The Online shopping store Shop.com announced that now it accepts cryptocurrencies as payments.
Steve Ashley, the president of Shop.com, said during the Market America Worldwide Shop.com 2021 International Convention (MAIC2021) that Shop.com sites around the world will accept cryptocurrency via Bitpay.
This means that Shop.com’s websites accept bitcoin, Ethereum, bitcoin cash, and a variety of other digital assets for payment.
The company accepts cryptocurrency through Bitpay, the world’s largest crypto payment service provider.
The president and COO of Shop.com Steve Ashley said that the usage of cryptocurrencies as the next chapter in purchasing things on all Shop.com sites.
Shop.com is one of the most popular online web stores out there. Their website ranks 26,133 globally and 191 among E-commerce websites as per similarweb.com statistics
Market America is a multi-level marketing (MLM) company which was founded in 1992, who is also the holding company of Shop.com. MLM bought the Shop.com in 2010 with undisclosed sum of money. Market America also manufactures Isotonix, which was released to the public the year after the company was founded.
Bitpay’s Chief Commercial Officer, Sonny Singh, said that the Shop.com and Market America is very popular among people, thus making their brand very strong.
It’s because of their international presence that he thinks they’re such a good fit. The fact that the company only conduct 40% of their business in America shows that it’s a truly global brand.
Bitpay’s chief commercial officer went on to say:
Shop.com, because of Steve Ashley’s leadership, continues to be a trendsetter, according to R Ridinger, the founder and CEO of Market America. Ridinger said that as other online business rush to build a plan of action to integrate things like taking cryptocurrencies as a way of online payment, we’ve already done that thanks to Steve Ashley.
If you visit the Shop.com, there you will find the message at the top where it says Shop.com now accepts cryptocurrencies.
The message will take you to a page that describes how Shop.com users can use the Bitpay to make payment via cryptocurrency.
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