What is Open Payments?

Open Payments is an open API standard that can be implemented by account servicing entities (e.g. banks, digital wallet providers, and mobile money providers) to facilitate interoperability in the setup and completion of payments for different use cases including:

Web Monetization
Tipping/Donations (low value/low friction)
eCommerce checkout
P2P transfers
Subscriptions
Invoice Payments

The Open Payments APIs are a collection of three sub-systems:

A wallet address server which exposes public information about Open Payments-enabled accounts called "wallet addresses"
A resource server which exposes APIs for performing functions against the underlying accounts
A authorisation server which exposes APIs compliant with the GNAP standard for getting grants to access the resource server APIs

The three Open Payments OpenAPI specifications are found in the open-payments-specifications repository, while this repository hosts the documentation for the APIs, published on openpayments.dev.

Open Payments SDKs

The Open Payments SDKs provide developers with pre-built functions that simplify interactions with the Open Payments API.

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Contributing

Please read the contribution guidelines before submitting contributions. All contributions must adhere to our code of conduct.

Open Payments Community Call

We invite our community to join our bi-weekly Open Payments calls. These calls take place every other Thursday at 12:00 UTC via Google Meet.

Video call link: https://meet.google.com/fcb-xamx-csr

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Local Development Environment

Prerequisites

Environment Setup

# install node from `./.nvmrc`
nvm install
# install pnpm
corepack enable
# if moving from yarn run
pnpm clean
# install dependencies
pnpm i
# install `open-payments-specifications` submodule
git submodule update --init

Local Development

You can preview the docs by running the command

pnpm --filter docs start

Useful commands

# format and lint code:
pnpm format
# check lint and formatting
pnpm checks
# verify code formatting:
pnpm check:prettier
# verify lint
pnpm check:lint