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Bitcart

Bitcart is an open-source, self-hosted payment processor for merchants accepting cryptocurrency payments. Its central repository covers core daemons and a merchants API, while related repositories provide an admin panel, ready-made store, Docker packaging, Python SDK and checkout-flow scripting language.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Consider Bitcart when you want to operate a self-hosted cryptocurrency payment processor and are prepared to consult its documentation for deployment and integration details.

Who it is for

  • Merchants seeking to process cryptocurrency payments using a self-hosted service.
  • Developers exploring integrations or checkout-flow automation within the Bitcart ecosystem.

Documented uses

  • Set up a merchant payment processor for cryptocurrency payments.
  • Use related ecosystem components for administration, a ready-made store, coin connections or checkout-flow scripting.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The project is described as free and open-source under the MIT license. It is intended for self-hosted deployment; Docker packaging is identified as the base for deployment methods.

  • Bitcart is a self-hosted processor, not simply a hosted checkout service.
  • The core repository and supporting components are separate repositories, including the admin panel, store, Docker packaging, SDK and checkout scripting language.
  • The repository links to documentation, but the available description does not specify exact setup steps or API behavior.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Use Bitcart to accept direct cryptocurrency payments

Configure Bitcart as a merchant invoice and payment-processing system that directs payments to your wallet.

Before you start

  • A self-hosted Bitcart instance.
  • A wallet master public key (xpub) to configure as a watch-only key.

Steps

  1. Configure the wallet using its watch-only master public key; the documentation says private keys are not required on the server.

  2. Use Bitcart to create an invoice for a customer.

  3. Present the invoice to the customer; Bitcart generates a fresh address associated with the configured wallet for each invoice.

  4. After payment, use the instance’s payment monitoring and order-fulfillment automation.

Expected outcome

Customers can pay invoices directly to addresses belonging to the merchant’s wallet, while Bitcart watches for payments and can automate fulfillment.

Guide limitations

  • Bitcart uses the Electrum wallet protocol and SPV to verify payments.
  • The merchant remains responsible for the wallet; the server does not store private keys.
  • A server outage or loss of server settings and invoice data can affect operations, although the documentation says offline invoice payments are detected when the instance returns.
  • The documentation describes capabilities but does not provide the configuration or checkout steps here.
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