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Groceries & food retail

Thin margins cannot carry a settlement delay.

Grocers, specialist food retailers and prepared-food sellers restock daily and pay shift staff weekly, out of margins that leave no room for money sitting in transit. Settlement in USDC to a wallet you control, final after the required network confirmations, puts today's takings behind tomorrow's delivery.

Why this category gets penalised

The problem is the gap between paying and delivering.

Settlement that arrives after the restock is due

Perishable stock is ordered against money that has not landed yet. Card settlement timing, batch cut-offs and weekend gaps are set by the card company, not by your delivery schedule.

Settlement is treated as final only after the required network confirmations, into a wallet you control, with no batch window and no cut-off time to plan around.

Per-transaction card costs on a low-value basket

Interchange and scheme assessments are a fixed line item on every basket, set upstream of you and least forgiving on small tickets — which is most of them in food retail.

A wallet payment carries a network fee rather than a scheme's per-transaction economics, and no card-scheme chargeback fee sits behind it. For card payments, your payment provider handles card disputes with the cardholder's bank.

How it works

One payment, settled to a wallet you control.

How a payment settles through ZoynA customer pays a payment link. The payment reaches a settlement contract, which divides it in fixed proportions set when it was deployed and pays the merchant’s own wallet and the platform fee directly. Zoyn sits outside the flow of funds.CustomerHostedcheckoutSplitcontractYour walletPlatform feeZoyn (config)Funds never pass through Zoyn
1

Create the payment link

Set the amount and the reference — a trade account order, a catering job, a wholesale pallet.

2

The customer pays their way

Card or crypto on a hosted checkout. Card availability depends on the buyer's location, currency, and available checkout providers. Card-funded payments are handled by the checkout provider, so card data never reaches you.

3

Your share is fixed up front

The shares are fixed when your payments are set up: your share and the platform fee. Every payment follows them exactly, and each one can be checked on a public record.

4

USDC lands in wallets you control

Final after the required network confirmations, ready for the next restock. Zoyn is not in the flow of funds and never holds them.

Coverage

Where we can onboard you today.

Your type of business

Businesses in this group can apply. You pick your exact type of business when you apply, and every application is reviewed.

Jurisdictions we cannot serve

We cannot onboard merchants operating from comprehensively sanctioned jurisdictions. A US state stays open when at least one checkout partner still serves buyers there. We do not hold ourselves out as licensed anywhere.

Wallet addresses you'll be paid to are checked against sanctions lists when you enter them, and re-checked every day after that.

By trade

Pages for specific trades.

Common questions

What groceries & food retail merchants ask first.

Can we run our till on this?

What ships today is fixed-amount payment links and a hosted card-or-crypto checkout — well suited to trade accounts, catering, wholesale and delivery orders. It is not a replacement for an in-store point-of-sale terminal, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.

How does paying the team work?

Outside Zoyn — you pay your team yourself, from your own wallet, on your own schedule. Zoyn is a payment-link platform and is not in that flow; what it changes is that the takings behind the pay run are settled and yours once the payment is final.

Is there a reserve or a holdback on our takings?

Zoyn's pricing has a single deduction: the rate in your fee agreement. A rolling reserve exists to cover card disputes, and a settled on-chain transfer is not itself a card-network dispute rail, so no such reserve is part of the model. Settlement becomes final once the transaction confirms on-chain.

Looking for a different sector? See every supported industry.

Today's takings, behind tomorrow's delivery.

Create a link for your next trade order and have the funds before the truck arrives.

Zoyn

Get paid in digital dollars, straight to a wallet you control.

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Legal & regulatory disclosures

Zoyn is software. It is not a bank, a payment processor, a payment gateway, a money transmitter or a money services business. Zoyn is never the seller in a sale (the "merchant of record"). Zoyn never holds a shop's money, and does not decide how long a payment company may hold it. When a customer pays by card or bank, the payment company handles that payment under its own terms and may hold it for a short time. The money then goes to the shop's own payment contract once the payment network has confirmed it.

Businesses can be based in 64 jurisdictions. A US state stays open when at least one checkout partner still serves buyers there. Customers can pay from 130+ countries through the checkout providers we connect to; which countries customers can pay from is set by those providers, not by Zoyn, and may change without notice. Not available in sanctioned jurisdictions: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and the Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.

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