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Daniel Larimer edited this page Jul 15, 2015 · 12 revisions

Wallet Merchant Protocol

The purpose of this protocol is to enable a merchant to request payment from the user via a hosted wallet provider or via a browser plugin. We will assume that the wallet is hosted at https://wallet.org and that the merchant is hosted at https://merchant.org.

To request a payment, the merchant needs to pass the following JSON object to https://wallet.org/invoice?args=...

{
   "to" : "merchant_account_name",
   "to_label" : "Merchant Name",
   "memo" : "Invoice #1234",
   "line_items" : [
        { "label" : "Something to Buy", "price" : "1000.00 SYMBOL" },
        { "label" : "Something to Buy", "price" : "1000.00 SYMBOL" },
        { "label" : "User Specified Price", "price" : "CUSTOM SYMBOL" },
        { "label" : "User Asset and Price", "price" : "CUSTOM" }
    ],
    "note" : "Something the merchant wants to say to the user",
    "callback" : "https://merchant.org/complete"
}

When the wallet receives this request it will present the user with a form that allows them to select which account they wish to pay with along with a total due. If any CUSTOM fields are specified the user will be able to edit the line item, otherwise it will be pre-filled.

After the user creates the transaction, signs it, and gets confirmation that the transaction has been included in the blockchain then the callback url will be called with signed transaction.

The merchant will then check with the blockchain to see if the transaction has been included and once that confirmation is complete then the merchant is free to ship or enable downloads.

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