Guide

Solana Pay QR micropayments

In-browser wallet connect does not work everywhere — especially inside mobile Twitter or Discord in-app browsers. Solana Pay lets users scan a QR or tap a solana: link, pay from their wallet app, and return with an on-chain receipt. Garden Dice is a live micropayment demo.

Try Solana Pay live — open a challenge page, scan the QR from your phone, tap “I've paid — detect & roll”.

Open challenge — Solana Pay Free demo first

Why QR beats “connect wallet” on mobile

Wallet browser extensions work on desktop Chrome. On a phone, users often open your site inside an embedded browser that cannot inject Phantom or Solflare. Solana Pay sidesteps that: the payment happens in the wallet app the user already trusts, then your page verifies the transaction signature on mainnet.

For pay-per-use apps (rolls, tips, unlocks), this flow is often faster than forcing a wallet connect dance that fails half the time on mobile.

Free Solana Pay QR generator

Build a solana: transfer URL and scannable QR for any recipient. Wallets read the QR as a deeplink — useful for testing micropayments or tipping without writing code. 


          

            
            
            
            
          

          
Enter a valid address to generate a QR.

        

        

          Scan with Phantom, Solflare, or any Solana Pay wallet. Network fee is about
          0.000005 SOL on top of the amount.
          Try a live micropayment on Garden Dice.
        

      


      

        
What a Solana Pay transfer URL looks like

        

          A transfer request is a URL using the solana: protocol with the
          recipient pubkey and query parameters:
        

        
solana:8sohhHrVBXtmFZGr3nR61MAzWWznNqMKamVrQYkYkAox?amount=0.005&label=Garden+Dice&message=Roll+payment

        
    
          
  • amount — SOL to send (decimal string)
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  • label / message — shown in the wallet UI
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  • memo — optional on-chain memo (not used on Garden Dice yet)
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          Wallets render this as a deeplink or QR code. After the user approves, they get
          a transaction signature you can verify with any public RPC.
        

      


      

        
Network fees are tiny on Solana

        

          A common first-payment worry: “Do I have enough SOL for the fee?”
          On mainnet the base network fee is about 0.000005 SOL per transfer —
          far less than the 0.001 SOL micropayment itself. You need payment plus fee in your wallet,
          but you do not need a large SOL balance to try Garden Dice.
        

        

          See the
          Solana transaction fees guide
          for base vs priority fees, or
          your first Solana payment
          if you have never sent SOL from a wallet before.
        

        

          If your wallet shows a balance but rejects the transfer, SOL may be
          rent-locked in empty token accounts from spam airdrops — see
          wallet cleanup
          or reclaim rent
          before retrying the QR.
        

      


      

        
Verify payment on-chain (no backend required)

        
Garden Dice verifies payments client-side:

        
    
          
  1. 
            Fetch the parsed transaction via
            connection.getParsedTransaction(signature) on mainnet.
          
    2. 
          
  2. 
            Find the treasury account in the transaction’s account keys and
            compare postBalance − preBalance to the expected lamports.
          
    3. 
          
  3. 
            Reject replays — store used signatures in localStorage
            so the same payment cannot roll twice.
          
    4. 
          
  4. 
            Deliver the roll only after verification passes — same commit-reveal
            flow as wallet connect.
          
    5. 
        

        

          This pattern works for static sites: no server, no API keys, just public RPC +
          transparent treasury address.
        

      


      

        
Try it on Garden Dice

        

          Open the beat roll of 4 challenge — the
          Solana Pay tab shows a QR. Scan with Phantom or Solflare on your
          phone, pay 0.001 SOL, then tap I've paid — detect & roll.
        

        

          Prefer desktop? Switch to the Wallet tab on the same page.
          Both paths land on the same provably fair roll — see the
          commit-reveal guide for fairness details.
        

        

          Try Solana Pay — 0.001 SOL
          Full dice page
        

      


      

        
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