Bitcoin-Safe desktop wallet hit today a big milestone with a first intent to make bitcoin open-source software sustainable for the long run. With the release of v2.3 it includes the first two paid plugin services for organizations that aim to keep up with bitcoin accounting books.

The first step has been to enable users to be notified of every transaction, even when the app is silently running in the background. Secondly, it enables the unique, and perhaps first-time seen in the industry, feature to enable bitcoin scheduled and recurring payments.

Both plugins are available for a trial period. We invite everyone to test it out, report bugs if anything unexpected happens, and provide feedback.

Reminder: Bitcoin-Safe provides secure and pre-founded testnet wallets, enabling anyone to try the functionalities to increase confidence when dealing with on-chain transactions.

📅 Schedule & Recurring payments https://bitcoin-safe.org/en/plugins/schedule/

For businesses and organizations: to manage any regular or future obligation with a fixed amount in any currency (for gold bugs: silver and gold denominations included)

• 📊 Keep track of future payouts
• ⏰ Get notified when a payment is overdue
• ⚡ Batch payouts with a single click
• 💾 Save and manage recipient addresses (with optional PGP-signed messages)

What does the Schedule Payments plugin enable:

• ⚡ Create a transaction for one due payment, or select payouts to different recipients and combine them into one batch.
• ✅ Review and customize each transaction in Bitcoin-Safe, then sign and broadcast it yourself. Schedule never sends bitcoin automatically.
• 📊 See completed payouts, upcoming payments, and schedule progress in one place.
• 🧾 Record a payout manually (Add out-of-band) if it was already made outside Bitcoin, such as in fiat, without creating a Bitcoin transaction.
• 📤 Export all schedule and payout data to CSV.

🔔 Desktop Notifications https://bitcoin-safe.org/en/plugins/notifications/

Stay in the loop on wallet activity through the channels that work for you. Get alerts about wallet transactions, scheduled payments, and more via Webhook, Nostr, Telegram, Calendars (CalDAV), and Email. Get notified about wallet activity through the channels that work for you.

• Get alerts about wallet transactions, scheduled payments, Sync & Chat messages, and warnings
• Forward notifications to webhooks, Nostr, Telegram, email, or calendars
• Choose which events each destination receives and hide sensitive details
• Keep Bitcoin-Safe running in the background with Lock and Minimize to Tray, even while your wallet is locked
• 🔗 Add multiple destinations, each with its own recipients and delivery rules.
• ✉️ Email: Connect to an SMTP server using your host, port, credentials, sender, and security settings.
• 💬 Telegram: Send to a chat through a bot. Start a conversation to check the bot and detect recent chat IDs.
• 🟣 Nostr: Send encrypted NIP-17 direct messages to npub recipients through configured relays with a sender key.
• 📆 Calendars: Add events to an existing CalDAV calendar, such as a configured Nextcloud calendar.
• 🪝 Webhooks: Send Generic JSON or formats for Slack-compatible endpoints, Discord, Google Chat, Microsoft Teams, Telegram Bot API, ntfy, and Gotify.
• 🧪 Save destination settings and test the connection where supported.

🛡️ More Robust Transaction Broadcasting

Broadcasting is now more resilient, if the first broadcast times out, your transaction is automatically relayed through other peers, so your payments get through.