When creating a new transaction, the user can specify the amount in his fiat currency which is then translated to the current Ether value and vice versa.

This is especially useful if you consider that merchants normally want to offer their products at fixed prices. A merchant defines the price of an offer in their fiat currency and every time this product gets purchased the customer pays the fixed price translated to Ether at the current exchange rate.

Of course, this does not replace the fact that the merchant still gets paid in Ether and has to hedge against the currency’s fluctuations but we think it is a step in the right direction.

Attach product catalogs to ethPay stores

Now this might seem to be a minor addition in terms of UI, however, it was a lot more that happened under the hood.

Basically, we have added the possibility for merchants to add a predefined product catalog to their ethPay stores. This has the effect that you only need to create and maintain one data set.

EthPay supports the standard for structured data, which is also used by Google to create context rich search results for e-commerce websites (see image below).

Example of a context rich search result

If you want to try it out, have a look at our product-catalog-template. Below you can see a short tutorial that shows how you can publish the catalog to the ethPay store. The ethPay-Merchant app for now only uploads the catalog to IPFS, although, we plan to extend it in the future with more functionality.