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# System prepended metadata

title: The Merchant side of Payments

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# The Merchant side of Payments
Deconstructing the components of BTC Pay Server relating to bitcoin merchant systems design.

## Invocices
- [ ] What is the data structure of a merchant BTC invoice?
- [ ] Invoices for Merchant Side
- [ ] Comapre Other Payment Processors
- [ ] Invoices for Consumer Side


## Components
### Merchant
#### Invocices
- What is the data structure of a Merchant BTC invoice?
- [ ] Invoices for Merchant Side
- [ ] Comapre Other Payment Processors
- [ ] Invoices for Consumer Side

#### Refund Management
#### Shipping (plugin)
#### Checkout
#### Accounting

Protecting merchants against Volatility
Community run instances

### Customer
#### Order Tracking/Lookup
#### Refunds

## User flows

```mermaid
graph LR
    1(...) --> 2(...)
```

## Extended Features
### Inventory Management
- Is this relevant in a bitcoin context?