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Cashfree Payments

Payments and checkout platform for collecting domestic and international payments.

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Cashfree Payments is an Indian payments platform founded in 2015 that provides infrastructure for collecting and disbursing money. It addresses the need to accept payments through multiple methods, send payouts, verify customer identities, and screen for fraud from a single platform. The company holds RBI authorisation as a payment aggregator.

The platform includes a Payment Gateway supporting UPI, cards, EMI, netbanking and wallets, along with Checkout, Subscriptions, Payment Links, Payment Forms, Payouts, Cashgram, and an International Payment Gateway covering 140+ currencies. RiskShield, SecureID and Mule Sentinel handle fraud screening and identity verification. AI-oriented tools include Cashfree Here for in-chat payments and Cashfree Relay for agentic payment operations. Integrations cover Shopify, Wix, WordPress, WooCommerce and WhatsApp, with REST APIs, SDKs in 7+ languages, webhooks, and a sandbox environment.

Cashfree Payments is aimed at businesses of varying sizes, from startups to enterprises, across industries including e-commerce, BFSI and education. Pricing is structured around platform fees that vary by payment method, with a promotional rate applying to sales up to a specified threshold for new merchants. An Enterprise edition offers custom pricing, a dedicated account manager and early feature access. Payment Links, Payment Forms and softpos are included at no additional cost with the Payment Gateway.

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