Creating an Apple Pay Merchant Identity Certificate {#applepay-cfg-3a-opt-on-web-merch-id-cert}
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If you offer your customers Apple Pay in a web page, you must create an Apple Pay merchant identity certificate and associate it with your merchant ID. You need this Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate in order to authenticate your sessions with the Apple Pay servers. IMPORTANT

> When you perform tasks at the Apple Developer portal, always refer to official Apple documentation for the most up-to-date information .

1. Follow these steps to create an Apple Pay merchant identity certificate:
2. Log in to your Apple Developer merchant account as an Account Holder or Admin.
3. In the left navigation panel, select Certificates, Identifiers \& Profiles.
4. Perform these steps for each merchant identity certificate you need to create:
   1. Click Identifiers, and click the plus sign (+) on the top left.
   2. Select Merchant IDs and click Continue.
   3. Enter the merchant description and identifier name, and then click Continue.
5. Click Register.