⚡Receiving bitcoin payments

How to receive bitcoin payments in your web app.

Receiving bitcoin payments with a lightning address is very easy. There is no need to operate a bitcoin and lightning node, take care of liquidity or operations. Just share your bitcoin lightning address and anyone with a wallet that supports LUD-16 (see lnurl/luds) can send you payments.

You can also create invoices yourself using your lightning address, which gives you the ability to configure the invoice (for example to set a specific amount, comment, and more) and enables you to monitor an invoice and act upon it once it is paid.

Here is an example:

1. A user visits your site and makes a request to purchase a product that costs 100 sats.

2. Your backend requests an invoice from your Lightning address, setting the amount as 100 sats, and returns it to the user.

3. The user pays the invoice using their favorite lightning wallet.

4. Your backend verifies that the invoice has been paid, and then sends the user their purchased product.

Lightning Tools is a Javascript library that makes this flow super simple by providing all the functions you need to receive bitcoin payments from your users and customers. Lightning Tools is a neutral set of tools to:

• Interact with your lightning address

• Request a lightning invoice

• Verify payments in a programmatic way

• Boost a lightning address (paying in podcasting)

• Zap a lightning address (paying on Nostr)

• Pay for content behind a L402 monetized paywall (e.g. APIs)

• Convert bitcoin to fiat amounts

• Simplify requests to lightning providers

All you need is a lightning address. With Lightning Tools you can use any lightning address you like.

Are looking for some inspiration?

Visit this bitcoin powered web shop from Tobi. He also wrote a very easy to follow and detailed tutorial including code examples about building an e-commerce web app with bitcoin payments.

Give it a try and let us know if we can assist. ✉️