Step 01 — Create Merchant

Creates a new merchant account on PayU. Returns mid and uuid identifiers used in all subsequent steps. You can create a merchant with regualar onbarding or offline onboarding using Create Merchant API as described in the following sections:

Create Merchant API
Offline Merchant Onboarding API

Prerequisite Steps

Step 00 (Authentication) — valid bearer token required

Entity Applicability

All entities — this is always the first onboarding step.

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Important
Only display_name, email, and mobile are sent here- Do NOT send business_entity_type in this step — it is set in Step 02- email must be unique across PayU — duplicate emails are rejected- Store both mid and uuid from the response — different APIs require different identifiers

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