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You do not need to be a crypto expert to sell with Taberna. You do need to understand six things, and each one takes a paragraph.

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What is a crypto wallet

A crypto wallet is an app — a browser extension, a phone app, or a small hardware device — that holds the keys to money recorded on a public ledger. It is not an account with a company. Nobody can freeze it, and nobody but you can move what is in it. Each wallet has one or more addresses: long strings of letters and numbers, like 0x3f1c…9a4b, that work like an account number you can safely publish. You will need a wallet to receive your sales. Your customers will need one to pay you.

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What is a stablecoin

A stablecoin is a crypto token designed to track a normal currency one-to-one, so 1 USDC is always worth about 1.Mostcryptopricesmoveminutetominute;stablecoinsdonot,whichiswhytheyaretheeasiestthingtoaccept.Ifyousella1. Most crypto prices move minute to minute; stablecoins do not, which is why they are the easiest thing to accept. If you sell a 50 product and your customer pays in USDC, roughly $50 of USDC arrives. Taberna supports USDC and USDT stablecoins alongside the native coins of each network. See Payment methods.

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What is a network fee

Every crypto payment is recorded on a blockchain — a shared public ledger run by thousands of computers. Those computers charge a small fee to record a transaction, called the network fee or gas. It has nothing to do with Taberna and varies by network: a few cents on Base or Polygon, sometimes several dollars on Ethereum. Your customer pays the network fee to send you money. You do not. Taberna pays the network fee on the transaction that moves your money to your own wallet. See Fees.

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What “confirmations” means

A payment is not final the instant it is sent. The network needs to record it and then record a few more blocks on top, which makes it progressively harder to undo. Each new block on top is one confirmation. This is why a crypto payment takes seconds to a couple of minutes rather than being instant. Taberna watches the network for you and only marks an order paid once enough confirmations have accumulated for that network.

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Why crypto payments cannot be reversed

Once a payment has been recorded and confirmed, it is permanent. There is no bank in the middle who can pull it back. This is genuinely good news for you: money you have been paid stays paid. It is also the reason Taberna cannot issue refunds. If you want to return money to a customer, you send it back from your own wallet, on your own terms. See What Taberna does not do.

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What this means for chargebacks and disputes

There are no chargebacks. A customer cannot ask their card issuer to claw a payment back sixty days later, because there is no card issuer. You will not lose a sale you already delivered, and you will not pay dispute fees. The flip side is that you carry the customer-service burden yourself. If someone pays the wrong amount, pays twice, or changes their mind, you resolve it directly with them and, if you choose to, send money back from your wallet.
If a customer sends less than the amount you asked for, the order is marked partial and nothing is returned automatically. See Orders and payments.

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Fees

What Taberna takes, and who pays the network.