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The vision

MultiBit Merchant is trading, reinvented. It is designed to minimise the amount of time you have to spend looking after it - most of it is fully automatic. It is intended to free you from a traditional working life and introduce you to a different approach.

What is it?

MultiBit Merchant is a complete online merchant platform designed for use with Bitcoin, an internet currency that has many unique features. To find out more about Bitcoin you should visit LoveBitcoins.org which provides a lot of useful introductory information.

MultiBit Merchant is part of the MultiBit ecosystem of applications to help build the infrastructure of the Bitcoin economy. To find out more you should visit MultiBit.org

What can I do with it?

There are many possibilities, but here are a few that have been designed for:

  • Trying out a new entrepreneurial idea without having to register and pay for a payment gateway subscription first
  • Running an online shop (sell your stuff direct to a global market for bitcoins)
  • Running an online fulfilment house (take online orders and send fulfilment orders to your local distribution team)
  • Paying developers to contribute to your open source project (every successful pull gets a Bitcoin bounty)
  • Providing a paid-for upload/share/download service (get paid for helping people share stuff)
  • Providing a cost-effective platform from which a group of local businesses can reach their customers (help your local takeaways provide a combined service, scale this up to more towns)
  • Providing a Bitcoin paywall for your premium blog content (provide temporary access to an article for download)
  • Running an international escrow service (act as a trusted third party to facilitate international trade between small businesses)
  • Providing a last minute booking or reservation service offering zero chargeback risk to suppliers that could include airlines, hotels, holiday home rentals etc.

Features for merchants

  • Instant set up and operation - no registration
  • Very low transaction costs (much lower than credit cards or PayPal)
  • No chargebacks
  • Instant payment settlement (just like cash)
  • Inexpensive to operate (server running costs and an SSL certificate [free from StartSSL] are all that is required)
  • No registration required (anyone, anywhere can use it)
  • Secure by design (no private keys on server)
  • Simple to configure
  • Fast bulk upload of catalogue items (as descriptions, or as digital products)
  • Online order processing (customers can make their orders and review them later)
  • Online delivery processing (you receive updates on new orders and fulfilments)
  • Online fulfilment for digital products (sell your music right now)
  • Online accounting in bitcoins to 8dp (reports can be sent direct to you and your accountant covering all aspects of the business operations)
  • Social network support (you and your customers can receive updates through email, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and so on)
  • Multiple languages supported (for your site and your products)

Features for IT specialists

  • Designed for long-term reliable automatic operation
  • Main platform runs as a standalone web application on a Java6 JVM (no application container required)
  • All requests and responses are stateless and cached
  • All components designed to scale horizontally to allow larger sites to scale up and down as necessary
  • Support for encrypted offsite backups and restores and schema updates
  • Restricted administration access

Getting started

Assuming that you're familiar with Bitcoin and the benefits that it can bring to your online business venture, then your next step depends on your technical background.

Installation instructions for merchants

Installation instructions for developers

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A free and open source Bitcoin ecommerce platform, with several representative clients (online shop, admin etc).

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