What is Stellar?
What is Stellar (XLM)?
Stellar is a cryptocurrency on the Stellar network. Here is a plain-English explainer — and how to accept Stellar payments on your website.
Stellar in brief
Stellar (XLM) settles on the Stellar network. As a merchant you can accept it directly, without a bank or a card network in the middle, and without a chargeback window.
With Payora you can accept Stellar at 0%: a unique Stellar address is generated per invoice, the payment is watched on-chain, a signed webhook confirms it, and the amount is credited to your balance.
- Network: Stellar
- Ticker: XLM
- Accept it with Payora at 0% to accept
- Works with WooCommerce, Magento, WHMCS and 19 more platforms
Accept Stellar on your site
What this page answers
- what is Stellar
- how Stellar works
- Stellar explained in simple words
- is Stellar good for payments
- how to accept Stellar
- XLM for online stores
- Stellar for business payments
- sending and receiving Stellar
- network fees when paying in Stellar
- wallets that hold Stellar
- how long a Stellar payment takes
- payment gateway for Stellar
