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# Online payments with Mercado Pago or Stripe

> Connect your Mercado Pago or Stripe account and customers pay the deposit and balance by card from their phone.

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With a payment provider connected, every pay link and every accepted proposal lets the customer pay right away. The money goes straight to your Mercado Pago or Stripe account: Vuela never touches it.

| Provider | Best for |
|---|---|
| **Mercado Pago** | The usual choice in Argentina: cards, debit and Mercado Pago balance. |
| **Stripe** | Cards from anywhere in the world. |

You can connect both. Only owners can connect them.

## Connect Mercado Pago

1. In Vuela, go to **Settings → Payments** and find Mercado Pago. Copy the **webhook URL** it shows.
2. In [Mercado Pago Developers](https://www.mercadopago.com.ar/developers), open **Your integrations** and pick your app (or create one).
3. Copy the **Access Token** under **Production credentials**: that's the **Secret key**.
4. Under **Webhooks**, add the URL you copied in step 1 and copy the webhook's secret.
5. Back in Vuela, paste the **Secret key** and the **Webhook signing secret**, and press **Connect**.

## Connect Stripe

1. In Vuela, go to **Settings → Payments** and find Stripe. Copy the **webhook URL**.
2. In the [Stripe Dashboard](https://dashboard.stripe.com), open **Developers → API keys** and reveal the **Secret key** (it starts with `sk_live_`).
3. Under **Developers → Webhooks**, add an endpoint with the URL from step 1 and copy its **Signing secret** (it starts with `whsec_`).
4. Back in Vuela, paste the **Secret key** and the **Webhook signing secret**, and press **Connect**.

## What happens next

Once the provider says **Connected**:

- every invoice's pay link shows the button to pay by card or with Mercado Pago;
- when accepting a proposal, the customer can pay the deposit right away;
- when the payment is confirmed, Vuela records it, marks the invoice **Paid** and updates the trip's balance.

If confirming a payment fails, the provider shows **Needs attention** with the date of the last attempt. Check the webhook is still set up in your Mercado Pago or Stripe account.

> Cash and bank transfers don't go through here: record them by hand in **Payments**. See [Invoices, deposits and payments](/en/docs/invoices-and-payments/).

## Also in the first-run setup

The **Get paid online** step of the setup is this same form. If you skipped it, connect a provider any time from **Settings → Payments**.

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