CardinalCommerce adds bitcoin to payment solution

CardinalCommerce has announced the integration of bitcoin to the merchant payments solution enabling merchants to accept bitcoin along with alternative payment options like PayPal and Google Wallet.

This is the outcome of collaboration between CardinalCommerce and bitcoin merchant processor Bitnet. The latter facilitates merchants with custom-built shopping carts to transmit API messages to Cardinal's platform through its One Connection service.

CardinalCommerce will now manage updates and changes needed to accept the payment method, and will help make easy refunds through Bitnet.

"As a merchant accepting bitcoin via Cardinal, if there was some change to the protocol or Bitnet's APIs, Cardinal would handle that. That's a core value proposition that companies like Cardinal bring to their merchants," chief commercial officer Akif Khan told CoinDesk.