Accept XRP payments on your website for free - Zapster.io

[Uniphant]

Hi,

I'm launching a free service, Zapster, to help the community accept XRP as payment on their websites. I store no personal details about you and charge no setup or transaction fee. The aim is to try an reduce any friction you might have accepting XRP as a payment form.

I have a simple API that allows you to create transactions (associated to an account you've created). The "transaction" just holds details of what to check the XRP ledger for, for an incoming payment to your own wallet. Once the transaction is created you can pull in a unique url into an iframe on your site which will provide payment instructions for the user and monitor the ledger for the incoming payment. Once I've identified the transaction I notify your website through a redirection to a url you specify, passing through some encrypted data so you can verify and complete the checkout process on your site.

The payment instructions form that's hosted looks like the attachment - You can see a full demo here https://zapster.io/demo. The service is very MVP (minimum viable product) at the moment - if it gains traction then I will certainly add more features / rigorous validation etc. If you wish to raise feature requests you can do so on the bitbucket issues page - https://bitbucket.org/evolve-software/zapster/issues?&sort=-created_on

I would appreciate any feedback from the community, positive or otherwise as it'll all be taken constructively. Feel free to drop me a line - most forms of feedback on the site go straight to my slack channel and I'm pretty responsive (might not be for the next few days)

Happy Christmas

Matt

 

Edited December 26, 2017 by Witnessed
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[ScottBranson]

That is awesome! I never realized how simple payment through XRP could be, until I saw this. I am excited to check this out in more depth.

 

Thanks for taking the time to build and share this, it is really excited to see more development around the XRP ledger. Maybe @Mercury could use something like this for his next Moon Coin run. @Hodor might also be interested in including this as an example of an innovative community project, should he need such an example in a future blog.

Feature request (sorry, I don't have a BitBucket ATM): the option for the software to run locally and interface with privately run nodes, in case the public nodes are overloaded.

Edited December 24, 2017 by Rabbit_Kick_Club

[Uniphant]

Awesome! Many thanks for the comments

I've allowed guest users the ability to add issues to Bitbucket so you shouldn't need an account - I will double check this

If you need any help / wanna chat etc just drop me a line

 

Edited December 24, 2017 by Witnessed

[Prachtig]

Nice man thanks for sharing! Should have called it Zerpster though.  

[splash]

Wow, this is brilliant. Congratulations. You should post this to the Ripple subreddit (and cryptocurrency subreddit too!)

Quick bit of feedback on https://zapster.io/demo

There is a spelling error, "oblidged" should be spelt "obliged"

I'll be following this project for sure!

 

 

[splash]

Also, I see that the destination tag has been labelled as a PIN code for the payment. Would it make more sense to label this "Payment reference" - which has a familiarity with payment reference being used for bank transfers. Just thinking aloud,

[RippleEvangelist]

It should be zrpster.io! Just kidding. Nice work.

Merry X-Mas!

 

[Uniphant]

Thinking out loud is great - Please feel free to raise these as issues on Bitbucket

@PrachtigDamn - how did I miss that! 

I agree, Zerpster would have been so much better 

 

 

Edited December 24, 2017 by Witnessed

[zenkert]

@Witnessed

Hey Man, it is still availabe - zerpster .com
Buy it. Aaand hodl.
Zapster is fine to - Payments with the speed of light!

But hurry up, I got my finger on the Trigger . . .

Edited December 24, 2017 by zenkert

[zenkert]

@Witnessed
I bought it - zerpster.com.

Edited December 24, 2017 by zenkert

[Uniphant]

8 minutes ago, zenkert said:

@Witnessed
I bought it - zerpster.com.

NP - serves me right for being so lame with names. I even screwed up my name on this forum!

[zenkert]

1 minute ago, Witnessed said:

NP - serves me right for being so lame with names. I even screwed up my name on this forum!

You know @Witnessed people with spelling problems are by far over represented in the Category of making success, in business and so forth.
So do not worry about that. Wear it with pride and do what you do.
I bought the name for fun and to HODL it.

[xh3b4sd]

Amazing man. Very much appreciated. Thank you for all your energy here. When you need professional help with development and/or hosting let me know. 

[jag216]

This is so cool. I have actually had folks ask me about whether I accept any cryptocurrencies for side work, and I've also noticed that craigslist has added it as a flag on postings so that you can indicate (and search on) whether folks are willing to accept cryptocurrency for payment. Any tools that help bridge that gap have the opportunity to be game changers.

[Bitpam]

Hopefully we can use this to sell some Physical Ripple coins on our shopify store!