Paying with Bitcoin — and how confirmation works

Bitcoin is one of the payment methods that settles on SiteFlea itself. You use it to pay for your listing package when you publish a listing. Payment runs through BTCPay Server: you get a checkout link, you send the coins, and your listing goes live automatically once the payment confirms.

Bitcoin pays your listing fee. It is not a way to buy an asset from another member.

How it works

1. Finish the sell form and choose to pay with Bitcoin.
2. Before any invoice is created, your listing is put through the same checks that publishing applies. If anything would stop it going live — a price floor, a problem with the package, a seller agreement you have not accepted — you are told now, while your coins are still in your own wallet.
3. The fee is worked out from your asking price's tier plus any add-ons.
4. You are given a checkout link. What your listing will contain is fixed at this moment.
5. You send the Bitcoin.
6. Once the payment confirms, your listing publishes and you are notified that it is live.

How long confirmation takes

The payment waits for one confirmation, which in practice is around ten minutes rather than seconds. A short wait is normal.

You do not need to keep the checkout page open. Your listing publishes whether you are watching or not, so closing the tab does not lose your payment.

One wording to watch: settled is not the same as live. Settled means the coins have arrived. Your listing appears once it has actually been published, which follows shortly after.

If you click pay twice

If you already have an open, unexpired invoice for the same listing at the same price, you are given that same invoice again rather than a second one.

If you changed the listing or its price between attempts, a new invoice is created instead. In that case pay only one of them — paying both means paying twice.

If your checkout link has expired

Start again from the sell form and a new invoice is created. How long an invoice stays valid is set by the payment server rather than being a fixed number of minutes, so check the expiry shown on the invoice itself rather than assuming.

Do not pay an invoice for a listing you have since changed

An invoice publishes the listing exactly as it was when the invoice was created. Editing the sell form afterwards does not change what a paid invoice delivers. If you have made changes, start a new checkout.

If your payment seems stuck

• Under about fifteen minutes: normal. It is waiting for confirmation.
• Several hours, still nothing: contact support with your invoice details.
• It says settled but there is no listing: contact support — this needs to be looked at.

Bitcoin payments cannot be reversed from your side once sent, so it is worth checking the amount and the listing before you pay.