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# Getting Started

There are 3 major ways to take payments with BreathePay

* Our hosted checkout page (easiest)
* Our payments API (intermediate)
* Our payments API with 3DS support (recommended)

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You must have a BreathePay merchant ID and secret to use any of the above
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**For a full example application in PHP/Laravel, visit:** [**https://github.com/Pickeringwareltd/breathepay**](https://github.com/Pickeringwareltd/breathepay) **and install it**

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Hosted Checkout Page</strong></td><td><mark style="background-color:green;">Easy</mark></td><td><a data-footnote-ref href="#user-content-fn-1"><mark style="background-color:orange;">Low customisation</mark></a></td><td><a href="/pages/aEddhBled7douKjaqnge">/pages/aEddhBled7douKjaqnge</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Payments API</strong></td><td><mark style="background-color:orange;">Intermediate</mark></td><td><mark style="background-color:green;">High customisation</mark></td><td><a href="/pages/vuFf5lu6mnWryyntn5XA">/pages/vuFf5lu6mnWryyntn5XA</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Payments API with 3DS</strong></td><td><mark style="background-color:orange;">Intermediate</mark></td><td><mark style="background-color:green;">Secure &#x26; Customisable</mark></td><td><a href="/pages/C9gMEOnV8wNIgUYwnnAE">/pages/C9gMEOnV8wNIgUYwnnAE</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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