Decision Center
Service Businesses: accepting crypto
Occasional, often larger invoices; may not need a traditional POS at all.
Which platforms appear promising for service businesses
These platforms serve your kind of business, and our documented (not yet lab-verified) reads apply:
- Clover: Worth considering, at low confidence. Clover has no built-in crypto acceptance, but unlike some registers it has a Custom Tender system a crypto app could plug into. Whether a ready-to-use crypto app exists, and whether it reports and settles cleanly, is still unverified.
- Shopify POS: Worth considering, at low confidence. Shopify supports crypto on its online checkout, but not at the in-person POS. At the register, crypto runs beside Shopify, and even recording it in Shopify POS is unverified.
- Square: Worth considering, at low confidence. Square has no built-in crypto acceptance. You can take crypto beside the register and record it in Square as an external payment, then reconcile by hand.
An invoice or no-POS workflow may fit better than a counter POS.
Which are poor fits
These platforms are not focused on your kind of business, so we do not lead you toward them for this use, though nothing stops a beside-the-register flow anywhere:
- Toast: not this platform's focus for service businesses.
What remains unanswered
For every platform, the same crypto questions are still open and matter to service businesses: whether a crypto sale appears in reports, how a refund behaves, and how the checkout actually feels in your environment. These are unknown today and are exactly what our lab is set up to answer. We will not guess them.
What lab testing matters most for you
Invoice and no-POS crypto flows, and clean records for larger, less frequent payments.
Some service businesses are better served by starting from how you sell rather than from a platform. See accepting crypto with no POS, and the free Payment Card Builder for a counter QR.