You need to create a 'charge' to receive payments through OpenNode. A charge contains both a Lightning Network BOLT11 invoice, capable of accepting payments through the LN protocol, and a on-chain address for standard on-chain transactions.
Webhooks
In order to receive notifications when a 'charge' changes its status, you need to subscribe to the 'charge' events. You can subscribe by passing a 'callback_url' parameter on the charge payload.
Lightning Network limit
The API does not return a lightning invoice when creating a
chargewith an amount bigger than 4294967 sats (~ 0.0429 BTC).
Example
const opennode = require('opennode');
opennode.setCredentials('MY_API_KEY', 'dev');
const charge = {
description: 'My test charge',
amount: 10.5, // required
currency: 'USD',
order_id: '823320',
customer_name: 'John Doe',
customer_email: '[email protected]',
notif_email: '[email protected]',
callback_url: "https://example.com/webhook/opennode",
success_url: 'https://example.com/order/abc123',
auto_settle: false
};
opennode.createCharge(charge)
.then(charge => {
console.log(charge);
})
.catch(error => {
console.error(`${error.status} | ${error.message}`);
});
curl https://api.opennode.co/v1/charges \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{ "description": "My test charge",
"amount": 10.5,
"currency": "USD",
"order_id": "823320",
"customer_name": "John Doe",
"customer_email": "[email protected]",
"notif_email": "[email protected]",
"callback_url": "https://example.com/webhook/opennode",
"success_url": "https://example.com/order/abc123",
"auto_settle": false }'
If the request was correctly sent, the API will reply with a 201 status code and charge object:
{
"data": {
"id": "1543f881-5b86-46f0-b0ec-8f2d3a6b9498",
"name": null,
"description": "My test charge",
"created_at": 1559566069,
"status": "unpaid",
"callback_url": "https://example.com/webhook/opennode",
"success_url": "https://example.com/order/abc123",
"order_id": "823320",
"notes": "Order: 823320\nCustomer Email: N/A",
"currency": "USD",
"source_fiat_value": 10.5,
"fiat_value": 10.5,
"auto_settle": false,
"notif_email": null,
"lightning_invoice": {
"expires_at": 1559569669,
"payreq": "LNTB1230250N1PW029H4PP55A5L9MULUWDU9DF8R3JYAJTGL64YU60MRSLP98QZHDD9L29ZXE8SDQHF4UJQAR9WD6ZQCMGV9EXWEGCQZPG6G0SY8DDA8PV9HYJ65EXG9NENW0VCLELHNKN0TA20R03FVL6EK2NE7MNETPNDHWR0TMTXR6RCXA5AN6XY732RLZ6L23KHLGKW3Y4F7SPZR5Z5V"
},
"chain_invoice": {
"address": "2NAVFQaNg2y3QAoh6nZ5WrvWpxp7YQ7Yaed"
},
"address": "2NAVFQaNg2y3QAoh6nZ5WrvWpxp7YQ7Yaed",
"amount": 123025,
"uri": "bitcoin:2NAVFQaNg2y3QAoh6nZ5WrvWpxp7YQ7Yaed?amount=0.00123025&label=My test charge&lightning=LNTB1230250N1PW029H4PP55A5L9MULUWDU9DF8R3JYAJTGL64YU60MRSLP98QZHDD9L29ZXE8SDQHF4UJQAR9WD6ZQCMGV9EXWEGCQZPG6G0SY8DDA8PV9HYJ65EXG9NENW0VCLELHNKN0TA20R03FVL6EK2NE7MNETPNDHWR0TMTXR6RCXA5AN6XY732RLZ6L23KHLGKW3Y4F7SPZR5Z5V"
}
}
You can use OpenNode's native checkout experience by redirecting your user to the checkout endpoint:
Development - https://dev-checkout.opennode.com/ {id}
Production - https://checkout.opennode.com/ {id}
If you want to build your own checkout experience you can create BIP21 + BOLT11 QR code using the uri field.
Updated 4 days ago
What's Next
| Charges Webhooks |