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Credit Card, ACH, Cash App Pay, Google Pay and Apple Pay

Zaprite’s mission is to enable individuals and businesses to accept bitcoin payments in direct exchange for goods and services. We do this by connecting invoices, payment links, and your existing online stores with various on-chain and lightning methods of payment. Customers connect their existing wallets and custodial accounts to Zaprite, with Zaprite never touching customer funds. We also support payment options using fiat rails.

The Zaprite connection screen now includes a Square integration option.

Making it easy for merchants to receive bitcoin side-by-side with fiat payments is how we see merchants driving the shift to bitcoin long-term. Everything we build—including a diversity of fiat rails—is designed to help more businesses make the decision to invest in bitcoin payment infrastructure. Most businesses already have preferred fiat rails and by enabling those rails within Zaprite, a merchant can more seamlessly add bitcoin as a payment option, without disrupting existing financial operations. To that end, we’re happy to announce an integration with Square’s SDK which offers the simplest fiat payments for businesses and their customers including: CashApp, credit card, ACH (via Plaid), Google Pay and Apple Pay. 

A Zaprite Checkout showing Square credit card and Cash App Pay options.

Now, businesses with Square merchant accounts can accept bitcoin (on-chain and lightning) side-by-side with fiat payment methods through Zaprite. Zaprite is never in the flow of fiat funds, which process and settle through Square’s existing merchant rails. 

When we say hyperbitcoinization is not yet here, we aren’t just talking about the price of bitcoin. Businesses today depend on fiat payment rails and have obligations denominated in dollars. Even if a business decides to include bitcoin on their balance sheet and in their payment operations, accepting bitcoin exclusively is not a realistic option. Enabling fiat side-by-side with bitcoin is actually what enables more businesses to accept bitcoin in the first place.  

A great example of a company like this is PlebLab, operator of a bitcoin-focused hackerspace in Austin, Texas. PlebLab often produces and organizes educational workshops and community events that require registration and ticketing, such as the upcoming TopBuilder competition. Zaprite was actually founded in the PlebLab space in 2022, and we’ve long wanted to be their primary partner for enabling bitcoin payments for their business and events, however, there was one problem.

Car Gonzalez, founder and CEO of PlebLab and long-time Square customer explained:

“Of course, we want to support our alumnus Zaprite, but we needed functionality to respond to our mix of members and event attendees–and how they wanted to transact. Thus, this new ability to adopt CashApp/Square and integrate Bitcoin payments through Zaprite was essential for PlebLab, as it streamlined our financial operations and significantly expanded our customer reach overnight. It was a necessary step to ensure we remain at the forefront of innovation, offering secure, flexible, and forward-thinking payment solutions for our members, and no one is doing it better than Zaprite.”Car Gonzalez, PlebLab CEO

And, Car is not the only customer we’ve spoken with that feels this way. Many businesses that want to use Zaprite to accept bitcoin use Square because of their posture towards bitcoin, as well as their excellent user experience and track record in processing fiat transactions. For these reasons, we’re thrilled to offer all online Square payment options to Zaprite customers. Here is how it works:

Connecting Square

Activate Square Connection

Navigate to the Connections tab, find the Square option, and hit Connect.

Activate the Square plugin from the Connections page in your Zaprite account.

This will take you to Square to authenticate your account. If you do not already have a square account, create one now to connect.

Configure your default Checkout

Now that Square is connected, navigate to Checkout to add one or many Square fiat integrations to your default Checkout experience. These include credit card, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Cash App Pay.

Configure your default Checkout payment methods.

Checkout Flow

At any time when you’re creating an Invoice or Payment Link, you can choose a custom Checkout experience to override the default. When you choose Custom, all relevant Square payment options will be available.

Configuring your preferred payment methods for a Payment Link Checkout.

Both Square and Zaprite will have the transaction information needed for reporting and tax purposes.  

Help and Support

If you run into any reporting issues with your Square integration, or have general questions about using Zaprite, feel free to Submit a Request at https://zaprite.zendesk.com or via our Twitter DMs @ZapriteApp.

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Zaprite, a company known for integrating Bitcoin payments into everyday business operations, has announced a series of significant updates to their application, with a particular focus on enhancing in-app functionalities. The updates, which include the recent WooCommerce Store integration, are primarily aimed at helping users effectively visualize and track performance using Invoices and Payment Links. The announcement was made in a blog post on the company's website 2 hours ago.

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The key feature of this update is the new Dashboard Analytics tool. The dashboard is designed to provide a comprehensive day-to-day view of a business's income, offering insights into how revenue is distributed across different currencies, including Bitcoin (BTC) and fiat currencies, as well as the categorization of payments whether on-chain, off-chain, or through other channels like Liquid.

The Income Summary section is the centerpiece of the new analytics dashboard. It becomes immediately visible upon logging in and can be accessed at any time from the home dashboard. The section is particularly focused on Bitcoin transactions, displaying the total BTC received and its corresponding Accounted Value—converted into the fiat currency set by the user for accounting purposes—at the time the payment was received.

In addition to BTC, the dashboard also provides information on Fiat Received. This feature caters to businesses that transact in one or more fiat currencies, allowing them to track all fiat currency accruals in one place.

Another notable aspect of the Dashboard Analytics is its flexibility. Users can update the dashboard to report back on any desired date range, with options for several quick default date ranges or the ability to set custom date ranges as needed.

Zaprite has also taken steps to simplify the process of accounting by cleaning up CSV downloads, a move aimed at reducing the complexity associated with managing and tracking Bitcoin payments.

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Recognizing that users may encounter challenges or have questions regarding the new Dashboard Analytics, Zaprite encourages customers to reach out for help and support. The company has provided a means to submit requests via their support portal at https://zaprite.zendesk.com/ or through Twitter DMs to their account @ZapriteApp.

In conclusion, the new Dashboard Analytics feature from Zaprite represents a significant improvement for businesses that accept Bitcoin payments, providing a detailed and easy-to-navigate interface for tracking financial performance. While the tool focuses on simplifying the visual representation of income and transactions, the future implications for businesses could include more streamlined accounting practices and a better understanding of cryptocurrency transactions as they relate to overall business performance. Zaprite's updates demonstrate their commitment to evolving with the needs of their users and the dynamic nature of cryptocurrency in the commercial sector.

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Key Takeaways

This episode of The Bitcoin Frontier podcast with Will Cole features a multifaceted discussion on the evolving landscape of financial surveillance, the importance of self-sovereignty in Bitcoin custody, and the future of Bitcoin payments. The conversation delves into the current state of financial censorship and how it may drive people towards Bitcoin, the role of multisig in enhancing security, and the potential for Bitcoin to serve as a primary method of payment.

Will highlights his journey from working at Unchained to his current venture with Zaprite, underscoring the significance of enabling individuals and businesses to obtain Bitcoin directly through commerce rather than solely through exchanges. He emphasizes the progress made in Bitcoin custody solutions and how the focus is now shifting towards optimizing those solutions and facilitating Bitcoin earnings through goods and services.

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Will also predicts that the catalyst for a broader adoption of Bitcoin payments will be an individual decision – people demanding to be paid in Bitcoin and merchants providing incentives for Bitcoin payments. He foresees a feedback loop where the acceptance of Bitcoin by more businesses could lead to a viral effect, incentivizing others to follow suit.

Lastly, the discussion touches upon the increasing use of financial censorship tools by governments and the potential implications this has for individual freedoms and the adoption of Bitcoin as a censorship-resistant alternative.

Best Quotes

• "It is underappreciated the level of financial surveillance and censorship that is coming for us." – Will
• "The most important problem to work on in Bitcoin was custody." – Will
• "Multisig is not a weird thing anymore." – Will
• "The catalyst is going to come from people demanding to be paid in Bitcoin." – Will
• "Canadian trucker protest...seeing how you can be debanked, not in some conspiratorial manner, but as a matter of policy." – Will
• "China...they're showing us what's coming to the west. They're beating us in financial censorship." – Will
• "The difference between today and, say, 2019, when I joined Unchained, it's very different." – Will
• "We have more control. You want to buy a gun? We have more control." – Will
• "I think there's a lot of things at play in this. Right. You have people that want Bitcoin in their treasury, so they go out and buy Bitcoin." – Will
• "The more centralized and small these businesses are, I think they'll be the first adopters of this." – Will

Conclusion

The podcast episode provided an insightful exploration of the intersection between Bitcoin, financial sovereignty, and commerce. It reflects the growing concern about financial surveillance and the potential for Bitcoin to empower individuals and merchants to take control of their financial future.

The guest's experiences and predictions suggest that while the Bitcoin custody space has matured, the next frontier lies in making Bitcoin a viable and preferred option for everyday transactions. The episode concludes with a sense that Bitcoin's role as a tool against financial censorship will become increasingly critical, and the decisions of individuals and businesses to embrace Bitcoin could be the driving force for change.

The discussion poses thought-provoking questions about the future of financial autonomy and the potential for Bitcoin to reshape our understanding of value exchange. It leaves listeners with the idea that Bitcoin’s time may come not through a single catalytic event but through a series of individual choices that collectively signal a shift towards a more decentralized and censorship-resistant financial system.