| Bolt | Features | Mollie |
|---|---|---|
| San Fransisco, California, USA | HQ Based | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Settlements | Daily, fixed in Euro | |
| Bolt keeps a list of supported merchants on their website | Supported Merchants | |
| 1.8% of transaction | Fee structure | Cost per tx + transaction fee |
| Bank fees | ||
| Currencies | ||
| Payment Methods | Bitcoin | |
| Yes, via Recurly or other recurring payment services | Recurring Payments | |
| Developer Friendly | ||
| Apple Pay Support | ||
| Point of Sale Support | ||
| Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown | ||
Founded in the USA in 2014, Bolt was created to set a new standard for eCommerce.
The team at Bolt spent over 2 years before launching their first version of their Checkout product.
Bolt got serious VC traction starting around 2016, where they raised over $215M in VC Funding and growing their team significantly.
Bolt now has a ‘CheckoutOS’ which consists of products that include checkout, payment and fraud detection.
Customers of Bolt include Akira, Forever 21 and Solo Stove.
Mollie, founded in 2004 by the Adriaan Mol, selling text messages to a mostly technical audience. The texting space changed when payments ecosystem. Mollie was an early adoptor of this new way of payments, and made a pivot to PSP and micro transaction payment provider.
Mollie grew into it’s PSP role early 2006/2007, and has not stopped there. Mollie is investing heavily in new and disruptie technologies. Mollie has been accepting Bitcoin Since 2014, however they announced to stop taking Bitcoin payments in q2 2019 due to skewed cost-benefit ratios on the payments.