# Credential Payments

Credential Payments brings a significant evolution to the Verifiable Credentials landscape, allowing **verifiers to directly pay issuers to unlock Credential Status information**. Underneath the hood, we've engineered a robust and secure payment flow that streamlines the end-to-end payment process, with accuracy, speed, and cryptographic integrity.

## Get started

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Understanding Credential Payments</strong></mark></td><td>Before diving into Credential Payments, developers may want to learn how the Payment gating and Access Control condition logic works.</td><td><a href="../../studio/payments/learn">learn</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Charge for Status List</strong></mark></td><td>With Credential Payments, Issuers are able to create payment-gated Status Lists in order to charge for the verification of Credential Status information.</td><td><a href="payments/charge">charge</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Issue Credential with Encrypted Status List</strong></mark></td><td>Once an encrypted Status List has been created, it is time to issue a Credential referencing this Status List within the Credential body.</td><td><a href="payments/issue-paid-credential">issue-paid-credential</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Verifier pays Issuer</strong></mark></td><td>Understand how a Verifier can pay an Issuer and how the Verifier receives access to the Status List.</td><td><a href="payments/verifier-pays-issuer">verifier-pays-issuer</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Alternatives

Below are a list of alternatives for using Credential Payments.

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards" data-full-width="false"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="files"></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>cheqd Studio</strong></mark></td><td>Our API product enables users to <strong>use cheqd's functionality with minimal complexity</strong> and easily integrate APIs into existing apps. </td><td><a href="https://3569764573-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FPVAMvpKH7PYzvXA6u6Cn%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-7f1ffe5c0546f0ee4f106ac1a71308c5ee5ad7c8%2Fcheqd_logo_card.jpg?alt=media">cheqd_logo_card.jpg</a></td><td><a href="../../getting-started/studio">studio</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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