# Choosing a Payment Method

Before you are able to complete a purchase, you will need to add a payment method to your account. This can be completed by navigating to the "Billing" section in your authenticated account portal.

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## Payment Gateways

We currently support two payment methods:

* Credit/Debit card (Stripe)
* Crypto (Nowpayments.io)

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If using exclusively crypto for payments, you will need to ensure that you manually add funds to your account in order to be charged for automatic service renewals. It is not required to add funds before purchasing a new service.
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### Option 1: Card Payments

Select the "Credit Cards" option to input your card information.

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This will prompt your for your card details. We use the Stripe 3Ds payment gateway which allows for automatic charges on your card when it comes time to renew your subscription. This is important as we want to be clear that we do not store or handle any of your card information. Your card information is securely sent to Stripe's servers and does not touch any part of our infrastructure.&#x20;

You can remove any of your payment methods at your convenience on this same page. (unlike some other big RPC service providers that force you to open a ticket in their Discord server to do so...)

### Option 2: Crypto Payments

If you do not wish to add a card and would like to use crypto for payment instead then you should be sure to set your "Default payment gateway" in your "Settings" of your account details. Refer to the [Setup Your Profile](/services/vps-hosting/getting-started/setup-your-profile.md#account-settings) for instructions.

When purchasing a service you will be offered the option to choose crypto as your payment method.

#### Adding Funds

We do not currently support automatic crypto payments. In order for your account to be automatically charged for service renewals, you will need to make sure your account already has funds added. You can do this in the "Billing" page.

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Be sure to select the Crypto payment gateway. Once this payment is successful then you should see it reflected in your account balancer in the top right of the window.


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