diff --git a/src/controllers/api/notifications.ts b/src/controllers/api/notifications.ts
index 54e88edf..864e54d4 100644
--- a/src/controllers/api/notifications.ts
+++ b/src/controllers/api/notifications.ts
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 import { AppContext, AppController } from '@/app.ts';
 import { Conf } from '@/config.ts';
 import { DittoPagination } from '@/interfaces/DittoPagination.ts';
+import { getAmount } from '@/utils/bolt11.ts';
 import { hydrateEvents } from '@/storages/hydrate.ts';
 import { paginated } from '@/utils/api.ts';
-import { renderNotification } from '@/views/mastodon/notifications.ts';
+import { renderNotification, RenderNotificationOpts } from '@/views/mastodon/notifications.ts';
 
 /** Set of known notification types across backends. */
 const notificationTypes = new Set([
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ const notificationTypes = new Set([
   'severed_relationships',
   'pleroma:emoji_reaction',
   'ditto:name_grant',
+  'ditto:zap',
 ]);
 
 const notificationsSchema = z.object({
@@ -67,6 +69,10 @@ const notificationsController: AppController = async (c) => {
     filters.push({ kinds: [30360], authors: [Conf.pubkey], '#p': [pubkey], ...params });
   }
 
+  if (types.has('ditto:zap')) {
+    filters.push({ kinds: [9735], '#p': [pubkey], ...params });
+  }
+
   return renderNotifications(filters, types, params, c);
 };
 
@@ -81,16 +87,55 @@ async function renderNotifications(
   const { signal } = c.req.raw;
   const opts = { signal, limit: params.limit, timeout: Conf.db.timeouts.timelines };
 
+  const zapsRelatedFilter: NostrFilter[] = [];
+
   const events = await store
     .query(filters, opts)
-    .then((events) => events.filter((event) => event.pubkey !== pubkey))
+    .then((events) =>
+      events.filter((event) => {
+        if (event.kind === 9735) {
+          const zappedEventId = event.tags.find(([name]) => name === 'e')?.[1];
+          if (zappedEventId) zapsRelatedFilter.push({ kinds: [1], ids: [zappedEventId] });
+          const zapSender = event.tags.find(([name]) => name === 'P')?.[1];
+          if (zapSender) zapsRelatedFilter.push({ kinds: [0], authors: [zapSender] });
+        }
+
+        return event.pubkey !== pubkey;
+      })
+    )
     .then((events) => hydrateEvents({ events, store, signal }));
 
   if (!events.length) {
     return c.json([]);
   }
 
-  const notifications = (await Promise.all(events.map((event) => renderNotification(event, { viewerPubkey: pubkey }))))
+  const zapSendersAndPosts = await store
+    .query(zapsRelatedFilter, opts)
+    .then((events) => hydrateEvents({ events, store, signal }));
+
+  const notifications = (await Promise.all(events.map((event) => {
+    const opts: RenderNotificationOpts = { viewerPubkey: pubkey };
+    if (event.kind === 9735) {
+      const zapRequestString = event?.tags?.find(([name]) => name === 'description')?.[1];
+      const zapRequest = n.json().pipe(n.event()).optional().catch(undefined).parse(zapRequestString);
+      // By getting the pubkey from the zap request we guarantee who is the sender
+      // some clients don't put the P tag in the zap receipt...
+      const zapSender = zapRequest?.pubkey;
+      const zappedPost = event.tags.find(([name]) => name === 'e')?.[1];
+
+      const amountSchema = z.coerce.number().int().nonnegative().catch(0);
+      // amount in millisats
+      const amount = amountSchema.parse(getAmount(event?.tags.find(([name]) => name === 'bolt11')?.[1]));
+
+      opts['zap'] = {
+        zapSender: zapSendersAndPosts.find(({ pubkey, kind }) => kind === 0 && pubkey === zapSender) ?? zapSender,
+        zappedPost: zapSendersAndPosts.find(({ id }) => id === zappedPost),
+        amount,
+        message: zapRequest?.content,
+      };
+    }
+    return renderNotification(event, opts);
+  })))
     .filter((notification) => notification && types.has(notification.type));
 
   if (!notifications.length) {
diff --git a/src/schemas/pagination.ts b/src/schemas/pagination.ts
index d7a6cf68..89e3c5f6 100644
--- a/src/schemas/pagination.ts
+++ b/src/schemas/pagination.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ import { z } from 'zod';
 
 /** Schema to parse pagination query params. */
 export const paginationSchema = z.object({
-  max_id: z.string().optional().catch(undefined),
+  max_id: z.string().transform((val) => {
+    if (!val.includes('-')) return val;
+    return val.split('-')[1];
+  }).optional().catch(undefined),
   min_id: z.string().optional().catch(undefined),
   since: z.coerce.number().nonnegative().optional().catch(undefined),
   until: z.coerce.number().nonnegative().optional().catch(undefined),
diff --git a/src/views/mastodon/notifications.ts b/src/views/mastodon/notifications.ts
index 5fc20a2f..f2438ad2 100644
--- a/src/views/mastodon/notifications.ts
+++ b/src/views/mastodon/notifications.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,19 @@
 import { NostrEvent } from '@nostrify/nostrify';
 
+import { accountFromPubkey, renderAccount } from '@/views/mastodon/accounts.ts';
 import { Conf } from '@/config.ts';
 import { DittoEvent } from '@/interfaces/DittoEvent.ts';
 import { nostrDate } from '@/utils.ts';
-import { accountFromPubkey, renderAccount } from '@/views/mastodon/accounts.ts';
 import { renderStatus } from '@/views/mastodon/statuses.ts';
 
-interface RenderNotificationOpts {
+export interface RenderNotificationOpts {
   viewerPubkey: string;
+  zap?: {
+    zapSender?: NostrEvent | NostrEvent['pubkey']; // kind 0 or pubkey
+    zappedPost?: NostrEvent;
+    amount?: number;
+    message?: string;
+  };
 }
 
 function renderNotification(event: DittoEvent, opts: RenderNotificationOpts) {
@@ -32,6 +38,10 @@ function renderNotification(event: DittoEvent, opts: RenderNotificationOpts) {
   if (event.kind === 30360 && event.pubkey === Conf.pubkey) {
     return renderNameGrant(event);
   }
+
+  if (event.kind === 9735) {
+    return renderZap(event, opts);
+  }
 }
 
 async function renderMention(event: DittoEvent, opts: RenderNotificationOpts) {
@@ -109,6 +119,27 @@ async function renderNameGrant(event: DittoEvent) {
   };
 }
 
+async function renderZap(event: DittoEvent, opts: RenderNotificationOpts) {
+  if (!opts.zap?.zapSender) return;
+
+  const { amount = 0, message = '' } = opts.zap;
+  if (amount < 1) return;
+
+  const account = typeof opts.zap.zapSender !== 'string'
+    ? await renderAccount(opts.zap.zapSender)
+    : await accountFromPubkey(opts.zap.zapSender);
+
+  return {
+    id: notificationId(event),
+    type: 'ditto:zap',
+    amount,
+    message,
+    created_at: nostrDate(event.created_at).toISOString(),
+    account,
+    ...(opts.zap?.zappedPost ? { status: await renderStatus(opts.zap?.zappedPost, opts) } : {}),
+  };
+}
+
 /** This helps notifications be sorted in the correct order. */
 function notificationId({ id, created_at }: NostrEvent): string {
   return `${created_at}-${id}`;