Account Settings and Vital Info
To begin accepting cryptocurrency funds, step one is to create a CoinPayments account! Get began by following the steps under to join a CoinPayments account and customise the account settings that are perfect for your enterprise.
1) SIGN UP
Create your CoinPayments account right here. Make sure you join a Business account. Screenshot: Signal Up Kind
After signing up, be sure you confirm your account by clicking the activation hyperlink within the electronic mail despatched to the e-mail handle you used to register your account. Screenshot: Account Activation Electronic mail
As soon as your electronic mail handle is verified, you might be requested to offer extra documentation. Please click on right here for extra data.
2) ACCOUNT SETTINGS
When you’ve verified your account, right here’s how yow will discover your account settings, in addition to any essential data distinctive to your account (Service provider ID, IPN Key, and so forth…).
- Login to your CoinPayments account for the primary time and examine your electronic mail for the verification code to log in. Screenshot: Electronic mail Verification Code
- Go to: “ACCOUNT -> ACCOUNT SETTINGS“ after which “BASIC SETTINGS”. Within the tab, you will see that your Service provider ID. You’ll be able to Save/Copy your Service provider ID someplace for later use. Screenshot: Service provider ID
- Within the “PUBLIC INFO” tab, you’ll be able to enter your Identify, Electronic mail, URL that might be displayed publicly to clients sending funds.Screenshot: Public Information
- Within the “LOGIN & SECURITY” tab, change 2FA methodology from electronic mail to Google Authenticator or one of many different extra handy choices. Screenshot: Login & Safety
- Within the “MERCHANT SETTINGS” tab, set your IPN Secret (this may be any robust/random string of characters). Save/Copy your IPN Secret someplace for later use. Choose your base foreign money and in addition toggle which notification emails to obtain. Screenshot: Service provider Settings
3) COIN SETTINGS
Right here, you’ll be able to modify which cash you need to settle for as cost and what to do after receiving a cost.
Go to: “ACCOUNT -> COIN ACCEPTANCE SETTINGS“, choose which cash you need to settle for as cost by checking the field in entrance of every coin, after which scroll all the best way to the underside of the web page and click on “Replace Coin Preferences”. Screenshot: Coin Acceptance Choice
This is step one you’ll want to take with a view to start accepting crypto funds to your retailer. Nonetheless, there are different choices you could configure (ie. conversion, fiat settlement, cost forwarding).
4) API KEYS
The API keys are what connects your retailer with the CoinPayments cost system. Right here’s how you can hyperlink your CoinPayments account to your eCommerce retailer:
Go to: “ACCOUNT -> API KEYS“. You need to use the API Key that’s already there, or generate a brand new key by clicking the “GENERATE NEW KEY” button. Screenshot: API Keys
Now you can Save/Copy your API Public Key and your API Personal Key someplace for later use.
By the point you might have completed going by means of the above step-by-step course of, you must have recorded the next data for future use:
- MERCHANT ID
- IPN SECRET
- API PUBLIC KEY
- API PRIVATE KEY
Able to Transfer on to the Subsequent Step?
Click on right here to go to STEP 2: eCommerce Integration
