.. _ingest-invoices:

Invoice Ingestion
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Payment and bulk payment of invoices is a very common task in lighthing; after all, sending and receiving payments is the primary use-case for lightning.

As such, Orb supports the bulk ingestion of invoices.

.. image:: ingest.png
   :align: center
   :scale: 80%

To bulk-ingest invoices, to go ``lightning > Ingest Invoices``, then at the top right of the window, simply paste the invoices (one per line) and click **ingest**.

The invoices get saved into a database, and are ready to be paid.