Cashfree Accounts - Banking as a Service

Overview

Cashfree Accounts is built for neo banks, fintechs, and platforms looking to offer financial services. Connect to leading banks effortlessly and offer your users banking like never before.

For Businesses: Account Issuing Platforms and Fintechs

Benefits

Create Bank Accounts for Your Users in Minutes

Quickly provision bank accounts for your users through our integrated platform.

100% Paperless Online KYC

No user site visits required for account opening and verification.*

*Note: In case of current account opening, banks may perform physical verification.

Modern Banking Experience Within Your Product

Offer the most modern banking experience within your product. Give your customers the ease of operating and managing a fully digital bank account.

Flexible Fund Management Rules

Set rules for funds transfer, withdrawals, block funds, and more. It's easy to stop, pause, or modify these rules too!

Revenue Generation

Earn revenue from deposits generated through your platform.

How It Works

The Cashfree Accounts integration process follows these steps:

  1. Integrate Cashfree Accounts - Integrate Cashfree Accounts into your product using our APIs

  2. Bank Selection - Cashfree partner banks will show up on your app

  3. User Information Entry - Your user can select the preferred bank, enter name and upload identification documents

  4. KYC Authentication - Cashfree authenticates KYC details at the backend by calling banks API

  5. Account Creation - On successful verification, an account is created for your user within 30 seconds

  6. Account Usage - Users can use their accounts through your product to accept deposits, make payouts, check balance and earn interest

For Users: Connected Banking Experience

Supercharge Banking Experience with Connected Banking

We have partnered with the best to offer the best connected banking experience to your users. Let your users add their existing bank accounts to your product and do instant payouts without visiting the bank portal.

Benefits for Users

**Note: In case of current account opening, banks may perform physical verification.

Why Choose Cashfree Accounts?

Offer Banking Services Without Integrating with Banks

We have done complex integrations with leading banks so that you don't have to invest in bank integration, compliances and other operational processes. When you use the Accounts API, Cashfree interacts with our partner banks servers and create a new account within minutes.

Easy Integration

Our developer friendly REST APIs are easy to integrate and offer the utmost security. The APIs are built to help you scale and support up to 2000 account creation requests per second. The APIs also offer flexibility in building other solutions over the stack we have provided.

Real-time Notifications

Get notified in real-time on all the activities related to accounts creation, money transfer and other day-to-day operations.

Security

Cashfree partners with the best to secure your and your user's money. Our partner banks host your user bank accounts and follow all security standards, as per RBI regulations. Further user money is insured up to ₹5 lakh as per the RBI's insurance deposit scheme with our partner banks.

Partner Banks

Cashfree Accounts works with leading banking partners:

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Autocollect

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Payment Links

No-code payment links to collect payments over WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook, Twitter and other channels.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Cashfree a bank?

Cashfree is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services will be provided by our banking partners - ICICI Bank and Yes Bank. Your and your users bank account and all transactions on the bank account will be managed by our partner banks.

Is Cashfree a neo bank?

Cashfree is a financial technology company that enables tech platforms including neo banks, to embed the functionality of instant bank account creation into their product by integrating with Cashfree Accounts APIs.

Traditionally, neo-banks don't have a bank license of their own but count on bank partners to provide bank licensed services including bank account opening.

We enable neo banking companies to open accounts for their users across various banks without having to do any direct integration with banks.

In a nutshell, Cashfree helps neo banks with the building blocks to build and offer digital and mobile-first financial solutions like money transfers, payments, expense management, money lending, and more.

Will the bank account created using Cashfree Accounts be eligible for deposit insurance under RBI rules?

Yes, the accounts opened using Cashfree are opened with our partner banks which are covered under insurance by deposit insurance and credit guarantee corporation (DICGC). Each depositor in a bank is insured up to a maximum of ₹5,00,000 for both principal and interest amount held by him.

How can I start using Cashfree Accounts?

Click here to register for early access. Our payments expert will connect with you within 24 hours and help you explore how you can use Cashfree Accounts for your business model.

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

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.

Getting Started

Ready to get started? Collect customer payments, make payouts, manage international payments and so much more. Create your account or contact our experts to explore custom solutions.

What You Get

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