Final money. No chargebacks. Nothing held.
Take Bitcoin at your counter and it lands straight in your wallet — no percentage, no rolling reserve, no freeze, and we never touch a dollar. On-chain Bitcoin, your keys, no middleman — nothing else touches the flow. For Dallas–Fort Worth smoke shops, vape stores and CBD / hemp retail.
$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 wind you down. Bitcoin doesn't care what you sell.
If you sell smoke, vape, or CBD, mainstream payment platforms don't want your account: Square is sunsetting CBD merchant accounts — the deadline merchants were given is November 5, 2026 — and the platforms that stay treat the whole industry as high-risk: sudden exclusions, frozen funds, and every promise from a rep subject to an asterisk you find out about later.
Sources, verified October 2026: Square's CBD-account sunset announced to merchants (Nov 5, 2026 deadline); published in-person rates Square, Stripe, and Clover/Fiserv registers. Individual processor policies vary by product line and state — your account's own terms govern. That's part of the check: if your current rail is fine at your volume, we'll tell you to stay on it.
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 reverses a payment three months later because they regret the glass piece or the cart. Disputes don't exist on the Bitcoin rail.
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.
Your account can't be frozen — we don't have it
High-risk processors freeze first and answer later: one flagged category and your Tuesday sales sit hostage in someone's review queue. Bitcoin lands in your wallet the day you ring it up.
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.
Everything else stays yours
ID and age checks, permits, your POS, your bookkeeping, what you sell — all identical. Bitcoin is just the tender, and none of your payment-method compliance moves an inch.
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 — backed by the 60-day guarantee, whose full wording sits in Privacy & terms below.
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 $2,490/yr · pay for 10, get 12 · save $498
FOUNDING $249/MO · STANDARD $429/MO · $49/MO UNDER THE TWO BASES SEPARATELY
- Everything in Counter
- WooCommerce or Shopify checkout
- Both channels, one bill — $49/mo under buying them separately
- Free custom POS integration on annual — only when your setup needs one
Billed $1,990/yr · pay for 10, get 12 · save $398
FOUNDING $199/MO · STANDARD $349/MO · A REAL CHOICE IF YOU ONLY SELL ONLINE
- 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–$498/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 — checks run, pass/fail issued, what we found and fixed written down, signed PDF you can hand your bookkeeper or insurer — 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+. One integration per shop, scoped on your setup call — and only if you actually run a register system or online store; taking Bitcoin never needs one (a tablet, phone, or screen shows the QR, NFC tag on the counter — that part is done day one on every plan). If your register has an open API we wire it to auto-mark sales “paid”; registers without one (Clover, Square, older terminals) get our tender-key + CSV reconciliation instead — same “register talks to Bitcoin” result, no custom code. A second register or a second location is a new quote — free if it's a clean rerun of the same connector, paid if bespoke.
- Bundle annual: ≈$2,500+ in year one — the $498 two-months-free saving plus $2,000+ of extras: the $500 audit, and up to $1,500+ of POS wiring when your setup actually needs a build (registers without an open API get the tender-key + CSV result instead — still free, no build). 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; a Monday summary of what came in and what's outstanding; 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 counter · $199 online · $249 for both, $49/mo under the two separately — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Square in-person (winding down CBD accounts) | $38.30/mo avg | 2.6% + 15¢ |
| Clover / Fiserv register (the counter standard) | varies | 2.6% + 10¢ |
| Stripe (invoiced card) | $0 | 2.9% + 30¢ |
| Cash (the shop's default tender) | $0 | $0.00 |
| Soar Direct | $99–$708 | $0.00 |
Published rates, verified October 2026: Square in-person, Stripe, and the Clover/Fiserv register rate; Square's CBD-account sunset (Nov 5 deadline) comes from their own merchant communications. Our range spans founding Counter ($99/mo) to standard Bundle + Pro + CRM ($708/mo) — the Pro and CRM add-ons are optional; annual is $82.50/mo and up. Founding rates are limited to the first five DFW smoke & CBD shops. Soar Direct is non-custodial — your wallet, never our hold.
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. | $199/mo |
| Bundle | Both — the counter and the website, one bill — $49/mo under the two bases. | $249/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 and follow-up 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 | $199 | $1,990 | "I sell online only" |
| 6 | Online + Pro | $299 | $2,990 | online + books |
| 7 | Online + Lead Desk | $378 | $3,780 | online + tracking |
| 8 | Online + both | $478 | $4,780 | online + everything |
| 9 | Bundle "most shops" — the go-to | $249 | $2,490 | counter AND website |
| 10 | Bundle + Pro | $349 | $3,490 | both channels + books |
| 11 | Bundle + Lead Desk | $428 | $4,280 | both channels + tracking |
| 12 | Bundle + both | $528 | $5,280 | everything |
Reading tip: #9 Bundle does what $99 + $199 does for $49/mo less — and helpers price the same on every base, so Online + Pro (#6) stays a real option if the counter truly isn't for you: the $49 is what the counter adds.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Square in-person (winding down CBD accounts) | 2.6% + 15¢ ≈ 2.63% all-in — the peacetime rail, expiring | $3,156 | $9,468 | $15,780 |
| Clover-style register (the counter most smoke shops sit behind) | 2.6% + 10¢ card-present ≈ 2.62% + its software line | $3,144 | $9,432 | $15,720 |
| Stripe (invoiced card) | 2.9% + 30¢ ≈ 2.91% all-in | $3,494 | $10,483 | $17,472 |
| Cash (the shop's default tender) | 0% — free to take, but you lose every card-carrying sale to the door | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Soar Counter | $99/mo flat — your wallet, never a cut | $990 | $990 | $990 |
| Soar Bundle + both | $528/mo flat — every helper, still never a cut | $5,280 | $5,280 | $5,280 |
Working shown, redo it with your own numbers: Square = 2.6% + 15¢ ≈ 2.63% all-in at ~$500 basket; Clover-style = 2.6% + 10¢ ≈ 2.62%; Stripe = 2.9% + 30¢ ≈ 2.91% — rates as published Oct 2026. Where theirs wins: at low volume a percentage is cheaper on raw fees — founding Counter annual ($82.50/mo) beats Square's raw fees past ~$3,140/mo, Clover-style's past ~$3,150/mo (or ~$2,600/mo once the register's $14.95 software line counts), and Stripe's past ~$2,830/mo. One adjustment this page does honestly and in your favor: a smoke shop's average ticket runs smaller than the counter norm, and the flat 10–30¢ per item pushes each card rail's effective rate up ~0.2–0.5% — the crossover volumes above use the published rates, so at a ~$75 ticket the real advantage tilts further our way. Two things the raw fees don't price: Square winding your category down (the Nov 5 CBD sunset), and the freeze-first-ask-later reality of every high-risk account. Above ~$16,800/mo even the $5,280 everything config beats the Clover register's raw fees — and your money sits in your own wallet the whole time. Tell us your volume on the call and we'll say so. That's the cheaper-rail guarantee: one processor statement on the scoping call, the math run in front of you — and if the rail you can actually get is cheaper at your volume, we tell you not to sign.
Run your own numbers — the two-minute quote.
No signup, no form that talks to a server — nothing is stored on this site. Put in what you expect to move and what your counter sits behind today; you get the crossover verdict on the spot, and a one-click email to Alex with your numbers if you want the plan back. Worth saying twice: the recommendation is personal — the price is the published one. A flat fee that doesn't move is the whole product; email fishing for a lower number just gets the honest verdict again.
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
- Smoke shops, vape stores & CBD/hemp retailwith a real storefront in Dallas–Fort Worth
- Owner-operatorswho know their numbers and decide fast
- Register-heavy counters where the freeze hurtsyour Tuesday doesn't sit hostage in someone's review queue
- 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.
What stands is the part with nobody in between: on-chain Bitcoin on the same checkout — your wallet, your keys, zero percentage, zero chargebacks. The lock above already gives you the dollar-value certainty without any stablecoin leg. If a US-compliant rail ever passes vetting, this answer gets updated first.
Part two: there is no renewal refund — deliberately. The backstop for a slow start is the 60-day guarantee (no Bitcoin payment in 60 days, every dollar back). A renewal refund would charge us for the slow first months the offer already prices for and discloses. If volume grows, the crossover table above wins on its own numbers — that's the whole bet.
You can also verify at any time: re-run the table above with your own volume, or ask for the scoping record.
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, smoke shops and CBD stores were at the top of the list — the mainstream apps won't touch the industry, and the ones that will keep you on a short leash with a leash-holder's fees.
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.
One vertical note, said plainly: the non-custodial analysis is about the product — Bitcoin-only, USD-priced, funds never touch us — not about any one industry. What you're allowed to sell is your own licensing and state/federal compliance, exactly as with cash or card. Nothing here is legal, tax or investment advice.
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.