# wallet\_openReceive

## Help Users Receive Bitcoin Ecosystem Assets

Your app can use the `wallet_openReceive` method to open the user's **Receive** screen in Xverse for a specific address type (payment, ordinals, stacks, spark, starknet).

This enables you to guide users directly to the correct receive flow, without asking them to manually navigate within the wallet.

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### Request Parameters

#### `address` *(required)*

A string representing which Xverse receive address to open.

Accepted values:

* `payment`\
  **📮** Bitcoin payment address *(native or nested segwit, depending on the current wallet setting)*\
  **🎯** Receive Bitcoin payments
* `ordinals`\
  **📮** Bitcoin ordinals address *(taproot)*\
  **🎯** Receive Bitcoin ordinals, runes, brc-20
* `spark`\
  **📮** Spark address *(the main one, not the airdrop one)*\
  **🎯** Receive Spark BTC and BTKN tokens
* `starknet`\
  **📮** Starknet address\
  **🎯** Receive Starknet tokens & collectibles
* `stacks`\
  **📮** Stacks address\
  **🎯** Receive Stacks tokens & collectibles

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### Permissions Required

* 🔓 Your app must have first [connected to the wallet](https://docs.xverse.app/sats-connect/connecting-to-the-wallet/connect-to-xverse-wallet) and obtained [account read permissions](https://docs.xverse.app/sats-connect/xverse-wallet-permissions)
* 🔒 If your user has not [connected their active Xverse account to your app](https://docs.xverse.app/sats-connect/connecting-to-the-wallet/connect-to-xverse-wallet) yet, and your app does not the necessary account read [permissions](https://docs.xverse.app/sats-connect/xverse-wallet-permissions) -> the method will throw with an access denied error

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### Usage Example

```typescript
import { request, RpcErrorCode } from "sats-connect";

async function openReceive() {
  const res = await request("wallet_openReceive", {
    address: "payment",
  });

  if (res.status === "success") {
    // res.result.address contains the address object that was opened in the wallet
    return res.result.address;
  }

  if (res.error.code === RpcErrorCode.ACCESS_DENIED) {
    // Your app is not connected to the user's active account yet
    // You can prompt the user to connect first:
    const permissionRes = await request("wallet_requestPermissions", undefined);

    if (permissionRes.status === "error") {
      // user declined connection
      throw new Error("User declined connection");
    }

    // retry after permissions are granted
    const retry = await request("wallet_openReceive", { address: "payment" });

    if (retry.status === "error") {
      throw new Error("Failed to open receive screen", { cause: retry.error });
    }

    return retry.result.address;
  }

  // Other errors (e.g. invalid address type or address not available)
  throw new Error("Failed to open receive screen", { cause: res.error });
}
```

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### wallet\_openReceive Result: Open the Receive Screen

✅ If the account is connected and the requested address exists:

* the method resolves successfully
* Xverse wallet opens the **Receive** screen for the requested address type

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❌ If the account is not connected or the requested address does not exist:

* the method returns an error response

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### Response Format

The `wallet_openReceive` method returns a Promise that resolves to an `OpenReceiveResult` object.

#### `address`

An address object representing the requested receive address:

```ts
type OpenReceiveAddress = {
  address: string;
  publicKey: string;
  purpose: "payment" | "ordinals" | "stacks" | "spark" | "starknet";
  addressType: "p2tr" | "p2wpkh" | "p2sh" | "stacks" | "spark" | "starknet";
};
```


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