Payments, in plain English
Short, jargon-free answers to the payment words that trip people up. No fluff and no sales pitch, just what each thing actually means.
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Chargeback
A card payment a buyer's bank reverses after they dispute it, pulling the money back out of the seller's account, usually with a fee on top.
Crypto payments
Letting buyers pay with cryptocurrency like bitcoin or Monero, with the coins landing in a wallet you control.
Custodial vs non-custodial
Whether someone else holds your crypto for you (custodial) or it lands straight in a wallet only you control (non-custodial).
Goldbacks
Thin, spendable notes with a tiny amount of real gold inside them, used as physical money.
Merchant of record
A company that becomes the official seller of your product, handles sales taxes, and takes a cut of every sale.
No backend
A website with no server of its own running behind it, just the pages a visitor sees.
Pay by mail
Letting a buyer pay by physically mailing you cash, a check, or something of value, tracked like any other order.
Webhook
An automatic message one website sends another the instant something happens, like a payment going through.
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