Bring Legal Payments
to OpenAI Agents SDK
Learn how to connect LawPay to OpenAI Agents SDK and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the LawPay MCP Server?
Connect your LawPay account to any AI agent and manage legal payments through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Transaction Management — Browse payments, refunds, and charges with status tracking
- Invoice Tracking — List invoices with amounts, due dates, and payment status
- Trust Accounts — Monitor trust (IOLTA) account balances and transactions
- Payment Processing — Create charges and process payments
- Financial Reports — Access revenue summaries, payment trends, and aging reports
- Client Billing — Track client payment history and outstanding balances
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your LawPay Secret Key and Merchant ID
3. Start managing payments from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client
Who is this for?
- Law Firms — manage client payments and trust accounts
- Legal Billing — track invoices and outstanding balances
- Finance Teams — access payment reports and reconciliation
Built-in capabilities (12)
Create a new invoice
Refund a transaction
Get account details
Get merchant profile info
Get payment statistics
Get payment method details
Get transaction details
). List merchant accounts
List payment invoices
List saved payment methods
List bank settlements
List all payment transactions
Why OpenAI Agents SDK?
The OpenAI Agents SDK auto-discovers all 12 tools from LawPay through native MCP integration. Build agents with built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns. chain multiple agents where one queries LawPay, another analyzes results, and a third generates reports, all orchestrated through Vinkius.
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Native MCP integration via
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Built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns let you build production-grade agents without reinventing safety infrastructure
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Lightweight and composable: chain multiple agents and MCP servers in a single pipeline with minimal boilerplate
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First-party OpenAI support ensures optimal compatibility with GPT models for tool calling and structured output
LawPay in OpenAI Agents SDK
LawPay and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect LawPay to OpenAI Agents SDK through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for LawPay in OpenAI Agents SDK
The LawPay MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 12 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in OpenAI Agents SDK only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
LawPay for OpenAI Agents SDK
Every tool call from OpenAI Agents SDK to the LawPay MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can I manage trust account balances?
Yes. Monitor IOLTA trust account balances, view transactions per client matter, and track deposits and disbursements.
Does LawPay use Basic Auth?
Yes. LawPay uses HTTP Basic Auth with the Secret Key against api.affinipay.com/v1. The Merchant ID is required for identifying the account.
Can I track invoices and outstanding balances?
Yes. List all invoices with amounts, due dates, payment status, and client details. Monitor aging reports and outstanding balances.
How does the OpenAI Agents SDK connect to MCP?
Use MCPServerSse(url=...) to create a server connection. The SDK auto-discovers all tools and makes them available to your agent with full type information.
Can I use multiple MCP servers in one agent?
Yes. Pass a list of MCPServerSse instances to the agent constructor. The agent can use tools from all connected servers within a single run.
Does the SDK support streaming responses?
Yes. The SDK supports SSE and Streamable HTTP transports, both of which work natively with Vinkius.
MCPServerStreamableHttp not found
Ensure you have the latest version: pip install --upgrade openai-agents
Agent not calling tools
Make sure your prompt explicitly references the task the tools can help with.