Create a merchant account

post/merchants

Creates a merchant account for the company account specified in the request.

Use this endpoint if your integration requires it, such as Adyen for Platforms Manage. Your Adyen contact will set up your access.

To make this request, your API credential must have the following roles:

Management API—Accounts read and write

Endpoint destination URL

https://management-test.adyen.com/v3/merchants

Request Parameters

Required

Optional

The unique identifier of the business line. Required for an Adyen for Platforms Manage integration.

The unique identifier of the company account.

Max length: 300

Your description for the merchant account, maximum 300 characters.

The unique identifier of the legal entity. Required for an Adyen for Platforms Manage integration.

Sets the pricing plan for the merchant account. Required for an Adyen for Platforms Manage integration. Your Adyen contact will provide the values that you can use.

Your reference for the merchant account. To make this reference the unique identifier of the merchant account, your Adyen contact can set up a template on your company account. The template can have 6 to 255 characters with upper- and lower-case letters, underscores, and numbers. When your company account has a template, then the reference is required and must be unique within the company account.

List of sales channels that the merchant will process payments with

Response parameters

After submitting a call, you receive a response message to inform you that your request was received and processed.

Depending on the HTTP status code of the response message, it is helpful to build some logic to handle any errors that a request or the system may return.

HTTP Responses

200 - OK
The request has succeeded.
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businessLineIdstring
The unique identifier of the business line.
companyIdstring
The unique identifier of the company account.
descriptionstring
Max length: 300
Your description for the merchant account, maximum 300 characters.
idstring
The unique identifier of the merchant account. If Adyen set up a template for the reference, then the id will have the same value as the reference that you sent in the request. Otherwise, the value is generated by Adyen.
legalEntityIdstring
The unique identifier of the legal entity.
pricingPlanstring
Partner pricing plan for the merchant, applicable for merchants under AfP managed company accounts.
referencestring
Your reference for the merchant account.
204 - No Content
The request has been successfully processed, but there is no additional content.
400 - Bad Request
A problem reading or understanding the request.
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detailstring
A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem.
errorCodestring
A code that identifies the problem type.
instancestring
A unique URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem.
invalidFieldsarray[object]
Detailed explanation of each validation error, when applicable.
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messagestring
Description of the validation error.
namestring
The field that has an invalid value.
valuestring
The invalid value.
requestIdstring
A unique reference for the request, essentially the same as pspReference.
responseobject
JSON response payload.
statusinteger
The HTTP status code.
titlestring
A short, human-readable summary of the problem type.
typestring
A URI that identifies the problem type, pointing to human-readable documentation on this problem type.
401 - Unauthorized
Authentication required.
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detailstring
A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem.
errorCodestring
A code that identifies the problem type.
instancestring
A unique URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem.
invalidFieldsarray[object]
Detailed explanation of each validation error, when applicable.
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messagestring
Description of the validation error.
namestring
The field that has an invalid value.
valuestring
The invalid value.
requestIdstring
A unique reference for the request, essentially the same as pspReference.
responseobject
JSON response payload.
statusinteger
The HTTP status code.
titlestring
A short, human-readable summary of the problem type.
typestring
A URI that identifies the problem type, pointing to human-readable documentation on this problem type.
403 - Forbidden
Insufficient permissions to process the request.
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detailstring
A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem.
errorCodestring
A code that identifies the problem type.
instancestring
A unique URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem.
invalidFieldsarray[object]
Detailed explanation of each validation error, when applicable.
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messagestring
Description of the validation error.
namestring
The field that has an invalid value.
valuestring
The invalid value.
requestIdstring
A unique reference for the request, essentially the same as pspReference.
responseobject
JSON response payload.
statusinteger
The HTTP status code.
titlestring
A short, human-readable summary of the problem type.
typestring
A URI that identifies the problem type, pointing to human-readable documentation on this problem type.
422 - Unprocessable Entity
A request validation error.
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detailstring
A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem.
errorCodestring
A code that identifies the problem type.
instancestring
A unique URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem.
invalidFieldsarray[object]
Detailed explanation of each validation error, when applicable.
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messagestring
Description of the validation error.
namestring
The field that has an invalid value.
valuestring
The invalid value.
requestIdstring
A unique reference for the request, essentially the same as pspReference.
responseobject
JSON response payload.
statusinteger
The HTTP status code.
titlestring
A short, human-readable summary of the problem type.
typestring
A URI that identifies the problem type, pointing to human-readable documentation on this problem type.
500 - Internal Server Error
The server could not process the request.
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detailstring
A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem.
errorCodestring
A code that identifies the problem type.
instancestring
A unique URI that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem.
invalidFieldsarray[object]
Detailed explanation of each validation error, when applicable.
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messagestring
Description of the validation error.
namestring
The field that has an invalid value.
valuestring
The invalid value.
requestIdstring
A unique reference for the request, essentially the same as pspReference.
responseobject
JSON response payload.
statusinteger
The HTTP status code.
titlestring
A short, human-readable summary of the problem type.
typestring
A URI that identifies the problem type, pointing to human-readable documentation on this problem type.

Create a merchant account

Request Parameters

Response parameters

HTTP Responses

200 - OK

204 - No Content

400 - Bad Request

401 - Unauthorized

403 - Forbidden

422 - Unprocessable Entity

500 - Internal Server Error