Migration-From-Bitpay.md

How to migrate from Bitpay API

Introduction

BTCPay implements the same API as Bitpay for creating or managing your invoices. Migrating should just be a matter of pointing to the BTCPay URL instead of Bitpay.

While Bitpay is using one user account for one merchant, BTCPay allows a user to manage multiple stores. BTCPay also uses BitId.

Pairing process

Your first need to create a new store:

1. Log in
2. Go to Stores menu
3. Click on Create a new store
4. Enter a friendly name for the store, validate.

To provide access to the store's API, you need to go through the process of pairing a public key to a store. There are two ways of doing that:

The first way is to follow the process documented by Bitpay on this link.

The second way, is to generate your private key, then:

1. Go to the store's settings
2. Click on Access tokens
3. Click on Create new Token
4. Select merchant's facade and enter your public key,
5. Click request pairing
6. Click on Approve