CHOSEN BY ONE OF A KIND BUSINESSES

The whole payments stack, on one platform.

Go global, both ways.

International Payment Gateway

Accept payments from 170+ markets in 140+ currencies, settled in INR. Apple Pay and PayPal switched on from the dashboard.

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Sell into India

Foreign businesses collect from Indian customers in local methods like UPI, RuPay and cards, with 80%+ success rates, settling to an overseas account in 100+ currencies at 0% FX, with no Indian entity.

Cashfree

Fraud loses. You win.

RiskShield

Real-time fraud screening on both directions of money movement, payments in and disbursals out, with chargebacks cut by up to 60%.

SecureID

360-degree identity verification: KYC, bank accounts, GST, documents and faces, verified in seconds, not days.

Mule Sentinel

Detect and block mule accounts and fraud networks before they move money through your business.

Payments, built for AI

Two ways AI is moving money for Indian businesses: taking payments inside AI, and running payment operations with agents.

Agentic Payments

Cashfree Here

Let customers pay with UPI, cards, QR or netbanking right inside AI chats like ChatGPT and Claude, with no payment details ever exposed to the AI. India's first in-chat payments, built on the MCP Apps standard with Mastercard and Swiggy.

Agentic Operations

Cashfree Relay

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AI agents that run your back-office payment work: reconciliation, refunds, disputes, and COD checks. Pick a ready-made agent or build your own by describing what you need. You approve anything that moves money.

Payouts and refunds, done in seconds.

Payouts

Pay anyone, 24x7, holidays included: bank accounts, UPI IDs, cards, wallets. Refunds, vendors, salaries, winnings, incentives.

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Payouts

Cashgram

Send money with just a link. No collecting account details, no failed transfers, no support tickets.

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Cashgram

INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS

Your industry's payment problems, already solved.

Payments configured for your industry, not a one-size-fits-all gateway.

Checkout360: a custom checkout built for Shopify D2C brands.

Checkout360

Payment Gateway

BNPL

Subscriptions

RTO and COD dependence are the real margin killers for D2C. Checkout360 is a one-click checkout that lifts conversion, flips COD to prepaid, and flags RTO risk before you ship.

Disburse in seconds. Collect 
on schedule. Compliant by default.

Payment Gateway with TPV

UPI AutoPay

eNACH

Payouts

SecureID.

BFSI runs on disbursal speed, collection reliability, and airtight compliance. Pay out in seconds, keep recurring mandates and EMIs collecting on UPI AutoPay and eNACH, and validate accounts with TPV before money moves.

From admission fee to EMI, one stack for how learning gets paid for.

Payment Gateway

Payment Forms

Subscriptions

Easy Split

BNPL

Fee collection means chasing parents, reconciling by hand, and offering EMI at enrolment. Automate all three, and split fees across departments automatically.

Start taking payments today. Grow into everything else.

Payment Links

Payment Forms

Cashfree Checkout

Instant Settlements

No code needed

Collect on a link, a form, or a checkout, make payouts, and get settlements in 15 minutes. Go live in hours, not weeks, with no code.

The platform under India's
biggest brands.

Full platform

RiskShield

Dedicated support

In-house UPI and card switches, direct bank integrations, dedicated account managers and custom SLAs, at 100,000+ transactions a minute.

Customer Proof

Proof beats promises.

Only at cashfree

Innovations that
win you more payments

Features we build in-house to lift success rates and conversion, so your checkout keeps getting better.

FlashUPI

Native in-app UPI, with no redirect to a separate UPI app. Checkout in under 5 seconds, with 10%+ higher success rates.

Flash UPI app interface showing ICICI Bank RuPay card and Pay Now button for one-tap payment.

Biometric passkeys with Visa and Mastercard

Approve card payments with Face ID or a fingerprint instead of an OTP. Card details are tokenised on the device, so biometric auth replaces the OTP step entirely.

Apple Pay Wallet screen showing Face ID confirmation above stacked Visa and other cards.

WhatsApp-native
payment link

Payments within WhatsApp like never before. Your customers pay without ever leaving the app.

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Checkout360

Native in-app UPI, with no redirect to a separate UPI app. Checkout in under 5 seconds, with 10%+ higher success rates.

Developer Experience

Infrastructure your engineers will vouch for.

Clean REST APIs, SDKs in 7+ languages, webhooks for everything, a production-identical sandbox, and AI tools that do the heavy lifting of integration.

API-first, always.

RESTful APIs, real-time webhooks, and SDKs in 7+ languages. If it happens on the platform, there is an endpoint for it, at 99.9% uptime.

API Reference

Build with AI.

Wire up payments the way your team already codes - with MCP, agent toolkits and skills for Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK and OpenAI, plus chat-driven setup on Lovable and Replit.

Integrations

Go live fast.

Sandbox from signup, test credentials in minutes, and 50+ platform plugins. Live on Shopify, WooCommerce or Wix in five minutes.

DevStudio

Frequently asked questions

What is Cashfree’s Festive Offer*?

This offer is built for businesses to get online and live before the festive season hits, without payment costs slowing them down. As part of Cashfree's festive season offer, new merchants who sign up and complete onboarding within the offer period will enjoy zero payment gateway fees* on their first ₹20L of GMV with Cashfree Payments. The merchants will also get guaranteed next day settlement as part of the offer empowering them with better cash-flow for their operations. The offer is automatically applied during the offer period and no additional steps need to be taken by the merchant. *Detailed terms and conditions can be found below.

Terms and conditions

I sell products to both Indian and International customers. Is Cashfree the right PG for me?

Cashfree Payments is the right payment gateway for businesses looking to take their brand global and collect payments from domestic and international customers. We support accepting payments from international customers via their credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diner’s Club), or via PayPal. We are also working to add additional alternate payment methods so that your global customers can see payment modes that are local and familiar to them. Our checkout flow will also ensure that your international customers can see the prices of your products and services in the currency of their country, making the experience easier and better for them.

What features are supported by Cashfree PG?

Cashfree Payments offers best-in-class payment gateway services with industry-highest success rates, a wide variety of payment modes, India's leading BNPL suite, and a cutting-edge checkout solution which makes accepting payments more rewarding for our customer businesses. In addition to its industry-leading payments processing, Cashfree Payments offers many value-added services designed to help your business harness its potential better. With Instant Settlements, we enable businesses like yours to take complete control of your revenues and unlocks more working capital - get your payments in your account 15 minutes after you receive a customer payments, at the end of the day, or on-demand. Instant refunds allows you to issue refunds to your customers in <1 minute, versus the usual 4-6 working days wait. Upfront TDR allows businesses like yours to push payment gateway charges to your customers and is useful for some lines of businesses.

Are there any specific businesses that Cashfree Payments does not support?

As a payments company we strive to cater to all businesses. However, there are some services and goods, for which we don't provide our payment gateway services.

Why choose Cashfree Payments?

Cashfree provides the best-in-class payments experience for businesses and customers. As an online merchant, when you opt for Cashfree you get: 1. Over 150+ payment modes with both domestic and international payment options. 2. India's widest BNPL suite with 35+ card and cardless EMIs and Pay Later options. 3. Industry highest success rates on transactions achieved through dynamic routing, direct bank integrations and payment retries. 4. Robust UPI payments stack with 8+ direct bank integrations that guarantees faster payments with higher success rates. 5. The most advanced card payments system with Tokenization, CVV-free payments and 3DS 2.0. 6. Innovative solutions like BNPL and Offers Widget, Instant Settlements and Easy Split to cater to fast growing business payment needs. 7. Highly reliable customer support available 24*7 to quickly resolve your queries.

What is a payment gateway in India and how does it work?

A payment gateway is a technology-driven digital platform which enables online businesses to collect digital payments from their end customers. When customers trigger a checkout on the website or application of an online business, their payment information is collected and passed through a payment gateway for authorization and processing.

Can I sign up as an individual?

Yes, you can sign up as an individual for a payment gateway. Please share your personal address proof instead of the business registration details. Here is the list of documents required for setting up your Cashfree PG account -

What are the documents required for setting up an account with Cashfree PG? What is the process like?

Once you sign-up, to activate your payment gateway merchant account, you need to share business details along with scanned copies of the following business documents.

Are NRO and NRE accounts supported?

Cashfree Payments supports NRO accounts of non-resident Indians, for individuals and organisations. We do not support NRE accounts.

Do I need a website / app to accept payments?

No, you do not need a website or app to accept payments. Cashfree Payments has two no-code solutions for entities that want to accept payments without a website or application - Payment Links and Payment Forms.

What are the types of integrations and platforms that Cashfree Payments supports?

Cashfree Payments supports a wide variety of integrations that enable different types of businesses leveraging different platforms to accept payments seamlessly. We support easy web and mobile integrations via RESTful APIs and mobile SDKs (Android, iOS, React Native, Flutter, Cordova, Xamarin, and Capacitor). We also support integrations on businesses leveraging website platforms and partners via plugins such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, WHMCS, CS Cart, OpenCart, Wordpress, Zoho Books, and Wix.

In which programming languages do you have integration kits available?

We have payment gateway integration in PHP, Java, Python, NodeJS, Ruby and.Net. With our ready-to-use integration kits, you will be able to integrate the best payment gateway in no time. Throughout your integration process our product experts will be available for any assistance you may need. Can I do payment integration in Android & iOS apps? Yes, You can use our library to integrate our Payment Gateway directly into your Android or iOS app using Cashfree Payments SDK. Cashfree Payments SDK has been designed to offload the complexity of handling and integrating payments in your app.

What is the procedure for PG integration?

We do 100% paperless onboarding for merchants on our Payment Gateway. Following are the steps for integration 1. Signup on Cashfree Payments 2. Update your business profile and upload scanned copies of business documents 3. You can try out the payment gateway yourself. Login and switch to test account. Check integration documentation. 4. Our Payment expert will call you; share your business requirements and we will help you pick the right set of features. 5. Once the account is verified, our product team will help you with the integration

How do I add or remove payment methods from checkout?

On the Cashfree Payments dashboard, click on Settings -> Payment Gateway -> Payment methods to see which methods have been enabled for your account and which ones are still available. You can raise a request from that page to activate or deactivate a payment mode, as is required.

How can I set up Cashfree's Payment Gateway for my website?

Cashfree Payments, as an online payment gateway, offers a wide range of web integrations. You can choose easy-to-integrate Cashfree Payments hosted checkout form or go for customised checkout experience integrations like Seamless Basic or Seamless Pro as per your business need. You can integrate our Payment Gateway for website in any of the languages - PHP, Laravel, Java, Python or C++. Check our quick and easy quiz to determine which kind of integration is best for you here.

Can I do payment integration in Android & iOS apps?

Yes, You can use our library to integrate our Payment Gateway directly into your Android or iOS app using Cashfree Payments SDK. Cashfree Payments SDK has been designed to offload the complexity of handling and integrating payments in your app. Know more here: https://docs.cashfree.com/docs/mobile-integration

How many days does the integration take?

It depends on the type of integration you choose. Plugin-based integrations usually take less than 10 minutes to activate once the account has been set up and requires no coding or development effort. For API-based integrations, some development effort is required. An average business integrating with our APIs takes anywhere from 10-20 days.

What payment modes are supported by Cashfree?

Cashfree Payments supports the widest range of payment modes with a single integration. We support over 180+ payment modes such as Credit and Debit Card (Visa, Mastercard, Rupay, AMEX, Diners), Net Banking of more than 65 banks, Paytm and other wallets, UPI via BHIM UPI, Google Pay, PhonePe, EMI options, buy now paylater and so on. Cards: All major card networks namely RuPay, VISA, MasterCard, Amex, DinersClub and Maestro. Net Banking: Integrations with 90+ public and private banks in India. UPI: 20+ UPI apps including PhonePe, Paytm, Google Pay, BHIM and Amazon Pay. BNPL: 35+ Card and Cardless EMI providers and Pay Later partners Wallet: 9 Digital and Mobile Wallets including Paytm, Amazon Pay, Freecharge and MobiKwik For the complete list you can refer here.

What is a PCI-DSS? Do I need it?

PCI-DSS is a globally recognised security standard and protocol, and businesses with a PCI-DSS certificate have the ability to securely store card information. Cashfree Payments has a PCI-DSS Level 1 certification, which recognizes that our technology meets the highest level of safety and security in managing protected payment information. You need a PCI-DSS certificate to accept card payments only when you are operating your own checkout and using Payment 's hosted checkout options, our PCI-DSS certificate will cover you and you will not need the certificate to accept payments via credit and debit cards.

Do you support instant refunds?

We also support stand refunds that take 4-5 working days to reach your customer's account.

Does Cashfree Payments Gateway have a transaction limit?

Cashfree Payment Gateway has industry-leading infrastructure that supports a very high rate of transactions per second. We are proud to partner with some of India's biggest businesses, and are able to support them seamlessly without hitting our transaction limit. For example, we were able to support a huge spike in payments during shopping festivals and occasions, which is 5x-8x higher than the usual traffic without any additional effort.

Why is Cashfree the most secure online payment gateway in India?

Cashfree Payments is highly secure, with PCI-DSS, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certifications and an in-house card tokenization solution, to always safeguard your payments. We have also received in-principle approval as a payment aggregator from the RBI, and have recently upgraded our systems to be compliant with the latest security protocols, including 3DS 2.0.

What are the payment gateway charges?

Our charges for payments processing are simple and user-friendly - 1.95% for all card, UPI, netbanking, and digital wallet transactions. For some payment modes (EMIs, Pay Later, and international cards), the charges differ. You can review the pricing for our payments services on our Pricing Page.

What is the settlement cycle like? Is this flexible?

Businesses usually get their revenue deposited in their designated bank accounts in T+2* working days. What this means is that for a transaction processed on Monday, the settlement amount will reflect in your account on Thursday. However, if you would prefer to receive your payments early, you can explore our Instant Settlements product to control your settlement flow. Get your revenues settled into your account in 15 minutes after receiving the payment, at the end of the working day, or on-demand on the click of a button. To know more, check out our Instant Settlements product.

Instant Settlements

Do you support card tokenisation?

Yes. We've our own RBI compliant card tokenization solution called Token Vault. Token Vault is India's first interoperable card tokenization solution that helps you process your customer's saved card payments across mutliple card networks and payment gateways. Know more about Token Vault.

What is the success rate of Cashfree Payment Gateway?

Cashfree Payment Gateway offers industry-leading success rates across payment modes. We're able to deliver higher success rates than other payment gateway providers through direct bank integration, dynamic routing with AI/ML modelling, auto retry, CVV-less payment flow and Flash UPI offering.

I am evaluating different PGs and have some questions. How can I get in touch?

Thank you for considering us as your payments partner! You can reach out to us here to set up a call with our sales representatives.

Do you have a mobile app for businesses?

Yes, we have a mobile application for our partner businesses to access their dashboard and manage their payments via their smartphones. You can access our mobile application here

Is Cashfree the Best Payment Gateway for Small Businesses in India?

Cashfree payments system has been developed for fast-growing businesses of all sizes, and a small business will have the exact same infrastructure that has been used by more than 1 million businesses throughout India. You may quickly initiate acceptance of many forms of payment (180+) using self-service onboarding which can be activated the very same day as you begin use. In addition, you will be able to maintain a smooth checkout experience when accepting multiple payment options since the success rate of payments accepted via Cashfree can be up to 99.9 percent. Since our pricing model is based on each individual transaction and provides great value for money versus high upfront costs, small businesses can easily begin to accept payments on a small basis and then continue to scale while utilizing the same configuration.

Will One Setup Allow a Small Business To Accept Payments Via UPI, Cards And Global Payments?

Yes. When you connect to the Cashfree payment gateway you will have the ability to accept over 180 different types of payments (UPI, cards, net banking, wallet, EMI and/or pay later etc.) so customers will always know how they prefer to make their purchases and therefore fewer transactions will be dropped off during checkout. As you grow, you will also be able to add new international markets without having to replace your current payment stack. Therefore, domestic small businesses can now initiate the process of becoming an international business and still retain control of their payments.

I'm having some issue with my existing PG account. How do I get in touch?

We're sorry to hear that you're having some trouble. Please reach out to us here to get support. You can also raise a ticket from your Cashfree Payments dashboard via the Help Center or by dropping an email to your account manager or care@cashfree.com

Do you support multi-user logins and accounts?

Yes, we support multi-user logins via account aliases. Once your Cashfree Payments account has been set up, you can enable access for other members of your team by providing them access to your account. You can find out more here.

How Quickly Can a Small Business Go Live Using Cashfree?

Self-serve onboarding is designed to allow you to quickly start collecting payments as soon as possible (often within the same day after completing your KYC and business verification). In addition, you can be live on any platform in minutes (you can integrate Cashfree directly into your website, or you can simply plug into Shopify or WooCommerce or just send a no code payment link to customers using WhatsApp or Social Media). Your goal should be to begin earning money right away; there should never be extended approval times or lengthy periods of time for setup.

Your business is one of a kind. Build payments to match.

0% platform fees on sales up to ₹20L* (standard rate 1.95%). No setup fee, no maintenance fee, no hidden fees. Pay only when you get paid.

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PCI DSS

ISO 27001

SOC 2