openreceive 0.4.24 → 0.4.25

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+ This is the full file; follow it from Step 0.
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+ # OpenReceive agent directions (Flask)
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ # READ THIS FIRST: this file is 43 KB and a summary drops required steps. Download it whole:
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+ curl -fsSL https://openreceive.org/agent-directions/flask/full.md
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+ # Skip the download only if you already have all of it: pasted, read from disk or fetched raw.
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+ ```
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+
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+ **Step 0 in brief** (Step 0 below has the details):
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+
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+ - Before installing or editing anything, ask the user for a receive-only NWC code. One question per message.
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+ - Next ask for the LSC code. If the user wants stablecoins, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL or crypto, do not ask yes/no first.
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+ - The user only pastes codes into this chat. Never ask them to edit .env or run a command to save one.
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+ - Write each code into .env yourself, as Step 0 says. Never echo it or put it in a shell command.
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+ - Do not suggest rotating or revoking a code because it was pasted here.
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+ - Start the quickstart only once the NWC code is saved, and the LSC code is saved or the user said "Bitcoin only".
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+
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+ These directions describe OpenReceive 0.4.25.
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+
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+ Add OpenReceive to a Flask application — the app you are already working in.
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+ You do not need a copy of the OpenReceive source: the engine is on PyPI
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+ (`openreceive[sqlalchemy]`), the checkout's script and stylesheet ship inside
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+ that same package, and the quickstart is appended to this file in full, so you
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+ can do the whole integration without fetching anything. There is no
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+ `openreceive.flask` package: the quickstart's `openreceive_flask.py` is the
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+ Flask integration. Copy it into this app as it is, and do not reimplement
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+ wallet RPC, settlement, pricing or the routes it serves.
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+
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+ Do not clone the OpenReceive repository into this app, and do not copy the
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+ starter's models (`Order`, a session visitor, a one-product catalog) over tables
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+ that already exist. Find this application's order, product, and user models —
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+ whatever they are actually named — and map the three hooks onto those.
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+
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+ Keep this application's templates, authentication and database. Jinja pages
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+ get the `<openreceive-checkout>` element, served from the installed
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+ `openreceive` package as the quickstart shows; only an app that already has a
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+ JavaScript build uses `@openreceive/react`, `/vue`, `/svelte` or `/angular`
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+ instead. Do not add React or npm to a Jinja app. The login this app already
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+ has (Flask-Login's `current_user`, or an id in Flask's `session`) is what
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+ `authorize` checks, and the database OpenReceive gets is a sync SQLAlchemy
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+ `Engine` for the SAME database this app already uses.
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+
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+ ## What OpenReceive is
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+
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+ A payment library that runs inside YOUR server. It is a Flask Blueprint
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+ (`openreceive.blueprint()`, registered under `/openreceive`) that serves its
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+ HTTP routes inside the application you are editing, issues Lightning invoices
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+ against a wallet the merchant already controls, and calls back into your code
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+ when one settles. There is no OpenReceive account and no API key, and
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+ OpenReceive never holds the funds — the sats land in the wallet the merchant
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+ connected.
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+
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+ The one required credential is a receive-only NWC code (Nostr Wallet Connect):
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+ a string from the merchant's wallet that can create invoices and read their
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+ status, and cannot spend. A swap provider (an "LSC" code) optionally lets the
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+ payer send USDT, USDC, ETH or SOL instead, converted into that same
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+ Lightning payment. Step 0 collects those credentials from the user; you write three hooks — `authorize`, `amount_for`,
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+ `on_paid`;
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+ OpenReceive supplies invoices, polling, settlement and the checkout UI. It never
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+ owns orders, users, prices, or fulfillment.
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+
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+ ## Step 0 — ask for the two codes, one question at a time
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+ Before anything else, check one file: the project's `.env`, if it exists.
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+ `grep -E '^(NWC_URI|LSC_URI_PRIMARY)=.' .env | cut -d= -f1` names the codes
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+ it sets without printing them. Check with that, here and after each write,
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+ not by reading the file, and never print the values. A code that is already
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+ set is not asked for again; if both are set, skip to step 5 (making the
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+ server load the file), then the quickstart.
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+ Otherwise your next action is a question to the user. Do not install packages,
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+ edit the app, write `.env.example`, or search anywhere else before asking
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+ it. Do not read deploy config (compose files, platform secrets), Docker containers, or process environments, and never run
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+ `printenv`. A new shop has neither code yet: hunting for one burns the turn and
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+ can leak other secrets into the transcript.
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+ Two server-only URIs are needed before the quickstart:
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+ - `NWC_URI` — a receive-only Nostr Wallet Connect code,
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+ `nostr+walletconnect://…`. Required for Bitcoin.
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+ - `LSC_URI_PRIMARY` — a Lightning Swap Connect URI,
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+ `lightning+swapconnect://…`. Required for USDT, USDC, ETH and SOL. Skip it
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+ only when the user says they want Bitcoin alone.
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+ The user never edits an environment file. They paste each code into the chat;
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+ you store it. Ask one question per message.
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+ 1. **First message — the NWC code, and nothing else.** Ask for it and walk them
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+ through getting it:
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+ > To receive payments I need a receive-only wallet code. In Rizful: open
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+ > the menu, tap NWC, choose Receive-only NWC code, and tap Copy
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+ > (https://openreceive.org/get_a_nwc_code_to_receive_payments). If you would
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+ > rather run your own wallet, Alby Hub works too: Connections → Add
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+ > Connection → Read Only. Paste the code here and I will store it.
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+ Do not mention `.env`, exports, or "tell me when it's set".
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+ 2. **When they paste it.** If it does not start with `nostr+walletconnect://`,
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+ ask them to copy the receive-only code again. Otherwise write
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+ `NWC_URI=<paste>` into the project's `.env` with your file-editing tool,
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+ creating the file if needed. Never write it with a shell command (`echo`,
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+ `printf`, a heredoc, `python -c`): the command line shows the code. Make
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+ sure `.gitignore` covers `.env` (and `.dockerignore`, if the app has one).
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+ Never echo the value, commit it, or put it in client code. Reply only that
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+ it is saved, then ask the next question.
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+ 3. **Second message — swaps.** If the user asked for stablecoins, USDT, USDC,
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+ ETH, SOL, altcoins or "crypto" (as in "Bitcoin and stablecoin payments"),
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+ this message IS the walkthrough below: send it as it is, and do not ask yes
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+ or no first. Otherwise ask whether payers should also be able to pay with
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+ USDT, USDC, ETH or SOL, then give the walkthrough. The walkthrough:
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+
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+ > Go to https://lightning-swap.com, sign in for API keys, create a key, and
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+ > copy the whole URI (https://openreceive.org/set_up_swap_provider). Paste
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+ > it here and I will store it — or say "Bitcoin only" and I will continue
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+ > without it.
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+
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+ Mention FixedFloat only if they already use it.
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+ 4. **When they paste it.** If it does not start with
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+ `lightning+swapconnect://`, ask them to copy it again. Otherwise add
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+ `LSC_URI_PRIMARY=<paste>` to the same `.env` with the file-editing tool,
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+ never a shell command. Swaps are now on, so build the refund route back
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+ (the swap non-negotiable below) as part of this integration. If they chose
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+ Bitcoin only, leave `LSC_URI_PRIMARY` unset and skip that route.
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+ 5. **Make the server load the file — yourself.** OpenReceive reads
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+ `os.environ`, and a `.env` file on disk is not in it. When the app is
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+ started with Docker Compose, give the service `env_file: .env`. `flask run`
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+ loads `.env` when python-dotenv is installed (add `python-dotenv` to the
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+ requirements). Gunicorn does not: start it as
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+ `dotenv -f .env run -- gunicorn …` (python-dotenv's CLI,
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+ `pip install "python-dotenv[cli]"`), in the app's run script or Procfile,
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+ not just your own command. Restart the server after writing the file.
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+ Doctor reads `.env` from its working directory by itself. Never `source`,
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+ `export` or `cat` the file: the codes contain `&`, and the shell prints the
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+ pieces.
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+ Do not invent placeholder URIs. Start the quickstart only once `NWC_URI` is
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+ saved and `LSC_URI_PRIMARY` is saved or explicitly declined. The first boot
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+ runs the receive-only preflight: if it reports spend methods such as
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+ `pay_invoice`, remove `NWC_URI` from `.env` and ask for a receive-only code
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+ again. Never set the spend-capable override to get past it.
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+ After the Blueprint is registered, run
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+ `openreceive doctor --app <module>:openreceive`, naming the
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+ `OpenReceiveFlask` object (inside the app's container when it runs under
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+ Compose). It reports
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+ `NWC_URI` presence without printing it, probes the wallet, and names
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+ any hook still on a placeholder and whether the migration ran. Exit code 1 is a
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+ finding to fix, not a reason to skip the check.
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+
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+ ### Upgrading an existing install
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+ This is not the opening move of a new integration. When OpenReceive is ALREADY
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+ installed here, the doctor above is the first check. Compare the installed
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+ `openreceive` (`pip show openreceive`) against the release named at the top
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+ of this file, and the copied `openreceive_flask.py` against the quickstart's.
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+ Upgrade first.
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+ Only then start the quickstart.
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+
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+ ## After the quickstart — hand over, then stop
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+ The quickstart is done when
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+ `openreceive doctor --app <module>:openreceive --url <app url>` is clean and
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+ this app
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+ serves the checkout page for one of its orders. Doctor names any failed check
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+ and exits nonzero; fix it before going on.
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+ Give the user that checkout link. The browser check in the quickstart's step 6
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+ (payment-method icons, wallet logos, a pay tutorial) is theirs: name it in one
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+ line of your closing message, and do not run it yourself.
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+ You cannot pay the invoice: the code is receive-only. Do not pay, settle or
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+ mark an order paid, and do not look for a way to (a wallet control port, a
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+ test endpoint, another wallet). If the user wants a real settlement test, they
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+ pay on that link from their own wallet, and `on_paid` marks the order paid.
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+ Setup ends here. Your last message starts "Setup is finished" and has at most
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+ five short lines (about 80 characters each): the link, the methods it offers,
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+ and one line of what to look at. Send nothing after it. Do not list what
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+ changed, copy out the quickstart's browser checklist, offer more work, or end
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+ the message on a question.
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+ - The link is to a real unpaid order. Keep that order; do not delete it.
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+ - When this app's orders belong to a session or cookie, the user's browser
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+ cannot open the order you made. Then the link is the shop's own page:
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+ "Open <shop url> and click Buy: it opens the checkout." Do not explain order
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+ ownership or mention your test order.
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+ - Name the methods it offers: Bitcoin, plus USDT, USDC, ETH and SOL when
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+ `LSC_URI_PRIMARY` is saved. Do not mention minimums, and never say a coin
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+ will not work or will not be offered.
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+ ## Non-negotiables
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+ The quickstart below has the code. These are the rules it cannot state for
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+ itself, and they hold for every integration.
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+ - OpenReceive never owns orders, users, prices, or fulfillment. The section
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+ below is how those tables sit next to the library — not a second order model,
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+ and not a Prisma/Drizzle relation to `openreceive_payments`.
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+ - Keep `NWC_URI` / `LSC_URI_*` server-only. Never put them in browser code,
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+ logs, or assets.
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+ - Do not suggest rotating, revoking or replacing a code because it was pasted
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+ into this chat; that is the supported path.
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+ - Work only in this application. Never read or run anything from another
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+ project on this machine (its `node_modules`, tools or source), for any
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+ reason. A browser and Playwright are not part of setup.
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+ - Restart only this app's server, on the port it already uses: stop the
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+ process you started, or the one listening on that port, by its pid (or
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+ restart its Compose service). Never `pkill` or `killall` by name: that
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+ stops other people's servers too. Start it the way this project already
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+ does (its README, Procfile, compose file or package script), on its own
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+ port, not a port you pick.
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+ - Run commands where the app runs. When a compose file builds it, run its
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+ package manager, generators, migrations and doctor inside that service
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+ (`docker compose exec` or `run`), and rebuild the image after adding a
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+ package. This machine's language version and database path are not the
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+ app's.
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+ - To check that the running app sees the codes, run doctor: it reports each
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+ one as present or missing and never prints a value. Never print the
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+ environment (`printenv`, `env`, `docker compose config`), even filtered to
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+ names.
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+ - The host owns the price. `amount_for` reads it from your own data; reject
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+ payer-supplied amounts.
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+ - `authorize` runs on every request, and the `resource` it receives is a CLAIM
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+ the payer made, not proof. Read Flask's `session` or Flask-Login's
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+ `current_user`; never trust a body field.
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+ - `on_paid` must be idempotent. Its database fulfillment commits once per `reference` — your order id, one
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+ per thing you fulfill, created before checkout, kept across retries, never
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+ reused. A fresh id per page load lets one order be paid twice.
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+ - Receive-only NWC is required; a spend-capable code fails closed at boot unless
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+ explicitly overridden.
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+ - There is NO merchant-initiated refund of a settled Lightning payment, because
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+ the wallet cannot spend. Swap refunds — a payer reclaiming a deposit that
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+ never converted — are the only refund OpenReceive performs, and only from the
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+ `refund_required` provider state. Do not build, promise, or imply a Lightning
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+ refund path.
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+ - IF YOU TURN SWAPS ON, BUILD THE ROUTE BACK. A deposit that arrives short or
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+ late becomes `refund_required`, and the payer claims it on a SECOND VISIT,
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+ after leaving your page to fetch an address from another wallet. Three things
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+ must exist or that money is unreachable through your UI: a per-order URL your
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+ server serves (`/checkout/:reference` — `syncUrl` on `<Checkout>`, `sync-url`
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+ or `resumable` on `<openreceive-checkout>`), your own order-summary route to
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+ restore the order from, and the ATTEMPT.
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+ `/checkouts/prepare` returns no attempts, so a checkout rebuilt from the
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+ reference alone opens on the method grid. Re-picking the same coin
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+ (`POST /swaps`) re-serves the committed attempt — but only while it is live,
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+ and the shadow invoice behind a swap lasts about half an hour, after which the
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+ same click mints a NEW deposit address and the refund is off-screen. Keep the
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+ `payment_hash` and reopen the attempt with `POST /swaps/status`, which has no
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+ such window. On the drop-ins: `resumePaymentHash`, fed from `onState`, on
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+ `<Checkout>`; the `resume-payment-hash` attribute, fed from the
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+ `openreceive-state` event (`event.detail.state.payment_hash`), on
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+ `<openreceive-checkout>`. https://openreceive.org/guides/swap-refunds.md
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+ - Show the payer WHAT THEY ARE BUYING. Return an optional `description` beside
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+ the price from `amount_for` and both drop-ins render it above the amount.
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+ Without it the checkout is a QR and "$1.00" with no sign of what the dollar
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+ is for.
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+ - Show the payer the transaction record: `createTransactionDetails(...)` rows,
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+ collapsed behind a caret, on the live checkout AND on the receipt. A payment
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+ hash and a deposit txid are the only evidence a payer has that they paid you.
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+ `<Checkout>` / `<openreceive-checkout>` already render this panel and the
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+ `description` — these two rules cost you code only on a custom UI or your own
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+ receipt page, never a reason to replace the drop-in. (It returns no rows
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+ while the rail is `checkout_lock` — before the payer has chosen anything
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+ there is no transaction — so render the caret only when the rows are
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+ non-empty.)
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+ - Copy `openreceive_flask.py` from the quickstart unchanged, register
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+ `openreceive.blueprint()` (it serves `/openreceive`), and call
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+ `openreceive.start()` where the app boots, so a bad wallet stops the
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+ deploy. Keep Flask-WTF's `CSRFProtect` on these routes too, never exempt the
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+ Blueprint: render `<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">` and
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+ give the checkout `csrf-header="X-CSRFToken"`. An app without Flask-WTF adds
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+ no CSRF layer: the engine's `Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site` refusal is the
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+ protection. Behind a reverse proxy wrap the app in Werkzeug's `ProxyFix`, or
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+ `rate_limiting` counts the proxy as the one payer.
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+ - The engine is synchronous, like Flask. Give OpenReceive its own sync
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+ SQLAlchemy `Engine` on this app's database URL. On SQLite it must not be
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+ Flask-SQLAlchemy's `db.engine`: the repository reconfigures its Engine for
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+ one writer at a time.
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+ - HTTP JSON is snake_case, and so is the Python API (`payment_hash`,
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+ `amount_msats`).
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+ - Money is integers or decimal strings — never binary floats.
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+ ## Your tables, not ours
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+ `openreceive scaffold payments --alembic` (Flask-Migrate is Alembic), `--sql`,
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+ or the quickstart's start-up helper creates `openreceive_payments` and
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+ `openreceive_meta` in THIS application's database.
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+ That is the whole persistence OpenReceive needs. It does not replace your
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+ orders, users, or products, and you do not join them.
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+ - **Find this app's models first.** They may be named `Order`, `Invoice`,
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+ `Booking`, `Product`, `Variant`, `User`, `Account` — anything. Wire the hooks
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+ to those. Do not generate a parallel `ShopOrder` / `ShopProduct` / `ShopUser`
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+ stack.
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+ - **The payable row's id is the `reference`.** Create it before checkout, keep
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+ it across retries, never reuse it. Pass that id to `<Checkout>` /
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+ `<openreceive-checkout>`. A fresh id per page load lets one order be paid
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+ twice.
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+ - **Products (or the catalog) are the price authority.** Order creation reads
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+ live prices into the order (snapshot line items if this app has them).
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+ `amount_for` reads only that order — never a payer-supplied amount, never a
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+ live catalog lookup that could re-price a cart already placed. Return
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+ `{"currency", "value"}` as a decimal STRING, plus a `description` of what
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+ they are buying.
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+ - **Users own the order; OpenReceive never sees them.** `authorize` uses the
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+ same ownership check this app already uses on the order show / pay page —
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+ Flask-Login's `current_user`, an id in `session`, whatever it is. It runs
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+ inside the request, so both work there. `context.resource["reference"]` is a claim the
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+ payer sent, not proof.
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+ - **The order is unpaid or paid.** Do not copy `pending` / `expired` / `failed`
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+ / `attention` onto it. Those are attempt statuses on `openreceive_payments`. An
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+ expired invoice does not cancel the order; a later checkout may mint another
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+ attempt. The library refuses a new checkout under a reference that already
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+ settled (409).
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+ - **Pass a sync SQLAlchemy `Engine` for this app's database.** Do not add an
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+ ORM relationship from Order to `openreceive_payments`, and do not implement
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+ `PaymentRepository` unless no SQLAlchemy engine can reach this database.
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+ `reference` is not unique (many attempts per order). Fulfillment is a
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+ guarded transition on YOUR order row inside `on_paid` — `UPDATE … WHERE
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+ state = 'awaiting_payment'` (or this app's equivalent) through
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+ `settlement.connection`, the settlement transaction's own connection, never
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+ `db.session`. Database writes only in the hook; emails,
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+ jobs, and pushes in `after_paid` or after commit.
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+ ## If you build your own checkout UI
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+ The drop-ins (`<Checkout>`, `<openreceive-checkout>`) already obey all of this.
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+ This list is the short form of https://openreceive.org/guides/checkout-ux.md, for a
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+ UI built on `@openreceive/browser/headless`. Read that before writing
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+ components.
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+ - Check Bitcoin → Switch payment method → Bitcoin: the grid must hide the
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+ Lightning invoice, then restore the same bolt11 without another mint.
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+ - `createCheckoutController` is the engine. Do not hand-roll a poll loop.
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+ - `createCheckoutStatusModel` for the status line. Do not draw a
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+ Cart → Pay → Done stepper. Read the model's `phase`, not the snapshot's.
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+ - `resolveWizardSelection` decides whether to ask "which network?". A
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+ one-network asset starts the swap from the tile. Key `selectedAssetByGroup`
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+ by group (`USDT`), valued by `pay_in_asset` (`USDT_TRON`).
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+ - `createMethodGridDisplay` for tiles, including `limitMessage` so an
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+ unavailable method says the minimum in the payer's currency.
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+ - `createSwapDisplayModel` → `display.copyRows` for deposits: address, memo,
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+ and the bare amount each get a copy row. Render `swap.networkWarning*` as
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+ the model gives it.
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+ - `swap.deposit_amount` is the only amount a payer is told to send. Never put
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+ a fiat valuation of it (`swap.fee.pay_in_fiat`) next to a stablecoin amount:
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+ "$50.03" under "50.05 USDC" reads as a typo, and the payer asks which one to
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+ send. The one fiat figure on a USDT/USDC deposit panel is the cart total
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+ (`payout_fiat`); express "you send" and the fee in the token. Use
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+ `createSwapFeeBreakdown(fee, swap)` — with the swap, not the fee alone — and
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+ it applies this for you; SOL and ETH keep a fiat breakdown.
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+ - `createCheckoutSession` owns mint and swap start. To start swaps, pass its
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+ `swap` option (`selection`, `prefix`, `fetch`) together. Without it
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+ `startSwap` reports through `onError`.
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+ - `createQrSvg` is async. Use `createQrSvgController` so you do not render
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+ `[object Promise]`.
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+ - `checkoutLabels` for every payer-facing string. Only write copy it lacks.
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+ - `stageSwapRefund` then `confirmSwapRefund` — only the second submits.
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+ Validate with `getSwapRefundFormError`. Treat `409` as a normal outcome.
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+ - Pass `{ resumable: true }` to `createSwapDisplayModel` when the payer has
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+ a URL they can come back to, and render `display.refundReturnLabel`.
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+ Resume helpers (`createGuestCheckoutResume`, `createGuestOrderFetcher`)
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+ are on `@openreceive/browser`, not `/headless`.
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+ - A refund replaces the deposit panel. On `refund_required` also drop
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+ "switch payment method".
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+ - No "Open wallet" button on desktop.
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+ - Wallet suggestions: `getPaymentWizardRoutes()` +
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+ `createWizardRouteDisplays`. Lightning only. Logos are data URIs; tutorial
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+ images load from a JavaScript chunk. For a custom headless UI, load it when
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+ a tutorial opens and look up the returned table by the tutorial's `path`:
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+ ```js
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+ import { loadPayTutorialImages } from "@openreceive/browser/headless";
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+ const images = await loadPayTutorialImages();
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+ const src = images[tutorial.path]; // data URI for the selected tutorial
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+ ```
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+ Render `src` as the image source and update your UI after loading. Existing
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+ display objects do not update: their `tutorial.image` stays `undefined` if
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+ created before loading. Alternatively, await the loader, recreate the displays
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+ with `createWizardRouteDisplays`, and render the new `tutorial.image`.
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+ Show the caption while loading or if loading fails; never use an empty image
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+ source. Deploy all JavaScript chunks and allow `data:` in CSP `img-src`.
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+ For missing images, check CSP errors, failed chunks, and stale displays.
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+ Registry paths are lookup keys; there is no asset option or image route.
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+ ## More documentation
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+ Fetch one when the moment comes. Each is raw markdown, so a plain GET is
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+ enough; drop the `.md` for the same page a person would read.
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/authorization.md — before you write `authorize`
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/environment-variables.md — every variable, and what is deliberately not one
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/storage.md — the payment tables and the attempt state machine
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/supabase.md — when the database is Supabase: its pooler, its certificate, and locking the tables away from its Data API
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/serverless.md — when the app runs serverless (Netlify, AWS Lambda, Cloud Run, Google AI Studio): pooled database URLs, timeouts, and why it needs no cron or worker
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/frontend-checkout.md — the drop-in's props, attributes and slots
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/mobile-apps.md — when a mobile app takes the payment: the checkout page it opens, and what the App Store and Google Play allow
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/checkout-ux.md — read before building any custom UI
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/headless-checkout.md — the controller, the display models, refunds
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/provider-registry.md — where the wallet logos and pay
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+ tutorials come from: inside the JavaScript, nothing to serve. This is the page
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+ that owns the image rule, not the summary in checkout-ux.md
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/automated-swaps.md — only if `LSC_URI_PRIMARY` is set
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/swap-refunds.md — the refund flow, and the route back to it. Read it before you turn swaps on
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/lightning-swap-connect.md — what an `LSC_URI_*` code actually is
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/price-feeds.md — where the fiat→sats rate comes from, and how to replace it
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/host-testing.md — testing your three hooks without a live wallet or provider
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/rate-limiting.md — before a public shop goes live
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/security.md and https://openreceive.org/guides/deploying.md — before this goes anywhere real
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/api-reference.md — every route, option and error code
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/custom-checkout-route.md — advanced: replacing the shipped adapter's routes with your own
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/react-material-ui-recipe.md — a worked custom UI on a component library
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides.md — the index, if what you need is not above
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+
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+ Questions, or a problem with the library itself:
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+ https://openreceive.org/contact
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+
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+ - https://openreceive.org/guides/payment-safety-upgrade.md — coordinated upgrades and reviewed repair of existing attempts
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## The quickstart, in full
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+
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+ Inlined verbatim so this file needs no network access — follow it once Step 0
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+ passes. The page it comes from is https://openreceive.org/guides/quickstart-flask.
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+
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+ ## Flask quickstart
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+
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+ Flask with Jinja templates. Requires Python ≥ 3.10, Flask ≥ 3 and a
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+ SQLAlchemy 2 `Engine` for OpenReceive's two tables.
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+
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+ OpenReceive ships no `openreceive.flask` package, on purpose. The engine's
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+ HTTP handler is framework-free, and a Flask Blueprint over it is the one file
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+ below, which you copy into your app. It becomes a package
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+ (`openreceive[flask]`) once two things are true: someone outside this
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+ repository has used it, and its code has gone a release without changes. If
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+ you copy it and hit a rough edge, that report is what moves it.
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+
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+ ### 1. Install
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ pip install "openreceive[sqlalchemy]"
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+ ```
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+
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+ OpenReceive is one Python distribution with framework extras.
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+ `openreceive[sqlalchemy]` brings SQLAlchemy 2. The base package includes the
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+ wallet client (websockets, coincurve, cryptography), the HTTP engine, the
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+ `openreceive` CLI and the checkout's script and stylesheet, so a Flask app
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+ with Jinja templates needs no npm. Add your database driver if the app does
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+ not have one yet, such as `psycopg[binary]` for Postgres.
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+
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+ Use `uv` or a virtualenv on Python 3.10 or newer. A system Python 3.9 cannot
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+ install the package.
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+
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+ ### 2. Create the payment tables
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+
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+ OpenReceive needs two tables in your database:
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+
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+ - `openreceive_payments`, the payment attempts
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+ - `openreceive_meta`, the reconcile gate
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+
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+ With Flask-Migrate (it is Alembic), write a revision and apply it the way you
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+ apply your own:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ openreceive scaffold payments --alembic --dialect postgres --out-dir migrations/versions # or sqlite | mysql
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+ ```
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+
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+ Set the revision's `down_revision` to your current head (`flask db heads`),
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+ then run `flask db upgrade`. The command never opens a database connection.
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+ → [openreceive scaffold payments](https://openreceive.org/guides/api-reference.md#openreceive-scaffold-payments-python)
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+
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+ An app that creates its own tables at start with `db.create_all()` creates
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+ these two beside them. Their DDL has no `IF NOT EXISTS`, so the table's
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+ presence is the marker:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from sqlalchemy import inspect, text
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+ from openreceive.storage.sql import payments_ddl_statements
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+
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+
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+ def create_payment_tables(engine):
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+ if not inspect(engine).has_table("openreceive_payments"):
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+ with engine.begin() as connection:
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+ for statement in payments_ddl_statements(engine.dialect.name):
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+ connection.execute(text(statement))
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+ ```
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+
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+ Run it once per start, in one process, as `db.create_all()` runs. Anything
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+ else that runs your migrations can take `openreceive scaffold payments --sql
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+ --dialect postgres`, which prints the same DDL. OpenReceive owns the tables'
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+ logic at runtime: locking, write-once settlement, and the reconciliation state
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+ machine. Details: [Payment storage](https://openreceive.org/guides/storage.md).
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+
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+ ### 3. Add wallet credentials
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+
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+ Put the credentials in the server's environment. That can be a `.env` your
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+ process manager loads, Compose's `env_file`, or your secret store:
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+
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+ ```dotenv
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+ NWC_URI=
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+ LSC_URI_PRIMARY=
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+ LSC_URI_BACKUP=
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+ ```
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+
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+ 1. Get a receive-only NWC code from a compatible wallet
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+ ([get one here](https://openreceive.org/get_a_nwc_code_to_receive_payments)).
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+ Put it in `NWC_URI`.
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+ 2. Optional: set up a [swap provider](https://openreceive.org/set_up_swap_provider).
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+ Put its connection string in `LSC_URI_PRIMARY`, and a second one in
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+ `LSC_URI_BACKUP` if you have one.
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+
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+ Never put these values in browser code. Your app refuses to start if the NWC
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+ code also advertises spend methods such as `pay_invoice`. Create a
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+ receive-only code instead ([Security](https://openreceive.org/guides/security.md)).
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+
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+ OpenReceive reads `os.environ`, so a `.env` file on disk is not enough on its
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+ own. `flask run` loads `.env` when python-dotenv is installed. Gunicorn does
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+ not: under Docker Compose give the service `env_file: .env`, and elsewhere
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+ let the process manager or secret store inject the values.
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+ [Environment variables](https://openreceive.org/guides/environment-variables.md) lists every variable.
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+
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+ ### 4. Wire OpenReceive
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+
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+ Copy this file into your app as `openreceive_flask.py`. It is the whole
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+ integration: a Blueprint whose one route hands each request to the engine,
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+ and an object that builds the engine once.
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+
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+ ```python
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+ # openreceive_flask.py: OpenReceive for Flask. Copy this file into your app.
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+ """The OpenReceive routes as a Flask Blueprint over the framework-free engine.
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+
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+ `host` and `repository` are what `openreceive doctor --app app:openreceive`
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+ reads, without touching the wallet. `start()` builds the stack once; building
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+ the Service is the receive-only wallet check, so call it where the app boots.
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+ """
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+
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+ import os
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+ import threading
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+
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+ from flask import Blueprint, Response, request
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+
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+ from openreceive.nwc.receive_client import NwcReceiveClient
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+ from openreceive.server import (
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+ ConfigurationError,
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+ HttpRequest,
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+ HttpResponse,
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+ OpenReceiveApp,
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+ Service,
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+ )
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+ from openreceive.server.service import redact_secrets
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+ from openreceive.storage.sql import SqlPaymentRepository
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+
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+ METHODS = ["GET", "POST", "PUT", "PATCH", "DELETE", "OPTIONS"]
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+
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+
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+ class OpenReceiveFlask:
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+ def __init__(self, host, engine, *, rate_limiting=False):
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+ self.host = host
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+ # OpenReceive's own repository over your Engine: its two tables,
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+ # the per-reference lock, write-once settlement and the reconcile gate.
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+ self.repository = SqlPaymentRepository(engine)
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+ self.rate_limiting = rate_limiting
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+ self._app = None
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+ self._lock = threading.Lock()
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+
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+ def start(self):
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+ """Build the stack once. Raises ConfigurationError when NWC_URI is
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+ missing, unreachable or able to spend."""
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+ with self._lock:
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+ if self._app is None:
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+ nwc = os.environ.get("NWC_URI", "").strip()
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+ if not nwc:
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+ raise ConfigurationError(
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+ "NWC_URI is not set. Get a receive-only code: "
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+ "https://openreceive.org/get_a_nwc_code_to_receive_payments"
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+ )
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+ self._app = OpenReceiveApp(
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+ # Service reads LSC_URI_* for swaps and refuses a code that can spend.
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+ service=Service(NwcReceiveClient(nwc)),
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+ host=self.host,
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+ repository=self.repository,
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+ prefix="",
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+ rate_limiting=self.rate_limiting,
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+ )
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+ return self._app
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+
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+ @property
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+ def app(self):
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+ return self.start()
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+
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+ def blueprint(self, url_prefix="/openreceive"):
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+ bp = Blueprint("openreceive", __name__, url_prefix=url_prefix)
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+
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+ @bp.route("/<path:rest>", methods=METHODS)
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+ def dispatch(rest):
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+ try:
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+ app = self.app
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+ except ConfigurationError as error:
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+ response = HttpResponse(
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+ 503,
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+ {
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+ "code": "WALLET_UNAVAILABLE",
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+ "message": f"OpenReceive is not configured: {redact_secrets(str(error))}",
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+ "retryable": True,
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+ },
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+ {},
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+ )
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+ else:
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+ bodyless = request.method in ("GET", "HEAD", "OPTIONS")
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+ response = app.handle(
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+ HttpRequest(
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+ method=request.method,
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+ path=f"/{rest}",
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+ query_string=request.query_string.decode(),
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+ headers=dict(request.headers),
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+ # A reader: the engine caps the body before it reads it.
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+ body=None if bodyless else request.stream.read,
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+ content_length=request.content_length,
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+ remote_addr=request.remote_addr,
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+ # What `authorize` gets as `context.request`.
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+ framework_request=request,
628
+ )
629
+ )
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+ return Response(
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+ response.json(), response.status, response.headers, mimetype="application/json"
632
+ )
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+
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+ return bp
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+ ```
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+
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+ Then wire your three hooks where the app is built. This example uses
638
+ Flask-SQLAlchemy, an `Order` model and the buyer's id in Flask's session; map
639
+ it onto the models and the login this app already has:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ import os
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+ from flask import Flask, session
644
+ from sqlalchemy import create_engine, text
645
+ from openreceive.server import Host
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+ from openreceive_flask import OpenReceiveFlask
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+ from .models import Order, db # your existing models
648
+
649
+
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+ def find_order(reference):
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+ reference = str(reference or "")
652
+ return db.session.get(Order, int(reference)) if reference.isdigit() else None
653
+
654
+
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+ host = Host(
656
+ # The price for a reference — here, your order id — from your own data;
657
+ # OpenReceive converts it into the Lightning invoice. Return None when
658
+ # there is nothing to pay for. `value` is a decimal STRING from the order
659
+ # row, never a float and never a request param. `description` is what the
660
+ # payer is buying, in your own words.
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+ amount_for=lambda reference: (
662
+ {"currency": "USD", "value": str(order.total), "description": order.summary}
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+ if (order := find_order(reference)) is not None and order.status == "awaiting_payment"
664
+ else None
665
+ ),
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+ # Your own access check: may this caller pay for this order? It runs inside
667
+ # the request, so `session` and Flask-Login's `current_user` work here.
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+ # `context.resource["reference"]` is a claim the payer's browser sent, not proof.
669
+ authorize=lambda context: (
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+ (order := find_order(context.resource.get("reference"))) is not None
671
+ and order.user_id == session.get("user_id")
672
+ ),
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+ # INSIDE the settlement transaction; runs only for the reference's first
674
+ # settled attempt. Write through `settlement.connection` (that transaction),
675
+ # never db.session. The WHERE clause is the lock.
676
+ on_paid=lambda settlement: settlement.connection.execute(
677
+ text("UPDATE orders SET status = 'paid' WHERE id = :id AND status = 'awaiting_payment'"),
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+ {"id": int(settlement.reference)},
679
+ ),
680
+ )
681
+
682
+ # OpenReceive's own Engine on the SAME database as your orders. On SQLite it
683
+ # must not be Flask-SQLAlchemy's db.engine: the repository sets it up for one
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+ # writer at a time.
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+ payments_engine = create_engine(os.environ["DATABASE_URL"])
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+
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+ # `rate_limiting=True` caps invoice creation at 60 per client IP per hour, for
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+ # public web shops. Leave it off for point-of-sale, where payers share an IP.
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+ openreceive = OpenReceiveFlask(host, payments_engine, rate_limiting=True)
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+ app.register_blueprint(openreceive.blueprint()) # serves /openreceive/...
691
+
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+ # The receive-only wallet check, where the app boots: a missing, unreachable
693
+ # or spend-capable code stops the server here instead of failing the first payer.
694
+ openreceive.start()
695
+ ```
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+
697
+ `openreceive.start()` runs once per process. A command that imports the app
698
+ with no wallet access, such as a build step, can skip it: the first payment
699
+ request then runs the check, and the routes answer `503 WALLET_UNAVAILABLE`
700
+ until it passes. There is no background reconciler, meaning no job that checks
701
+ pending payments on a timer. Settlement runs during normal requests instead,
702
+ through the durable reconcile gate.
703
+
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+ **Flask-WTF's CSRF protection stays on.** `CSRFProtect` checks every POST,
705
+ the payment routes included, and the checkout sends the page's token in a
706
+ header (step 5). Do not exempt the Blueprint. An app without Flask-WTF needs
707
+ nothing extra: every mounted route refuses a request whose `Sec-Fetch-Site`
708
+ header says `cross-site`, and `authorize` is the real boundary
709
+ ([Security](https://openreceive.org/guides/security.md)).
710
+
711
+ Behind a reverse proxy, wrap the app in Werkzeug's `ProxyFix`
712
+ (`app.wsgi_app = ProxyFix(app.wsgi_app, x_for=1)`). Otherwise
713
+ `request.remote_addr` is the proxy, and `rate_limiting` counts it as the one
714
+ payer. → [Rate limiting](https://openreceive.org/guides/rate-limiting.md)
715
+
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+ An optional worker, `openreceive notifications --app app:openreceive`,
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+ listens for wallet payment notifications so settlement does not wait for the
718
+ next page load. → [openreceive notifications](https://openreceive.org/guides/api-reference.md#openreceive-reconcile--openreceive-notifications)
719
+
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+ Your app also needs an ordinary order-creation route that validates the cart,
721
+ prices with exact decimal math, and returns the order id the page will pass as
722
+ the `reference`. OpenReceive never prices from payer input.
723
+
724
+ The `reference` is a string you choose, and it is the fulfillment identity:
725
+ your order id. Use one per thing you fulfill, create it before checkout, keep
726
+ it across retries, and never reuse it. OpenReceive never looks inside it, but
727
+ the reference still matters:
728
+
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+ - `on_paid` commits fulfillment once per reference.
730
+ - A new checkout under a reference that already settled is refused with 409.
731
+ - A fresh id per page load lets one order be paid twice.
732
+
733
+ The Python API is snake_case (`payment_hash`, `amount_msats`), and so is
734
+ everything on the wire.
735
+
736
+ ### 5. Render checkout
737
+
738
+ The checkout's script and stylesheet ship inside the `openreceive` package.
739
+ Serve them from the installed copy, so an upgrade never leaves a stale file:
740
+
741
+ ```python
742
+ from importlib.resources import files
743
+ from flask import send_from_directory
744
+
745
+ CHECKOUT_ASSETS = str(files("openreceive") / "django" / "static" / "openreceive")
746
+
747
+
748
+ @app.get("/checkout-assets/<path:name>")
749
+ def checkout_assets(name):
750
+ return send_from_directory(CHECKOUT_ASSETS, name)
751
+ ```
752
+
753
+ Then render the checkout on the order's own page:
754
+
755
+ ```html
756
+ <head>
757
+ <meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
758
+ <link rel="stylesheet" href="/checkout-assets/openreceive-checkout.css">
759
+ <script type="module" src="/checkout-assets/openreceive-checkout.js"></script>
760
+ </head>
761
+
762
+ <openreceive-checkout reference="{{ order.id }}" prefix="/openreceive"
763
+ csrf-header="X-CSRFToken"></openreceive-checkout>
764
+ ```
765
+
766
+ The checkout renders, polls, and settles itself. `csrf-header` sends the
767
+ `<meta name="csrf-token">` value in Flask-WTF's `X-CSRFToken` header on every
768
+ request it makes. Without Flask-WTF, drop the meta tag and the attribute. The
769
+ checkout already shows the `description` from `amount_for` and the collapsed
770
+ transaction-details panel; do not build a custom UI to show them
771
+ ([Checkout UX](https://openreceive.org/guides/checkout-ux.md)).
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+
773
+ The order page is the payer's way back: a payer can reload or bookmark it to
774
+ return to a pending payment or a swap refund. Set the `theme` attribute
775
+ (`dark` or `light`) when the page always uses one theme. The stylesheet is
776
+ scoped to the checkout and needs no Tailwind processing; your page's styles
777
+ can still override it ([Frontend checkout](https://openreceive.org/guides/frontend-checkout.md)).
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+ Everything the checkout draws ships inside the script, so there is no image to
779
+ serve. If your Content-Security-Policy has a strict `img-src`, allow `data:`.
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+ An app with a JavaScript build can use `@openreceive/react`, `/vue`,
781
+ `/svelte` or `/angular` from npm instead, with `csrfHeader="X-CSRFToken"`.
782
+
783
+ That is the whole loop. Your server owns the price and the order. The payer
784
+ gets an invoice. `on_paid` runs inside the settlement transaction. If that
785
+ transaction rolls back, the callback may run again. For delivery to outside
786
+ systems, use an outbox in your app: record the message in the transaction and
787
+ send it after commit, or use `after_paid` on the `Host`.
788
+
789
+ `examples/flask-starter` is this page as a
790
+ one-product shop. It is not a template to copy models from; map its shape
791
+ onto the models in THIS app.
792
+
793
+ ### 6. Verify
794
+
795
+ ```sh
796
+ openreceive doctor --app app:openreceive --url http://localhost:5000
797
+ ```
798
+
799
+ `--app module:attr` names the `OpenReceiveFlask` object. Doctor reads `.env`
800
+ in the working directory for variables the environment does not set, and
801
+ never prints a value. When the app runs under Docker Compose, run doctor
802
+ inside the service (`docker compose exec web openreceive doctor …`), where
803
+ `env_file` has set the environment.
804
+
805
+ `openreceive doctor` checks Python, `NWC_URI`, and swap-provider
806
+ configuration. It probes the wallet relay to confirm the code is
807
+ receive-only, confirms the migration ran, and names any hook still on a
808
+ placeholder. `--url` confirms the routes are mounted. Every failing line
809
+ states its own fix, and the command exits with code 1 when anything fails.
810
+ `openreceive debug-report` prints the same output as a redacted support
811
+ report. → [openreceive doctor](https://openreceive.org/guides/api-reference.md#openreceive-doctor-python)
812
+
813
+ Then open the checkout in a browser, confirm the payment-method icons and
814
+ wallet logos render, and open a wallet's pay tutorial to check its screenshots.
815
+ If an image is missing, inspect the console for CSP violations and the Network
816
+ panel for failed script loads. Allow `data:` in `img-src`. Do not add image
817
+ routes, copy package source images, or use registry `icon_path` / tutorial
818
+ `path` keys as browser URLs.
819
+
820
+ Swap credentials (`LSC_URI_*`) stay server-side too. The provider order id and
821
+ token live in the attempt's server-only `swap_data` column. They never reach a
822
+ response or a log ([Automated swaps](https://openreceive.org/guides/automated-swaps.md)).