Become a merchant

FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES

Keep the sale.
Move your business forward.

Accept Bitcoin Lightning payments at your counter with Merchant Node. Give your customers a simple way to pay, and manage your business in one place.

Preview merchant registration

M2 preview with sample providers. Service availability and final terms await approval.

Built for the everyday sale

Keep every sale

Lightning payments settle as final. There is no card chargeback process.

An easier checkout

Create a payment request from your Merchant Node, ready for a customer to approve.

Your business, connected

Manage your merchant account and your staff through Operations.

No node expertise needed

The planned hosted service manages the node and its channels for you.

THE APP

Merchant Node

Staff use cashier logins at checkout. The Registrant manages the business through Operations.

  • Ring up sales and present a Lightning payment request.
  • Use the same cashier logins across your terminals.
  • Review business activity and manage access in Operations.
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A familiar counter. A faster way to pay.

Any Lightning wallet can scan a payment QR code. Returning customers can receive a payment request on their phone and approve it from there. Final product wording and artwork will be supplied before launch.

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Request → customer approval → payment confirmation

One registration, a growing network

ON OUR ROADMAP

Meritwave App Market

Planned for the wider Meritwave network. Not yet available; plans may change.

ON OUR ROADMAP

Community apps

Planned for the wider Meritwave network. Not yet available; plans may change.

ON OUR ROADMAP

Peer-to-peer marketplace

Planned for the wider Meritwave network. Not yet available; plans may change.

Up and running in three steps

  1. 01

    Register and verify

    Tell us about your business, its owners and authorized representative.

  2. 02

    Choose your equipment

    Request up to two terminals during registration. Equipment ordering follows approval.

  3. 03

    Start accepting

    Complete verification and approval before using the service.

Ready to keep every sale?

Explore the registration steps using synthetic example data.

Preview merchant registration