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You’re kind of making our point for us.
What you’re describing requires wallet-specific features, extensions, or configuration. With a Payment Link, there’s nothing to set up or explain, it’s just a link.
Links work everywhere by default. That’s the difference.
We built a wallet directly into Club Orange after realizing ~80% of our users had never used Lightning (!). Whether we like it or not, custodial is the only way to bring LN to the masses, but you can withdraw to a non-custodial wallet anytime, any amount.
Yes, we turn an invoice into a shareable, clickable link.
That sounds trivial until you realize it removes device juggling, wallet incompatibility, and UX friction for normal users.
Same Lightning rails but much easier to pay.
Yep, LNURL-Pay is great.
Payment Links are basically LNURL-Pay, but packaged in a way normal people actually use: a simple link, one-click pay on mobile, QR on desktop, with expiry and sharing built in.
Yes, when you create an invoice on Club Orange or an other LN Wallet, you get a long string + a QR code. However if you share that QR code, the recipient usually needs a second device to scan it.
With a Payment Link, it just works no matter what:
• on mobile, tap Pay with Wallet
• on desktop, scan the QR code
No device juggling. No friction.
This is a LN Invoice:
lnbc30n1p5h5094pp5sl7rszq5g6e88swj9cg4hd5ddc6ftmd0wlnq88n78my43mq6g4dsdqjgdk82c3qfaexzmn8v5cqzzsxqyz5vqsp5ue6eey3cxqgsfqpl0zqq4u0tsume6qtsatawmvcr87hywxczq0cs9p4gqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqysgqe5t9car400jjehl7espkhdqmy7jcjtnkxejdwfhnvt4ew9l9p68sskn9js9ltv5dh6z0lkxgqv0sl8j0z8whxe7gqdj4afvr93n8excq45f2uk
Can you scan it?
Can you click it?
No.
This is a payment link:
https://ln.cluborange.org/i/l8jx6cla
Can you scan it?
Can you click it?
Yes.
It's a link where anybody can pay an invoice by scanning or clicking it, no copy pasting.
Example: https://ln.cluborange.org/i/uNDTzcAe
Not really, we take an invoice and we make it scannable and/or clickable so that's super easy to pay it.
You can try yourself: https://ln.cluborange.org/i/X8uTiMzI
A LN invoice looks like this:
lnbc110n1p5h5dxwpp5vjt8sr0q33pwjmljhaaq0vydnn4q0lwuzyujpvah6s026j48xpfsdqjgdk82c3qfaexzmn8v5cqzzsxqyz5vqsp50ex0yedtfk0vc2rqx4cysxr5452e78n7j9n3uhdeznhk7gj4qvsq9p4gqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqpqysgqa3cruk9amaru2zuqauvnznmtsrw604lfv4htgz40zjfx24p0xzeq4lfme6cwc3w54csrsj90z9eyd69qmen09uw3un7dtfp0duyl0qcqkqgyq2
You can’t scan it.
You can’t click it.
And most people don’t know what to do with it.
A payment link looks like a normal link.
You tap it.
You pay in one click.
Done.
Yes, invoices already exist. We’re making them universally shareable as a link and payable with one click. That’s the improvement.