This command is essential for applications that need to facilitate payments directly within the app, enabling seamless transactions for users. At launch, WLD and USDC will be supported. Example: Enabling an e-commerce platform to allow users to purchase digital goods using cryptocurrencies, providing a smooth checkout experience. Payments are easy to use and only have three simple steps.
  1. Creating the transaction
  2. Sending the command
  3. Verifying the payment
For legal reasons, payments are not available in Indonesia and Philippines.

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Setup

Payments are executed on-chain, so you’ll need an Ethereum compatible wallet. Next, whitelist the address in the Developer Portal. Whitelisting adds security to your mini app to prevent payments from being sent to an unauthorized addresses. Optionally you can disable this check in the Developer Portal. Whitelist an Address

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Initiating the payment

For security, it’s important you initialize and store your payment operation in the backend.
app/api/initiate-pay/route.ts
import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from 'next/server'

export async function POST(req: NextRequest) {
	const uuid = crypto.randomUUID().replace(/-/g, '')

	// TODO: Store the ID field in your database so you can verify the payment later

	return NextResponse.json({ id: uuid })
}

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Using the command

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Sending the command & handling the response

We currently support WLD and USDC payments on Worldchain. Below is the expected input for the Pay command. Since World App sponsors the gas fee, there is a minimum transfer amount of $0.1 for all tokens.
PayCommandInput
// Represents tokens you allow the user to pay with and amount for each
export type TokensPayload = {
  symbol: Tokens;
  token_amount: string;
};

export type PayCommandInput = {
  reference: string;
  to: string;
  tokens: TokensPayload[];
  network?: Network; // Optional
  description: string;
};
For convenience, we offer a public endpoint to query the current price of WLD in various currencies detailed here.
app/page.tsx
import { MiniKit, tokenToDecimals, Tokens, PayCommandInput } from '@worldcoin/minikit-js'

const sendPayment = async () => {
  const res = await fetch('/api/initiate-payment', {
    method: 'POST',
  })
  const { id } = await res.json()

  const payload: PayCommandInput = {
    reference: id,
    to: '0xd8dA6BF26964aF9D7eEd9e03E53415D37aA96045', // Test address
    tokens: [
      {
        symbol: Tokens.WLD,
        token_amount: tokenToDecimals(1, Tokens.WLD).toString(),
      },
      {
        symbol: Tokens.USDC,
        token_amount: tokenToDecimals(3, Tokens.USDC).toString(),
      },
    ],
    description: 'Test example payment for minikit',
  }

  if (!MiniKit.isInstalled()) {
    return
  }

  const { finalPayload } = await MiniKit.commandsAsync.pay(payload)

  if (finalPayload.status == 'success') {
    const res = await fetch(`/api/confirm-payment`, {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
      body: JSON.stringify(finalPayload),
    })
    const payment = await res.json()
    if (payment.success) {
      // Congrats your payment was successful!
    }
  }
}

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Verifying the payment

You should always verify the payment in your backend. Users can manipulate information in the frontend, so the response must be verified in a trusted environment.
Web2 applications can call our Developer Portal API to get the current status of the transaction. Since payments are executed on-chain, it can take up to a few minutes to confirm. You can choose to optimistically accept the payments once they’ve landed on-chain, or poll the endpoint to wait until it’s successful mined. Web3 applications can choose to search the on-chain event logs temselves via the TransferReference event emitted on-chain. Note for reference ID the value on chain will be the keccak256 hash of the reference ID.
TransferReference
event TransferReference(
    address sender,
    address indexed recipient,
    uint256 amount,
    address token,
    string indexed referenceId,
    bool indexed success
);
In this example, we will show querying via Developer Portal API.
app/confirm-payment/route.ts
import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from 'next/server'
import { MiniAppPaymentSuccessPayload } from '@worldcoin/minikit-js'

interface IRequestPayload {
	payload: MiniAppPaymentSuccessPayload
}

export async function POST(req: NextRequest) {
	const { payload } = (await req.json()) as IRequestPayload

	// IMPORTANT: Here we should fetch the reference you created in /initiate-payment to ensure the transaction we are verifying is the same one we initiated
	const reference = getReferenceFromDB()

	// 1. Check that the transaction we received from the mini app is the same one we sent
	if (payload.reference === reference) {
		const response = await fetch(
			`https://developer.worldcoin.org/api/v2/minikit/transaction/${payload.transaction_id}?app_id=${process.env.APP_ID}`,
			{
				method: 'GET',
				headers: {
					Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.DEV_PORTAL_API_KEY}`,
				},
			}
		)
		const transaction = await response.json()

		// 2. Here we optimistically confirm the transaction.
		// Otherwise, you can poll until the status == mined
		if (transaction.reference == reference && transaction.status != 'failed') {
			return NextResponse.json({ success: true })
		} else {
			return NextResponse.json({ success: false })
		}
	}
}

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Success Result on World App

If implemented correctly, the user will see the following drawer on World App.