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# Get started

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

[View source](/payouts/payout-service/get-started.md)

This documentation guides you through getting started with Adyen's Payout Service. This page covers the necessary requirements, core concepts, and setup steps needed for your integration.

## Requirements

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

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

## How it works

Here is the process of building an Adyen payouts integration:

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

## Get in touch with us

Reach out to your Adyen contact to register your interest for Adyen payouts. We will contact you to learn more about:

* Your business model.
* The regions or countries in which you are operating and planning to make payouts.

## Scope and design your implementation

After your use case is defined, your Adyen contact works with you to design your implementation. The design includes determining:

* How to fund your payouts.
* How to pay out.
* What types of counterparties you can pay out to.

## Get your test accounts

After you have designed your implementation, your Adyen contact will give you credentials for the following:

* The [Transfers API](https://docs.adyen.com/api-explorer/transfers/latest/overview) to initiate fund transfers and make payouts.

* Your [Customer Area](https://ca-test.adyen.com/) where you can:

  * View and manage payment activities and configurations for your merchant account.
  * Access insights and reporting tools for your test environment.
  * Manage balance platform resources, such as balance accounts and transfer instruments.

## Access and set up your dashboards

After your Adyen contact sets up your test account, Adyen sends you admin credentials to log in to your [Customer Area](https://ca-test.adyen.com/).If you are already processing payments with Adyen, you already have access to your Customer Area.

If you process payments with Adyen, you can use your [Customer Area](https://ca-test.adyen.com/) to:

* View and manage all payments and [payment methods](/payment-methods).
* Manage your [API credentials](/development-resources/api-credentials) for payment processing.
* Generate and download [payment reports](/reporting) for reconciliation.
* Manage your balance account and transfer instruments.
* Manage your [API credentials](/payouts/payout-service/manage-access/api-credentials-web-service) for your balance platform.
* Configure [webhooks](/development-resources/webhooks/configure-and-manage) to get status updates on your payouts.

## Build your integration

When you have your test account and credentials, you can start building your Payouts integration.

Refer to our [integration checklist](/payouts/payout-service/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-live-account).

## Apply for your live account

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

Reach out to your [Adyen contact](https://www.adyen.com/contact/sales) to take your account live.

## Configure your live account

The setup and configuration from 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](/payouts/payout-service/integration-checklist#go-live) to make sure your integration is ready.

## See also

* [Account structure](/payouts/payout-service/account-structure-resources/)
* [Integration and go-live checklist](/payouts/payout-service/integration-checklist/)
* [Manage access for your team](/payouts/payout-service/manage-access/)
