{"id":21682,"date":"2018-08-03T16:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe62200626c3"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:19:26","slug":"coinbase-woocommerce-plugin-makes-crypto-available-millions-online-merchants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/coinbase-woocommerce-plugin-makes-crypto-available-millions-online-merchants","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase WooCommerce Plugin Makes Crypto Available to Millions of Online Merchants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/coinbase-woocommerce-plugin-makes-crypto-available-to-millions-of-online-merchants.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Coinbase\u2019s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.coinbase.com\/new-features-woocommerce-plugin-send-bitcoin-and-litecoin-and-more-85f83fc520a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement&nbsp;<\/a>heralds a WooCommerce plugin that makes it quick and easy to accept bitcoin and litecoin as payment methods on any WooCommerce-powered site.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress-powered WooCommerce is one of the most popular e-commerce platforms on the web, and Coinbase claims that it is integrated with over 28 percent of all online stores. Now, each of these stores has a point-of-sale plugin to begin accepting cryptocurrency payments from customers the world over. The WooCommerce plugin can be found on the Coinbase <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/coinbase\/coinbase-commerce-woocommerce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub<\/a> account.<\/p>\n<p>The plugin allows its users to transfer bitcoin and litecoin directly from Coinbase Commerce with an easy-to-use payment button. The plugin\u2019s library is currently available in less than 10 lines of code for React and Python, and Coinbase says that client libraries for Node.js, Ruby and PHP are currently being built. While the plugin currently supports just bitcoin and litecoin, the company is working on support for ether and bitcoin cash, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Coinbase sees the plugin as its next step to facilitate&nbsp;more widespread adoption of cryptocurrency and creating a more inclusive, open financial system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNote that all payments made through Coinbase Commerce are truly peer-to-peer,\u201d the announcement blog post reads. \u201cWhen customers send money from their cryptocurrency wallet it\u2019s sent directly to a merchant-controlled cryptocurrency address and processed on-chain by the respective blockchain. This means merchants never have to pay transaction fees to accept payments and always remain in complete control over their funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Coinbase announcement concludes by noting, \u201cWe\u2019re just getting started on our quest to make cryptocurrencies an easy payment option and are continually improving Coinbase Commerce based on your awesome feedback. If you have an idea for a feature or product enhancement, tell us on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CommerceCB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CommerceCB<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase\u2019s latest announcement heralds a WooCommerce plugin that makes it quick and easy to accept bitcoin and litecoin as payment methods on any WooCommerce-powered site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3496,"featured_media":21683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[190,3343],"class_list":["post-21682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technical","tag-coinbase","tag-litecoin"],"author_data":{"id":3496,"name":"Shawn Gordon","nicename":"shawn-gordon","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/shawn-gordon-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/coinbase-woocommerce-plugin-makes-crypto-available-to-millions-of-online-merchants.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}