# Payments

Learn how to create, track, and manage payments with HivePay.

HivePay payment sessions provide a secure way to accept HIVE and HBD payments. The payment flow follows a familiar pattern:

1. Create a payment session with amount and currency
2. Redirect the customer to the checkout URL
3. Customer pays using their Hive wallet
4. Receive webhook notification of payment status
5. Customer returns to your success/cancel URL

stateDiagram-v2
    [*] --> pending: Payment Created
    pending --> processing: Payment Initiated
    processing --> completed: Payment Confirmed
    processing --> failed: Payment Failed
    pending --> user_cancelled: User Cancelled
    pending --> system_cancelled: Timeout/Expired
    completed --> [*]
    failed --> [*]
    user_cancelled --> [*]
    system_cancelled --> [*]