playing with it more and learning as I go, I was able to manually add Bitcoin as a currency in the zen cart 'currencies' table, and set it as the default currency, and added its symbol as 'Ƀ'

the exchange rate is set the the database as well.  I could just write a script which gets the mtgox exchange rate every 1-5 mins and run a sql command to update the exchange rate.  Is this right?

I posted on zen cart forum about how to not reduce the inventory when payment status is pending, and they are indicating its not possible, but I could try and code it myself.  Unfortunately I'm not up to that skill level yet, but perhaps some day. 

I'll just have to stay on top of things and monitor payment status and BTC/USD exchange rates and keep everything up to date, at least until I build up some bitcoins and contribute some kind of bounty/donation for a skilled programmer to do it. 

thanks again

thanks for the reply.  Indeed I was testing all from 1 session and 1 fake customer/email address, thats why I was only getting bitcoin payment 1 address, thanks for that information. Obviously I didn't test too thoroughly, lol. Glad to know it does indeed generate new addresses.  I'll check into fixing my zencart settings so it doesn't nuke my inventory numbers on pending payments.

also I had the bitcoin_extras_dhtml.php in /[zencart]/boxes/extra_boxes  but I just copied it to /[zencart]/[admindir]/boxes/extra_boxes and now I have the bitcoin.php link, sweet.


I see this site http://www.bitcoinmart.com    uses Zen Cart and bitcoin and lists prices in ' ฿' so I now see it is possible.  I'm guessing they modified some core zencart template file, I just don't know which one.. I'm totally new to zencart.  Maybe I'll email them and see if they will enlighten me.


One more question - how possible would it be to have prices automatically change with the bitcoin exchange rate?  For now as long as the price doesn't move too violently I can just update the price manually daily or whatever, especially since I will be started with only a handful of products.  But thinking long term, it would be handy to enter my price in some fiat currency like dollars and it automatically lists them in the equivalent bitcoin price, fluctuating with the exchange rate.

sounds like a fiverr.com clone, but with bitcoins instead of $5 fiat

thanks for this module.  I am trying to setup a web store selling a product for bitcoins.   I have not had luck yet with the wordpress-e-commerce plugin, or the drupal/ubercart module, so now I turned to this ZenCart module.

I have setup a testbed and installed ZenCart and this Bitcoin Payment module, and have a few questions.

Does it automatically check for payment? What happens if someone orders and never pays?  From my testing, it appears that someone can just order over and over again and never pay and drain your store of apparent in-stock inventory (denial of service attack)

Also, it always gives the same bitcoin address for payment.  I assume this is because it is connecting to my bitcoind and I only have 1 address.  Is there any way to make it generate a new payment address for each sale?  I am not even sure why this is done, but this is how the wordpress and drupal modules work I think.  Is this for anonymity and/or security concerns?

Also in the installation text, it says there should be a link under Admin-> Extras to 'bitcoin.php' to view  bitcoin transactions.  This link wasn't present for me, but I could manually type in /[myadmindir]/bitcoin.php to access it.  Minor gripe.

Finally, is there a way to make the prices show in ฿, Ƀ,  Ⓑ, β, ⓑ, or BTC?    As it is setup by default, I have bitcoin as the only accepted payment form but the prices are all listed by ZenCart in $'s.   So my product costs BTC 3 but it looks like it costs $3

Thanks for any help, hope to be serving the bitcoin community with more products to spend bitcoins on soon.

sorry, to be more specific, I meant the "wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce" directory.  Is this the wrong place?  




I've also tried it with putting the contents of the 'wp-content/plugins/wp-e-commerce/merchants' folder into the 'wp-content/plugins/wp-ecommerce' directory and that didn't change anything.

Hey Mike,
I tried posting this as a comment on your support link, but it seems like it was filtered as spam because it never showed up.

I am having the same problem as 'bearbones' had in his comment.  

I am using the latest version of WP (3.1.3), latest WP-e-commerce (3.8.4) and am using PHP 5.3.6, my server runs FreeBSD.  

I extracted bitcoin-wp-e-commerce-0.9.0.tar.gz to the plugins folder, but Bitcoin is not available under Store-> Payment Options.


from 'bearbones's comment, I tried entering this in phpmyadmin 'sql' section -

INSERT INTO wp_wpsc_currency_list VALUES (NULL, 'Bitcoin', 'BC', 'Bitcoin', '', '', 'BTC', '0', '0', 'antarctica', '1');


this makes BTC show on WP Dashboard->Settings->Store->General->Currency , but still when I go to my wordpress dashboard->settings->store->payment options, all I have are Chronopay, Google Checkout, some Paypal options and Test

on second thought, agreed. Going to stick with bitcoin only, and try out the bitcoin wp-e-commerce plugin, as I'm more familiar with wordpress than drupal

thanks for the info.   I checked out uc_bitcoin and amongst its limitations - "It is assumed that Bitcoin is the only currency accepted"

I am thinking I'd like to accept both paypal and bitcoin,  but I might change my mind on that. 

nice, thanks

I am wanting to create a website selling retail items and accept bitcoin for payment.  Are there any existing scripts/checkout systems people have made to more easily facilitate bitcoin for payment?  Or is the burden of creating such a thing on me?  Thanks for any help