> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://cashfreepayments-d00050e9-theme-update.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Embedded Payments Overview

> Learn about Embedded Payments by Cashfree and its advantages for businesses.

Embedded Payments by Cashfree is an end-to-end payments product that enables platforms to facilitate direct payments between businesses and their customers. You can use Embedded Payments to provide businesses with a seamless onboarding experience and a fully compliant payments module within your platform.

## Who can use Embedded Payments?

Embedded Payments is ideal for business models such as **ERPs**, **SaaS**, and **platforms** that provide payment services between businesses and their customers within their software.

### ERPs and SaaS

Use Embedded Payments to offer compliant payment solutions to businesses using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. Examples include:

* Education, restaurant, travel, hospitality, and accounting ERPs
* Billing, checkout, lending, and point-of-sale (POS) SaaS products

### Platforms

Offer end-to-end payment experiences, from onboarding to payments, as a core feature within your software platform. Examples include:

* Ecommerce platforms (storefront, conversational, return-to-origin)
* Customer relationship management (CRM) platforms
* Financial services platforms

## Advantages of Embedded Payments

Embedded Payments provides the following advantages:

* **Payment solutions**: Offer payment solutions to businesses on your platform, such as payment gateway, easy split, payment links, and subscriptions.
* **Onboarding businesses**: Use pre-built or custom flows to onboard businesses onto Cashfree.
* **Managing payments**: Provide businesses and their customers with the best payment experience using Cashfree's product suite.
* **Ensuring compliance**: Simplify compliance requirements across onboarding, KYC, payments, and post-payment journeys.
* **API-first product**: Use robust APIs to scale your platform and support more businesses without operational overhead.
* **Powerful dashboard**: Access a separate dashboard to add and manage businesses, view detailed transaction reports, and monitor commission amounts.
* **Unlocking new revenue**: Earn commissions for every transaction across onboarded businesses.