Embedded Payments for Platforms, ERPs and SaaS Businesses

Overview

Cashfree Embedded Payments is an end-to-end payment solution designed for platforms, ERPs, and SaaS businesses. Use robust payment APIs to offer a complete payment experience to your businesses while maintaining full compliance.

What is Embedded Payments?

Embedded Payments by Cashfree is an end-to-end payments product for a third-party platform or application to facilitate direct payments between its businesses and their end users. With Embedded Payments, platforms can offer payments as part of their business offering.

Key Features

Effortless Business Onboarding

Streamline business onboarding on your platform with onboarding APIs. Cashfree manages everything from information collection, verification, to accounts approval. Use preconfigured UI or create customised onboarding flows with Cashfree Embedded Payments.

Native Payments Flow

Provide your users with a native payment experience, with no redirection using Cashfree's payment stack. Offer 180+ ways to accept online payments including:

All payment methods are accessible through payment APIs.

Compliance at the Core

The all-encompassing compliance and security system for Embedded Payments includes:

Controls for Platforms

Use Cashfree's advanced controls for merchant account and payment operations:

Account Management:

Post-Payment Management:

Benefits of Embedded Payments

User Delight

Provide a native experience to your end users without any disruptions and drop-offs due to external payment redirections.

Launch Faster

Achieve quicker market entry without the traditional time-consuming development associated with payment facilitation.

Compliance

Get built-in compliance and fraud prevention into the platform's onboarding and payment workflows right from the outset.

New Revenue Streams

Turn payments into a source of sustainable revenue with innovative monetisation options.

How Embedded Payments Works

Embedded Payments involves seamlessly integrating financial transactions within digital platforms or applications. End users can initiate payments and the funds are transferred to the business's designated account - all within the platform's environment, enhancing user experience by eliminating redirections.

Who Can Use Embedded Payments?

Cashfree Embedded Payments cater to a diverse range of business models:

By using Cashfree Embedded Payments, these businesses can provide a native and fully compliant payment experience.

Regulatory Compliance

RBI Authorised Payment Aggregator License

Certificate of Authorisation No. 266/2025

RBI Authorised Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) Provider

Certificate of Authorisation No. 209/2024

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Embedded Payments?

Embedded Payments by Cashfree is an end-to-end payments product for a third-party platform or application to facilitate direct payments between its businesses and their end users. With Embedded Payments, platforms can offer payments as part of their business offering.

How does Embedded Payments work?

Embedded Payments involves seamlessly integrating financial transactions within digital platforms or applications. End users can initiate payments and the funds are transferred to the business's designated account - all within the platform's environment, enhancing user experience by eliminating redirections.

Who can use Embedded Payments?

Cashfree Embedded Payments cater to a diverse range of business models like ERPs, SaaS providers, and Platforms that provide core payment offerings to enable transactions between businesses and their end customers. By using Cashfree Embedded Payments they can provide a native and fully compliant payment experience.

How can I onboard my businesses on Embedded Payments?

To onboard businesses with Embedded Payments:

  1. Create new merchant accounts using the Merchant Onboarding APIs directly within your platform
  2. Embed the Onboarding Link within your platform to let merchants complete their KYC without navigating away from your interface

How do I manage payments for my businesses?

Integrate the Embedded Payment Gateway to seamlessly facilitate payments collection for your businesses from end users. You can use pre-built checkout or build your own checkout experience. Manage payments, refunds, settlements and other workflows using payment APIs and Webhook.

How do I monetise Embedded Payments on my Platform?

You can drive revenue growth on your platform by making payments a core part of your offering. Through embedded payments, you can determine and mark up the pricing to earn on every transaction and add a new revenue stream.

How do I get started with Embedded Payments?

Start by signing up for an Embedded Payments Partner account with Cashfree. Provide your business information, create a password, and then activate your account by submitting the required KYC documents. Once activated, you can access your Embedded Payments Dashboard using your login credentials. Within the dashboard, you can manage merchants, integrate the Payment Gateway solution, track commissions, and gain insights into your business performance.

Getting Started

To begin using Embedded Payments:

  1. Sign up for an Embedded Payments Partner account with Cashfree
  2. Provide your business information and create a password
  3. Activate your account by submitting required KYC documents
  4. Access your Embedded Payments Dashboard with your login credentials
  5. Manage merchants, integrate Payment Gateway solution, track commissions, and gain business insights

Account Benefits

Related Cashfree Products and Services

Collect Payments

Recurring Payments

Make Payouts

Escrow as a Service

International Payments

Verify Identity

Other Products

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Cashfree supports integrations with:

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About Cashfree Payments

Cashfree Payments enables 1 Million+ growing businesses in India and across the globe to collect payments, make payouts, manage international payments, and more. Cashfree Payments is backed by SBI, Y Combinator, Krafton, and Apis partners and was incubated by PayPal.

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