# Programmatically sending money to a Payment Pointer using interledger

**URL:** <https://forum.interledger.org/t/programmatically-sending-money-to-a-payment-pointer-using-interledger/1239>\
**Category:** General Questions\
**Created:** [June 3, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/programmatically-sending-money-to-a-payment-pointer-using-interledger/1239 "2021-06-03T13:24:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![joep](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/joep/32/609_2.png) [@joep](https://forum.interledger.org/u/joep)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/programmatically-sending-money-to-a-payment-pointer-using-interledger/1239/1 "2021-06-03T13:24:04Z")

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Hi there!

I’m working on a service that enables people to share URLs that have some monetary value. When opening the URL, you see a form that asks for your Payment Pointer. Fill it in, submit it, and you get the money associated with that URL.

Now, I’m struggling with actually sending the money. Initially, I was hoping to use the Uphold wallet, but after getting in touch with their support, they don’t support sending money with Interledger yet. And if I read the [blog by Coil’s CEO on the new Rafiki project](https://write.as/coil/introducing-rafiki-an-all-in-one-solution-for-interledger-wallets), I understand that there are no wallet implementations as of now that support _sending_ money, only _receiving_.

> However, today’s Interledger wallets only support receiving streaming payments.

So I’m starting to think that what I want to build is not yet feasible, as there is no way to send one-off payments to a payment pointer as of now. Or am I missing something? Any help is very much appreciated!

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**Author:** ![uchibeke](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/uchibeke/32/597_2.png) [@uchibeke](https://forum.interledger.org/u/uchibeke)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/programmatically-sending-money-to-a-payment-pointer-using-interledger/1239/2 "2021-06-03T17:29:54Z")

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Hi Joep, we will support this with Rafiki which will unlock all the features of Interledger via APIs and we are working on releasing a testnet before the end of the year. 🚀

We will track the project in [GitHub - coilhq/rafiki: An open-source, comprehensive Interledger service for wallet providers, enabling them to provide Interledger functionality to their users.](https://github.com/coilhq/rafiki) and post regular updates in [Coil - DEV Community](https://dev.to/coil)

How does the roadmap for the service you’re working on look like?

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**Author:** ![joep](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/joep/32/609_2.png) [@joep](https://forum.interledger.org/u/joep)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/programmatically-sending-money-to-a-payment-pointer-using-interledger/1239/3 "2021-06-07T08:56:22Z")

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Hi Uchi,

Thanks for your reply!

> How does the roadmap for the service you’re working on look like?

Well, we were planning to have a working prototype by august. I’m guessing that is too soon to use Rafiki, right? What does the Rafiki roadmap look like, when is it realistic to be doing one-off interledger payments? Or when the API likely to stabilize, which means that we could interface on that before it’s done?

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**Author:** ![uchibeke](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/uchibeke/32/597_2.png) [@uchibeke](https://forum.interledger.org/u/uchibeke)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/programmatically-sending-money-to-a-payment-pointer-using-interledger/1239/4 "2021-06-09T13:53:12Z")

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Yes. The timeline is short and Rafiki will not be ready by August.

We will post the roadmap on the repo and also share updates every 6 weeks on dev.to/coil.

We have the [Community Call - June 9, 2021](https://forum.interledger.org/t/community-call-june-9-2021/1244) where Adrian and others will be able to answer questions and provide more context.

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**Author:** ![joep](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.interledger.org/joep/32/609_2.png) [@joep](https://forum.interledger.org/u/joep)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.interledger.org/t/programmatically-sending-money-to-a-payment-pointer-using-interledger/1239/5 "2021-06-09T14:16:06Z")

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Thanks for the info, Uchi!
