Account Settings and Vital Info
To start out accepting cryptocurrency funds, step one is to create a CoinPayments account! Get began by following the steps beneath to join a CoinPayments account and customise the account settings that are perfect for your corporation.
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 e-mail despatched to the e-mail tackle you used to register your account. Screenshot: Account Activation E-mail
As soon as your e-mail tackle is verified, it’s possible you’ll be requested to offer further documentation. Please click on right here for extra data.
2) ACCOUNT SETTINGS
When you’ve verified your account, right here’s how you could find your account settings, in addition to any necessary 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 e-mail for the verification code to log in. Screenshot: E-mail Verification Code
- Go to: “ACCOUNT -> ACCOUNT SETTINGS“ after which “BASIC SETTINGS”. Within the tab, you’ll discover your Service provider ID. You may Save/Copy your Service provider ID someplace for later use. Screenshot: Service provider ID
- Within the “PUBLIC INFO” tab, you may enter your Title, E-mail, URL that might be displayed publicly to clients sending funds.Screenshot: Public Data
- Within the “LOGIN & SECURITY” tab, change 2FA methodology from e-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 sturdy/random string of characters). Save/Copy your IPN Secret someplace for later use. Choose your base forex and likewise toggle which notification emails to obtain. Screenshot: Service provider Settings
3) COIN SETTINGS
Right here, you may modify which cash you wish to settle for as cost and what to do after receiving a cost.
Go to: “ACCOUNT -> COIN ACCEPTANCE SETTINGS“, choose which cash you wish 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 want to take with a purpose to start accepting crypto funds to your retailer. Nevertheless, there are different choices you can 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 the right way to hyperlink your CoinPayments account to your eCommerce retailer:
Go to: “ACCOUNT -> API KEYS“. You should 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 Non-public Key someplace for later use.
By the point you’ve got completed going via the above step-by-step course of, it is best to 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
