Getting Started
October 5, 2026
Sent the Wrong Coin to a Crypto Invoice? Here Is How to Get It Back
You paid the invoice in the wrong coin, or on the wrong network, and nothing happened. The payment is not lost. Here is how to find it on the invoice page and start the refund yourself.
Data reports
September 30, 2026
Where Crypto Payments Come From: The 2026 Country Map
Where our 1.6 million paid crypto orders came from in the year to August 2026, what each market pays with, and how basket sizes compare.
Educational
September 29, 2026
A Crypto Refund Now Takes About an Hour. The Days Come Before It
Your customer wants their money back. Once you create the refund it now takes about an hour. The days they wait mostly come before that.
Data reports
September 28, 2026
Your Shopper Picked Litecoin and Paid. They Picked Dogecoin and Vanished
Across nearly 2.5 million crypto checkouts, completion after the shopper picks a coin runs from 77% on Litecoin to 48% on Dogecoin, and the gap holds inside the same merchants.
Data reports
September 25, 2026
Crypto Payments Do Not Keep Banking Hours. Here Is the Shape of the Day
Across 1.6 million paid orders, 68% landed outside business hours and nearly a quarter at the weekend. The hour-by-hour and day-by-day shape, in UTC and on the shopper's own clock.
Crypto Payments
September 24, 2026
When the Basket Is Six Euros: Crypto Checkout for Digital Goods and Top-Ups
Most advice about accepting crypto assumes an expensive basket. Ours is not. Here is what a sub-twenty-euro order does to fixed costs, network choice, abandonment and the case for charging per balance instead of per item.
Educational
September 23, 2026
More Than One in Six Crypto Payments Arrives for the Wrong Amount. Here Is What Happens Next
Crypto payments do not bounce and do not charge back. They arrive for the wrong amount, arrive late, or never arrive. Here is how often each happens across 1.6 million paid orders, what happens next, and the settings that actually change the outcome.
Crypto Payments
September 22, 2026
How IT Service Providers and Software Resellers Take Crypto Payments
IT services and computer hardware are 27.4% of every paid order we settle. Here is what crypto payments solve for MSPs, licence resellers and hardware distributors, where they sit in a billing stack built on WHMCS or an API, what settlement actually means, and the three things they do not fix.
Data reports
September 17, 2026
How Long a Crypto Payment Actually Takes, Measured Across 1.48 Million Orders
Block times are not what a merchant feels. We timed 1.48 million paid orders across fourteen networks, split into the time a shopper takes to choose and the time the network takes to confirm. Lightning lands in 46 seconds and Bitcoin in 14 minutes 16 across the year, with an update on what has changed for Bitcoin and Solana since.
Crypto Payments
September 15, 2026
How Agencies Invoice International Clients in Crypto
One international invoice, start to finish: how you quote it, how the client pays it, what reaches your account, what belongs in the contract, and what your accountant will ask for.
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.
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