How to connect CLINK codes and authorize sending

Go to Settings and find the Wallet card, the one that starts with "How this account receives and sends sats". Press Connect on your first wallet, or Add wallet when one is already saved; the Connect wallet dialog opens either way.

The dialog offers four kinds of connections: NWC, Blink, Lightning Address and CLINK. Press the CLINK tab. The chips under the tabs show Receive and Send; which of the two your connection gets depends on the code you paste.

The dialog's own text is the whole model, so read it once: "An offer (noffer1...) receives: openLN asks your wallet for each invoice. A debit (ndebit1...) sends: openLN hands your wallet invoices to pay." In plain words: an offer code is a receive code, and every time a payment needs to come in, openLN asks your wallet to mint a fresh invoice. A debit code is a send code, and every time a payment needs to go out, openLN hands the invoice to your wallet to pay.

Each code covers one direction only: a noffer lands in receive lists and an ndebit in send lists. Connect one of each for a full wallet. A debit also needs a one-time authorization that no setup step can skip: the first time openLN wants to send from it, your wallet asks you to approve the request. openLN prompts for this right after you connect a debit, so it is worth having the wallet app open and in front of you now.

As on every lane, openLN never takes custody of your sats. The wallet signs what leaves it, and the codes only give openLN permission to ask.

Press the CLINK code field and paste the code exactly as your wallet shows it. The field is masked (it shows dots) because a CLINK code is a secret you should not paste into chats or show in screenshots. For example, an offer code looks like noffer1qbob_demo_code_example.

Press the big Connect button at the bottom of the dialog. openLN reads the code and checks it before saving anything: an offer is proven by asking your wallet for a tiny real invoice (it is left to expire unpaid, nothing is charged), while a debit gets structural checks only, because a probe on a debit would move money. A one-time session code is refused with a message telling you to open Linked apps and copy your static code.

When the check passes, the wallet is added to Saved wallets with the name of its kind and the capability for its direction: a noffer carries Receive, an ndebit carries Send. If it is your first wallet it also becomes the default.

CLINK works with Lightning.Pub and ShockWallet (from clinkme.dev). Keep your wallet app online so its relay is reachable: openLN reaches the wallet through that relay for every invoice it asks for, every invoice it hands over to pay, and the authorization prompt. If the wallet cannot be reached, openLN says so instead of proceeding, and a message like "Could not reach your wallet's relay" simply means the wallet was offline; bring it back online and try again.

Right after a debit connects, openLN opens the Authorize sending (wallet allowance) block under the new row. Open your wallet now and keep it in front: set the allowance (10,000 sats per month by default, up to 100,000,000), press Send request, and approve the request when it appears in the wallet as a live prompt. Once approved, sends within the allowance go through without prompting; you can change or revoke it any time in the wallet under Linked apps, and pressing Send request again is safe, it simply confirms an existing allowance.