Essentials · Step 2

Connect Mollie

Mollie is the payment provider that powers your checkout. Without it, you can't accept payments.

Now that your account is complete, you can connect Mollie. In your dashboard, go to Integrations and open the Mollie card.

What is Mollie?

Mollieis a European payment provider. It handles the actual payment from your buyer (credit card, Bancontact, iDEAL, SEPA direct debit) and transfers the money to your bank account. bookto is a checkout layer — it doesn't process payments itself. Mollie does the regulated, PCI-compliant work of moving money. Your buyers pay on a checkout page that looks like yours, but the payment itself is handled securely by Mollie in the background.

How to connect

  1. Go to mollie.com and log in.
  2. Click your company name in the top left and select your account.
  3. Go to Developers → API keys.
  4. You'll see a Live API key (starting with live_) and a Test API key (starting with test_). Use the secret keys, not the publishable key.
  5. Copy the Test secret key.
  6. In bookto, go to Integrations and open the Mollie card.
  7. Paste the key into the Test secret key field and save — you'll see a confirmation that a test key is saved.
  8. Repeat for the Live secret key when you're ready to go live.
No Mollie account yet? Signing up takes about 10 minutes. Your test key works immediately — you can test the full checkout flow before Mollie has verified your account. Live payments only start working once Mollie completes verification, which usually takes one business day.

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