Switching · checked 2026-09-02
Best GoUrl alternatives in 2026
Merchants replacing GoUrl land on one of three options. Plisio suits non-custodial at a published 0.5%, with five maintained plugins and stablecoin rails on Ethereum and Tron. Apirone fits non-custodial with nothing charged to accept, four platform plugins and a named Estonian operator since 2017. BTCPay Server covers self-hosted at no fee, non-custodial, with twenty-three integrations for merchants willing to run a server. Every figure below was read off the provider's own pages rather than quoted from a sales conversation.
Quick verdict
PlisioNon-custodial at a published 0.5%, with five maintained plugins and stablecoin rails on Ethereum and Tron.
ApironeNon-custodial with nothing charged to accept, four platform plugins and a named Estonian operator since 2017.
BTCPay ServerSelf-hosted at no fee, non-custodial, with twenty-three integrations for merchants willing to run a server.
Why do merchants look for a GoUrl alternative?
The supported assets are almost entirely older proof-of-work coins, with no stablecoin, no Ethereum and no Lightning. Checked 2026-09-02 against the provider's own page.
Ten development libraries are named but only one mainstream ecommerce plugin, so most storefronts face an integration project. Checked 2026-09-02 against the provider's own page.
GoUrl at a glance
| Processing from | 1.5% |
|---|---|
| Assets | 14+ |
| Merchant verification | None stated |
| Custody | Non custodial |
| Checked | 2026-09-02 against its own pricing page |
None of this is a recommendation to leave. It scores 5.8 against every other indexed provider on one set of weights, and whether that ordering matches your priorities is what the methodology page exists to let you test. The full card has the detail.
How do these alternatives compare?
Method| Gateway | Score | From | Assets | Verification | Settles fiat | Discloses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoUrl | 5.8 | 1.5% | 14 | None stated | No | 58% |
| Plisio | 6.9 | 0.5% | 12 | Not disclosed | 68% | |
| Apirone | 6.1 | 0% | Not disclosed | 58% | ||
| BTCPay Server | 7.7 | 0% | None stated | No | 74% |
3 best alternatives to GoUrl
Plisio
Who it fits. Non-custodial at a published 0.5%, with five maintained plugins and stablecoin rails on Ethereum and Tron.
| Processing from | 0.5% |
|---|---|
| Conversion | Not published |
| Payouts | Not published |
| Assets | 12+ across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Monero, Dash, Zcash, Tron |
| Verification | Not disclosed |
The full Plisio card has its strengths, its gaps and the fields it declines to publish.
Apirone
Who it fits. Non-custodial with nothing charged to accept, four platform plugins and a named Estonian operator since 2017.
| Processing from | 0% |
|---|---|
| Conversion | Not published |
| Payouts | Fixed fee on withdrawal |
| Assets | Not published across Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin |
| Verification | Not disclosed |
The full Apirone card has its strengths, its gaps and the fields it declines to publish.
BTCPay Server
Who it fits. Self-hosted at no fee, non-custodial, with twenty-three integrations for merchants willing to run a server.
| Processing from | 0% |
|---|---|
| Conversion | 0% |
| Payouts | None charged by the software; the merchant pays only the network fee from a wallet they control |
| Assets | Not published across Bitcoin, Lightning |
| Verification | None stated |
The full BTCPay Server card has its strengths, its gaps and the fields it declines to publish.
On this page
An asset list from another era#
Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Litecoin, Dash, Dogecoin, Speedcoin, Reddcoin, Potcoin, Vertcoin, Feathercoin, Peercoin, UniversalCurrency and MonetaryUnit. Enumerated exactly, which is worth crediting, and dated.
There is no stablecoin on it, no Ethereum and no Lightning. Stablecoins are what most crypto payments now are, and that single absence is the recorded reason merchants move on.
One plugin and a shelf of libraries#
WooCommerce is the one mainstream shop integration; the rest is WordPress add-ons plus client libraries for PHP, Laravel, Python, Java, C#, Node and ASP.NET.
That balance points at developers rather than shop owners. Every replacement here publishes more platform coverage, and two of them publish four or five maintained plugins.
What leaving costs you#
A clear statement that no customer money is kept on the provider's servers and that payments forward automatically to your own addresses. Two of the three replacements keep that property exactly.
Also simple registration with no verification process, published as a commitment. Only one replacement publishes anything comparable, and the other two record verification as undisclosed.
The Speedcoin discount does not travel#
The standard rate is 1.5% and transactions in the provider's own coin are free. A zero available only in a currency the provider issues is a discount with a condition attached.
Price your move against 1.5% rather than against zero, since no replacement issues a coin and none offers an equivalent arrangement.
Where each replacement lands#
Plisio keeps non-custodial settlement at a published 0.5%, adds five maintained plugins and brings Ethereum and Tron with it, which is the direct answer to both recorded complaints.
Apirone keeps the model and charges nothing to accept, moving the fee to a fixed amount on withdrawal, with four plugins including VirtueMart for Joomla stores.
Custody survives every route#
All three replacements settle to a wallet the merchant controls. The key-management problem you already solved stays solved, and the migration is largely configuration rather than a change of model.
That makes this one of the lower-risk pages on this site. What changes is coverage and integration effort, not who holds the money.
Fiat settlement is absent here and there#
This card documents no fiat leg, and neither do the replacements. A merchant on any of these receives crypto and arranges conversion separately.
If euros in a bank account are the actual requirement, this page cannot deliver it and the custodial providers elsewhere in the index are the place to start instead.
The company behind it is named#
Delta Consultants Ltd, registered in the Commonwealth of Dominica under number 11755. Publishing an entity and a registration number is more than several better-known cards in this index manage.
One replacement names an Estonian operator and a founding year; one publishes neither; one is an open-source project with no company at all. On this axis the move is sideways at best.
Verification will change on two routes#
No verification process is published here, as a stated commitment. Two replacements record merchant verification as undisclosed, which is a question rather than a promise.
The third has no verification because it has no company in the path. For a merchant who chose this provider specifically to avoid onboarding, that is the only route that guarantees the property survives.
The case for staying#
If your customers pay in Bitcoin or Litecoin, your site runs on WordPress and your funds arrive in your own wallet, this card still does exactly what it says at a published 1.5%.
Nothing here has broken. The market moved and this provider did not, which matters only if your own requirements moved with it.
The published 1.5% is also mid-table rather than expensive, and it buys forwarding to addresses you hold with no verification file attached. Priced against what it delivers, the card is fair; it is the market around it that changed.
What a switch actually takes here#
If the integration is one of the client libraries, expect to rewrite rather than adapt. If it is the WooCommerce plugin, expect an install and a key at any replacement.
The addresses change either way. Anything your accounting reconciles against a fixed address list needs updating before the first payment arrives at the new provider.
Fourteen names is still a real disclosure#
Enumerating every supported coin rather than printing a number with a plus sign is rare in this index, and it lets a merchant check the list against their own customers in about a minute.
That habit is worth carrying into the evaluation of any replacement. Ask for the enumerated list per network rather than the count, because the count includes assets no account can actually enable.
How to migrate from GoUrl
- Check twelve months of assets received. Pull the list and count how much arrived in coins the replacements do not support. If Speedcoin, Peercoin or Vertcoin appear more than twice, those customers need warning before the switch.
- Rebuild on a plugin rather than a library. The client libraries here have no equivalent at the replacements, but maintained plugins do. Starting from the plugin removes code nobody will support rather than porting an integration nobody wrote down.
- Keep the same wallet where you can. Two replacements are non-custodial and accept addresses or keys you already control. Reusing them keeps the addresses your bookkeeping recognises and removes a reconciliation exercise from the migration.
- Confirm what verification the destination asks. No verification is published here as a commitment. Two replacements record it as undisclosed, so ask directly before migrating if avoiding onboarding was the reason you chose this provider.
- Add a stablecoin rail deliberately. The main gain from moving is Ethereum and Tron support. Enable one stablecoin on one network first, watch a month of volume, and only then decide whether the second network is worth the support load.
Questions merchants ask
Why do merchants leave GoUrl?
The supported assets are almost entirely older proof-of-work coins, with no stablecoin, no Ethereum and no Lightning. Ten development libraries are named but only one mainstream ecommerce plugin, so most storefronts face an integration project. Both points were checked against the provider's own pages on 2026-09-02.
What is the closest alternative to GoUrl?
Plisio is the closest substitute for most merchants: Non-custodial at a published 0.5%, with five maintained plugins and stablecoin rails on Ethereum and Tron. It scores 6.9 against 5.8 on the same published weights.
Is switching crypto payment gateway difficult?
Not difficult, and easy to rush. The cutover rather than the integration is where merchants lose payments.
Will I lose payment history when I switch?
Assume you will unless you act. An account closed with the record inside it becomes a year-end problem.