Applications are registered entities within Mercado Pago that act as a unique identifier for managing the authentication and authorization of your integrations. In other words, they serve as the link between your development and Mercado Pago, and they constitute the first stage in carrying out the integration.

With them, you can access the necessary credentialsUnique access keys used to identify an integration in your account, linked to your application. to interact with our APIs or specific services, as well as manage and organize your integration.

To create an application, follow the steps below.

1. In the upper right corner of Mercado Pago Developers, click on Login and enter the required information with the data for your Mercado Pago account.
2. Once you are logged in, go to Your Integrations. There, click on Create application.

3. Enter a name to identify your application. The limit is up to 50 alphanumeric characters.
4. When asked about the type of payment solution to integrate, select Online payments, which is the type of solution corresponding to virtual stores.
5. Since you are creating an application for Checkout Pro, you should indicate that you are not using an e-commerce platform, as this solution is for integrating into self-developed sites.
6. Then, choose Checkout Pro as the product you are integrating.
7. In "Integration model", select the integration model that aligns with your business model.
8. Accept the Privacy Statement and the Terms and Conditions and click on Create application.

In Your integration, you will be able to view the list of all your created applications and access the application details for each of them.