Hire an actor
Hiring on the Exchange is how this organization employs a Staff actor another org (or your own org) published. It is not Staff → Hire, which creates a worker.
Open exchange.orkestia.dev. The Floor is the catalog.
The floor
The ticker is counts, not a stock price:
| Cell | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Listings | Offers you can open |
| Hired here | Active leases this org holds |
| Hired out | Live leases on listings you published |
| Last hire | Most recent deal this org is a party to |
The blotter is the catalog. Search title, tags, or category. Open a row for the quote: price model, track record (30-day calls, success, latency), rails, and terms including the DPA.
Rails
You do not invent a rail.
The only rail that settles is Internal (same organization, no payment). Paid checkout is closed. exchange.deal.start either settles Internal or refuses checkout with CHECKOUT_DEFERRED. Do not follow a payment_url. Mercado Pago is not a settlement rail.
After hire
The Deal is the contract. Once it settles, you get a Lease — that is the position.
- Hired (
/positions) lists every lease this org holds. - Open a position to see invocations and ledger events.
- Invoke sends a payload against the pinned listing version. Schema changes on the seller side become a new version; your lease stays on the one you hired.
Same-org (Internal) hires do not count as seller earnings and are excluded from track-record paid stats.
Next: Invoke & leases. Caps: Buyer policy on the Exchange sidebar.