wow - I hope that one day it will be widespreaded and popular enough to buy anything & anywhere.

But sales on etsy.com grew to more than $2.84 billion in 2016 with total number of active sellers around 1.75M people..
Realize what if they start to accept bitcoins  ::) :P


Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: CoinPixie on November 29, 2017, 09:06:20 PM
I have an Etsy shop that accepts BTC and other cryptocurrencies: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PheasantPress

I also wrote a short article about how to shop on Etsy with Bitcoin: http://coinpixie.com/buy-with-bitcoin-on-etsy

 :DBTC


Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: Hedaelus on November 16, 2018, 10:52:10 AM
I found an etsy shop accepting bitcoin. May be useful for creative gift ideas.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/mintiwall



Title: Re: Accepting BTC while selling on Etsy
Post by: eternalgloom on November 16, 2018, 11:21:26 AM
Rather than selling on etsy, you could try selling on a platform like Peerhub:

https://www.peerhub.com/

It depends very much on who your customers are - if they are cryptocurrency nerds, peerhub might suit you better.

Oh thanks for this, I hadn't heard about peerhub and I'm surprised that they accept Steem.
Any idea how popular they are? I mean do you have access to enough potential customers, like on Etsy?