- Ubersmith, subscription manager for cloud-based services, announced BitPay integration enabling bitcoin payments.
- Ubersmith serves over 100 businesses on six different continents and offers a variety of highly customizable software and hardware solutions.
- BitPay’s integration allowing bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a form of payment shows a deviation from their parent company, Constellation Software Incorporated, which last year said Bitcoin had “scalability issues”. .
Ubersmith, a leading provider of subscription management services for cloud-based platforms, has announced an integration with BitPay, one of the world’s leading bitcoin and other cryptocurrency payment processing providers.
“With the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies, we want to offer this option to our users in addition to the other currencies we support,” Kurt Daniel, CEO of Ubersmith, said in the announcement. “As leaders in providing a recurring and usage-based billing system, we are excited to support cryptocurrency for our current and future customers.”
Ubersmith brings a hosted or self-hosted software suite to its customers and Bitpay now works as an add-on to the software that handles customizable billing, taxes, account credits and discounts. More than 100 companies on six continents currently use Ubersmith for business transactions, infrastructure and operations. This partnership with BitPay displays a deviation from its parent company’s stance towards the Bitcoin sector of previous years.
On July 1, 2021, Ubersmith was acquired by Lumine Group, which is a division of Volaris Group, a subsidiary of Constellation Software Incorporated. On October 21, 2021, Constellation Network, Inc. acquired software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Dor to scale “blockchain-based products.”
In Dor’s acquisition announcement, Constellation Network stated that Bitcoin has scalability issues, which is why they are working with Dor to develop their own blockchain database which they believe is more scalable, which makes them eventually led them to create their own token.
Ubersmith seems to recognize that Bitcoin is scalable with its most recent innovation in partnership with BitPay, even if its parent company seems to feel differently.
New York-based Ubersmith provides its customers with access to over 100 software, hardware, and integrated service integrations while providing an application programming interface (API) that enables a high level of customization for its customers .
Services included with the software include billing, customer management, quotes, order management, device monitoring, help desk ticketing, and a customer portal. Specific to cloud-based infrastructure, Ubersmith also handles turnkey billing, bandwidth, virtualization, backup, power, support, and other services.
Ubersmith customers include Digital Realty, Namecheap, and Sitey.