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Introduction to the GoCardless Knowledge Base

The GoCardless Knowledge Base provides you with our guides on how to use GoCardless!

Here, you will find articles that cover topics including how funds are processed across both domestic and international markets, setting up your account, getting started with either the GoCardless dashboard or a connected application, as well as everything you need to troubleshoot any difficulties or unknowns you may run into along the way.

 

If you’re building an integration with our API, you’ll want to check out our separately housed API developer docs. 

 

Key concepts

Payment methods

GoCardless enables you to collect both recurring and one-off payments directly from your customers’ bank accounts.

These are the processing methods you can use to collect payments from customers (payers) using GoCardless.

Bank debit

A pull-based payment method operating through national - or, in the case of the Eurozone, regional - payment schemes. Customers must provide authorisation for a business or organisation to collect payments from their account before any payment requests can be processed.

Instant Bank Pay

Designed to complement bank debit using open banking, these bank-to-bank payments are collected and confirmed instantly upon your customer providing their details, and a bank debit authorisation is set up in the process. (This service is currently available for all merchants based in the UK, US, Canada, EEA, Australia, and New Zealand who are collecting GBP payments from customers in the UK.)

 

Ways to use GoCardless

These are the interfaces available to you through which you interact with GoCardless and manage your customers and their payments.

GoCardless dashboard

Our out-of-the-box payment management solution that can be accessed here or by entering manage.gocardless.com into your browser address bar.

Partner integration

Connect your GoCardless account to a pre-built third-party integration, such as invoicing or membership software, and manage your GoCardless payment collections from there.

API integration

Use your own self-built bespoke integration with our API to manage your customers and their payments from within your own CMS or preferred software.

 

If you can’t find the information you’re looking for, please get in touch with our Support team to get your query resolved and to let us know what information is missing so we can get that sorted.

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