# Tender

> Powering crypto payments for forward-thinking merchants

Tender is a cryptocurrency payment processor for merchants. It provides point-of-sale hardware, APIs, and plugins that let businesses accept digital asset payments and settle in local fiat.

Tender is a cryptocurrency payment processing company that helps merchants accept digital asset payments both in person and online. It provides a dashboard with real-time analytics on sales, transaction counts, and average transaction sizes, giving business owners visibility into their crypto payment activity. The service is aimed at physical retailers, digital platforms, and online marketplaces seeking to reach customers who pay with digital assets.

The platform addresses the friction merchants face when trying to accept crypto without technical expertise or added operational complexity. It offers point-of-sale terminals for in-store payments alongside application programming interfaces, plugins, and payment links for online checkout flows. Payments accepted in a range of supported digital assets across multiple blockchain networks can be settled to merchants in their local fiat currency, reducing exposure to price volatility and simplifying accounting.

Tender's offering spans hardware terminals, developer tools for custom integrations, and a merchant dashboard for monitoring transactions. It is used by physical stores, e-commerce businesses, and global marketplaces that want to expand their customer reach through borderless payment acceptance while managing settlement in fiat.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Payments
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2023-05-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/tender

## Products

- [Tender Merchant](https://thegrid.id/profiles/tender): Tender Merchant is a merchant payment gateway that lets businesses accept cryptocurrency payments across physical and online checkout flows. Merchants integrate the platform through point-of-sale terminals, APIs, plugins, payment links, and software development kits, with a dashboard providing sales metrics and transaction analytics. The gateway also converts incoming crypto into local fiat settlement, converts fiat into crypto through an on-ramp pipeline, issues wallet-as-a-service subwallets for end users, and supports bulk disbursements to pay multiple recipients at once. All of these capabilities are accessed through the same merchant account and dashboard rather than as separate applications. (Merchant Payment Gateway, Live, Main Product)

## Links

- [Main](https://tender.cash)
- [Documentation](https://docs.tender.cash)
- [Privacy policy](https://tender.cash/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://tender.cash/terms)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/tender-cash)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tender-merchant)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/Tender_Merchant)

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