To process any payment on Cashfree PG, the merchant needs to create an order in the cashfree system.

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Order creation must happen from your backend (as this API uses your secret key). Please do not call this directly from your mobile application.

**Production** -> `https://api.cashfree.com/pg/orders` **Sandbox** -> `https://sandbox.cashfree.com/pg/orders`

`Note:` Please see the description of the request below.

## **Order creation API**

If the order creation is successful you will receive a 200 response and the order entity in response. This order entity contains relevant details for the order.

We recommend that you store the following parameters at your end `order_id`, `cf_order_id` , `order_token`, and the `order_status`.

`Note:` The **`order_token`** contains all the order details and has to be sent to the SDK while initiating the payment.

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Please refer our [Order Creation] (https://docs.cashfree.com/docs/create-order) for more details regarding parameters and more.