How to Accept Bitcoin Cash for Selling Cake & Bakery on WhatsApp
This post is written as a guide for the sellers to accept bitcoin cash for their cloud kitchen or cloud bakery business.
Pandemic has made many business go online for their process. People no longer want to spend time in hotel or bakery or resto for hours anymore. Instead they just pay through digital means and take the food for home.
This opens up a big opportunity for many sellers where they can use bitcoin cash for accepting the order. Let's take a case of bakery or cake selling seller.
Here you can offer the menu to the user through Whatsapp or even through telegram or any other app of your choice. Once the customer approves the menu item. You can ask them for payment through bitcoin cash.
Why bitcoin cash? Because it has lot better price in market. It has low to no fees depending on how much you wish to send. No govt taxex spying on you for now. And if the market appreciates bitcoin cash you would end up holding more money for your regular sales paid through BCH.
So let's break down the process for accepting Bitcoin Cash for selling cake & bakery items on Whatsapp or Telegram.
Food License & Compliance for Bakery Selling
Let's get the elephant out of our way. No matter what you do online or offline it helps to have license for local sales. You never know when the govt or the goons who would want to raid you for your hard earned money. So get the food license and do the compliance per year as required in your local region.
I can't be specific in this step because people around the world have different license and compliance. You can find this specific part about the license and compliance through google and tax consultant services.
Payment Gateway for Accepting BCH for Bakery Items
In previous two articles on accepting BCH for various activities like accepting BCH in facebook shop and accepting BCH tips as a creator. I posted about some of the popular payment gateways. I am sure you can find them useful. So I am listing them here again.
Do note that having a website or some sort of landing page where you can host these payment buttons or QR Code can be a good option in the long run.
Having website with menu for those bakery items and then putting the buttons nearby the products is another way.
WhatsApp Business Account
You need additional number on which you can run the Whatsapp business account. You can use the existing one but you may have to use it's business features on separate device. Here you have to register your number as a business.
By doing that you can use the business account for broadcasting your products in groups or for individual members. You can create groups and update them through automation. You can also do regular ads in the groups using this account.
Group for your Business
You may have to create one group for your business. Where you should have link for the menu or the available page where the menu with price is listed. You can also show the "what's available" type of the place where they can see which items they can order from you.
You can also automate this with regular update. There are tools available for this but depending on how you choose to make use of those tools things will surely vary. But make sure to have a group and also the desktop version through which you can post quickly in such groups.
You can make groups on both Whatsapp and the Telegram. You have to keep the group tight controlled and also if you want you can keep it broadcast only to avoid spam and other topics.
Show Your Products & Send Payment Links
Once you show the products through catalog or through official whatsapp cart. You can accept either local payment option or you can ask them for bitcoin cash. Either one of the option would work.
Make sure to use the payment link on a page where you can add the google analytics. So you can collect other data about the user too. And once the payment is completed you can also send them invoice on their Whatsapp address.
So let's recap the flow.
Get a food license and compliance.
Get whatsapp and telegram business groups
Add your bakery or food item in the menu.
Give the customer your payment link for the total amount.
That's it. Once you learn how to do this process once, it can be repeated and there are tools that can let you do that. As of now official whatsapp and the telegram process may only support local cash but you can go ahead offer your own Bitcoin Cash QR code or the address.
Conclusion
Accepting the bitcoin cash in your store can be very useful option. You can get more money appreciated in the market for the low fees. And also this would be useful for the users who want to spend their bitcoin cash in the stores around them. This helps both the blockchain, investors, sellers, consumers as well.
Stuck with something in the guide? Need some guidance generic information on this process? Feel free to comment below and I'd love to see how it helps your business.
Let me know if this was helpful to you. :)
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