Bitcart vs GoCardless
Bitcart and GoCardless are both payments software. Bitcart is open source under MIT, with 1k GitHub stars. GoCardless is a commercial product from GoCardless.
Which to pick
- Pick Bitcart when
- You want to accept several cryptocurrencies, not just Bitcoin, on your own server.
- Pick GoCardless when
- You collect regular invoices or subscriptions and want lower fees and fewer failures than cards.
Side by side
A self-hosted crypto payment processor supporting BTC, LTC, BCH, XMR, ETH, TRX, USDT and more, with a store, invoices and e-commerce plugins.
Collects recurring and one-off payments by bank debit and open-banking pay-by-bank across the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America.
Still pre-1.0 with a small team, and you handle custody, volatility and compliance.
Bank debit settles slowly and customers must authorise a mandate, which adds signup friction.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Python, FastAPI and Docker
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by GoCardless
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
1k GitHub stars
406 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release 0.11.0.1.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.