{"id":66060,"title":"BizFirst: Accept Crypto Payments and run NFT-based loyalty programs on your Website/E-Commerce Store.  ","tagline":"Web3 Payments \u0026 Loyalty Infrastructure ","body":"Hey folks!👋 We at [Apollo](https://www.apollofirst.xyz/) have just launched our first product [BizFirst](https://www.bizfirst.xyz/)! \n\nWe, as a team have previously built large-scale fintech products for SMBs in SEA \u0026 India. Having experienced many problems faced by SMBs with traditional payments \u0026 due to our involvement with Crypto/Blockchain from the very early days - We decided to build [BizFirst](https://www.bizfirst.xyz/) \n\n## BizFirst helps online merchants to:\n\n1. Accept Crypto (USDC) Payments 💰\n2. Send \u0026 Receive USDC invoices 🧾\n3. Run an NFT-based Loyalty program i.e. Token-Gate, Offer Discounts for NFT collections \u0026 issue store-branded discount NFTs for your store. 🪄\n\n## Merchants love BizFirst because using BizFirst allows them to:\n\n1. Reduce up to 80% on the Transaction fee\n2. Get their money instantly (less than 5 secs vs 6-7 days)\n3. Go Global from Day 0 (No country-by-country setup, 0 Cross-border fee)\n4. Avoid Chargebacks (Crypto Payments are irreversible from Day 0)\n5. Attract \u0026 meaningfully engage customers (NFT-based loyalty programs)\n\n \n\n## Asks\n\n1. We’d also love Intros to solid product engineers \u0026 marketers to join us. ([Open Roles](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/apollo-3/jobs))\n2. Share [BizFirst](https://www.bizfirst.xyz/) with your network \u0026 show some love. \n3. Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/MyBizFirst)!\n\n   ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=66060\u0026key=user_uploads/806204/961f0200-0d11-413b-96c7-a78518d79190)\n\n   ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=66060\u0026key=user_uploads/806204/8b1122fe-b7b0-43ae-9789-bfc7ae8bfd94)\n\n   ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=66060\u0026key=user_uploads/806204/c189b165-7b91-48ec-9532-0834ee8b2d56)\n\n","slug":"HBU-bizfirst-accept-crypto-payments-and-run-nft-based-loyalty-programs-on-your-website-e-commerce-store","created_at":"2022-09-14T14:57:25.317Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:31:48.153Z","total_vote_count":39,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HBU-bizfirst-accept-crypto-payments-and-run-nft-based-loyalty-programs-on-your-website-e-commerce-store","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":25106,"name":"Apollo","slug":"apollo-3","url":"https://www.apollofirst.xyz/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2ea4e2897740aa14e96c42667cc3be13a0f2c9e8.png","batch":"Winter 2022","industry":"Fintech","tags":["DeFi","Fintech","Crypto / Web3"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/25106"}}