Crypto Payments
September 9, 2026
Why Communications Platforms Take Crypto for Prepaid Balances
Prepaid top-ups are small, frequent and urgent, and they fail on cards for reasons that have nothing to do with whether the customer has the money. Where crypto fits, what a permanent per-customer address changes, and the one thing it will never do.
Crypto Payments
September 8, 2026
How Prop Firms Pay Out Traders in Crypto
Prop firms compete on payout speed and get reviewed on it. Here is how crypto payouts actually work for a firm paying many small amounts to individuals across borders: CSV and API batches, the roles allowed to send, status tracking, and the compliance screening that decides who can be paid.
Crypto Payments
September 7, 2026
Fiat, Stablecoins or Crypto: How to Choose What You Settle In
Settlement currency decides what you are holding after a customer pays. Leave it alone and the answer is USDC. Here is where the setting actually lives, and when fiat, stablecoins or crypto is the right call.
Crypto Payments
September 2, 2026
Crypto Payment Gateway Fees: What You Actually Pay
This post walks through the five events where crypto payment gateway fees land, gives our published rates, and works through a realistic month so you can copy the arithmetic.
Crypto Payments
September 1, 2026
Why Crypto Checkouts Do Not Convert, and What to Fix
Crypto checkout conversion behaves like any other conversion problem, with its own specific failure modes, and hardly anyone measures it that way.
Crypto Payments
August 25, 2026
Payout Links API: Creating and Managing Links Over REST
A developer guide to the CoinGate Payout Links API: the four REST endpoints, the required and optional create fields, the draft branch you have to handle, and which lifecycle callbacks actually fire today.
Getting Started
August 25, 2026
You Received a Payout Link. Here Is How to Collect It
A step-by-step guide for anyone who has received a CoinGate Payout Link: the emailed code, the details you have to give and why, picking a coin and network, what happens after you confirm, and what to do if your wallet address is rejected. No account needed.
Crypto Payments
August 25, 2026
How to Create Your First Payout Link
A step-by-step walkthrough of creating a Payout Link in the CoinGate dashboard: the amount, the funding balance, the purpose, the expiry, the recipient's email, and what happens to your money the moment you confirm.
Tutorials
August 20, 2026
Debugging CoinGate Callbacks: When Nothing Arrives
When a payment callback does not arrive, two CoinGate API endpoints tell you whether delivery was attempted and what your own server returned on every retry.
Crypto Payments
August 19, 2026
How Hosting Providers Take Crypto Payments Without Breaking Renewals
Hosting has an unusually crypto-comfortable customer base and a renewal cycle that cards handle badly across borders. Here is what accepting crypto changes at renewal, what the WHMCS module can and cannot do, and how settlement fees behave on five euro invoices.
Tutorials
August 17, 2026
Reconciling Crypto Payments With the CoinGate Ledger API
A developer's guide to reading CoinGate account balances and ledger transactions, and matching every credit and debit back to the order that caused it.
Crypto Payments
August 14, 2026
Your Processor Called You High Risk. Here Is What Crypto Actually Changes
Being labelled high risk means a higher rate, a rolling reserve and a longer document list. Crypto removes chargebacks, issuer declines and the exposure a reserve funds. It does not remove KYB, AML screening, sanctions monitoring or MiCA, and this post says exactly where the line sits.
Tutorials
August 13, 2026
Managing Payout Beneficiaries: Pay the Same People Repeatedly
Register a recipient once, attach one or more payout settings, and every payment after that is a lightweight send request. The full beneficiary model on the CoinGate payout API, including the three gates that hold a payout back and the environment-specific IDs that break sandbox integrations in production.
Educational
August 11, 2026
VAT and Tax on Accepting Crypto Payments: What EU Businesses Need to Know
Accepting crypto doesn't make a sale tax-free. What Hedqvist actually decided, which value goes on the invoice, and what DAC8 changes from 2026.
Tutorials
August 6, 2026
Building Recurring Crypto Billing With the Billing API
This guide builds working crypto subscription payments end to end.
Crypto Payments
August 4, 2026
Paying Suppliers in Stablecoins: What Changes and What Does Not
Stablecoins replace the settlement leg of a supplier payment and leave the purchase order, the matching and the approvals alone. The blocker is commercial, not technical, and the FX exposure moves onto your books rather than disappearing.
Tutorials
August 3, 2026
Auto-Converting Crypto Balances With the Convert API
This guide walks through the auto-converting flow, which has one wrinkle worth understanding before you write any code.
Crypto Payments
July 31, 2026
Crypto Payments for SaaS: Cutting Involuntary Churn From Failed Card Renewals
Up to 40% of SaaS churn is involuntary, caused by cards that expire, get reissued or get declined. Crypto does not replace cards. It catches the customers cards drop.
Educational
July 29, 2026
Crypto Payment Reconciliation: Matching On-Chain Payments to Your Accounting System
Reconciliation gets easy or hard based on decisions you make before a single payment arrives. Here's how to design a crypto payment setup that ties out at month-end.
Educational
July 27, 2026
Which Stablecoins Should Your Business Accept?
USDC, EURC, USDT? A practical guide to choosing which stablecoins your business should accept, covering MiCA, networks, and depeg risk.
Getting Started
July 24, 2026
Crypto Payment API: A Developer's Integration Guide
A practical, build-focused guide to integrating a crypto payment API: authentication, the create-order flow, hosted checkout, callbacks, and order statuses, using CoinGate's API.
Educational
July 22, 2026
Proof of Reserves and Fund Safety: What to Ask a Crypto Payment Provider
What does fund safety actually mean when a crypto payment provider holds your money in transit? Proof of reserves, licensing, and the questions to ask.
Educational
July 21, 2026
How to Switch Crypto Payment Providers Without Downtime
A provider migration is a sequence of small, ordered steps, and if you run them in the right order, customers never notice.
Educational
July 15, 2026
How Crypto Refunds Actually Work for Merchants
A card refund and a crypto refund solve the same goal in opposite ways.
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