We have three active shops in the community. I did spend a few months working in local farmer markets and local vendors to get them to try it, unsuccessfully. Most people hadn’t heard about crypto. Of those that had, most had never used it. Of those who had used it, they only used it for degen DeFi trading (and hadn’t heard of Zcash).
The more popular option is the WooCommerce integration because it plugs into existing infrastructure.
As I have written elsewhere, the question from the vendors is the same: who is going to come and pay with ZEC? And if it’s just me, then it is just not worth for them to try anything more involved than maybe get a mobile wallet on their phone to indulge me. Maybe.
I think this is a problem in the community. I get the same thing about Zenith, despite being active here in the forums with grant updates and interactions. We need to know what products are available so we all can be ambassadors.
If you pay me what their website budget is, I’ll get it to be just as shiny
That’s not funny. The website looks like it was made by a 12 year old. You don’t need thousands of dollars for that. Webseiten-Vorlagen - Envato maximum $50 plus some labor time to adapt the template.
First, start with professional marketing of your software and that starts with a professional website that you can buy for a few dollars.
Then you don’t go to a market or the neighborhood but contact companies that are already fans of privacy. That means searching on the Internet. Who is marketing content on the Internet that might require privacy? There are enough of them. Then you contact these companies and negotiate or offer incentives depending on the situation.
You live in a world where you can reach people right from their sofa. Use it.
Only a example, just one of many providers. https://www.dailyclicks.net/. Buy traffic and with that I mean all of you. You have cool software, make something out of it.
Actually i like the website, just not the implementation.
It lacks love. I played around a bit and would align the header graphic to the sides completely without any white space, just like the footer. I would make the middle graphics bigger and use fewer different colors. I would replace ,Zcash register" and replace with Electronic payments. I even think you can make a really good website from the available content. We can do it together. You take care of the code work, i.e. the implementation, and I take care of the creative part and give you the ideas. If you want to make your website nice just let me know. By the way, I only did that quickly with gimp. None of this is finished or final.
Customers don’t see this website directly. So, it is always good to have a good-looking website, but it is not the primary objective. For example, the Google Console for Google Play doesn’t look good.
Having implementations of Shopify, Woocommerce, etc. plugins is more critical.
But at the end of the day, getting users is difficult.
If you feel you can onboard merchants, please help.
That’s true. But it’s your home, your business.
The place where your company is based on the internet.
In addition, potential customers should find this website via Google or via traffic directed there and then of course they will see the website.
If you ever get as big as Google or are a brand like Google and make billions in sales then you can happily offer a crappy website like Google Play. Then it doesn’t matter anymore. Then you don’t have to offer a product anymore, you just earn money with your name. If you want to be taken seriously, you have to sell yourself that way.
This is good feedback, and consistent with what I’ve heard from many merchants. The scammy perception of crypto is working against us, as is our customer pool. I’ve had the most luck when a merchant used a multi-coin wallet and/or could just add Zcash with little effort.
Have you thought about foot-in-the-door free introductory accounts, with limited features, or limited transactions? For example, ProtonMail has free accounts so people can try it, but they also have paid accounts with all the features added.
I have, we had what we called the “Beta Testing Partner Program” with free access for 3 months.
Based on my experience with the merchants, the way to onboard one would be to show them that there are (at least) several dozen people willing to pay with ZEC right away. Anything less than that, it’s not worth the friction of learning something new, regardless of how easy or hard the wallets/apps are to use.
@artkor wrote that demand will bring supply, but supply won’t bring demand. I agree, and the recent discussions on payment gateways and merchants made me realize that we need a concerted community effort if we’re going to expand the pool of merchants. Rather than each of us talking to a merchant we like or is near-by, we should all approach the same merchant.
I will create a separate thread with a more detailed idea.
Thank you for this initiative. I will try to support it in any way I can.
I have one question or suggestion, because I don’t know how difficult a task it is. But in my opinion a critical growth point is to get into the plugin directory of popular CMS like WordPress.
This matters because most likely a person who wants to accept Zcash will enter Zcash or ZEC as a keyword. He will find some list of plugins there. And by the way, NOWPayments will be there. And the person will probably go that way or stop altogether. I’ve tried to figure out how to install ZGo! Yes, for example, I can actually install it, but I still need a video tutorial. Because there are programming skills and so on. All of that will have to be looked up. But that’s only because I know ZGo exists!
But if it works out of the box with a built-in video tutorial in the plugin settings, it will be available to a lot more people. And by the way, the truth is that most small internet store owners today don’t have any programming skills at all. At least the lack of skills did not prevent me from launching my first site 12 years ago.
In general, we need to get into first places where we can be more accessible to small business owners, content creators and users.
btw, in Monero, people have even built Coin-hive worms into plugins that steal the CPU power of website visitors. And there are a lot of payment gateways out there. We can learn better things.
I will look into getting the plugin listed in the directory.
This is so much so, that many small shop owners and makers don’t even try Wordpress because that itself is beyond their technical skills. That’s why they’re all on Etsy.
That’s right, it’s a fundamental thing with zcash and with zashi the problem has been tackled.
When you develop things, they have to be as easy to use as possible without technical skills.
