Open Payments Course on Platzi
A free beginner course that walks you through the technology so you start the hackathon already knowing how it works.
Resources
Everything you need to arrive hackathon-ready, in one place. Your goal is simple: get one payment working end to end. Once you can do that, everything else builds from there.
Step 1 - Learn the Concepts
Get oriented before you write any code. Start here if Open Payments is new to you.
Overview video series
Short tutorials covering the basics of the Interledger Protocol and an in-depth walk-through of Open Payments. Follow along with the open-payments-node repository and the code snippets in the docs.
Engineering Blog
Posts from our engineering team that introduce Open Payments, explain why we chose GNAP for authorization, and cover the Open Payments PHP SDK.
Step 2 - Read the Reference Materials
As you start coding, keep these resources open in another tab.
Open Payments docs
Detailed explanations, code snippets, implementation guides, and the full API specification.
Open Payments SDK
TypeScript types generated directly from the Open Payments OpenAPI specifications, plus a Node.js client that signs requests with your key and validates responses against the specs.
Glossary of Terms
Our Glossary of Terms can be a helpful reference guide as you work through the resources and start building.
Step 3 - Build & test
Hands-on tools to make a payment actually happen.
Interledger Test Wallet
Simulates a financial service provider with Interledger enabled. Sign up, go through a KYC flow, and hold a play-money balance to send and receive payments using wallet addresses. It also exposes the Open Payments APIs so third parties can initiate payments.
Supporting GitHub repositories
Example scripts for sending payments, a library of prewritten code snippets for Visual Studio Code, and Node SDK snippets that work with the Interledger Test Wallet. For PHP, there are also the PHP Open Payments SDK and Open Payments PHP Snippets repositories. Together these make it easier to test, integrate, and experiment with Open Payments in your project.
Interledger Pay
A working peer-to-peer payment client application.
Interledger Boutique
An example eCommerce app for trying out an Open Payments checkout flow end to end.