# Getting started

This page guides you through setting up a Carouseller account, and how to start building your integration.

## 1. Contact Carouseller

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Firstly, to create a Carouseller account, you will need to contact a manager and schedule a call. To do that - head over to our home page [www.carouseller.com](https://www.carouseller.com), scroll down to find the contact form and fill in the required information. We will contact you through the email provided.

## 2. Sign the contract

After a successful call with our manager you will have to sign the contract get your test account. The manager will create your test account in our system [dashboard.carouseller.com](http://dashboard.carouseller.com/) which is a unified dashboard where you can manage your Carouseller integration across regions and currencies.

## 3. Build your integration

Start building and test your integration - direct API. You can acquire secret key and request  URLs/webhooks here: [dashboard.carouseller.com](http://dashboard.carouseller.com/) in the "Developer API settings".

## 4. Build your live account

Get your live account.

## 5. Accept live payments

Get ready to accept live payments. To start accepting live payments using your live account, you must first configure your account.


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