Setup your account

Sign Up for a Hands In Account

It is completely free to create a Hands In account here. Just fill in your details and click "create" to sign up.

Once created, you will be able to access your dashboard as shown below

Connect your payment processor(s)

Before you can start taking any payments through the Hands In platform, you must connect at least one of your existing payment processors. To do this simply go to Dashboard > Payment Gateways > Catalogue (shown below).

Click "Connect" on the payment processor you would like to connect* to your Hands In account and follow the instructions displayed to complete the connection, this could include filling out credentials, API Keys and other details. Once you have established at least one connection, it will show on Dashboard > Payment Gateways > Connected and you will be ready to start creating payments. If you use multiple payment processors, you can click here to learn more about managing and configuring multiple payment processors.

*If you do not see the payment processor you would like to connect to available on the catalogue page, please reach out to our team at [email protected].

Configure your brand settings (recommended but optional)

You can configure settings at Dashboard > Settings (shown below). We recommend you add your company name and logo as this is used by certain payment methods to display to your customers. You can also set the default currency and language information on your dashboard will be shown in, note that this does not affect the currency you take payments in.

Create your first payment

To create a payment you can either use the dashboard (No code) or our API (Only Code).

Simply navigate to either Dashboard > Multi Card Payments > Create (for creating a payment that can be split over multiple cards) or to Dashboard > Group Payments > Create (for creating a payment that can be split between multiple people).

For this exercise, we will walk through creating a Multi Card payment at Dashboard > Multi Card Payments > Create (shown below).

Simply choose the currency the payment will be taken in, add some product details and then click "Continue", you can skip all the optional steps if you would like. Once completed click "Review" and then confirm the payment. Once completed you will see the following

From this page, you can manage the payment, including processing cancellations and refunds. You can now share the invite link with your customers via whatever method you'd like for them to pay. When they open it they will be able to see something similar to below.

🎊Congratulations!! You have just created your first split payment with Hands In!