BIGC - BigCommerce teams up with BitPay CoinPayments to launch crypto payments for merchants

• BigCommerce ( NASDAQ: BIGC ), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) e-commerce platform, has partnered with BitPay and CoinPayments Thursday to offer cryptocurrency payments for its merchants in certain countries.
• The move with BitPay, which supports over 100 crypto wallets, allows BIGC merchants to accept a number of tokens such as bitcoin ( BTC-USD ), ethereum ( ETH-USD ), dogecoin ( DOGE-USD ), bitcoin cash ( BCH-USD ) shiba inu ( SHIB-USD ) and wrapped bitcoin ( WBTC-USD ). CoinPayments, meanwhile, enables sellers to accept real-time global payments from more than 100 cryptos with a 0.5% processing fee.
• “A new era of consumers are passionate about transacting using crypto, and we’re helping them do it," said Marc Ostryniec, chief sales officer at BigCommerce.
• BIGC is joining a growing list of e-commerce platforms that have added crypto payments capabilities in recent years. Shopify ( SHOP ), for instance, expanded further into crypto payment options in May after integrating Crypto.com's off-chain service.
• Previously, (Aug. 23) BigCommerce formed a partnership with SheerID .

For further details see: