Neighbourhoods and corridors
Washington Heights & Inwood · The Bronx — Fordham, Grand Concourse · Jackson Heights & Roosevelt Avenue · Corona & Elmhurst · Sunset Park & Bay Ridge · East Harlem · Flatbush & East Flatbush · Bushwick · Jamaica, Queens
New York City, NY
Sell crypto at your counter in New York City
New York's bodegas and check cashing storefronts are the financial counter for entire neighbourhoods — open late, trusted locally and already handling cash, transfers and top-ups.
- No kiosk, no floor space
- Compliance carried by a registered MSB
- Two-minute customer onboarding
- Revenue share on every order
$500.00
Counter order · New York City
- CustomerVerified · 71 sec
- Buying0.00421 BTC
The retail opportunity in the five boroughs
No American city has a denser counter economy than New York. The bodega is an institution. The check cashing storefront is on most commercial corners in the outer boroughs. Between them they serve millions of people who deal with money through a person behind glass, not an app.
That is the customer this product is for. The complication here is regulatory, not commercial. New York runs its own licensing regime for virtual currency business. That is why an honest page about New York confirms availability per location instead of promising a rollout.
On the ground
Where the counters are in New York City
Bodegas and delis, licensed check cashers, money transfer agencies, phone and unlocking shops, travel agencies that double as remittance windows. These are the formats the program was designed around, and the neighbourhoods below are where they cluster.
Store formats that fit
Bodegas and delis, licensed check cashers, money transfer agencies, phone and unlocking shops, travel agencies that double as remittance windows.
Where the money is sent
Dominican Republic, Mexico, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Guyana, Jamaica, Ghana, Colombia — the corridors that drive stablecoin demand at a New York City counter.
Languages at the counter
Spanish, English, Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole. Serving a customer in their own language is the single biggest advantage a counter has over an app.
The arithmetic
What a single transaction is worth to the store
You keep a share of every order. Bigger order, bigger share. The examples below use 1% to 3% — your own rate is in your agreement.
| At the counter | Order size | Store keeps (low) | Store keeps (high) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A customer cashes a check and puts part of it into Bitcoin | $200 | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| A regular buys USDT to send to family overseas | $500 | $5.00 | $15.00 |
| A customer sells crypto and takes the cash | $1,000 | $10.00 | $30.00 |
| A small business owner buys on payday, every other week | $2,500 | $25.00 | $75.00 |
| One larger order, the kind an ATM's daily cap refuses | $10,000 | $100.00 | $300.00 |
The figures above are worked examples, not projected or guaranteed earnings. They show how the arithmetic works on a given order size at an illustrative revenue-share range. Your actual rate is set in your agent agreement, and what any individual store earns depends on its foot traffic, its neighbourhood, its hours and how many customers it serves. Anytime Capital does not promise any level of income.
- A money order earns you cents. A wire earns a flat fee, however big it is. This does not.
- No monthly fee. No minimum. Nothing to buy back before the first dollar is yours.
- Your customer pays our normal published price. Your share does not change it.
Anytime Capital runs its own branches in Atlanta and Miami. Partner stores run the same counter service.
New York's virtual currency regime, stated plainly
New York regulates virtual currency business activity under its own state framework, separately from the federal money services business registration that covers the activity nationally. That framework is stricter than most states' and it is the reason a number of crypto businesses simply do not serve New York.
So here is the honest position. We will tell you what we can offer at your specific location during onboarding. We are not going to publish a blanket yes on a marketing page. If you have been told otherwise by anyone in this industry, read their disclosure carefully.
What is not in doubt is the demand. New York's cash-paid, thin-file, remittance-sending population is enormous, and the counters that serve it are the ones this program is built around.
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What a New York City store actually signs up to
Your employee signs in at retail.anytime-capital.com, verifies the customer once, places the order and takes the payment at the counter. There is no machine to install, no crypto for the store to hold and no float to fund.
Anytime Capital is the registered money services business behind the transaction and carries the customer identification programme, the monitoring and the reporting. Your store is a serving location, and your existing licences remain yours with their own obligations.
Onboarding is a compliance review and a training session. Nothing is delivered to your address, and there is nothing to earn back before the first order is profitable.
Keep reading
The rest of the programme
The numbers, the rules and the store type closest to yours.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the program available in New York State?
New York operates its own virtual currency regime in addition to federal registration, so availability is confirmed per location during onboarding rather than promised in advance. Tell us where the store is and we will give you a straight answer.
Do bodegas actually do this?
Bodegas are among the best-suited stores in the country for it — trusted locally, open late, already handling cash and transfers. The store-type page for bodegas and corner stores covers the specifics.
Do I need a licence of my own to do this?
Not to act as a serving location for Anytime Capital's platform. Anytime Capital is the registered money services business and carries the compliance programme for the activity. State law varies, so what applies to your specific store is confirmed during onboarding, and nothing here is legal advice.
Is there any equipment to install?
None. The platform runs in a browser on a phone, tablet or the PC already behind your counter. There is no kiosk, no floor space requirement and no monthly platform fee.
How long does it take to serve a customer?
One to two minutes for a first-time customer, because their identity is verified once. Under a minute for everyone after that.
Put a crypto counter in your New York City store
Tell us where the store is and what your customers keep asking for. We will tell you what we can offer at your location.