# cardano-checkout Merchant-side Cardano payment lifecycle in Python. Zero-custody. Ships the invoice state machine + UTxO watcher + reprice loop. Per-invoice HD-derived receive addresses, Koios polling, confirm / underpay / overpay classification, time-windowed repricing against your own oracle. Does NOT ship Cardano primitives. Address derivation, chain context, transaction building, native-script minting, signing — use [pycardano](https://github.com/Python-Cardano/pycardano) directly. This library slots next to it. ## Quick start ```python import asyncio from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone from cardano_checkout import ( Invoice, InvoiceStatus, InMemoryStore, InvoiceScheduler, ) # Your oracle. Anything async returning int lovelace works. async def my_price_fn(usd: float) -> int: rate = await fetch_ada_usd_somewhere() # CoinGecko, Koios, fixed rate, etc. return int(round(usd / rate * 1_000_000)) async def main() -> None: store = InMemoryStore() # swap for your SQLAlchemy / asyncpg / sqlite adapter invoice = Invoice( id="ord-0042", merchant_id="my-shop", derivation_index=42, receive_address="addr1q...", # derive via pycardano expected_lovelace=5_000_000, usd_amount=2.50, expires_at=datetime.now(timezone.utc) + timedelta(minutes=15), ) await store.create(invoice) scheduler = InvoiceScheduler(store=store, price_fn=my_price_fn) await scheduler.start() # ... app runs ... await scheduler.stop() asyncio.run(main()) ``` ## Deriving addresses with pycardano ```python from pycardano import HDWallet, Address, Network # Account-level xpub — public, not a secret. xpub_hex = "..." account = HDWallet.from_xpub(bytes.fromhex(xpub_hex)) def derive_address(account: HDWallet, index: int, network=Network.MAINNET) -> str: payment = account.derive(0).derive(index) # external chain, address index staking = account.derive(2).derive(0) # staking chain, always index 0 addr = Address( payment_part=payment.public_key.hash(), staking_part=staking.public_key.hash(), network=network, ) return str(addr) addr = derive_address(account, index=42) ``` ## NFT cert: CIP-25 v2 metadata Copy-paste builder for an on-chain cert per paid order. No dep. ```python def build_cip25_metadata( *, policy_id: str, asset_name: str, name: str, image_cid: str, description: str = "", media_type: str = "image/jpeg", properties: dict | None = None, ) -> dict: """Build a CIP-25 v2 metadata envelope. Returns a dict ready to submit as transaction metadatum label 721. Handles the 64-char chunking rule for long descriptions. """ def chunk64(s: str) -> list[str]: if len(s) <= 64: return [s] return [s[i:i + 64] for i in range(0, len(s), 64)] body: dict = { "name": name, "image": f"ipfs://{image_cid}", "mediaType": media_type, } if description: body["description"] = description if len(description) <= 64 else chunk64(description) if properties: body.update(properties) return { "721": { policy_id: {asset_name: body}, "version": "2.0", } } ``` Hand the dict to pycardano's `AuxiliaryData(Metadata({...}))` when building the mint tx. ## Implementing your own InvoiceStore `InvoiceStore` is a Protocol — implement six methods against whatever backend you want (SQLAlchemy, asyncpg, SQLite, in-memory). ```python from cardano_checkout import Invoice, InvoiceStatus, InvoiceStore class MySqliteStore: async def create(self, invoice: Invoice) -> None: ... async def get(self, invoice_id: str) -> Invoice | None: ... async def list_by_status(self, status: InvoiceStatus, limit: int = 100) -> list[Invoice]: ... async def update(self, invoice: Invoice) -> None: ... async def next_derivation_index(self, merchant_id: str) -> int: ... async def record_tx(self, invoice_id: str, tx_hash: str, lovelace_delta: int) -> None: ... ``` See `InMemoryStore` in `cardano_checkout/store.py` for a reference impl. ## Modules | Module | Purpose | |---|---| | `invoice.py` | `Invoice` dataclass + `InvoiceStatus` enum | | `store.py` | `InvoiceStore` Protocol + `InMemoryStore` reference impl | | `monitor.py` | `check_address_utxos` (Koios), `evaluate_utxos`, `check_pending_invoices`, `reprice_expired_invoices` | | `scheduler.py` | `InvoiceScheduler` — APScheduler wrapper, 15s check + 60s reprice | Two direct deps: `httpx`, `apscheduler`. No pycardano dep. ## Design 1. **Protocol-first.** Persistence, pricing, side-effects through consumer-supplied interfaces. 2. **Use pycardano directly.** No wrapping of primitives. 3. **Zero-custody.** Merchant keys never touch this code. xpub-derived addresses, UTxO observation, state transitions. Funds flow directly between customer and merchant wallets. 4. **Offline-first tests.** Koios + price oracles stubbed via fixture. ## License Apache-2.0.