# Documentation

- [ARYZE Open Finance](/docs): Payment API and Open Finance Payments Dashboard documentation for merchants integrating with ARYZE Open Finance.
- [Quickstart](/docs/getting-started): Authenticate, initiate a payment, and receive a webhook in about five minutes.
- Dashboard
  - [Dashboard](/docs/saas-dashboard): How to sign up, pass KYB, configure destinations and API keys, and monitor payments.
  - [Getting started](/docs/saas-dashboard/getting-started): From sign-up to your first sandbox API key.
  - [Verification (KYB)](/docs/saas-dashboard/verification): What to prepare before submitting KYB, and what happens during review.
  - [Bank destinations](/docs/saas-dashboard/bank-destinations): Connect the bank account where payments are settled.
  - [API keys](/docs/saas-dashboard/api-keys): Create, configure, and rotate credentials for the Payment API.
  - [Sandbox](/docs/saas-dashboard/sandbox): Send test payments without moving real money.
  - [Transactions](/docs/saas-dashboard/transactions): Monitor live payments, inspect status history, and investigate failures.
- Integration Guides
  - [Integration Guides](/docs/guides): Task-oriented walkthroughs for common integration flows.
  - [Accept a payment](/docs/guides/accept-a-payment): Create a payment, redirect the customer to their bank, and finalise the order on return.
  - [Consume webhooks](/docs/guides/consume-webhooks): Receive payment status updates, handle retries, and keep your handler idempotent.
  - [Check payment status](/docs/guides/check-payment-status): Poll the transaction endpoint to confirm a payment's current state, or as a backup to webhooks.
- API reference
  - [API reference](/docs/api-reference): Spec-driven reference for the Payment API and its outbound webhook.
  - Payment API
    - [Payment API](/docs/api-reference/payment-api): Authentication, payments, and the outbound payment status webhook.
    - [Create access token](/docs/api-reference/payment-api/create-access-token): Exchange an API key's client secret for a Bearer JWT access token.
    - [Initiate a payment](/docs/api-reference/payment-api/initiate-payment): Start a new payment session.
    - [Get a payment](/docs/api-reference/payment-api/get-payment): Fetch a single transaction by its ARYZE `transactionId`.
    - Webhook Events
      - [Webhook Events](/docs/api-reference/payment-api/webhook-events): Outbound events ARYZE posts to the webhook URL configured on your API key.
      - [Payment status updated](/docs/api-reference/payment-api/webhook-events/payment-status-updated): Sent whenever a transaction moves to a new status.