# Via the Merchant Portal

> With Personalised Payment Links turned on, your staff create a payment link for a customer in the link generator: a page where they enter the amount, a referenc

With Personalised Payment Links turned on, your staff create a payment link for a customer in the link generator: a page where they enter the amount, a reference and the customer's details, and get a link for that one payment. The link generator opens in its own browser tab, so staff who create links often can bookmark it.

## Turn on Personalised Payment Links

An Admin turns them on once for the account:

1. Select **Configure** in the menu, then **Configure** under **Payment Links**.
2. Under **Personalised Payment Links**, select **Enable**.

The page then says Personalised Payment Links are enabled.

## Create a payment link

1. Select **Payment Links** in the menu.
2. Select **Create a Payment Link**. The link generator opens in a new tab.

If personalised links are the only payment links on the account, selecting **Payment Links** in the menu opens the link generator straight away.

The link generator asks for:

- **Personalised Intro** (optional): a message shown at the top of the payment page, for example what the payment is for
- **Amount** (required): the currency and the amount
- **Reference** (required): a reference saved with the payment
- **Customer ID** (optional): if you enter one, the customer's saved payment methods for that ID are offered
- **Customer First Name** and **Customer Last Name** (optional)
- **Customer Email** (optional): used for the email receipt

**Note**: If you don't enter any customer details, the customer is asked to identify themselves with their email, name and phone number. If you enter any customer details, they aren't asked, so include their email address if you want them to get an email receipt.

## After you create the link

Select **Create Link** to create the payment link. You can then:

- **copy** the link to send to your customer
- **open** the link to see the payment page
- **Clone** it, to create another link with the same details that you can change
- **Create Next Link**, to start a new one
- **delete** the link

**Note**: Payment links created in the link generator expire after 7 days.

### Watching the payment

Once the link is created, it shows "Waiting for customer". When the customer opens the link, you can watch their progress through the payment as it happens.

## Link history

Select **history** at the top of the link generator to see the links you've created recently. It shows up to 7 days of links created in your current browser, so you can find a link again if you closed it by mistake.

## Turning Personalised Payment Links off

To turn them off, an Admin selects **Disable** under **Personalised Payment Links** in **Configure** > **Payment Links**.

**Important:** Disabling:

- invalidates the current link generator address
- breaks any bookmarks to it

If you turn them on again later, the link generator gets a new address, so you'll need to share it and bookmark it again.