MyCryptoCheckout

MyCryptoCheckout

MyCryptoCheckout operated as a payments infrastructure provider bridging e-commerce platforms and cryptocurrency networks. Founded by Chris Whittle, the company offered plugins for major shopping carts including WooCommerce and Shopify, enabling merchants to display pricing in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and other digital assets while receiving settlement in their local fiat currency. The gateway's core proposition was volatility absorption. A merchant set a fiat price, the customer paid in a supported cryptocurrency, and MyCryptoCheckout converted the payment at point-of-sale, delivering the exact fiat amount to the merchant's bank account. The platform also incorporated automated customer verification tools designed to flag fraudulent transactions and reduce chargeback exposure — a persistent pain point in the crypto payments sector. Geographic coverage was broad by design; the setup accepted merchants from jurisdictions where traditional card processing was either expensive or unavailable, with documented onboarding across North America, Europe, and parts of Southeast Asia. The company's public footprint was concentrated between 2018 and roughly 2022, coinciding with a wave of non-custodial and instant-conversion checkout experiments before large processors like PayPal and Stripe expanded their own stablecoin and crypto settlement features. MyCryptoCheckout's observable scale was modest; the product competed in a field that included Coinbase Commerce, BitPay, and CoinPayments, each of which held larger developer ecosystems and brand recognition. No publicly reported funding rounds, headcount figures, or institutional deployment numbers are available. The structural differentiator for MyCryptoCheckout was its attempt to embed crypto payments into mass-market e-commerce checkout flows without requiring merchant-side wallet management or balance-sheet exposure to digital assets. That model — a pure passthrough conversion layer — differed from wallet-native competitors that asked merchants to hold crypto, and it anticipated elements of later stablecoin settlement rail designs. The service appears to have gone dormant, with no verifiable product updates or active integrations observable after late 2022, suggesting the window for standalone checkout infrastructure may have closed as the payments majors consolidated the space.