Quick start guide > Estimated reading: 3 minutes 1. Establishing a relationship To get started, explore our offerings and choose the best way to get in touch based on your project: Check out our pricing plans Present your project to our sales team Choose the customer onboarding model that best suits your business Learn about the steps to building a relationship 2. Creating your test merchant profile CentralPay provides you with a test environment (RCT) to develop and validate your integration: “Standard Merchant” test profile: To test only the Smart Collection payment solution, request a test merchant profile using our form “Partner Merchant or Agent” test profile: To test payment collection (Smart Collection) and payment transfers (Easy Wallet), please contact our customer service team. We will create and configure your test merchant profile accordingly. 3. Choosing your integration method Choose the integration method that best suits your needs: Smart Integration: Use payment requests and the CentralPay payment page to process your transactions. Customer flows are preconfigured for rapid deployment Custom Integration: Directly integrate API services for card transactions, SEPA credit transfers (SCT), and/or SEPA direct debits (SDD). This approach gives you full control over the customer experience, but requires more advanced development. 4. Setting up your merchant profile You can set up your CentralPay merchant profile on your own or with assistance from our support team. ℹ️ The settings configured in your test merchant profile (RCT) are not automatically replicated in production (PROD). Be sure to reconfigure them once your production profile is activated. Main settings: API authentication access Declaration of authorized domains (if using custom integration) Payment accounts and outgoing bank accounts Portal users Retail locations Webhooks SEPA creditor identifier (ICS) Secondary settings: Merchant profile contact emails Acceptance rules Outgoing payments Bank statement description Automatic notifications Smart form payment page Payment request templates Auto attempts. for failed card transactions Auto attempts. for failed SEPA direct debit transactions 5. Simulate payments Before going live, run customer payment simulations in your test profile (RCT) to verify the integration: Card: Use our test cards to simulate different transaction statuses SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT): Create one or more SCT transactions, then ask our support team to simulate their processing SEPA Direct Debit (SDD): Use a test IBAN/BIC provided in our documentation 6. Deployment Once your tests have been validated in the acceptance testing environment (RCT), prepare for the transition to production (PRD). ℹ️ Reminder: No settings are automatically copied from the RCT to the PROD environment. Retrieve the API credentials for the PROD environment Verify the production API URL Retrieve the merchantPublicKey to generate cardToken Notify CentralPay of any production deployment or major change Enter your website’s URL in your point-of-sale settings Check access to the support page from the Merchant Portal If necessary, you can make one or two live transactions for €1 to verify that the payment system is working properly in production. Next - Quick start guide >Merchant, accounts and sales channels
