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## 1. Activate Montonio  as payment gateway

- Once you have activated Montonio  plugin, you need to **validate the licence** in **HBook > Licence**.
  
  
- Set Montonio as active payment gateways in **HBook > Payment > Active payment gateways.**

## 2. In HBook, add Montonio credentials

- You will need to add the following information, in **HBook > Payment > Montonio settings**.

![montonio-settings.png](media://71258da9-328c-405d-a7bc-4b54ff8f7b17)

- If you wish to show the Credit cards option in the payment methods, you will need to have completed the Stripe onboarding through Montonio's Partner System, for your customers to pay with credit cards.

### Where to find the API Keys?

You will find them in the menu **API Keys** of your Montonio Store dashboard. Please note that you will have a set of keys for the “Sandbox” environment and another set for the “Live” environment.