> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.paymnt.cloud/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Profile Acquirer - Create > Create a new Profile Acquirer for accessing our APIs from your servers. ## OpenAPI ````yaml public/openapi.json post /profile_acquirers openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: PaymntCloud - API Documentation description: > ## Get started PaymntCloud provides a collection of APIs that enable you to process and manage payments. Our APIs accept and return JSON in the HTTP body, and return standard HTTP response codes. You can consume the APIs directly using your favorite HTTP/REST library. We have a testing environment referred to "sandbox", which you can setup to test API calls without affecting production data. Currently, our sandbox environment is live while our production environment is under development and will be available soon. You can sign up on our Dashboard to get API keys to access PaymntCloud API. ### Environment Use the following base URLs when making requests to the APIs: | Environment | Base URL | |---------------|------------------------------------| | Sandbox | | | Production | | ## Authentication When you sign up on our [dashboard](https://dash.paymnt.cloud) and create a merchant account, you are given a secret key (also referred as api-key) and a publishable key. You may authenticate all API requests with PaymntCloud server by providing the appropriate key in the request Authorization header. | Key | Description | |-----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | api-key | Private key. Used to authenticate all API requests from your merchant server | | publishable key | Unique identifier for your account. Used to authenticate API requests from your app's client | Never share your secret api keys. Keep them guarded and secure. contact: name: PaymntCloud Support url: https://paymnt.cloud email: support@paymnt.cloud license: name: Apache-2.0 version: 0.1.0 servers: - url: https://api.paymnt.cloud description: Production Environment - url: https://sandbox.paymnt.cloud description: Sandbox Environment security: [] tags: - name: Merchant Account description: Create and manage merchant accounts - name: Profile description: Create and manage profiles - name: Merchant Connector Account description: Create and manage merchant connector accounts - name: Payments description: Create and manage one-time payments, recurring payments and mandates - name: Refunds description: Create and manage refunds for successful payments - name: Mandates description: Manage mandates - name: Customers description: Create and manage customers - name: Payment Methods description: Create and manage payment methods of customers - name: Disputes description: Manage disputes - name: API Key description: Create and manage API Keys - name: Payouts description: Create and manage payouts - name: payment link description: Create payment link - name: Routing description: Create and manage routing configurations - name: Event description: Manage events - name: Authentication description: Create and manage authentication paths: /profile_acquirers: post: tags: - Profile Acquirer summary: Profile Acquirer - Create description: Create a new Profile Acquirer for accessing our APIs from your servers. operationId: Create a Profile Acquirer requestBody: content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProfileAcquirerCreate' required: true responses: '200': description: Profile Acquirer created content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProfileAcquirerResponse' '400': description: Invalid data security: - api_key: [] components: schemas: ProfileAcquirerCreate: type: object required: - acquirer_assigned_merchant_id - merchant_name - network - acquirer_bin - acquirer_fraud_rate - profile_id properties: acquirer_assigned_merchant_id: type: string description: The merchant id assigned by the acquirer example: M123456789 merchant_name: type: string description: merchant name example: NewAge Retailer network: type: string description: Network provider example: VISA acquirer_bin: type: string description: Acquirer bin example: '456789' acquirer_ica: type: string description: Acquirer ica provided by acquirer example: '401288' nullable: true acquirer_fraud_rate: type: number format: double description: Fraud rate for the particular acquirer configuration example: 0.01 profile_id: type: string description: Parent profile id to link the acquirer account with example: pro_ky0yNyOXXlA5hF8JzE5q ProfileAcquirerResponse: type: object required: - profile_acquirer_id - acquirer_assigned_merchant_id - merchant_name - network - acquirer_bin - acquirer_fraud_rate - profile_id properties: profile_acquirer_id: type: string description: The unique identifier of the profile acquirer example: pro_acq_LCRdERuylQvNQ4qh3QE0 acquirer_assigned_merchant_id: type: string description: The merchant id assigned by the acquirer example: M123456789 merchant_name: type: string description: Merchant name example: NewAge Retailer network: type: string description: Network provider example: VISA acquirer_bin: type: string description: Acquirer bin example: '456789' acquirer_ica: type: string description: Acquirer ica provided by acquirer example: '401288' nullable: true acquirer_fraud_rate: type: number format: double description: Fraud rate for the particular acquirer configuration example: 0.01 profile_id: type: string description: Parent profile id to link the acquirer account with example: pro_ky0yNyOXXlA5hF8JzE5q securitySchemes: api_key: type: apiKey in: header name: api-key description: >- Use the API key created under your merchant account from the PaymntCloud dashboard. API key is used to authenticate API requests from your merchant server only. Don't expose this key on a website or embed it in a mobile application. ````