Pix transactions - the new payment method offered by Banco Central (Bacen) - a Brazilian public organization responsible for the Economy - will start on November 16th in the whole country. Learn how to get prepared for this new payment method that can be available in your VTEX store.

Pix is the new instant payment method offered by Banco Central (Bacen) - available 24 hours a day, seven days a week - that will realize banking transactions in less than 10 seconds.

To know the benefits and the advantages to accept Pix as a payment method in your e-commerce, click here.

From October 19th 2020, partners will be able to start its integrations using the Payment Provider Protocol to offer Pix as a payment method to your clients.

Payment institutions that already have a partnership with VTEX can get in touch with their Partner Manager. You can also do this solicitation through a Support ticket.

Payment institutions that not VTEX partners should fill out our registration form to start the partnership.

There are two options:

• Get in touch with the company in charge of managing the payments in your e-commerce. Then, request an integration between VTEX and this company.

• Choose a payment partner that is already in touch with VTEX about Pix then proceed with the contract negotiation and tech configuration. Currently, the available partners are: PayMee, Spin Pay, IUGU, Pagar.me and Aarin.

To know more about the process of how to offer Pix as a payment method, customers interested can get in touch directly with the partners available through emails.

Write it down:

• Spin Pay: comercial@spinpay.com.br
• IUGU: pixvtex@iugu.com
• Paymee: www.paymee.com.br or comercial@paymee.com.br
• Mercado Pago: www.mercadopago.com.br
• Aarin: https://aarin.com.br

You can check all our Payment Provider Protocol documentation on our Developer Portal and also a guide of how to use this tool on the same web site.