Quote from: magneto on February 25, 2018, 06:07:18 AM

Quote from: Gringoblin67 on February 24, 2018, 03:34:54 PM

Hi guys.. I want some advice in terms of which one to as a payment gateway. Im mainly looking for cheap fees & easy installation. Ive been chatting to paybear.io (on their telegram channel), they seem to be fairly new to the industry but also have really cheap fees... Anyone already using them? Otherwise, what other providers are there that are worth checking out?

Paybear does seem like a professional site. Their interface looks great to work with as well.

They are indeed relatively new. I have no idea how much you can trust them with at this stage. Haven't seen any negative reviews around though.

Coinpayments and Shapeshift are two of the largest and most trusted payment gateways. Though shapshift doesn't technically allow you to store funds with them, but only serves as a altcoin -> bitcoin converter. Coinpayments has a lot more flexibility and there's a range of things that you can do with them, including storing funds in their wallets. Bitpay on the other hand is more working with fiat type of site.

Up to you, do some research on your own part. But these are the main ones.

Shapeshift is convenient but they have pretty hefty spreads, so I only use that as a last resort. Coinpayments is what I'd recommend as a new-ish service that seems to be gaining reputation. As a user, I've used them without hitches, and as an escrow service, I'm pretty happy with how they've managed that for me on two occassions. They've also got a sig campaign here with a reputable manager, so I'd say that's another vote of confidence.

BitPay I no longer use, their invoice system is just too tricky with a short payment window. Currently workable with low mempool but I wouldn't like to run into issues when transactions start to flood back in.

Here's a creative alternative, which I've used: using a casino account with inbuilt exchange supporting multiple cryptos. It does require you to trust the service of course, and probably a roundabout way of being able to switch between crypto to pay someone in an alt but I've done so happily with crypto-games.net. Much lower spread (about 2%) on instant exchange.