Management API
Management API
Adyen Management API manages merchant account configuration — webhooks, stores, users, API credentials, payment-method activation.
Replaces Customer Area UI clicks — fully scriptable
Configuration-only — does not cover payment business logic
Create a Management API credential in Customer Area (separate from payment credentials). GET /v3/me to verify, then operate on resources.
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About this API
Management API exposes Adyen's Customer Area operations programmatically. Previously, opening a new store, changing webhook URLs, rotating API keys, or batch-configuring subaccounts required manual UI clicks. Now it's scriptable. Particularly valuable for multi-brand/multi-store retailers — opening a new restaurant branch can auto-provision Adyen store + webhook + payment methods, fully unattended. Also ideal for managing Adyen config via Terraform/Pulumi as part of GitOps.
What you can build
- 1Manage Adyen config via IaC tools (no manual Customer Area clicking)
- 2Programmatically provision new stores/branches
- 3Batch create/revoke API credentials
- 4Centralized webhook endpoint management
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Replaces Customer Area UI clicks — fully scriptable
- Audit-friendly — all changes can be tracked in version control
Limitations
- Configuration-only — does not cover payment business logic
- Relatively new — some Customer Area operations are not yet API-exposed
Example request
curl https://www.adyen.help/hc/en-us/community/topics/<endpoint>Getting started
Create a Management API credential in Customer Area (separate from payment credentials). GET /v3/me to verify, then operate on resources.
FAQ
Is the Management API key the same as the payment credentials?+
No — Management API uses a separate credential scoped to management operations only.
Are all Customer Area operations API-exposed?+
Most common operations: yes. A few advanced configurations (e.g. some risk rules) remain UI-only.
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- java, python, javascript, php, csharp
- Response time
- 198 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:36:31 AM
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