Getting paid
What to share
- Your @name, once it's connected to X1 Pay (see Getting started). Tell people to pay
@yourname. - Your pay link,
x1pay.me/@yourname. Open the wallet menu and go to Get paid · share to copy the link, share it, or save it as a QR code. The link carries only your name: no wallet address and no private address. The payer's app looks up the name itself. - Your private address and its QR code, under Receive. It starts with
x1stealth1. Anyone can pay it, even without an @name of their own.
Until your @name is connected to X1 Pay, x1pay.me/@yourname shows your wallet address, so payments there are public. The share section says so until the name is connected.
Paying you doesn't need an X1 Pay account
Someone who opens your pay link can pay you straight from the wallet they connect, without turning on X1 Pay themselves. Their wallet pays a fresh private address made for you, and they see the network fee before they approve. If they want to send privately, they can choose Use X1 Pay instead.
Where the money lands
Each payment lands at its own private address. X1 Pay finds them for you and adds them up as your balance. Under Receive, payments are listed one by one, with who paid:
- A private send carries a receipt that proves which X1 Pay account sent it.
- The @name shown next to a sender comes from that name's own records. That isn't proof on its own, and X1 Pay warns you when a receipt doesn't check out, when more than one @name claims the same sender, or when someone has copied a sender's X1 Pay identity.
- A regular send from a wallet shows the paying wallet, which is public anyway.
To check your balances, the app asks the network about your private addresses mixed in with other people's, and only when a new payment arrives or you refresh. The network operator could still work out which addresses are yours and that they belong together.
Moving it on
You can send money you received straight on to someone else (Send to a regular address uses it), or move chosen payments to one address under More, Payments received, one by one. Tick the payments you want to move; each one pays its own small network fee. Tokens you received are moved there too.
Withdraw moves what you received into your connected wallet, publicly.
Moving several payments to one place links them. If you send many received payments to the same wallet or the same exchange address, anyone can see they belong together, and to you. To keep them apart, spend each one separately.