Merchant Decision Center

Start where you are

Pick the door that matches your situation. Each one leads to what the evidence actually supports, not to a sales pitch.

How to read everything here

Compatibility Levels tell you the kind of support

A platform can "take crypto" in very different ways. We sort them into five levels, from Level 5 (built into the register) down to Level 1 (no practical path). It is not a score; a Level 2 platform can be perfectly well executed for what it is. Today, every platform we have researched sits at Level 2 (parallel acceptance) for in-person crypto: the payment runs beside the register, not through it.

Confidence tells you how sure we are

Separately from the level, we mark how confident we are in each finding: high, medium, or low. Right now most of our confidence is low, because our conclusions rest on vendor documentation we have read, not on hands-on testing we have finished. We would rather tell you that than pretend to certainty.

Why "unknown" is sometimes the correct answer

When a vendor's documentation does not say whether a crypto sale appears in reports, or how a refund behaves, we mark it unknown and leave it unknown. We never infer an answer because an integration exists. An honest "we do not know yet" is more useful to your business than a confident guess that turns out wrong.

Why laboratory validation matters

Documentation tells you what a vendor says. Our lab tells you what actually happens when you run a real transaction, a refund, a report. Until that testing is done, our recommendations are provisional, and we label them that way. The laboratory roadmap shows exactly where each platform stands.