BTCPay Server as payment platform

[pavlenex]

Happy New Year everyone. In 2021, one of the goals is to better communicate BTCPay Server and its full potential. While in the early development stage it was the easiest to communicate BTCPay Server as "Bitcoin Payment Processor" the features we developed over the years and the ones that are coming make the software way more than that.

In one of the meetings (animation call) @Kukks and brainstormed a bit on how we can better "market" or communicate BTCPay to people and reveal its full potential.

BTCPay Server as a modular BItcoin payment platform was one of the concepts we came up with.

BTCPay indeed becomes the platform that can be used in plenty of ways. I'm opening up this discussion to publicly share the concept and to hear if you guys have any other ideas. If the idea gets positive feedback, there are several first steps we can do:

• Change description of the btcpayserver.org
• Better communicate possibilities through documentation
• Change descriptions in BTCPay Server itself

[bolatovumar]

Sounds like a good idea to me in abstract. The only thing that worries me here is that it may be too early at this stage to call BTCPay a truly modular Bitcoin payment platform. I know we have plugins now and there is Transmuter as well but I don't believe the plugin ecosystem is that rich at the moment (correct me if I'm wrong). I feel like if the messaging were to change now it would create an expectation of a rich plugin ecosystem (like Wordpress for example) which is not quite there yet.

[pavlenex]

Yes, that would be good. Focusing on more general usage rather than specifics gives us more ever-green video.

[Zaxounette]

Added this point for the next animation call (N°3) here

[dennisreimann]

My 2 sats: Removing the "Modular" takes away a bit of clunkiness and makes it sound better. "Bitcoin Payment Platform" sounds good.

[pavlenex]

Good point, we can probably mention Modularity, Extensibility in the intro text, or if we find a simpler word that that that's easy to translate. But we should probably worry about that once we actually have that implemented, for now we don't. Bitcoin Payment Platform is easy to translate and understand.

[dennisreimann]

Agree, that feels more like additional info we could provide in a tagline :)

[Kukks]

Imo removing modular takes away the new vision. `Modular Bitcoin platform` is my recommendation

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