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title: "Settings"
description: "Configure the available options for creating payment links through your Customer Area."
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# Settings

Configure the available options for creating payment links through your Customer Area.

[View source](/unified-commerce/pay-by-link/settings.md)

You can configure Pay by Link settings in your [Customer Area](https://ca-test.adyen.com/).

## Requirements

You must have one of the following [user roles](/account/user-roles#account):

* Merchant admin
* Pay by Link Settings

You can configure:

* [General settings](#general-settings)
* [Creation settings](#creation-settings): customize the options available for creating payment links.

## General settings

To configure general Pay by Link settings, log in to your [Customer Area](https://ca-test.adyen.com/):

1. Go to **Pay by Link** > **Settings**.
2. Select the **General** tab at the top of the page.

You can configure the following types of settings:

* Legal: specify the URL to the page with your terms and conditions.
* Email updates: configure getting updates about your payment link in your email.
* Credit card: settings for credit cards.
* Tokenization: configure if you [tokenize shopper's payment details](/unified-commerce/pay-by-link/create-payment-links/customer-area#tokenize-payment-details-customer-area)

## Creation settings

You can define the options that are available when [creating a payment link](/unified-commerce/pay-by-link/create-payment-links/customer-area#create) through your Customer Area.

For example, you can configure creation settings so that an employee in your shop can only create a payment link that is available for 48 hours, accepts payments in EUR, requires a payment description, and requires the employee to enter the shopper's email address when creating the payment link.

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

1. Go to **Pay by Link** > **Settings**.
2. Select the **Creation** tab at the top of the page.
3. Select settings for the mandatory, additional, and shopper detail fields.\
   See the following sections for an explanation of the fields.

### Mandatory fields

Settings for required information when creating a payment link:

| Field                    | Description                                                    |
| ------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Available currencies** | Select the payment currencies to accept.                       |
| **Link type**            | How many times the payment link can be used to make a payment. |
| **Link validity**        | How long the payment link can be used before it expires.       |

### Additional fields

Settings for optional fields you can include when creating payment links:

| Field                      | Description                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| -------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Store field**            | Select if payment links show the physical store for which the payment is processed.                                                                                                                  |
| **Shopper reference**      | Select if payment links show the input field to enter a unique identifier for the shopper. Collect the shopper reference if you are tokenizing the shopper's payment details for recurring payments. |
| **Payment description**    | Select if payment links can include a description of the payment that shows up in the payment link.                                                                                                  |
| **Shopper country/region** | Select which shopper countries/regions are available to select in payment links.                                                                                                                     |
| **Service date**           | Select if payment links show the input field to select a delivery, event, service, or check-in date.                                                                                                 |
| **Email service**          | Select if employees can automatically send an email containing a payment link to shoppers when they create a payment link.                                                                           |

### Shopper detail fields

Set options for the fields that ask for the shopper's personal information. You can select what's required for each field when creating the payment link. For each field, you can choose one of the following options:

| Option                                | Description                                                                                                                                 |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Do not ask**                        | Do not show the input field when creating the payment link, and do not show the input field in the payment link for the shopper to fill in. |
| **Ask employee to fill in mandatory** | Show the mandatory input field when creating the payment link.                                                                              |
| **Ask employee to fill in optional**  | Show the optional input field when creating the payment link.                                                                               |
| **Ask shopper to fill in mandatory**  | Show the mandatory input field in the payment link for the shopper to fill in.                                                              |

Select **Save**, and your settings apply immediately.
