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

# What is Bob Payments?

> The payments infrastructure for your product.

Bob Payments is a **complete payments infrastructure**. Integrate **once** to create PIX charges, track every transaction in real time, and reconcile results — with hosted checkout, the Checkout SDK, or the direct API.

Bob sits between your product and the payments ecosystem: you create a session, the customer pays, and a webhook confirms the result.

## Why Bob?

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  <Card title="One integration" icon="plug">
    Hosted checkout, Checkout SDK, or direct API — you choose how much control you want.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Real-time PIX" icon="bolt">
    QR Code charges with confirmation in seconds, right in your product's flow.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Full sandbox" icon="flask">
    Simulate end-to-end payments before going live.
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  <Card title="Reliable webhooks" icon="bell">
    Signed events confirm every result without polling.
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  <Card title="Idempotency" icon="rotate">
    Retry requests safely, with no risk of duplicate charges.
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  <Card title="Official SDKs" icon="code">
    Libraries for Node.js and PHP, plus the Checkout SDK for the frontend.
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## How it works

Every integration with Bob follows the same flow, regardless of the integration method you choose:

1. **Create a payment session** via the API or a server SDK.
2. **The customer pays** — in the hosted checkout, the embedded Checkout SDK, or via the QR Code you render yourself.
3. **Receive confirmation via webhook** and release the product or service.

You track everything from the [Dashboard](https://app.payments.bob.company) and the transactions API.

## Start here

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/en/pages/quickstart">
    Create your first sandbox charge in minutes.
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  <Card title="Payment flow" icon="diagram-project" href="/en/pages/concepts/payment-flow">
    Understand a transaction's lifecycle, from start to reconciliation.
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  <Card title="Integration methods" icon="sliders" href="/en/pages/payments">
    Compare hosted checkout, Checkout SDK, and direct API.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API reference" icon="book" href="/en/pages/pix/reference">
    Endpoints, authentication, errors, and request examples.
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