Decision Center
I want the easiest setup.
Lowest hosting burden and highest readiness, usually a custodial gateway. The tradeoff is custody: a third party holds your funds between sale and settlement.
You trade self-custody for convenience. State that plainly to yourself before you sign up.
Solutions whose documented facts match
These are the published solutions whose evidence, not marketing, fits this need today. Confirm the details on each page before you commit.
Blink
Blink is a polished custodial Lightning wallet with a genuinely easy merchant Cash Register, but its own FAQ excludes US and Puerto Rico merchants, so for our audience it is not usable today.
- Custody
- Provider-custodied
- Bank settlement
- No
OpenNode
OpenNode is a finished, hosted Bitcoin and Lightning gateway that can auto-convert to dollars and settle to a US bank, in exchange for the provider holding your funds and gating bank payout behind approval.
- Custody
- Provider-custodied
- Bank settlement
- Gated by approval
Coinbase Business
Coinbase Business is a custodial USDC payments platform for online businesses, and the migration home for Coinbase Commerce, but its fee is unconfirmed, it is US and Singapore only, and it is not for in-person retail.
- Custody
- Provider-custodied
- Bank settlement
- Yes
Weigh it against everything else
This is one need. Your decision usually balances several. See the full comparison or revisit the other needs.
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