In this section, you'll find information about Colony's primary payment function: single transaction payments.
How to create a simple payment
Create a new action
Navigate to the left-hand menu bar and click the Create action button. This will open the action creation panel on the right-hand side. Enter a title that describes the action you're about to take, and then select Simple payment from the Action Type dropdown menu.
Creating a Simple payment
Enter payment details
Complete the details of the Simple payment action
In the From field, select the team from where the funds will be sent. You can select directly from the list, or browse through the colony teams.
Select Recipient. You can choose to browse and select from the list of the colony's members. Or you can directly enter a valid wallet address.
Enter the amount of funds to be paid.
By default, the colony's native token will be selected. But you can choose to change it by clicking on the token symbol to browse and select from the list of available tokens.
Select how the action will be taken by selecting a Decision method. Refer to What are Decision methods for more information.
You can also choose to enter a Description for the action. Allowing you to provide more context to others as to why you are taking the action to create a new payment.
Payment details
Entering recipient address
Confirm details and Create payment
If you are happy with all the payment details you can then click the Create payment button to initiate the transactions.
After signing all the required transactions in your wallet, the action will be created and depending on the decision method chosen, the payment will either be created, or the decision process will start.
Viewing your payment
Once you have successfully created your payment it will now be accessible through the colony's Dashboard, under the Latest activity table. You can open it and review the payment information.