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Can someone point me in the direction if I want to accept doge as the payment for my product what should I do?

BitPay lets you accept multiple types of crypto coins (doge is one) https://bitpay.com

As a payer I have been happy with vendors that use BitPay. I've never operated a shop, but when I looked at BitPay from a merchant POV it did have some benefits. Namely a small fee (something like 1 or 2%, compared to what stripe or similar would charge) and settlement to USD, Euros, or Mexican pesos (IIRC).

Don't use Bitpay, they use some proprietary method that makes it impossible to use from most crypto wallets and I think they just settle into fiat so you can't HODL (could be wrong on the latter point, but not the former).

BTCPayserver.org is an open source stack that any reasonably technical team can use.

1. The invoice system is not proprietary and it has good client support. I have had no issues with it.

2. Settling into fiat is the best option for businesses that pay their expenses and/or taxes in fiat.

Also simplifies accounting a lot. For the same reason you normally get the card processor to receive the local currency, not separate one for every customer's country.

download the dogecoin software and run it in the backend. use it to generate unique addresses for checkout and to verify transactions.

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