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<p><strong>BTC Checkout</strong> is a lightweight, self-hosted Bitcoin payment gateway for WooCommerce. Payments go directly to your wallet — no middlemen, no third-party fees, and no KYC required. Your keys, your coins.</p>
<h4>Why BTC Checkout?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Self-Hosted & Secure</strong> — Payments go directly to your wallet address. No third-party service holds your funds.</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight & Fast</strong> — Minimal footprint. Zero impact on Core Web Vitals or page load speed.</li>
<li><strong>Real-Time Verification</strong> — Automatic blockchain verification via public APIs. Orders are confirmed without manual checking.</li>
<li><strong>No KYC Required</strong> — Accept Bitcoin payments without identity verification or account registration.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Native</strong> — Built on the WooCommerce Payment Gateway API. Works with both classic and block checkout. HPOS compatible.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Supported Cryptocurrencies</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bitcoin (BTC)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Direct Wallet Payments</strong> — Customers pay directly to your Bitcoin wallet address.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Order Verification</strong> — Blockchain-based payment verification updates order status automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Admin Payment Dashboard</strong> — View pending, confirmed, and expired Bitcoin orders from a dedicated WooCommerce admin screen.</li>
<li><strong>Manual Payment Check</strong> — Re-check pending Bitcoin payments from the order screen or dashboard with one click.</li>
<li><strong>Custom Payment Messaging</strong> — Customize the customer-facing payment heading and instructions without touching code.</li>
<li><strong>Bitcoin Discount Incentives</strong> — Offer percentage or fixed-amount discounts to customers who pay with Bitcoin. Displays a “Save X%” badge at checkout.</li>
<li><strong>Multi-Wallet Support</strong> — Configure multiple wallet addresses per currency with automatic round-robin load balancing.</li>
<li><strong>QR Code Checkout</strong> — Auto-generated QR codes for easy mobile payments.</li>
<li><strong>Real-Time Exchange Rates</strong> — Converts order totals to BTC using live market rates from CoinGecko.</li>
<li><strong>Configurable Confirmations</strong> — Set the number of blockchain confirmations required before marking an order as complete.</li>
<li><strong>Enterprise Security</strong> — Input sanitization, nonce verification, CSRF protection, and rate limiting built in.</li>
<li><strong>Multilingual Ready</strong> — Translation-ready with full i18n support.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>Install the Plugin</strong> — Upload via WordPress dashboard or install from the plugin directory. Activate with one click.</li>
<li><strong>Add Your Wallet</strong> — Enter your Bitcoin wallet address in WooCommerce <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Payments <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> BTC Checkout.</li>
<li><strong>Accept Payments</strong> — Customers pay with Bitcoin at checkout, send payment to your wallet, and the order is verified automatically.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Full documentation is available at <a href="https://btccheckout.ai/docs" rel="nofollow ugc">BTCCheckout.ai/docs</a>.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Open a support topic on the WordPress.org plugin support forum, or email support@btccheckout.ai.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the following external services for payment verification and exchange rate data. No personal customer data is transmitted to any of these services — only public blockchain addresses and transaction lookups are performed.</p>
<h4>CoinGecko API</h4>
<p>Used to retrieve real-time Bitcoin exchange rates for converting WooCommerce order totals into the equivalent BTC amount.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service URL:</strong> <a href="https://www.coingecko.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.coingecko.com</a></li>
<li><strong>API endpoint:</strong> <code>https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price</code></li>
<li><strong>Data sent:</strong> Currency identifier and fiat currency code (e.g., <code>bitcoin</code>, <code>usd</code>)</li>
<li><strong>Terms of Service & Privacy Policy:</strong> <a href="https://trust.coingecko.com/resources" rel="nofollow ugc">https://trust.coingecko.com/resources</a></li>
<li><strong>API Documentation:</strong> <a href="https://docs.coingecko.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://docs.coingecko.com</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Blockchain.info API</h4>
<p>Used to verify Bitcoin (BTC) payments by checking recent transactions for the configured wallet address.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service URL:</strong> <a href="https://www.blockchain.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.blockchain.com</a></li>
<li><strong>API endpoint:</strong> <code>https://blockchain.info/rawaddr/{address}</code></li>
<li><strong>Data sent:</strong> Bitcoin wallet address (public, already on the blockchain)</li>
<li><strong>Terms of Service:</strong> <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/legal/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.blockchain.com/legal/terms</a></li>
<li><strong>Privacy Policy:</strong> <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/legal/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.blockchain.com/legal/privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Upgrade Notices</h3>
<h4>2.0.1</h4>
<p>Major update: Free version focused on Bitcoin. License key system removed. Clean BTC-only codebase. Recommended update for all users.</p>
<h4>1.9.2</h4>
<p>Performance and compliance update. Fixes text domain, optimizes Heartbeat Protection intervals, adds cron overlap protection.</p>
<h4>1.9.0</h4>
<p>Replaces phpqrcode with BaconQrCode for WordPress.org compliance. Recommended update.</p>
<h4>1.8.0</h4>
<p>Critical security update: Adds Frontend Heartbeat Protection to prevent wallet address swap attacks. Strongly recommended.</p>


BTC Checkout — Bitcoin Payment Gateway for WooCommerce

Accept Bitcoin payments on your WooCommerce store. Self-hosted, no third-party fees, no KYC. Your keys, your coins.

Helmut Wandl

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<ol>
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</ol>
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<ul>
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</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
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