How Do I Get Token Rate For Accepting Payment?

Question

I am using a plugin on my website to accept Stellar tokens. I want to modify this plugin to accept more than what they have built into the plugin. The plugin uses Stellarterm API to get price conversions and it works great but some tokens aren't listed on Stellarterm so even after adding the token to the plugin, it won't convert a price during checkout. It also appears that support for Stellarterm is gone, as well as support for the plugin I'm modifying.

What free api could I use to accomplish this? The plugin I modified is SWplug and can be found here: https://swplug.com/

It's looking like the solution will be to rebuild Stellarterm myself, or maybe we can do that as a community?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You're looking at the problem from the wrong end.

The way Stellar solves this is by using cross-asset payments. You can send funds to someone as one asset, and pay it using another, automatically.

You select which asset you want to receive, and the payer can select how they want to pay for it.