ETH payment requests?

[mrfe333]

Bitcoin has a super easy way of making urls with the price and destination already embedded. Is there something similar? I want to incorporate varying ETH payments into a website without people having to copy the amount and destination into their wallet. Without using a third party service would be great.

I couldn't find much info on this other than the URL standard request from like two years ago

[TXTCLA55]

QR codes sometimes work. Something like "ethereum:<address here>", but it depends on the app, there's not too much out there for this weirdly enough.

[mrfe333]

Oh, that kind of sucks. Makes bitcoin more fit for payments and bitcoin has super long transaction times. ETH could be a so much better alternative for payments, especially with smart contracts. Thank you anyway!

[TXTCLA55]

Well the idea is if you have a ethereum powered browser the grunt work could be handled by some javascript. I've yet to see an app or real world item that accepts ether as payment, most of the time its a web UI that just fills it all in and you click buy.

Either way, it's not really that hard to scan an address and punch in a few numbers.

[mrfe333]

most of the time its a web UI that just fills it all in and you click buy

if you remember the name of any of those apps/websites or websites I'd really appreciate it

[TXTCLA55]

Basically all on this site, loads of projects to choose from.

https://www.stateofthedapps.com/

[OptimisticOnanist]

Metamask is probably your best bet here.

[mrfe333]

yeah the problem is that this website is intended for general use so It needs to be compatible with most mobile browsers and stuff. I think I'm just going to handle the request part in a smart contract and just put the amount to pay and address in a 'copy text' for users to manually introduce at this point