--- title: Finding your pay-in API keys to make your first payment description: To authorise a payment, an API call is made to Yaspa. To authenticate and authorise that payment, the API call will contain an API key that you can obtain from the admin dashboard. To find your API ke --- [Skip to content](https://support.yaspa.com/finding-your-pay-in-api-keys-to-make-your-first-payment#main-content) English Show submenu for translations [![yaspa logo text](https://support.yaspa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/hubspot-yaspa-logo.png?width=150&height=67&name=hubspot-yaspa-logo.png)](https://support.yaspa.com/) - [Home](https://support.yaspa.com/) - [About](https://www.yaspa.com/about/) - [Blog](https://www.yaspa.com/blog/) - [Contact](https://www.yaspa.com/contact/) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Home](https://support.yaspa.com/) - [About](https://www.yaspa.com/about/) - [Blog](https://www.yaspa.com/blog/) - [Contact](https://www.yaspa.com/contact/) - English Show submenu for translations - [Return to yaspa.com](https://www.yaspa.com/) [Return to yaspa.com](https://www.yaspa.com/) What can we help you with? - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 1. [Yaspa help centre](https://support.yaspa.com/) 2. [Using the dashboard](https://support.yaspa.com/using-the-dashboard) # Finding your pay-in API keys to make your first payment To authorise a payment, an API call is made to Yaspa. To authenticate and authorise that payment, the API call will contain an API key that you can obtain from the admin dashboard. To find your API keys: 1. Log in to the admin dashboard and select your 'Merchant'. 2. Click on the profile icon in the top right, and then select API keys. ![Untitled design](https://support.yaspa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Untitled%20design.png?width=252&height=465&name=Untitled%20design.png) 3\. Click the show icon on the API key. Make a note of your API keys. ![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/wjw17MqV1j-6T12nHrhrVuKnsfxbFearG0KviFXU4-IDdnLFAp18e7ByL25A8KDA8f901rAcUgxeYcogsIhk35wJVM-CPsNfeTnZl7etq8nLYuHyXnMH5ucYsErOtAaXTy0O2th2-FRi6tlnOuA2HA) | Public API key | The front-end SDK uses this key to initiate any instructions created by your back end. | | --- | --- | | API key | Used to authenticate server-to-server calls to Yaspa API. | | Merchant ID | Used to uniquely identify your merchant. You may be asked for this by our customer success team. | *Note for PIQ, Praxis and Hexopay integrations – You will be copying these API keys into these respective integration configurations, so these systems can initiate payments on your behalf.* **Related articles** - [Quickstart guide](https://developers.paywithcitizen.com/#quickstart-guide) - [Hosted Payins](https://developers.paywithcitizen.com/#pay-ins)           - [About Yaspa](https://support.yaspa.com/about-yaspa) - [User FAQs (UK & Europe)](https://support.yaspa.com/user-faqs-uk-europe) - [User FAQs (USA)](https://support.yaspa.com/user-faqs-usa) - [Country-specific information](https://support.yaspa.com/country-specific-information) - [Business FAQs](https://support.yaspa.com/business-faqs) - [Key concepts](https://support.yaspa.com/key-concepts) - [Getting started](https://support.yaspa.com/getting-started) - [The onboarding process](https://support.yaspa.com/the-onboarding-process) - [Integrating with Yaspa](https://support.yaspa.com/integrating-with-yaspa) - [Using the dashboard](https://support.yaspa.com/using-the-dashboard) - [Complaints](https://support.yaspa.com/complaints) - [Home](https://support.yaspa.com/) - [About](https://www.yaspa.com/about/) - [Blog](https://www.yaspa.com/blog/) - [Contact](https://www.yaspa.com/contact/) [![yaspa logo](https://support.yaspa.com/hs-fs/hubfs/website-claw-favicon-4.png?width=30&height=30&name=website-claw-favicon-4.png "yaspa logo")](https://www.yaspa.com/) Yaspa is a registered trademark of Yaspa Limited. All rights reserved. © 2026 Yaspa Limited. Yaspa Limited is a company registered in England and Wales (number 09902175), and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as a payment institution (reference number 826720).