Whalestack Bitcoin Payments And Checkouts

Whalestack is a leading payment processing solution tailored for Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, designed to facilitate seamless digital payments for merchants and businesses. This platform empowers merchants to accept blockchain payments from their customers in a secure, reliable, and tax compliant manner, while offering real-time processing capabilities. 

By integrating Whalestack, merchants can effortlessly augment their existing payment infrastructure to include cryptocurrency transactions. It enables store owners to get paid in Bitcoin and other digital currencies and instantly receive the sales price in EUR, USD or other digital currencies.

The Whalestack solution supports a diverse range of 50 billing currencies, enabling immediate global market access. It supports merchants to not only maximize conversion rates and profit margins but also helps in reducing fraud, thereby attracting new and diverse customer segments.

This extension integrates the Whalestack cryptocurrency payment processor with Magento in form of hosted checkout pages that can be branded and customized to the merchant's look and feel. 

Moreover, with the Whalestack extension for Magento 2 merchants benefit from various key features of the payment gateway:

• Real-time conversion between digital and national fiat currencies
• Supports 50 billing currencies
• Automatically generates and sends invoices
• Quick and easy withdrawals to bank accounts
• Compliant accounting of digital currencies
• Provides extensive transaction history and sophisticated API logs
• Increases transparency, as crypto transactions are connected with customer information

Account & Pricing

To use this extension, you need to signup for a free Whalestack merchant account here. There are no additional setup or subscription fees and the Whalestack extension for Magento 2 can be downloaded for free.

Key Features

• Enables cryptocurrency (BTC, Lightning, LTC, XLM) and stablecoin (USDC, EURC) payments on your Magento store for customer transactions.
• Offers immediate settlement in your chosen national currency (USD, EUR, BRL) or the aforementioned cryptocurrencies.
• Enables setting of product prices in your local currency, with a choice of 45 fiat currencies available, detailed list is available here.
• Effortlessly integrates with your Magento website.
• Allows for the pricing of products in your national currency.
• Customizes the checkout page language to your preference.
• Generates invoices automatically.
• Prevents chargebacks while providing flexibility in managing refunds.
• Reduces risks associated with currency fluctuations through instant conversion and settlement.
• Localizes the plugin in any language as required.
• Manages payment states for underpaid and fully paid transactions.

Use Case

Example: You sell an e-book for 20 EUR on your website. Your user pays in Bitcoin and you will instantly receive 20 EUR in your Whalestack account, settled in EURC or your preferred digital currency. All you need is to implement the Whalestack payment method into your Magento site.

Docs, Support and Demo

• Magento extension guide
• API documentation
• Demo of the hosted checkout page

Security and PCI Compliance

The payment process is handled by the hosted payment gateway and customers are redirected to the Whalestack hosted checkout page that presents the customers with the payment address to send the payment to. This extension accepts payments only in cryptocurrencies and therefore no bank account or credit card details are required or stored.