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# Make a Payment

When your node is connected to a token network, has channels open with one or more peers and have tokens deposited in the channels you're all set to start making payments.

A powerful feature of Raiden is the ability to let you **pay anyone in the network** by using a path of connected payment channels to mediate the payment and not only directly connected nodes. These payments are called **mediated transfers**.

## Pay

Payments are made from the [`payments`](/raiden-network/raiden-api-1/resources/payments.md#initiate-a-payment) endpoint via a POST request that needs to include:

1. The address of the token you want to pay with as a path parameter.
2. The address of the node receiving your payment as a path parameter.
3. The amount you would like to pay as a body parameter.

```bash
curl -i -X POST \
http://localhost:5001/api/v1/payments/0x9aBa529db3FF2D8409A1da4C9eB148879b046700/0x61C808D82A3Ac53231750daDc13c777b59310bD9 \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"amount": "42"}'
```

{% hint style="info" %}
You can provide the body parameter with an additional *identifier* key with a value of your choice. This value can be a number (`"identifier": 42`) or the stringified number (`"identifier": "42"`).

This is optional and the purpose of the identifier is to give dApps built on Raiden a way to tag payments.
{% endhint %}

Your payment will most likely succeed if:

* The path of channels leading from your node to the node receiving your payment has enough capacity.
* All nodes needed to mediate the payment  are online.
* You have enough tokens in the channel from which you intend to pay out the amount specified in the request body.

To get your tokens out of a channel and back on-chain you either have to withdraw the tokens or close the channel.

{% content-ref url="/pages/-Lt4YrwiCUeADM-OeHfG" %}
[Withdraw Tokens](/raiden-network/raiden-api-1/api-tutorial/withdraw-tokens.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

{% content-ref url="/pages/-Lrny3fUNOBKgYCSVVbV" %}
[Settle Payments and Close Channels](/raiden-network/raiden-api-1/api-tutorial/4-settle-payments-and-close-channels.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}

## View payment history

You can view all transactions you've made with a partner node by querying the [`payments`](/raiden-network/raiden-api-1/resources/payments.md#payment-history) endpoint in a GET request, using the same path parameters as when [making a payment](/raiden-network/raiden-api-1/api-tutorial/3-make-a-payment.md#pay).

```bash
curl -i \
http://localhost:5001/api/v1/payments/0x9aBa529db3FF2D8409A1da4C9eB148879b046700/0x61C808D82A3Ac53231750daDc13c777b59310bD9
```

In the response you will be able to see all successful payments, all failed payments and all payments you have received.