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Welcome to Dodo Payments documentation. This is a guide to help you understand and navigate the Dodo Payments dashboard

Welcome

Dodo Payments Documentation

Get up and running with Dodo Payments in under 10 minutes. Follow our step-by-step guide to set up your account and start processing payments.

Quick Start Guide

When it comes to processing payments globally, digital businesses and SaaS companies are often torn between two models: Merchant of Record (MoR) and Payment Gateway (PG). At Dodo Payments, we believe in simplifying global payments while taking care of compliance, taxes, and local laws — and that's why we operate as a Merchant of Record.

MoR vs PG

Learn about businesses and locations that are not supported by Dodo Payments

Prohibited Businesses and Locations

The list below includes the countries from which we accept payments for our SaaS and digital products.

Countries Eligible for Payment Acceptance

This document provides detailed information about Dodo Payments' fee structure for processing transactions, issuing payouts, and refunds and chargebacks. All fees outlined here will apply once a merchant's account is live.

Pricing and Fee Structure

The Payout process will be via Bank Transfer or Paypal transfer as per merchant preference

Payout Process

An overview of payment methods supported by Dodo Payments, including credit/debit cards, digital wallets, BNPL, UPI/Rupay, and European options.

Accepted Payment Methods

A comprehensive guide to selling digital goods and services on iOS apps using Dodo Payments

Selling Digital Goods on iOS

A One-Time Payment Product in Dodo Payments is a digital item that customers purchase with a single, upfront payment—no recurring charges or subscriptions. This model is ideal for selling e-books, software licenses, downloadable content, or any product or service that requires only a one-time transaction.

One-Time Payment

Subscription products let you offer recurring billing for memberships, SaaS, or ongoing services. Flexible billing cycles, free trials, and add-ons help you maximize revenue and customer value. Know how to create, manage, and integrate recurring subscription products in Dodo Payments, including add-ons and on-demand billing.

Subscription

The Pricing can be set for every product while creating or editing a product. Sales Tax will be charged above this price based on the customer’s location by default. If you want to show the final price to your customer upfront and bear the cost of the sales tax you can enable Tax Inclusive Pricing toggle while creating or editing a product.

Product Pricing

Discount codes help merchants attract customers, boost sales, and improve retention by offering promotional discounts. Merchants can create and manage these codes via the dashboard, allowing customers to apply them during checkout for reduced prices.

Discount Codes

Learn about the Account Summary and Payout Wallet features in Dodo Payments. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of transaction types, and amounts, as well as insights into managing your payout wallet for seamless financial operations.

Account Summary & Payout Wallet

The Customers Page in Dodo Payments allows merchants to manage their customer relationships by providing a detailed view of all customers who have made a purchase.

Customers

Adaptive Currency enables merchants to display prices in customers' local currencies, reducing friction at checkout and improving conversion rates by providing a localized payment experience with automatic currency detection and conversion.

Adaptive Currency

The License Key Management feature is designed to help merchants secure their digital products and services by generating, managing, and tracking unique license keys. This feature ensures only authorized users access your products and provides merchants with full control over their license key usage and distribution. Ideal for SaaS businesses and digital product vendors, the tool also includes advanced tracking and revocation capabilities for enhanced security.

License Keys

The Storefront Feature allows you to create a simple, branded, and mobile-friendly online store where you can showcase both One-Time Payment products and Subscription products. This feature eliminates the complexity of building an entire website, enabling you to quickly offer your products or services online without additional web development efforts.

Storefront

The Digital Product Delivery feature in Dodo Payments allows merchants to deliver digital products to their customers.

Digital Product Delivery

The Invoice Generation feature in Dodo Payments simplifies the billing process by automatically creating and delivering invoices after every successful payment. Whether for one-time purchases or recurring subscription renewals, invoices are generated to document transactions with clear, professional records.

Invoice Generation

The B2B Payments feature ensures that merchants processing B2B transactions have their customer’s Tax IDs verified during checkout, ensuring accurate tax application based on the customer's country and applicable regulations. This validation helps determine whether input tax collection applies or if the transaction falls under a reverse charge mechanism.

B2B Payments

Learn how to set up multi-brand in Dodo Payments.

Multi-Brand Setup

The Team feature enables you to add teammates to your Dodo Payments dashboard, granting them access based on customizable permissions. You can allow full modification rights or restrict access to view-only mode, ensuring secure and flexible collaboration.

Team Members

Merchant can access and manage their personal account information such as Contact Name, Profile Image and phone number for a more personalised experience through the my account section.

My Accounts

Gain actionable business insights with Dodo Payments' Analytics & Reporting dashboard. Learn to track revenue, customer trends, and transaction health, and download detailed reports.

Analytics and Reporting

Learn how to implement Purchasing Power Parity pricing with ParityDeals integration to offer location-based discounts for your customers on Dodo Payments

Purchasing Power Parity

Launch and manage your affiliate program while processing transactions through Dodo Payments.

Affiliates

Manage your Dodo Payments business on the go with our mobile app, available on Google Play and Apple App Store. Monitor transactions, receive real-time notifications, and access your dashboard anywhere.

Mobile App - Dodo Payments

Learn the difference between Test Mode and Live Mode and how to switch between them.

Test Mode vs Live Mode

Learn how to test your Dodo Payments integration

Testing Process

The **Atlas Demo Product** is a demo site by **Dodo Payments** that showcases how **digital products** (like software licenses, digital downloads, or online memberships) can be sold using our **checkout** solution. Merchants can see both **subscription** and **one-time purchase** flows in action.

Atlas Demo Product

Comprehensive answers to common questions about documentation, covering setup guides, user manuals, and how-to articles to help you navigate and make the most of our product.

FAQs

The Fraud Detection & Security feature in Dodo Payments helps merchants protect their business from fraudulent activities and secure customer transactions.

Fraud Detection & Security

Guidelines for responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities at Dodo Payments.

Security Reporting Policy

Welcome to the Dodo Payments Developer Resources - built to help you seamlessly integrate secure, scalable, and customizable payment solutions into your stack

Introduction

This guide will help you integrate the Dodo Payments API into your website.

Payments Integration Guide

This guide will help you integrate the Dodo Payments Subscription Product into your website.

Subscription Integration Guide

This tutorial demonstrates integrating Dodo Payments into a Next.js app using the Node.js SDK for One-Time and Subscription Products. It utilizes the Dodo Next.js Minimal Boilerplate and covers essential steps to get started efficiently.

Code Integration Tutorial

Webhooks provide a mechanism for real-time notifications when specific events occur within Dodo Payments, enabling seamless automation and integration with your application.

Webhooks

Understand the different webhook events triggered by Dodo Payments during payment, refund, subscription, dispute, and license key activities

Webhook Event Guide

This document provides details on how to create, update, manage, and retrieve one-time or subscription-based products using the Dodo Payments API.

Managing Products Via API

This section provides details on how to integrate and utilize the License Key Management feature using the available APIs.

Manage License Keys using API

The Allowed Payment Methods feature enables you to control which payment options are available to your customers during checkout. This configuration works for both one-time payments and subscriptions.

Configuring Allowed Payment Methods

A modern TypeScript library for embedding Dodo Payments overlay checkout and listening to checkout events in real-time.

Overlay Checkout

Official SDKs of Node, Python, PHP, Go, Ruby, Java & Kotlin for integrating Dodo Payments

Node.js, Python, PHP, Go, Ruby, Java & Kotlin

Complete guide to integrating Dodo Payments SDK in your React Native application for secure payment processing

React Native SDK (Beta)

This guide will help you integrate the Dodo Payments API into your mobile applications.

Basics

This guide will help you integrate the Dodo Payments API into your Android mobile applications.

Android Integration

This guide will help you integrate the Dodo Payments API into your IOS mobile application.

IOS Integration

This guide will help you integrate the Dodo Payments API into your Flutter applications.

Flutter Integration

Integrate Dodo Payments seamlessly with your WooCommerce store to accept global payments through UPI, cards, and more.

WooCommerce Plugin

The DodoPayments MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server provides a standardized interface for AI models to interact with the DodoPayments API.

MCP Server

Welcome to the Dodo Payments API. Our APIs makes it easy to integrate secure, scalable, and versatile payment solutions into your applications.

Learn more about error codes and how to resolve them in Dodo Payments API.

Error Codes

Learn about different transaction failure reasons and how to handle them in Dodo Payments API.

Transaction Failures

Learn how to use metadata to store additional information about your Dodo Payments objects

Metadata Guide

Get a list of all payments associated with your account.

List Payments

Create a one-time payment for a customer.

Create One Time Payment

Get detailed information about a specific payment.

Get Payment Detail

Get Invoice

Retrieve line items for a specific payment.

Retrieve Line Items

Get a list of all subscriptions associated with your account.

List subscriptions

Create Subscription

Get detailed information about a specific subscription.

Get Subscription Detail

Modify an existing subscription's plan, enabling both upgrades and downgrades to different pricing tiers.

Change Plan

Update Subscription

Create a charge for a subscription. This is useful for on-demand billing.

Create Charge (On-Demand)

Retrieve a list of all discounts associated with your account.

List Discounts

Create Discount

Validate a discount code to check if it is valid and can be applied to the current cart.

Validate Discount

Update Discount

Delete Discount

This endpoint allows you to activate a license for the user.

Activate License

This endpoint allows you to deactivate a license for the user.

Deactivate License

This endpoint allows you to validate a license for the user.

Validate License

Retrieve a list of license keys associated with your account.

Get License Keys

Retrieve the details of a specific license key by its ID.

Get License Key

This endpoint allows you to update a license key by its ID.

Update License Key

Retrieve a list of instances for a specific license key.

Get License Key Instances

Retrieve details of a specific license key instance by its ID.

Get License Key Instance

This endpoint allows you to update a specific license key instance by its ID.

Update License Key Instance

Create a new customer in your Dodo Payments account.

Create Customer

Get a list of all customers associated with your account.

List Customers

Get detailed information about a specific customer.

Get Customer Detail

Patch Customer

Create a session of the Customer Portal for a specific customer.

Create Customer Portal Session

Get a list of all webhook events associated with your account.

List Webhook Events

Get detailed information about a specific webhook event.

Get Webhook Event Detail

Get a list of all products associated with your account.

List Products

Create Product

Get detailed information about a specific product.

Get Product Detail

Update Product

Update Product Images

Archive a product associated with your account.

Archive Products

Unarchive a product associated with your account.

Unarchive Products

Update the files associated with a product.

Update Files

Create a new addon product that can be attached to your main subscription products

Create Addon

Retrieve a comprehensive list of all available addons

List Addons

Retrieve detailed information about a specific addon using its unique identifier

Global Payments Made Effortless

Quick Start Guide

Developer Resources

API Reference

Changelog

Pricing & Fee Structure

FAQs