# Payment Link (Finpay Link)

## Overview

**Payment Link (Finpay Link)** is a shareable URL for collecting a payment.

You create the link for a specific invoice or transaction. Customers open the link and pay on a Finpay-hosted page.

Use this when you want to accept payments without building checkout UI.

## When to use Payment Link

Payment Link is a good fit when you:

* Sell via chat, social, or manual invoicing.
* Need a fast way to collect one-off payments.
* Do not want to integrate checkout into your site or app yet.

Consider alternatives when you need tighter checkout control:

* Use [Hosted Payment](/payment-gateway/integration-method/hosted-payment.md) for a redirect checkout from your app/site.
* Use [Core API (Host-to-Host)](/payment-gateway/integration-method/core-api-host-to-host.md) for a fully native checkout UI.

## Customer experience

1. You generate a payment link for an invoice or order.
2. You share the link with the customer.
3. Customer opens the link and chooses a payment method.
4. Customer completes the payment on the Finpay page.
5. You confirm the final result using transaction status.

{% hint style="info" %}
Treat the link page as a **payment UI**. Use transaction status as the source of truth.
{% endhint %}

## Workflow

![Payment Link workflow](https://hub.finpay.id/assets/images/workflow_invoice-5dc9fb1e4cbb78b7da728e585620495c.webp)

## Common use cases

* Invoice payment links.
* Payment reminders via email, SMS, or WhatsApp.
* Collecting deposits and down payments.
* Offline-to-online payments (store staff shares a link).


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