You'd like to offer Bitcoin Lightning as a way to pay. Your client has never touched bitcoin, your invoice terms don't mention it, and the one payment you tried timed out. Sats Desk is a plain-English helper for all of that: which setup to try, a two-minute "how to pay me" note for clients, invoice wording that keeps your price in pounds, a record of every payment, and calm fixes when something fails.
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Experiment #4 from the Noor Lab · built on Claude
of UK adults held crypto in 2025, down from 12% in 2024, according to FCA consumer research. Source: The Block, reporting the FCA's 2025 cryptoassets consumer research. Awareness was 91% (FCA research note).
So most people have heard of bitcoin, and few use it. If you offer Lightning, the client on the other end usually needs simple steps, and you need clear terms and tidy records. Small businesses ask the same first question in public: "I want to take payments using Bitcoin" - where do I start? And bookkeepers ask how to record a bitcoin receipt in pounds: AAT forum thread.
What Lightning is in one line, the exact steps to scan and pay, how long the invoice lasts, and bank transfer as the normal alternative.
Priced in pounds, sats worked out when the invoice is made, expiry, under- and overpayments, refunds. A starting point you choose and own.
Expired invoice, "no route", paid on-chain by mistake. Step-by-step, plus a polite message to send the client.
What it never does: tell you to buy, hold or sell bitcoin, decide how your bitcoin income is taxed, or ask for your seed phrase or keys. If you paste one, it will tell you to move your funds.
Illustrative examples, shortened. Amounts and rates are placeholders: yours come from your own numbers.
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No. Sats Desk is an AI tool that explains setup options and writes wording. It doesn't give financial, investment, tax, legal or accounting advice. It won't tell you whether to hold bitcoin or how your bitcoin income is taxed: for that, see HMRC's guidance on cryptoassets, an accountant, or a regulated financial adviser. It will tell you when a question needs one.
Sats Desk is built on Claude, made by Anthropic. Your messages are sent to Anthropic's API to write the reply. Sats Desk doesn't store your conversations: they live in your browser tab. Avoid pasting personal data you don't need to.
No. It never touches your wallet, never holds funds, and never needs your seed phrase, recovery words or private keys. If you paste one by mistake, it will tell you to treat that wallet as exposed and move your funds.
SatInvoice makes the invoice: pounds on the page, a sats amount and a Lightning QR. Sats Desk is the help around it: choosing a setup, explaining it to a client, the terms on your invoice, records and fixing failed payments. They work well together.
No, and it won't guess one. Give it the rate you want to use and it does the conversion and rounding, or it shows you the method with placeholders.
It explains the main types (custodial, self-custodial, hosted invoicing, self-hosted) and their trade-offs, then suggests a type to try. It may name products as examples, but features and UK availability change, so always check a provider's current terms.
A fair-use cap that keeps the price low. Setting up and writing your client note usually takes a handful of messages. It resets on the 1st of each month.