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Achieve an optimal setup with Adyen's new Integration Guide
Discover how Adyen's new Integration Guide simplifies and accelerates your payment integration process with personalized guide tailored to your business needs.
This blog introduces the new Integration Guide in the Adyen Customer Area, designed to accelerate your integration with Adyen's payment platform. We aim to help our merchants achieve a smooth, efficient integration experience, minimize setup time, reduce support needs, and enhance your ability to go live quickly. For your development team, this means a faster, optimized integration tailored to your business type and technical requirements.
Why should you use the Integration Guide?
The Integration Guide makes integrating with Adyen faster, smoother, and more efficient through:
Personalized integration steps: The Guide provides tailored guidance based on your business type, simplifying complex integration requirements.
Self-Service, faster integration: With a self-service approach, you can complete your integration independently, reducing reliance on support and speeding up your time to go live.
Optimal setup: Achieve an optimal first integration, saving time on future updates and maximizing long-term value.
What’s in the Guide, and how do you use it?
The Guide breaks the integration process into three main parts: Introduction, Scope, and Checklist. Let us ‘guide’ you through them.
Introduction
This section starts with a high-level overview and essential resources to get you oriented to Adyen's payment ecosystem. It covers important topics such as the payment lifecycle, Adyen-specific terminology, account structure, API, and webhooks setup. This section can help you brush up on some knowledge as preparation.
Scope
In this section, you can scope your payment integration by answering questions about your business needs and ideal shopper experience. This section helps you define your integration requirements and spot the payment functionalities essential to your digital business.
Checklist
Based on your scoping, you can generate a customized implementation checklist that defines an optimal integration for your business with Adyen. The checklist outlines the steps needed to complete your integration, outlining the tasks around operational setup, checkout experience, and payment modifications. The recommendations are continuously updated with Adyen's evolving best practices to keep your integration at par with payment innovations.
This guided approach helps you achieve an optimal integration with Adyen by reducing friction and saving you time now and in the future.
What is the current scope, and what's next?
The Integration Guide is available for all new digital and card-only merchants onboarded to Adyen as of July 1. Platforms, in-person payments, and plugin or partner integrations are not yet supported. Our vision for this Integration Guide is to eventually guide you through all stages of your integration lifecycle with Adyen, enabling you to adopt new features, optimizations, and upgrades to maximize value for your business.
Start using the Integration Guide today
The Integration Guide is here to help you facilitate an easier, faster, and more successful integration with Adyen. Ready to build an optimal Adyen integration? Access the Integration Guide under Customer Area Test > Developers > Integration Guide today to take the first step toward a simplified and more efficient setup of your integration. We value your input; click the Give Feedback icon in the Customer Area to help us shape future updates.
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