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# Quickstart guide

Learn about Adyen and see how to setup and take your integration live.

[View source](/platforms/quickstart-guide.md)

## Adyen Team

Over the initial stages of our partnership, your Adyen team consists of various members with different areas of expertise.

* **Sales Manager**: your commercial point of contact. Sales managers remain involved with the commercial partnership until the *Platform Review Meeting*.
* **Project Operations Manager**: your main operational and technical point of contact during your integration and initial stages of onboarding, before the *Platform Review Meeting*.
* **Implementation Manager**: provides technical expertise and is responsible for guiding you through the technical integration. Implementation managers work closely with project operation managers.
* **Account manager**: the main point of contact for our partnership after the *Platform Review Meeting* when your solution goes live.

## Adyen for Platforms

An Adyen for Platforms integration allows you to process payments on behalf of your users. **Your users** are third-parties such as sellers, service providers, or contractors that use your platform to sell their goods and services to their customers.

### Resources

Your Adyen for Platforms integration consists of three main parts:

#### 1. [Your Adyen account](/platforms/account-structure-resources/#your-adyen-account)

Your Adyen account represents your business in Adyen's payment processing platform, through which all your users' payments are processed. Your Adyen account is represented by the following resources:

* **Company account**: represents your core business entity and holds your merchant accounts.

* **Merchant account**: the account where we process payments for your users. You can have multiple merchant accounts. In your merchant accounts, you can configure:

  * Payment methods
  * Processing currencies
  * Account-specific risk management rules
  * Stores
  * Reports

* **Store**: ensures that the transactions you process for your users correspond to an accurate payer statement. They allow you to aggregate settlements and make reconciliation easier. You can create stores in your merchant accounts.

You can use the [Management API](https://docs.adyen.com/api-explorer/Management/latest/overview) to manage these resources.

#### 2. [Your balance platform](/platforms/account-structure-resources/#adyen-for-platforms)

Your balance platform allows you to manage the flow of funds within your business, and split funds between your users. Your balance platform is represented by the following resources:

* **Account holder**: specifies what your user can do in your platform, for example, receive fund transfers to their balance account and payouts to their verified transfer instrument (bank account). An account holder must be linked to your user's balance account and main legal entity.
* **Balance account**: holds the funds of your user. All financial activities in your platform, such as paying out to a bank account, happen through balance accounts.
* **Liable account holder**: represents your business in the balance platform.
* **Liable balance account**: the account where your business' funds are held. Funds can be deducted from this account if your users' balance accounts incur negative balances due to refunds and chargebacks.

You can use the [Configuration API](https://docs.adyen.com/api-explorer/balanceplatform/latest/overview) to manage these resources.

#### 3. [Your legal entity management resources](/platforms/account-structure-resources/legal-entity-management)

Your legal entity management resources allow you to link your Adyen account to your balance platform, and verify your users according to payment industry regulations. These include:

* **Legal entity**: contains information about your user, for example, the legal name, address, and tax information of the organization. Adyen uses this information to perform verification checks as required by payment industry regulations.
* **Transfer instrument**: your user's verified bank account where they can receive payouts.
* **Supporting document**: a document that allows us to verify the information provided about your user's legal entity or transfer instrument.
* **Business line**: contains information about your user's line of business, including their industry and source of funds.

You can use the [Legal Entity Management API](https://docs.adyen.com/api-explorer/legalentity/latest/overview) to manage these resources.

### Account structure

The following diagram shows how all of your resources are connected.

[![](/user/pages/docs/05.platforms/04.quickstart-guide/platform_example.svg)](/user/pages/docs/05.platforms/04.quickstart-guide/platform_example.svg)

After you understand how your Adyen resources are related, you can design your platform with the help of your implementation manager.

## Next steps

[required](/platforms/quickstart-guide/payments)

[1: Payments](/platforms/quickstart-guide/payments)

[Learn how to process payments, and allocate commissions and fees.](/platforms/quickstart-guide/payments)

[required](/platforms/quickstart-guide/onboarding-and-kyc)

[2: Onboarding and verification](/platforms/quickstart-guide/onboarding-and-kyc)

[Learn about the required information needed to onboard your users.](/platforms/quickstart-guide/onboarding-and-kyc)

[required](/platforms/quickstart-guide/payouts)

[3: Payouts](/platforms/quickstart-guide/payouts)

[Learn about how to pay out to your users.](/platforms/quickstart-guide/payouts)

[4: Terminals](/platforms/quickstart-guide/terminals)

[Learn about in-person payments and payment terminals.](/platforms/quickstart-guide/terminals)

[required](/platforms/quickstart-guide/reporting)

[5: Reporting](/platforms/quickstart-guide/reporting)

[Learn about the different types of reports.](/platforms/quickstart-guide/reporting)

[required](/platforms/quickstart-guide/customer-area)

[6: Customer Area](/platforms/quickstart-guide/customer-area)

[Learn how you can manage your integration in the Customer Area.](/platforms/quickstart-guide/customer-area)

[required](/platforms/quickstart-guide/support)

[7: Support](/platforms/quickstart-guide/support)

[Learn how to support your users.](/platforms/quickstart-guide/support)
