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# Get started

An overview of the steps from signing up for Adyen for Platforms to going live.

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

Adyen for Platforms is a flexible solution that you can adapt to your business model. To get you started, this page gives an overview of the process of onboarding and integrating with Adyen for Platforms, from getting in touch with us to going live.

## Requirements

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

| Requirement          | Description                                                                                                      |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Integration type** | Use this information to build an Adyen for Platforms integration.                                                |
| **Contact us**       | You need to [contact us](https://www.adyen.com/contact/sales) to register your interest for Adyen for Platforms. |

## How it works

Here is the process of onboarding and integrating with Adyen for Platforms:

1. [Get in touch with us](#get-in-touch-with-us)
2. [Scope and design your implementation](#scope-and-design-your-implementation)
3. [Access and set up your online dashboard](#access-and-set-up-your-online-dashboard)
4. [Build your integration](#build-your-integration)
5. [Test your integration](#test-your-integration)
6. [Apply for your live account](#apply-for-your-live-account)
7. [Configure your live account](#configure-your-live-account)

## Get in touch with us

[Contact us](https://www.adyen.com/contact/sales) to register your interest for Adyen for Platforms. We'll help you determine whether our current platform 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'll determine how to:

* [Onboard and collect data](/platforms/onboard-users) from your users, ensuring that your platform is able to collect the required information and accept document uploads.
* Configure through which channels you want to accept payments (online, in-person, or both), and how to [split payments](/platforms/process-payments). You can pass on the sale amount and certain fees to your user, while booking your commission and the remaining fees to your platform.
* [Manage transaction-level risks](/platforms/identify-account-holder-risk) for your platform.
* [Pay out](/platforms/managed-payouts) to your users.
* [Generate financial reports](/platforms/reports-and-fees) and [reconcile balances](/platforms/reconciliation-use-cases/) for your platform and for your users.

## Access and set up your online dashboard

Your Adyen contact sets up your test account, and Adyen sends you admin credentials to log in to your [Customer Area](https://ca-test.adyen.com/).

The Customer Area is an online dashboard that helps you manage your platform integration.

In your [Customer Area](https://ca-test.adyen.com/), you can:

* Manage your Adyen [resources](/platforms/account-structure-resources), such as your company account, merchant account, account holders, and balance accounts.
* Manage all payments, [payment methods](/payment-methods), and [transfers](/platforms/view-transfers-details) in your platform.
* Manage your [API credentials](/development-resources/api-credentials) for payments, your balance platform, and your financial products.
* Configure [webhooks](/development-resources/webhooks/configure-and-manage) to get updates on changes in your platform.
* Generate and download [reports](/platforms/reports-and-fees) for reconciliation.
* Manage your financial products, such as [Issuing](/issuing) and [Capital](/capital).

## 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](/platforms/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](#configure-your-live-account).

## Apply for your live account

After you built and tested your integration in the test environment, you are ready to go live.

Reach out to your Adyen contact to take your account live.

## 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](/platforms/integration-checklist#go-live) to make sure your integration is ready.

## See also

* [Adyen for Platforms integration checklist](/platforms/integration-checklist)
* [Adyen Postman collections](https://github.com/Adyen/adyen-postman)
* [Adyen GitHub repositories](https://github.com/Adyen)