Pay by link

Use a payment link as a way to pay

Let customers pay using a secure payment link that’s hosted by us and made by you. You send a link, your customer pays, and you get paid.

Any channel becomes your checkout

With our hosted checkout pages, you can receive funds from your customers using a link that can be sent through pretty much any channel.

Call center

Send a payment link during calls for an easy, secure checkout.

Social media

Guide customers to purchase on any social platform.

Kiosk

Enable self-checkout to reduce queues and expand offering in-store.

Email, SMS and video

Place links in-conversation to enable instant payments.

Invoice

Add payment links to digital invoices. Optimized for B2B.

QR code

Create a QR code that lets your customer pay on their own device.

Create a payment link that leads directly to a checkout

Offer a range of payment experiences and easily integrate using a customizable hosted checkout page that you can share in any channel.

Be your own sales channel

Accept payments online without the hassle of having to run a website, maintain an app, or deal with point of sale terminals.

3D Secure 2 built in

Secure each transaction with a liability shift and reduce fraud with strong customer authentication that’s already built into your link.

Increase revenue

Reactivate shoppers with abandoned carts or with failed transactions by following up with a payment directly.

Always up to date

No need for upgrading or keeping track with new regulations, as we’re always on top of the latest security and fraud trends.

Flexible omnichannel experience

Offer full payment flexibility, accept a down-payment in store then follow up for the rest with a payment link on any sales channel.

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Three ways to use Pay by Link

Via the Adyen Dashboard

Create one-off payment pages manually from your dashboard.

User interface for uploading a brand logo with search and display name fields.

Customize your page

Easily create a branded hosted payment page by dragging and dropping your creative assets.

Adyen product interface showing options for shopper country, amount in EUR, and link validity of 24 or 48 hours.

Create a link

Enter the country, currency, amount, expiry and internal reference.

User interface for copying a payment link displaying a summary with merchant reference and amount.

Send the link

By copying and pasting the URL into your desired channel such as emails, WhatsApp and WeChat.

Adyen payment statuses screen showing Merchant references and their respective unpaid, paid, and expired statuses.

Get notified

Automatically find out when your customer has paid and see all link information in the Adyen dashboard.

Via an API call

Create payment links automatically via an API call for larger projects.

User interface for uploading a brand logo with search and display name fields.

Customize your page

Easily create a branded hosted payment page by dragging and dropping your creative assets.

Screenshot showing an Adyen payment link creation interface with code and data fields.

Send payment information

Your system will ping our Checkout API with payment details such as country, currency, amount and expiration date of the link.

Screenshot of a mockup API response showing a successful Adyen payment process.

Retrieve payment link

Adyen's system will create a link based on the criteria above and you can automatically embed the link on preferred channels.

Adyen payment statuses screen showing Merchant references and their respective unpaid, paid, and expired statuses.

Get notified

Automatically find out when your customer has paid and see all link information in the Adyen dashboard.

Via app

Empower your sales staff with an app for mobile devices enabling on-the-go payment link creation.

User interface for uploading a brand logo with search and display name fields.

Customize your page

Easily create a branded hosted payment page by dragging and dropping your creative assets.

Adyen payment link creation interface showing an amount of €200 and a merchant reference.

Create link from app

After the Pay by Link app has been downloaded sales agents can easily create links and enter the country, currency, amount, expiry and internal reference from anywhere.

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Show QR code or send the link

QR code will show in the app so customers can scan or you can choose to send the link to their favorite channel.

Adyen payment statuses screen showing Merchant references and their respective unpaid, paid, and expired statuses.

Get notified

Find out in real time when a customer's transaction has been approved so you can hand off the goods in-store or release the order online.

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