URI scheme¶

The taler URI scheme represents actions that are processed by a Taler wallet. The basic syntax is as follows:

'taler://' action '/' params

1.10.1. Requesting a Payment¶

Payments are requested with the pay action. The parameters are a hierarchical identifier for the requested payment:

'taler://pay/' merchant-host '/' merchant-public-prefix '/' merchant-instance  '/' order-id [ '/' session-id ]

The components merchant-host, merchant-prefix and order-id identify the URL that is used to claim the contract for this payment request.

To make the URI shorter (which is important for QR code payments), - (minus) can be substituted to get a default value for some components:

the default for merchant-instance is default
the default for merchant-public-prefix is public

The following is a minimal example for a payment request from the demo merchant, using the default instance and no session-bound payment:

taler://pay/backend.demo.taler.net/-/-/2019.08.26-ABCED

1.10.2. Withdrawing (Initiation)¶

'taler://withdraw/' bank-host '/' bank-query '/' withdraw-uid

When bank-query is -, the default withdraw-operation will be used.

Example:

'taler://withdraw/bank.taler.net/-/ABDE123

1.10.3. Withdrawing (Confirmation)¶

'taler://notify-reserve/' [ reserve-pub ]

Notify the wallet that the status of a reserve has changed. Used by the bank to indicate that the withdrawal has been confirmed by the user (e.g. via 2FA / mTAN / …). The wallet the re-checks the status of all unconfirmed reserves.

Optionally, reserve-pub can be specified to also indicate the reserve that has been updated.

1.10.4. Refunds¶

'taler://refund/' merchant-host '/' merchant-public-prefix '/' merchant-instance  '/' order-id

1.10.5. Low-level Reserve Actions¶

The following actions are deprecated. They might not be supported in newer wallets.

'taler://reserve-create/' reserve-pub

'taler://reserve-confirm/' query

1.10.6. Special URLs for fulfillment¶

The special fulfillment-success action can be used in a fulfillment URI to indicate success with a message, without directing the user to a website. This is useful in applications that are not Web-based:

When wallets encounter this URI in any other circumstance than going to a fulfillment URL, they must raise an error.