The ability to receive fiat side-by-side with bitcoin is a key feature, not a bug. There are very few bitcoin-only businesses, especially in this early stage. So offering the flexibility to accept your accounting currency, and BTC, is what users love about Zaprite.

Besides, you can always just use it bitcoin-only. Adding fiat payments is just another module you can choose to enable or not. That's the beauty of Zaprite—it is completely customizable to your individual needs and choices.

Great article. Is there any chance this will be available in international iOS app stores, for example Canada? Or does the buy/sell feature complicate that?

Thanks! It was imperative for us that we did not ever break the standard gap limit for that very reason. Not seeing balances in wallets is scary—we definitely don't want to contribute to that!

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An integration with nostr? What would you like to see on that front?

Thanks! Appreciate the feedback.

We got something we think you'll like coming VERY soon!

We'll get that done.

Of course you can pay in bitcoin lol.

Yes, splitting on-chain payments in a single QR is not possible. Besides, we think the SaaS model is a more value-for-value approach.

Bitcoin has made things better and cheaper. We're not charging $25 p/month just to accept bitcoin payments. You can do that for 'free' with BTCPayServer or a host of other tools. We're charging for access to our platform, and the suite of tools we've built to make accepting bitcoin payments easier as a business owner. It's hard to get pricing that works for everyone, but we have to start somewhere. And we will take onboard feedback like yours and adapt and add more tiers as we grow.

While the idea + domain is 2017, the project didn't start until 2020, and the current US corp is 2021.

Our domain was registered in 2017, and from memory 'Zap' wallet was only launched in 2018. The name 'Zaprite' comes from to 'zap' (pay), 'right' (correctly). Zaprite's name means to 'pay correctly', or, 'pay optimally'. As in, use bitcoin/lightning instead of fiat. We always considered BTC/LN payments as zaps, but just never tried to make it a thing. We see it as very fortunate that 'zap' was actually picked up by the industry.

Yep, all valid points. We would certainly consider upping any amount if the bug was critical enough. But we have to start somewhere, and we will of course increase it over time as out app, and budget, grows.

We've been around longer than 'zapping' :)

We're a very small team with a small budget. We wanted to offer something.