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description: Set up an Experience Cloud site as a channel for payment data to flow from the payment gateway to Salesforce Payments. This site is required to enable Salesforce Payments and it’s used only as a data pipeline. Your customers don’t access this site.
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# Set Up a Channel Manually for Payment Data

Set up an Experience Cloud site as a channel for payment data to flow from the payment gateway to Salesforce Payments. This site is required to enable Salesforce Payments and it’s used only as a data pipeline. Your customers don’t access this site.

### Required Editions

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![Tip](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-commerce-payments-264-0-0-production-enus/c04ba30f-6dde-4ea7-949b-4f77b22b9fcb/images/icon_tip.png)

Tip If you’re setting up a D2C store for the first time, bypass this process and instead let the Commerce Setup Assistant enable and configure Payments for your org. For more information, see [Video: Choose Your Checkout Solution](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_checkout_container.htm&type=5&language=en_US) and [Set Up a Commerce Store](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_quick_start.htm&type=5&language=en_US).

These manual setup steps assume that you’ve enabled enhanced domains for your org and that your Experience Cloud site URL uses the syntax \*.my.site.com. An enhanced domain includes the recommended Salesforce content delivery network (CDN). If you can’t or don’t want to use enhanced domains, set up the CDN manually.

Typically, Digital Experiences is already enabled as part of your Commerce store setup. If that’s the case, skip the first step.

1. From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Digital Experiences, then select **Settings** | **Enable Digital Experiences**. Save your changes.
2. Under Digital Experiences, select **All Sites**, and click **New**.
3. Select **Build Your Own (LWR)**, and click **Get Started**.
4. Enter the site name and the URL prefix sfpwebhook, and click **Create**.
5. Return to the **All Sites** page.
6. Next to the new site, click **Workspaces**.
7. Select **Administration**.
8. Under Settings, select **Preferences**, and then select **Allow guests users to access public APIs**.
9. Return to Settings and activate the site.
10. Return to the All sites page, and select **Builder** for the new site.
11. Click **Publish**.

Don’t delete this site because it’s critical for Salesforce Payments operation.

#### See Also

- [Enable Digital Experiences](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=experience.networks_enable.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Prepare Your Org for Commerce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_quick_start.htm&language=en_US)
- [Set Up a Commerce Store](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=commerce.comm_quick_start.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Enable Enhanced Domains](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.domain_name_enhanced_enable.htm&type=5&language=en_US)