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### Receiving and receiving payments
Payments in Lightning are invoice based.
The recipient creates an invoice with the expected `<amount>` in millisatoshi, a `<label>` and a `<description>`:
The recipient creates an invoice with the expected `<amount>` in millisatoshi (or `"any"` for a donation), a unique`<label>` and a `<description>` the payer will see:
This returns a random value called `rhash` that is part of the invoice.
The recipient needs to communicate its ID `<recipient_id>`, `<rhash>` and the desired `<amount>` to the sender.
This returns some internal details, and a standard invoice string called `bolt11` (named after the [BOLT #11 lightning spec](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/11-payment-encoding.md).
The sender needs to compute a route to the recipient, and use that route to actually send the payment.
The route contains the path that the payment will take through the Lightning Network and the respective funds that each node will forward.
The sender can feed this `bolt11` string to the `decodepay` command to see what it is, and pay it simply using the `pay` command: