## preparePaymentChannelCreate

`preparePaymentChannelCreate(address: string, paymentChannelCreate: Object, instructions: Object): Promise<Object>`

Prepare a payment channel creation transaction. The prepared transaction must subsequently be [signed](#sign) and [submitted](#submit).

### Parameters

<%- renderSchema('input/prepare-payment-channel-create.json') %>

### Return Value

This method returns a promise that resolves with an object with the following structure:

<aside class="notice">
All "prepare*" methods have the same return type.
</aside>

<%- renderSchema('output/prepare.json') %>

### Example

```javascript
const address = 'r9cZA1mLK5R5Am25ArfXFmqgNwjZgnfk59';
const paymentChannelCreate = <%- importFile('test/fixtures/requests/prepare-payment-channel-create.json') %>;
return api.preparePaymentChannelCreate(address, paymentChannelCreate).then(prepared =>
  {/* ... */});
```

<%- renderFixture('responses/prepare-payment-channel-create.json') %>