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Compago provides a powerful and secure payments infrastructure designed for merchants, manufacturers, and fintech partners in Mexico. Whether you’re building an embedded checkout experience or automating payouts, our API helps you launch faster and with confidence.

Get started

To get started, you’ll first need to authenticate with our backend using your unique API key. Head over to the Authentication section to learn how to generate and use it in your requests. Build and test in the Demo environment, where no money moves, before you go live. Environments explains how to get a Demo account, a Demo API key and a Demo terminal.

Authenticate

Learn how to create your API key and authenticate every API call securely.

Create Your First Payment

Follow our guide to create a one-time payment using our backend API.

Save Cards & Charge on Demand

Save customer cards securely and charge them whenever you need to.

Report on Your Business

Read your payments, subscriptions and catalogue from your own systems.

Two API surfaces

Both use the same API key and the same host. They differ in what they are for.

Accept payments

Take money: hosted checkouts, saved cards, terminals and installments.

Developer API

Read what happened, under /api/developer/v1. Read-only.

Before you go live

Pagination

Page through lists without missing or repeating rows.

Rate limits

Your per-key budget and how to back off.

Errors

Status codes, error codes and what is safe to retry.

Learn and Build

Explore the documentation and tailor your integration to your business model.