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248 sats \ 1 reply \ @john 19 Mar 2024 \ parent \ on: Zaprite AMA AMA
One key difference is that Zaprite is non-custodial. This is not just a stance, but provides many benefits over other similar platforms:
- We do not require personal information to use the app. You can sign up with just an email.
- We are wallet agnostic and enable multiple wallet connections. This allows users to easily switch between rails and customize Checkouts on-the-fly.
- We don't touch user funds, so cannot take a transaction percentage. All payments are peer-to-peer.
- We offer bitcoin and fiat payments side-by-side.
We also believe our platform is the easiest and most user-friendly way to accept bitcoin payments. We don't believe any competitor comes close in this regard.
We haven't done traditional marketing campaigns yet, so I don't have much to compare.
But SN is awesome because it's bitcoiners, and the feedback is raw and real. This AMA has been great so far.
Our goal is to onboard merchants who understand the bitcoin store of value thesis, and who understand that accepting bitcoin for payments is the next logical step.
This is an ever-expanding market.
So we need to make sure we provide the best possible bitcoin payment experience. If we continue to do that, then we will remain in a strong position to grow as bitcoin becomes a more accepted means of exchange.
Both valid options. We are considering a lot of ways we can support merchants. As we grow we will start to offer more choices.
I wish we didn't have to do it, it effects a lot of innocent people. But as a US company our hands are tied.
That's understandable.
The reason we started at $25 is that we built our own custom subscription functionality, which we plan on releasing as a feature to our users in future. So we had to start with something simple and go from there. For some, $25 is a little high, for others $25 is very low (as we don't charge transaction fees on volumes). We knew we had to land somewhere in the middle as a first offering.
But we will be looking at expanding the available subscription tiers at some point in the near future. We understand that there are users with varying needs and we will certainly do everything we can to accommodate those use cases as we grow.
But I pay as I need it to support bitcoin businesses!
Respect! Thank you.
We are a non-custodial SaaS platform so we don't fall under money transmitter regulations like, for example, exchanges would. While we don't have specific plans for specific regions, we do make our platform available to all non-OFAC countries.
Yes, I think nostr login makes sense. And we do plan on expanding the functionality of our Contacts section. Adding a Contact's npub would be cool, and that would give us added options like nostr DMs for payment notifications, and encryption of public Invoice URLs.
- See this previous answer: #227586
- I'm extremely lucky to have found bitcoin and be part of the journey. Being able to work directly in the industry is a blessing. And with Zaprite, I truly believe we are providing tools that will increase bitcoin adoption around and that's where I get my daily inspiration.
- As much as I can! :)
Honestly, we focus a lot on direct sales, and all our inbound is from folks who get bitcoin and understand the store of value aspect and want to accept it as payment. So we don't get a lot of push-back from a sales perspective.
But the biggest questions we get are probably around accounting and taxes.
A general POS UI is on our roadmap for sure. We don't have a release date yet, but it is a feature often requested so it's near the top of the list.
Because we are non-custodial it makes it much easier for us to operate globally. As a US-based company however, we do have to block OFAC sanctioned countries.
Thanks for the feedback. Making it easy for merchants to accept bitcoin is a critical part of how we all succeed. And we believe our service fills a need that is only growing.
We are in final testing stages for our API + Webhook feature, which I'm personally really excited about. This will open up Zaprite to be used on any platform.
After that, we'll be adding more Connections as always.
We'll also be increasing the Roles available under the teams feature.