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API Overview
  • Merchant Boarding User Guide
    • Recent Revisions to This Document
    • VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners
  • Introduction to the Boarding Registration Service
    • Requirements
    • Understanding Accounts and Organizations
    • Understanding Organization IDs
    • Configure a Single Merchant
    • Configure Multiple Merchants
    • Configure Multiple Merchants with an Extended Hierarchy
  • Product Templates
    • Template Components
    • Products
  • Using Templates
    • Retrieving Templates
    • Add Templates
    • Editing Templates
    • Deleting Templates
    • Setting the Default Template
  • Product Boarding Template Reference
    • Account Updater Templates
    • Card Processing Templates
      • Configuring a Card Processing Template
      • Processor-Specific Fields
    • Customer Invoicing
    • ACH Templates
    • Fraud Management Essentials Templates
    • Gift Card Templates
    • Payer Authentication Templates
    • Pay By Link
    • Secure Acceptance Templates
    • Token Management Service Templates
    • Unified Checkout Integration
    • Virtual Terminal Templates
  • Create Organizations
    • Create a Merchant Account
      • Add Merchant Account Information
      • Set Up the Transacting Organization and Products
    • Add an Additional Transacting Organization to an Existing Merchant Organization
      • Configure the Transacting Organization and Products
  • Search for Organizations
    • Search Results
    • Sort and Filter Search Results
    • View an Organization's Hierarchy
  • Manage Organization Information
    • View and Edit an Organization's Business Details
    • View and Edit an Organization's Processor Details
  • Update an Organization's Products
    • Add a Product to an Organization
    • Modify a Product for an Organization
    • Remove a Product from an Organization
  • Change an Organization's Status
  • Product Enablement and Configuration
    • Enablement-Only Products
      • Add an Enablement-Only Product to an Organization
    • Alternative Payments
      • Add Alternative Payments to a Merchant Account
      • Add Alternative Payments with Self-Enablement to an Organization
      • Add Alternative Payments to an Existing Organization
      • Modify an Alternative Payment Methods Configuration for an Organization
    • Payer Authentication
      • Add Payer Authentication to a Merchant Account
      • Add Payer Authentication to an Existing Organization
      • Modify a Payer Authentication Configuration for an Organization
    • Token Management Service
      • Token Vault Management
        • Token Requestor IDs
        • Configure the Token Vault Settings Using the Business Center
        • Configure the Token Vault Access Using the Business Center
      • Add TMS to a Merchant Account
      • Add TMS to an Existing Organization
  • Switch Merchants
  • Send a Registration Email
  • Extend the Hierarchy
    • Hierarchy Example
    • Add a Structural Organization to an Existing Merchant
      • Add a Structural Organization
      • Create a Transacting Organization and Products
  • Product Boarding Template Reference
    • Account Updater Templates
    • Card Processing Templates
      • Configuring a Card Processing Template
      • Processor-Specific Fields
    • Customer Invoicing
    • ACH Templates
    • Fraud Management Essentials Templates
    • Gift Card Templates
    • Payer Authentication Templates
    • Pay By Link
    • Secure Acceptance Templates
    • Token Management Service Templates
    • Unified Checkout Integration
    • Virtual Terminal Templates
  • ISO Standard Currency Codes
  • Reason Codes
  • Merchant Boarding User Guide
    • Recent Revisions to This Document
    • VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners
  • Introduction to the Boarding Registration Service
    • Requirements
    • Understanding Accounts and Organizations
    • Understanding Organization IDs
    • Configure a Single Merchant
    • Configure Multiple Merchants
    • Configure Multiple Merchants with an Extended Hierarchy
  • Product Templates
    • Template Components
    • Products
  • Using Templates
    • Retrieving Templates
    • Add Templates
    • Editing Templates
    • Deleting Templates
    • Setting the Default Template
  • Product Boarding Template Reference
    • Account Updater Templates
    • Card Processing Templates
      • Configuring a Card Processing Template
      • Processor-Specific Fields
    • Customer Invoicing
    • ACH Templates
    • Fraud Management Essentials Templates
    • Gift Card Templates
    • Payer Authentication Templates
    • Pay By Link
    • Secure Acceptance Templates
    • Token Management Service Templates
    • Unified Checkout Integration
    • Virtual Terminal Templates
  • Create Organizations
    • Create a Merchant Account
      • Add Merchant Account Information
      • Set Up the Transacting Organization and Products
    • Add an Additional Transacting Organization to an Existing Merchant Organization
      • Configure the Transacting Organization and Products
  • Search for Organizations
    • Search Results
    • Sort and Filter Search Results
    • View an Organization's Hierarchy
  • Manage Organization Information
    • View and Edit an Organization's Business Details
    • View and Edit an Organization's Processor Details
  • Update an Organization's Products
    • Add a Product to an Organization
    • Modify a Product for an Organization
    • Remove a Product from an Organization
  • Change an Organization's Status
  • Product Enablement and Configuration
    • Enablement-Only Products
      • Add an Enablement-Only Product to an Organization
    • Alternative Payments
      • Add Alternative Payments to a Merchant Account
      • Add Alternative Payments with Self-Enablement to an Organization
      • Add Alternative Payments to an Existing Organization
      • Modify an Alternative Payment Methods Configuration for an Organization
    • Payer Authentication
      • Add Payer Authentication to a Merchant Account
      • Add Payer Authentication to an Existing Organization
      • Modify a Payer Authentication Configuration for an Organization
    • Token Management Service
      • Token Vault Management
        • Token Requestor IDs
        • Configure the Token Vault Settings Using the Business Center
        • Configure the Token Vault Access Using the Business Center
      • Add TMS to a Merchant Account
      • Add TMS to an Existing Organization
  • Switch Merchants
  • Send a Registration Email
  • Extend the Hierarchy
    • Hierarchy Example
    • Add a Structural Organization to an Existing Merchant
      • Add a Structural Organization
      • Create a Transacting Organization and Products
  • Product Boarding Template Reference
    • Account Updater Templates
    • Card Processing Templates
      • Configuring a Card Processing Template
      • Processor-Specific Fields
    • Customer Invoicing
    • ACH Templates
    • Fraud Management Essentials Templates
    • Gift Card Templates
    • Payer Authentication Templates
    • Pay By Link
    • Secure Acceptance Templates
    • Token Management Service Templates
    • Unified Checkout Integration
    • Virtual Terminal Templates
  • ISO Standard Currency Codes
  • Reason Codes
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Pay By Link

Pay by Link
provides merchants an easy and fast way to sell products or accept donations without any coding.

Prerequisites

Unified Checkout Integration
must be enabled for the merchant. Before
Unified Checkout Integration
can be enabled for a merchant, it must be enabled at the portfolio level.
To enable
Unified Checkout Integration
at the portfolio level, talk to your sales representative.
Pay by Link
must be enabled at the portfolio level before in can be added to merchant accounts. To enable at
Pay by Link
the portfolio level, contact your sales representative.

Enabling
Pay by Link
on the Business Center

Before you can add
Pay by Link
, Unified Checkout must be added to the merchant account. To add Unified Checkout, see: Unified Checkout Integration.
  1. Navigate to the Merchant Details Page within Portfolio Management.
  2. Click the
    Add products
    button.
  3. Select
    Pay by Link
    , and click the
    Add
    button.
Pay by Link
should appear on the Merchant's product list.
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