{"id":8793,"date":"2026-10-20T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/docs\/what-is-1pay-ch-account\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:07:32","password":"","slug":"what-is-1pay-ch-account","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/what-is-1pay-ch-account\/","title":{"rendered":"What 1pay.ch is and how your account is organised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 1pay.ch you take payments with TWINT, cards, PostFinance Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna and other methods, online and in person, under one contract. You manage everything in one place, and the money reaches your bank account in a single payout.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to find your admin area<\/h2>\n<p>When you open your account you choose a name that becomes your personal address: <code>&lt;youraccount&gt;.1pay.ch<\/code>. The admin area is at <code>&lt;youraccount&gt;.1pay.ch\/cadmin<\/code>. Bookmark it: this is where you do everything.<\/p>\n<h2>The left-hand menu in brief<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dashboard<\/strong>: takings, latest payments and your first steps.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Payments<\/strong>: all transactions, plus the Subscriptions, Pre-authorisations and Tokenisations sections.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Payouts<\/strong>: your available balance and the transfers already made to your account.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Customers<\/strong>: the list of people who have paid you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reports<\/strong>: charts, annual statements and exports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under <strong>Merchant tools<\/strong> you will find the ways to get paid:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/pages\/\">Pages<\/a>: a small online shop, no website needed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/paylink-request-payment\/\">Paylink<\/a>: a payment request to a specific person.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/qr-pay-code\/\">QR Pay<\/a>: a QR code to print or show at the counter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/invoice\/\">Invoice<\/a>: invoices with online payment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/terminal-payment-page\/\">Terminal<\/a>: your permanent payment page.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/donation\/\">Donation<\/a>: pages for collecting donations and fees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Under <strong>Integrations<\/strong> you will find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/api-plugins\/\">API &amp; Plugins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/webhooks-notifications\/\">Webhooks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/order-terminal\/\">Card readers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/tap-to-pay-android\/\">Tap to Pay<\/a>. Under <strong>Admin<\/strong> there are the <strong>Payment providers<\/strong> (where you switch methods on and off) and the <strong>Settings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to start<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/open-free-account\/\">Open your account<\/a>, free of charge.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/account-verification\/\">Get your account verified<\/a>: this is required to receive real payments.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the right tool and make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/test-payment\/\">test payment<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The features are the same in every plan, including the free one. Only the fees change: details in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/fees-and-plans\/\">Fees and plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 1pay.ch you take payments with TWINT, cards, PostFinance Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna and other methods, online and in person, under one contract. 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