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Core Functionality
At its core, the Request Network API empowers you to:- Create Requests: Define payment requests with information such as payee, payer (optional), amount, currency, and recurrence (optional).
- Facilitate Payments: Return transaction calldata, ready to be signed by end-users and sent to the blockchain for secure and transparent value transfer.
- Deliver Webhook Notifications: Receive instant updates on payment status changes, enabling your application to react dynamically to completed transactions.
- Fee Collection: When paying a request, you can specify a fee percentage (between 0 and 100) and a fee address, which will add the fee on top of the payment amount - meaning the payer will pay the original amount plus the fee percentage, with the fee portion being sent to the specified fee address.
- Partial Payment Support: Pay a portion of a request instead of the full amount at once. This unlocks powerful use cases such as:
- Split payment: split a payment 50% USDC on Base and 50% with USDT on Optimism.
- Gradual payment plans: Allow users to pay large invoices in smaller chunks.
- Risk mitigation: Test with small amounts before completing large payments.
The API automatically tracks payment progress, showing
partially_paidstatus until the request is fully paid, and prevents overpayment by capping amounts to the remaining balance.