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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions docs/api/start/api.tx.subs.md
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Expand Up @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Be aware that when a transaction status is `isFinalized`, it means it is include

## Payment information

The Polkadot/Substrate RPC endpoints exposes weight/payment information that takes an encoded extrinsic and calculates the on-chain weight fees for it. A wrapper for this is available on the tx itself, taking exactly the same parameters as you would pass to a normal `.signAndSend` operation, specifically `.paymentInfo(sender, <any options>)`. To expand on our previous example -
The Polkadot/Substrate RPC endpoints exposes weight/payment information that takes an encoded extrinsic and calculates the transaction fees for it. A wrapper for this is available on the tx itself, taking exactly the same parameters as you would pass to a normal `.signAndSend` operation, specifically `.paymentInfo(sender, <any options>)`. To expand on our previous example -

```js
// construct a transaction
Expand All @@ -78,12 +78,14 @@ const transfer = api.tx.balances.transfer(BOB, 12345);
// retrieve the payment info
const { partialFee, weight } = await transfer.paymentInfo(alice);

console.log(`transaction will have a weight of ${weight}, with ${partialFee.toHuman()} weight fees`);
console.log(`transaction will have a weight of ${weight}, with ${partialFee.toHuman()} transaction fees fees`);

// send the tx
transfer.signAndSend(alice, ({ events = [], status }) => { ... });
```

The field is called `partialFee` as it contains weight and length fees, but not the included tip (see https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-transaction-fees for details).


## Complex transactions

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