The world's most powerful suite of bitcoin tools.
Run for yourself, for others, or as part of a stack.
Your Everything App for Payments.
LNbits is a modular payments platform — a wallet, app store, and automation engine in one.
✔️ Point of Sale (shops, cafés, events, mobile vendors)
✔️ Online checkout & donation buttons
✔️ Nostr zaps, paid posts, and micropayments
✔️ Vending machines, kiosks, and hardware devices
✔️ Subscriptions, paywalls, and recurring payments
✔️ Tipping, crowdfunding, and community funding
✔️ APIs for apps, games, and services
✔️ Extensions to build anything on top of payments
LNbits extension universe.
Build LNbits your way.
LNbits keeps the core minimal and powerful.
Everything else lives as optional extensions, so you only run what you actually need.
Build, share, and even charge people to use your own extensions.
curl -X POST https://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/v1/payments \
-H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"out": false,
"amount": 1000,
"memo": "Coffee"
}'Building on LNbits
LNbits gives you a powerful API for apps, merchants, kiosks, and automation flows. Infinitely extendable via extension APIs.
Bootstrap your bitcoin payments.
One API for everything.
Works with ANY Lightning funding source
✔️ Free and open source
✔️ 6 years of production use
✔️ New funding sources added regularly
✔️ NOSTR and LNURL built in: boltcards, relays, NIP05s, vouchers, and more
✔️ Switch funding sources without refactoring
✔️ Built for apps, merchants, kiosks, and automations
✔️ Powerful extension system for custom workflows
✔️ Self-hosted or managed, depending on your stack
✔️ Maintained by a large user and developer community
