> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cashful.africa/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Getting Started Overview

> A quick overview of the onboarding flow and recommended next steps for integrating with the Cashful API.

# Introduction

Welcome to Cashful! This guide will help you quickly onboard merchants and start accepting payments. We recommend following the step-by-step tutorial that walks through account creation, organization setup, and initiating a checkout session.

# Quick Start

* Sign up and sign in to obtain a session token
* Create an organization and set it as active for the session
* Create customers and start checkout sessions or payment intents

For a guided walkthrough, see the tutorial: [Merchant Onboarding](../tutorials/merchant-onboarding)

# Authentication & Tokens

Authenticate using `POST /authentication/sign-in/email` to retrieve a session token. Include the token in the `Authorization: Bearer {sessionToken}` header for all protected endpoints.

# Recommended Next Steps

1. Follow the `Merchant Onboarding` tutorial to get your first integration running.
2. Implement webhooks to receive payment status updates and reconcile payments server-side.
3. Add idempotency keys where needed to prevent duplicate requests.

# More Tutorials

* Create a Checkout Session — [Create a Checkout Session](../tutorials/create-a-checkout-session)
* Manage Customers — [Manage Customers](../tutorials/manage-customers)

If you want hands-on code examples (Node.js, Python, or curl), I can add code snippets to this overview or individual tutorials.