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# Get started

An overview of the steps from signing up to going live with business accounts.

[View source](/business-accounts/get-started.md)

With your Adyen for Platforms integration, you can offer your users an Adyen business account. This page provides an overview of how to get started.

## Requirements

Before you begin, take into account the following requirements, and preparations:

| Requirement          | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Integration type** | You must have an Adyen for Platforms integration.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| **Setup steps**      | Complete the following setup steps:- Make sure that creating business accounts has been enabled for your balance platform. To confirm this, ask your Adyen contact.
- [Implement Adyen's Authentication SDK](/business-accounts/implement-sca) to comply with the PSD2 regulations for online transactions. |

## How it works

Here is the process to start offering Adyen business accounts to your users:

1. [Complete your Adyen for Platforms integration](#1-complete-your-adyen-for-platforms-integration)
2. [Get in touch with us](#2-get-in-touch-with-us)
3. [Scope and design your implementation](#design-implementation)
4. [Build your integration](#4-build-your-integration)
5. [Test your integration](#5-test-your-integration)
6. [Configure your live account](#6-configure-your-live-account)

## Complete your Adyen for Platforms integration

Make sure that you completed all the steps in the integration checklist for your [platform](/platforms/integration-checklist) or [marketplace](/marketplaces/integration-checklist) integration.

## Get in touch with us

[Contact us](https://www.adyen.com/contact/sales) to register your interest for business accounts. We will help you determine whether our current capabilities are a good fit for your use case.

## Scope and design your implementation

Your Adyen contact will work with you to design your implementation. During this phase you will determine how to:

* [Comply with financial regulations](/business-accounts/compliance-guidelines) related to business accounts.
* Configure the required [capabilities](/business-accounts/verification-overview/capabilities) to allow your users to use business accounts.
* [Onboard your users](/business-accounts/onboard-users) and [share the Terms of Service](/business-accounts/onboard-users/terms-of-service) with them.
* [Create business accounts for your users](/business-accounts/create-business-accounts). These accounts can be used to send funds to or receive funds from third parties.
* [Authenticate your account holders](/business-accounts/implement-sca).
* [Send](/business-accounts/send-funds) and [receive](/business-accounts/receive-funds) funds and [track transfers](/business-accounts/third-party-transfer-webhooks).

## Build your integration

When you have your test account and credentials, you can start building your Adyen for Platforms integration.

Refer to our [integration checklist](/business-accounts/integration-checklist), [Postman collections](https://github.com/Adyen/adyen-postman), [GitHub repo and libraries](https://github.com/Adyen) for help with the implementation process.

## Test your integration

After you integrate with our APIs, you are responsible for testing what you built in our test environment.

We recommend that you test your integration again after you [configure your live account](#6-configure-your-live-account).

## Configure your live account

The setup and configuration of your test account is *not* replicated to your live account. You need to replicate your test account setup in the live environment.

After you configure your account on the live environment, test your integration on the live environment as well.

Follow our [go-live checklist](/business-accounts/integration-checklist#go-live) to make sure your integration is ready.

## See also

* [Account structures and resources](/business-accounts/account-structure-resources)
* [Integration checklist](/business-accounts/integration-checklist)
* [Manage access for your team](/business-accounts/manage-access)