Merchant Management {#tms-acq-merch-mngmt}
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This section describes how to create and manage merchant accounts in your portfolio. When you finish setting up, your merchants can process payments.  
Merchant management consists of two tasks:

* Creating templates that determine how your merchants use your enabled services.
* Adding merchants within your organization that can use your enabled services.  
  `Visa Acceptance Platform` recommends that you perform merchant management tasks in your test portfolio account first, and when you are ready, duplicate these tasks in your production portfolio account.

Merchant Management Tasks
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Complete these tasks to create, configure, and test merchant accounts in your portfolio:

1. Create a set of templates for all of the services enabled for your portfolio.
2. Create a merchant account.
3. Perform a payment transaction for one or more of the services enabled for your portfolio.
4. Provide your merchants with their `Business Center` account credentials and the instructions they need to use their account