Aera docs

Payments and identity, in store and online

Guides, API references and code to take payments in store and online, recognise loyalty members and get your reports.

What do you want to do?

Main areas

Set up your Aera account

Your Aera account mirrors how your business is organised: your companies, stores and webshops. It decides where the money goes, who receives invoices and who can see what in the Aera portal. Aera's onboarding team sets it up together with you.

Account structure

Learn how Aera organises your business, with examples for merchants and partners.

Set up your account structure

Prepare with your finance team, then set it up with Aera's onboarding team.

Accept payments

Explore how you can accept payments and award loyalty in-store or online by connecting to the Aera Unified Commerce platform. View the integrations, setups and hardware to build your payment and loyalty flows.

In-store payments

Learn how to accept payments at a physical point-of-sale terminal.

Online payments

Learn how to accept payments through your online checkout.

Let users initiate payments with your app — in-store and online

Embed payment initiation functionality in your application so users can pay at physical POS terminals and online checkouts. This integration gives you control over the payment experience and replaces third-party wallets or alternative payment methods, including Apple Pay, Google Pay, Vipps MobilePay, and Wero.

Wallet business docs

Read the business documentation for Aera Wallet.

Wallet developer documentation

Read the developer documentation for integrating Aera Wallet.

Keep it secure

Security at Aera

How Aera protects your payments, and what you do to keep terminals, integrations and data secure.