Overview

Your notification agents are observing the bitcoin network and watching for transactions to or from your addresses. Whenever a transaction is spotted, the agent will perform certain actions.

Available actions:

• Email notification
• Url Callback
• RSS/Atom feed

On the roadmap:

• SMS
• Instant messaging
• ...and more!

You can set up as many notifications agents as you like, for confirmations ranging from 0 (unconfirmed) to 10.

Now head over to your dashboard to set up and manage your agents!

Building up on the notification agents you can easily roll out a flexible Bitcoin payment solution. This comes with the benefit of not having to expose your bitcoin client to the internet - It can even stay completely offline on your home PC!

Basic workflow:

1. In your shop system for each order associate one of your bitcoin addresses
2. Setup an agent to notify you via http url callback when one of these addresses receives a payment
3. As soon as bitcoins are received on any of the bitcoin addresses we will http POST to your shop json-formatted data containing amount, address, number of confirmations etc.
4. In your shop, look up the order associated with the receiving address. Check if the received amount is correct. If everything is fine, release the address again so it can be used for subsequent orders and ship your goods to the customer

The data you get posted is signed with your individual http callback security token. This token is only known to you and btc-era.co. So you can verify the POST request has been issued by btc-era.co and is not a fraud attempt.

Have a look at the support section to get more information about the http callbacks, including an easy-to-use testcall generator.

Go to your account settings to get or change your personal security token.

You can fully set up and manage your agents not only via webinterface. The full functionality of btc-era.co is also exposed via an easy-to-use RESTful API. This offers plenty of possibilites to use our service for innovative ideas!

Check out the API documentation for more information.

All notifications are stored in our database with the relevant context information. So you can always look up the details of any notification event in case anything needs to be investigated.

Take a look at your notification history now!