Destinia
Travel
Spanish online travel agency offering flights, hotels and packages with crypto payment options.
USDCGUSDUSDP
Ethereum
Verified
Payment gateway
BitPay
One of the oldest crypto payment processors, widely integrated across established merchants and enterprise checkouts.
custodial Fiat settlement API Hosted checkout Invoicing
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BitPay has been processing crypto payments for merchants since 2011 and is the gateway behind a significant share of long-standing "pay with crypto" options at established retailers, registrars and travel companies. It supports stablecoins alongside major crypto assets, offers fiat settlement to a bank account, and provides the compliance posture that larger merchants tend to require.
Capabilities
- Custody model
- custodial
- Settlement
- fiat, stablecoin, crypto
- Settlement notes
- BitPay is known for fiat settlement to a merchant bank account, which is why it is common among merchants that want crypto acceptance without holding crypto.
- Fees
- Publishes a headline 1% processing fee for merchants. Confirm current pricing directly with BitPay.
- Shopify
- Supported
- WooCommerce
- Supported
- API
- Available
- Hosted checkout
- Available
- Invoicing
- Available
- Merchant verification
- Supported
- Geographic availability
- Wide merchant coverage; settlement currencies and bank payout availability vary by country.
- Merchant requirements
- Business verification and a settlement bank account for fiat payout.
Integrations
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Magento
- BigCommerce
- Custom API
- Hosted invoice
- Email billing
Strengths
- Long operating history and broad merchant integration base
- Reliable fiat settlement to a bank account
- Supports a useful range of stablecoins across many networks
Trade-offs
- Custodial model — the provider holds funds in transit
- Customer-side experience has historically been stricter than some competitors
- Merchant onboarding is more involved than lighter-touch gateways
BitPay is the gateway most often sitting behind crypto acceptance at merchants that have offered it for a decade.
Fiat settlement is the product
Most merchants who accept crypto do not want crypto. They want the sale, in their currency, in their bank account, with a normal reconciliation process. BitPay built for that constituency early and it remains its clearest strength.
The consequence is a custodial model: BitPay receives the payment, converts it, and settles fiat to the merchant. That introduces a counterparty the merchant has to be comfortable with, in exchange for removing every operational question about holding digital assets.
Longevity as a feature
A gateway that has been operating since 2011 has integrations everywhere, a support organisation, and a compliance posture built over years of dealing with banks. For a large retailer evaluating crypto acceptance, those matter more than a slightly lower fee.
For payers
BitPay checkouts are strict about matching the exact invoiced amount and the specified network, somewhat more so than lighter-touch gateways. Send precisely what the invoice says, on the network it says, and do not round. Underpayments and wrong-network sends both require support intervention.
Merchants using BitPay
8 merchants in the directory where we have identified this gateway.
Dynadot
Domain Names
Domain registrar and marketplace supporting cryptocurrency payment for registrations and renewals.
USDCUSDTDAI +4
EthereumBase +4 networks
Verified
Newegg
Shopping & Retail
Major electronics and computer hardware retailer with long-standing crypto payment support.
USDCUSDTDAI +2
EthereumBase +4 networks
Verified
airBaltic
Flights
Latvian airline that has accepted cryptocurrency for ticket purchases since 2014.
USDCUSDTDAI +4
EthereumBase +4 networks
Payment availability may vary
CyberGhost VPN
VPN Services
Consumer VPN with a large server network and cryptocurrency payment for subscriptions.
USDCUSDTDAI +4
EthereumBase +4 networks
Payment availability may vary
Restaurant ordering platform that accepted four stablecoins through BitPay until withdrawing crypto payment in July 2025.
No longer accepting
Namecheap
Domain Names
Major domain registrar and hosting provider with long-standing cryptocurrency payment support.
USDCUSDTDAI +4
EthereumBase +4 networks
Payment availability may vary
Private Internet Access
VPN Services
Long-running VPN provider with a large server network and cryptocurrency payment options.
USDC
Payment availability may vary
BitPay questions
Does BitPay let merchants receive dollars instead of crypto?
Yes. Fiat settlement to a bank account is one of BitPay's defining features and the main reason conventional retailers use it.
Which stablecoins does BitPay support?
Several dollar stablecoins across multiple networks. The exact list changes; check BitPay's own supported-currencies page before relying on a specific coin.