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Title: Payzum Adds Automatic Stablecoin Conversion for Online and In-Store Crypto Payments

Shams Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 31st Aug 2026 - Payzum today announced automatic stablecoin conversion across its payment gateway and its point-of-sale system, letting merchants accept any supported cryptocurrency while holding none of it. Incoming payments are converted to the merchant's chosen stablecoin and sent to their own wallet, with conversion charged at 1% on top of Payzum's 0.5% sale fee.The feature addresses the reason most merchants who are curious about crypto never switch it on: they are willing to be paid in it, but not to hold it. A store that accepts Bitcoin on Monday and prices its inventory in euros has taken on a currency position it did not want.Two different volatility problemsPayzum treats the web store and the register as separate cases, with independent settings for each.For e-commerce, conversion runs after the payment confirms, moving funds to the merchant's stablecoin address. Merchants can source from Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Base, BNB Chain, Tron and Solana, as well as Bitcoin, Litecoin and Dogecoin.For point of sale the exposure is sharper. A counter sale is quoted in fiat and settled in front of the customer, so a volatile coin creates a gap between the price on the display and what the merchant actually receives. Payzum therefore ships volatile-currency acceptance at the register turned off by default; a merchant switches it on deliberately, and can decide separately whether POS takings convert. A shop can convert its online sales while keeping counter takings in the coin received, or the reverse."A merchant told us he'd take Bitcoin if he didn't have to think about Bitcoin," said Jose Freyre, founder of Payzum. “That's the whole feature. And the register isn't the same problem as the website — y...

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