Final money. No chargebacks. Nothing held.
Accept Bitcoin at your counter and it lands straight in your wallet — no percentage, no rolling reserve, no freeze. For Dallas–Fort Worth Type 01 FFL retail shops. We never touch a dollar.
$0.00 PER TRANSACTION·0 CHARGEBACKS, EVER·0 DOLLARS WE HOLD·MONTHLY: 30-DAY NOTICE, ANY TIME
Invoice amount
Example invoice — not a real transaction.
01 · The problem
Card processors shut you down. Bitcoin doesn't care what you sell.
Square, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Shopify Payments and GoDaddy Payments ban firearms sales outright in their posted policies — even in person, even with a valid FFL. Stripe doesn't ban them outright; it files them as a restricted business and declines most FFLs. Even the processors that call themselves gun-friendly can drop you, and hold your money while they decide.
Posted policies, verified 6 October 2026: Square payment terms, PayPal acceptable use, Venmo prohibited transactions, Cash App terms, Shopify Payments eligibility, GoDaddy Payments prohibited businesses.
02 · The catch
Here's what we're not doing.
We never hold your money
Bitcoin lands directly in a wallet you own. We cannot freeze your account because we don't have your account.
Flat fee — monthly or annual, never a cut
Monthly or annual, you pick; whatever you do $500 or $50,000 in Bitcoin that month, the price is the same.
Confirmed Bitcoin is final
Nobody calls their bank three months later and demands a refund on a rifle.
Your money isn't held
High-risk processors withhold a slice of your gross as a rolling reserve, released on their schedule. We hold nothing.
You're taking a payment, not opening a bank
No identity collection by us. They scan or tap, and pay.
Month to month, from day one — on monthly
On monthly billing: thirty days' notice, any time, no reason needed. Annual is a 12-month prepay, so it trades the flexibility for the better price. Your rate is locked either way — you aren't.
Compliance untouched
4473, NICS, bound book, waiting periods — all identical. Bitcoin is just the tender.
03 · How it works
Live in one afternoon. No downtime.
A real payment, at your counter, on real equipment — before anything touches your business.
- Twenty minutes, and a live paymentAt your counter, I ring up a real invoice on my server and pay it from my own wallet while you watch. Nothing installed on your side, nothing committed. If it's not a fit, we shake hands and I leave.
- Wallet setup, together30–60 minutes. You create it, you hold the seed phrase. I write down nothing.
- Terminal at the registerAny tablet or old PC with a webcam, pointed at your wallet. Counter NFC tag included.
- Ongoing supportUptime monitoring, security patches, and a US phone number that answers. The 14-day pilot runs first, so on annual your first charge lands on day 15; monthly billing starts the day your counter goes live. And if you haven't taken a Bitcoin payment in 60 days, I refund every dollar you've paid and take the terminal back.
04 · Pricing
Flat fee — monthly or annual. Never a percentage.
Monthly or annual — your choice. Annual is the best deal: pay for ten months, get twelve, your rate locked for two years — and it's the only way to take the 14-day free pilot. Monthly stays month-to-month; leave any time on 30 days' notice. Flat fee either way, never a percentage.
Founding pricing for the first 5 DFW shops · setup fee waived · after the first five rates are $149 / $349 / $429
Billed $990/yr · pay for 10, get 12 · save $198
FOUNDING $99/MO · STANDARD $149/MO
- QR at the register, NFC tag included
- USD-priced invoices, rate locked at checkout
- On-chain Bitcoin
- Monitoring, patches, phone support
Billed $2,990/yr · pay for 10, get 12 · save $598
FOUNDING $299/MO · STANDARD $429/MO
- Everything in Counter
- WooCommerce or Shopify checkout
- Counter + online, both channels, one bill
- Free custom POS integration on annual
Billed $2,490/yr · pay for 10, get 12 · save $498
FOUNDING $249/MO · STANDARD $349/MO
- Bitcoin at your online checkout
- Orders land in your admin as normal
- Monitoring, patches, phone support
- Needs a store that already takes online orders
Annual only — what you get for paying the year up front
- Two months free. Twelve months for the price of ten — worth $198–$598/yr by tier.
- Expect slow first months — that's expected, not failure. Bitcoin adoption at the counter is early; almost nobody runs a rail like this yet, so your customer flow will start quiet and build as you and your regulars learn it. The 14-day pilot is exactly for measuring that at zero cost — with the 60-day guarantee behind it if it never takes hold.
- Your rate locked 24 months (standard tiers). After that, monthly holds the then-current rate but can move on 30 days' notice. The founding five keep their founding rate for as long as they stay — see Founding terms.
- Free annual security audit of your payment server — a $500 value.
- Priority support — 4-hour email, 1-hour phone + Slack on Bundle.
- Free custom POS integration on Bundle annual — your register talks to Bitcoin — normally $1,500+.
- Bundle annual: ≈$2,600+ in year one — the $598 two-months-free saving plus $2,000+ of extras ($500 audit and $1,500+ POS wiring). Counter and Online annual get the saving plus the $500 audit; the POS wiring is Bundle-only.
Two optional add-ons. Either one bolts onto whichever plan you pick — never auto-billed, added on request, dropped at renewal if you don't want it.
Add Pro — the Shop Assistant · +$100/mo
A private assistant on your own dedicated server. Closes your Bitcoin books nightly and emails a QuickBooks-ready CSV. Patches and restarts things at 4am. Text it “what did I take Saturday?” and get an answer. +$100/mo, or +$1,000/yr on annual.
Add CRM — the Lead Desk · +$179/mo
A lead-and-job tracker built around a counter, not a sales team. Every call, text and walk-in logged; quotes followed until they answer; layaways and transfers tracked; the NICS wait marked on each sale; every Bitcoin invoice marked paid in the record — read off the payment server, never moved by us. +$179/mo, or +$1,790/yr on annual.
The common founding pitch: Counter + Lead Desk runs $278/mo — the payment rail and the tracker around it, one relationship, one number to call. Online prices stay as published either way; nothing is bundled into a locked rate.
Your rate never goes up. Here's what it costs you.
Let us tell the story honestly, using your shop's name — a written case study of how this works on your counter, and your permission to say we work with you. No referrals, no introductions, nothing owed beyond that. Do that and your founding rate — $99, $299 or $249 depending on tier — is your price for as long as you stay. No clock, no step-up, on either billing; and you can leave any time on 30 days' notice. Annual just means you chose to prepay for the better price and the extras.
The honest version: below that, you'd save less than you pay and be down. Tell us your numbers on the call and we'll say so.
05 · The math
What the alternatives actually charge.
| Provider | Monthly | Per transaction |
|---|---|---|
| 2Accept (firearms) | Varies | from 3.49% + reserve |
| TacticalPay (firearms) | $25 + platform fee | 2.65–3.5% + $0.30 |
| BitPay (custodial) | $0 | 1–2% + $0.25 |
| Coinbase Business (custodial) | $0 | 1%+ |
| Soar Direct | $99–$708 | $0.00 |
Published pricing, verified 6 October 2026: 2Accept, TacticalPay, BitPay, Coinbase. Coinbase Commerce was retired on 31 March 2026; its custodial successor, Coinbase Business, is the row shown. Our range spans founding Counter ($99/mo) to standard Bundle + Pro + CRM ($708/mo) — the Pro and CRM add-ons are optional; annual billing is $82.50/mo and up. Founding rates are limited to the first five DFW shops. Soar Direct is non-custodial — the others either hold your funds or take a cut of them.
How to read this page: build yours like ordering at a counter.
Pick one base — where you want Bitcoin — then add whichever helpers you want. Three bases × four helper options = twelve combinations, every one of them a flat fee and never a percentage of your sales. On annual, each configuration is billed once at 10 × its monthly rate — pay for ten months, get twelve.
| Step 1 — pick a base | What it is | Founding price |
|---|---|---|
| Counter | Bitcoin at your register — QR on screen, NFC tap on the counter. Walk-in sales. | $99/mo |
| Online | Bitcoin at your website checkout (WooCommerce/Shopify). Online orders only. | $249/mo |
| Bundle | Both — the counter and the website, one bill. | $299/mo |
| Step 2 — add helpers (optional, never auto-billed) | What it does | Price |
|---|---|---|
| nothing | Just the rail. | +$0 |
| Pro — Shop Assistant | Closes your Bitcoin books nightly, emails a QuickBooks-ready spreadsheet; text it "what did I take Saturday?" and get an answer. | +$100/mo |
| Lead Desk CRM | Every lead, quote, layaway, transfer and NICS wait tracked — every Bitcoin invoice marked paid in the record. Never holds or moves a cent. | +$179/mo |
Every helper is optional and drops at renewal whenever you like; standard rates after the founding five follow the same arithmetic on $149 / $349 / $429.
The full menu — twelve combinations, what they cost a year, and who each is for.
| # | Configuration | Monthly | Annual (billed once) | Who it's for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Counter | $99 | $990 | "I just want the rail" |
| 2 | Counter + Pro | $199 | $1,990 | rail + bookkeeping help |
| 3 | Counter + Lead Desk the founding pitch | $278 | $2,780 | rail + tracking |
| 4 | Counter + both | $378 | $3,780 | rail + books + tracker |
| 5 | Online | $249 | $2,490 | "I sell online only" |
| 6 | Online + Pro | $349 | $3,490 | online + books |
| 7 | Online + Lead Desk | $428 | $4,280 | online + tracking |
| 8 | Online + both | $528 | $5,280 | online + everything |
| 9 | Bundle "most shops" | $299 | $2,990 | counter AND website |
| 10 | Bundle + Pro | $399 | $3,990 | both channels + books |
| 11 | Bundle + Lead Desk | $478 | $4,780 | both channels + tracking |
| 12 | Bundle + both | $578 | $5,780 | everything |
Reading tip: #9 Bundle is cheaper than #8 Online + both — if you plan to take any two helpers, Bundle almost always wins.
Against the others. They take a cut of everything you sell; we take rent on the counter.
Yearly cost on the same Bitcoin volume, each provider priced from its own published rates (formulas below the table — redo it with your numbers). Our row is the founding Counter rail — the $990/year one — because the honest comparison at every volume is: what does the shop pay before helpers?
| Provider | Their model | $10k/mo | $30k/mo | $50k/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2Accept (firearms) | 3.49% of every sale + holds back a cash reserve | $4,488 | $12,864 | $21,240 |
| TacticalPay (firearms) | 2.65–3.5% + $0.30/sale + $25/mo | $3,792 | $10,776 | $17,760 |
| BitPay (custodial) | 1–2% + $0.25/sale — passes through their wallet | $1,860 | $5,580 | $9,300 |
| Coinbase Business (custodial) | 1%+ — holds funds, and firearms merchants aren't allowed | $1,200 | $3,600 | $6,000 |
| Soar Counter | $99/mo flat — your wallet, never a cut | $990 | $990 | $990 |
| Soar Bundle + both | $578/mo flat — every helper, still never a cut | $5,780 | $5,780 | $5,780 |
Working shown, redo it with your own numbers (assuming a ~$500 average sale): 2Accept = 3.49% of volume + $300/yr software allowance; TacticalPay = 2.85% midpoint + $0.30/sale + $25/mo; BitPay = 1.5% midpoint + $0.25/sale; Coinbase = 1.0%. Where theirs wins: at low volume a percentage can be cheaper — Counter beats Coinbase's raw fees only past ~$8,250/mo (Coinbase's math), 2Accept's past ~$1,650/mo, BitPay's past ~$5,300/mo. Two things the raw fees don't price: the reserves it takes 2Accept and TacticalPay weeks to release, and the fact that Coinbase refuses firearms merchants at any price. Above ~$13,000/mo, every one of our twelve combinations — even the $5,780 everything config — beats every competitor's raw fees, and the shop's money sits in its own wallet the whole time. Tell us your volume on the call and we'll say so.
06 · If we disappear
What happens if Soar Direct is gone tomorrow?
Your wallet is your wallet — you have the seed phrase, we don't. What you'd lose is the bridge between your register and that wallet, not a cent of what's in it. Worth being precise about, because most companies aren't.
Your bitcoin stays yours
Every satoshi your wallet ever received is still sitting in it. You hold the seed phrase and we have never had it — nothing on our side can reach your funds.
New invoices stop
The honest part: the QR on your screen and the tag on your counter both point at a server we run, so if it goes, no new invoices can be issued until another server stands in for it. Nothing is stranded by that — those funds are already in your wallet, not in the terminal.
The door is never locked
BTCPay Server is open source and nobody needs our permission to run it, so your setup can outlive us. You hold your store config and credentials from day one, so standing up a replacement — with us or without — is your call, not ours.
07 · Fit
We're selective about who we onboard.
Built for
- Type 01 FFL retail dealerswith a real storefront in Dallas–Fort Worth
- Owner-operatorswho know their numbers and decide fast
- High-ticket sellerswhere one chargeback or freeze actually hurts
- Technically comfortablenot developers, but not afraid of a QR code
Not for
- Shops that need six meetings to approve a tool
- Anyone hunting the cheapest possible option
- Dealers who want a no-strings trial on monthly billing — the 14-day pilot is annual-only
- Anyone who wants us to hold their Bitcoin for them
08 · Questions
Everything you need to know.
If it isn't here, call or text. You get a person, not a bot.
09 · Who you'd be dealing with
One guy in Dallas–Fort Worth.
I'm Alex Sanchez, and Soar Direct is me. I build software for small operators, and when I went looking for who gets shut out of ordinary payment tools, gun shops were at the top of the list — banned outright by most major payment apps, and paying three to five percent to the ones that will take them.
The crypto payment companies that already existed either skim a percentage off every sale or hold your money for you. Both are bad deals for a shop. So this is the version I'd want if I ran the counter: flat fee, no percentage, your keys, and open-source software that outlives any company — including mine.
You won't get a sales team, a call centre, or a rep who rotates out. You get me, at your counter, and afterwards on my own phone: (214) 290-5097.
— ALEX SANCHEZ · DALLAS–FORT WORTH, TEXAS
Ready to stop paying percentage fees?
Founding 5 spots are open. Take the 14-day free pilot on annual — pay for ten months, get twelve, rate locked two years. Or keep it as month-to-month — you decide which fits. Setup fee waived either way for the founding five.
Want the founding-five offer in writing, before you commit to anything?
Email alex@soarcomp.com with your shop's name and number and we'll send the offer card back within one business day, with the free pilot already applied. That's it — no commitment, nothing charged, just your permission to send it.
Have a question the site or the assistant didn't answer? Open a ticket: alex@soarcomp.com with “ticket” in the subject line, and we'll respond with the hardest answers we've got.
10 · Privacy & terms
The fine print, in plain words.
What this site collects
If the offer interests you, the fastest way to get it is the same as the fastest way to ask anything: alex@soarcomp.com. Send the shop's name and number, and we reply with the written offer card — nothing is stored on this site, no form, no backend.
We only get your information if you choose to call, text, or email. Then we have the number or address you reached out from and whatever you tell us, and we use it only to send that offer or answer that question — to run your service only if you become a customer. We don't sell it or share it, and if you ask us to delete it, we will.
Pricing and term
Annual is a 12-month prepay: you pay for ten months and get twelve, and your rate is locked for 24 months. The 14-day pilot is annual-only. Monthly is month-to-month — cancel on 30 days' notice, no commitment. The setup fee is waived for the founding five DFW shops. Leave a prepaid year early and we refund the unused whole months, pro-rated from the annual total you paid. Call or text to start, and nothing is charged until your counter goes live. The Pro and CRM add-ons are optional and never auto-billed — added on request, billed with whichever plan you're on, and dropped at renewal if you don't want them.
The 60-day guarantee
If you haven't taken a single Bitcoin payment in your first 60 days, I refund every dollar you've paid and take the terminal back.
Custody, risk, and what this isn't
Soar Direct is non-custodial software. Bitcoin goes straight from your customer to a wallet you alone control — we never hold it and cannot move it. You hold the keys, and losing them means losing the funds; Bitcoin is not insured and its dollar value moves. The invoice is priced in dollars and the amount is converted at the moment the invoice is created.
Competitor prices on this page are third-party public pricing as of October 2026 and can change. Nothing here is legal, tax or investment advice.
Questions about any of the above, or want your details removed? Call or text (214) 290-5097 — or email alex@soarcomp.com.