📤 How to send a payment from LND

Now you have an open channel. Let's put it to work and send a small payment from your node. Let's donate $1 in BTC to the Human Rights Foundation!

1. Go to the HRF Website
2. Move the slider to your preferred donation amount.
3. Use the "Donate" button.
4. Choose "Lightning" as a payment method
5. Use the "Copy" button to copy the invoice text to your clipboard

Contribute To the HRF

6. To pay an invoice with lncli, construct a command like this... but after --pay_req, paste the invoice text you just copied:

lncli payinvoice --pay_req [invoice text goes here]

(Curious what's inside that long invoice string? See How to decode a Lightning invoice. And if you ever want to pay an invoice from a mobile or web wallet instead of lncli, see Pay a Lightning invoice.)

7. The payment should send, and if you return to the invoice page, you should see a confirmation like this:

HRF Payment Confirmation

And how do I receive?

To receive, run lncli addinvoice --amt 1000 (the amount is in satoshis) and hand the payment_request string from the output to the payer. If you want a website or app to do this automatically -- with a hosted checkout, no invoice copy-pasting, and no API keys -- see OpenReceive.