Some form of BitCoin support is still on the wishlist for now. At the moment, all of our spare Development resources (aside from routine maintenance and helping Support troubleshoot issues for sellers) are being dedicated towards completion of the new Admin project, which is a prerequisite to adding any settings/controls that may be necessary for sellers to actually use any major new features or functionality, such as any new payment methods.
Here is an extremely simple solution from BitPay that was just released that lets customers pay with bitcoins and get digital products.
Looks like it even lets you handle the digital delivery from your own site so that is pretty cool.
3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVEBNsJWTHQ3
This makes it feasible to sell digital products for less than $0.05.
Using Bitcoin it sure is nice paying extremely low transaction fees ($0.003 per transaction) and not having chargebacks anymore!
This is no longer becoming a matter of "I would like to see this feature."
More so a matter of "I need to accept bitcoin."
I've been a happy customer of E-Junkie for over 3 years. And to show you guys how happy I've been, I will pay you guys $750 to implement bitpay, which shouldn't be that hard to implement. And so I don't have to switch to foxycart.
If you guys can't implement bitpay or some other bitcoin processor in the future, I can promise I won't continue using e-junkie.
@zenmagnets.com, I agree. This is starting to get serious especially with the news of Google Checkout being discontinued. Plus, I am losing significant sales due to not having Bitcoin integrated into the E-junkie cart. Pretty soon it will make sense to just move to Foxycart like you said.
I would love to have either a straight bitcoin or a Bitpay implementation.
I doubt Bitpay is ready for it yet and we could just have the address input into E-junkie forward to a Bitpay account anyway so that would be an easy work around.
Unfortunately, supporting Bitcoin directly would be an extremely thorny proposition for us, as Bitcoin is just a currency rather than a payment processor, and E-junkie is not itself a payment processor that ever handles any actual funds (whether in USD or Bitcoin or any other currency), so for us, supporting Bitcoin would mean supporting a third-party payment processor that supports Bitcoin. From a practical return-on-investment standpoint, this would need to be a payment processor that supports Bitcoin among other payment funding methods such as credit/debit cards.
For anybody looking to accept bitcoin, and don't want to ditch e-junkie. Here's a button I made that's graphically compatible with the e-junkie shopping buttons:
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You can stick it to the right of your "add to cart" or "view cart" button, and have it hyperlink to a bitpay cart. At least until e-junkie begins to support bitpay or coinbase directly.
Example: http://zenmagnets.com/index.php?p=145
Looks like 3dcart rolled out Bitcoin support for their 16,000 customers via payment processor Bitpay in version 6.
http://www.3dcart.com/v6.html
Bitpay is an extremely simple payment processor for Bitcoin. As a merchant all the information they require for an account is (1) name, (2) TIN, (3) bank account number and (4) ABA routing number. Then you can set the % you want to receive as BTC and USD. Daily they will process any bitcoin payments, convert the relevant amount and direct deposit the USD to your bank account. Very user friendly and have always performed flawlessly for me.
Perhaps some type of Bitpay and E-junkie integration would be possible? Bitpay has a simple API and a merchant can easily get the API token.
With Google Checkout going to the graveyard we need more options for receiving payments.
Awesome, good to see some of the newer shopping carts are willing to be adventurous with features. Unfortunately it doesn't look like 3dcart works with paypal or google checkout. Foxycart does everything, but they are way expensive, and charge per sale.
But really, E-Junkie just needs to step up their development. It seems like they did some one time development back in the day, and now their dev team is a ghost town that barely has time to respond.
Now that Robin Kholi (e-junkie founder) has his f#@* you money, he's out of the startup mindset. Robin, if you're listening, I'd gladly put in $1000 for a bounty to implement bitcoin payments on e-junkie, my favorite shopping cart system.
Sorry for the delay in responding to your post.
Currently we are not looking at adding integration for BitCoin. At this time our development team has been working on re-writing our entire system to make it non-flash based. Once our new Admin is setup and released for use, then we can look into adding support for other payment processors.
Robin took over the day-to-day running of his family business, our parent company, a couple of years ago, and although he is still part of E-junkie his efforts are primarily set with our parent company.
I will pass on your suggestion for adding BitCoin, but please bear in mind that there is no telling if we will even be able to integrate our system with their payment processing setup. The reason we only provide Buy Now buttons with some payment processors is because of compatibility issues.
E-junkieNinjaSorry for the delay in responding to your post.
Currently we are not looking at adding integration for BitCoin. At this time our development team has been working on re-writing our entire system to make it non-flash based. Once our new Admin is setup and released for use, then we can look into adding support for other payment processors.
Robin took over the day-to-day running of his family business, our parent company, a couple of years ago, and although he is still part of E-junkie his efforts are primarily set with our parent company.
I will pass on your suggestion for adding BitCoin, but please bear in mind that there is no telling if we will even be able to integrate our system with their payment processing setup. The reason we only provide Buy Now buttons with some payment processors is because of compatibility issues.
So, 3DCart it is, then.
Thanks for not trying.
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Kind of what I am thinking also; particularly since Bitpay's API documentation is pretty simple and only 10 pages in total.
https://bitpay.com/downloads/bitpayApi.pdf
I am simply losing too many sales by not having Bitcoin slickly integrated with my E-junkie store and since it is not on the horizon then I suppose I will just have to find a processor with the features that are needed. The Reddit CEO said Bitcoin was accounting for about 2.5% of total transactions and 3.4% of total net income for Reddit Gold (purely digital product). So there is the financial incentive to move people towards paying in Bitcoins since I will keep more as a merchant.
Any recommendations on which carts that would be WordPress compatible with various Bitpay plugins would be best to use for simple digital delivery?
https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-shopping-cart-plugins
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Any recommendations on which carts that would be WordPress compatible with various Bitpay plugins would be best to use for simple digital delivery?
https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-shopping-cart-plugins
I started exploring WooCommerce a while back and it looked like it could support most of what I needed. I then saw this thread, hoping eJunkie would wake up. Now that they've declared they've awoken but simply don't care, I'll revisit WooCommerce and if not available, look at 3DCart.
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I am sorry if you all think that my post pointed to the idea that we do not care about your request that we integrate with BitCoin, that is not the case. However, as I mentioned, we are currently working on upgrading our entire user interface and we need to finish that before we can look into integrating with any new payment processors.
I think what some of us are getting at is that we keep hearing about all of this activity going on but when we look at the site and use the cart there is not any visible change. You have been saying the same thing for years and nothing changes. But things are changing outside the cart.
I love the cart. I've made a lot of money with the cart. But I need to see that the development is progressing.
I put in a request for Stripe.com and others are requesting BitCoin. We aren't told if there is any consideration - just that "we are working on the non-flash interface". Well that has been going on for years. Some of us have programming backgrounds, have managed projects large and small. Just give us something to see. Some indication that things are indeed moving forward. Something other than "when we finish the non-flash" that you have been saying for a very long time.
Thank you for allowing me to rant a bit! I still like the service and use it. But it is time to play some catch up.