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StartMyVPN supports three payment gateways. You can enable one or all of them simultaneously — customers will see whichever gateways are active at checkout.

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Supported gateways

Stripe

Credit and debit card payments with recurring subscription support.

PayPal

PayPal checkout and recurring PayPal subscriptions.

CryptAPI

Cryptocurrency payments — Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and more.

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How payments work

  1. A customer selects a plan and billing cycle
  2. An Invoice is created in the pending state
  3. The customer is redirected to the payment gateway (or shown a crypto address)
  4. On success, a webhook from the gateway fires to StartMyVPN
  5. StartMyVPN marks the invoice as paid and activates or renews the service
  6. A payment receipt email is sent to the customer

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Refunds

Refunds are tracked in the admin panel under Admin → Invoices. Actual refund processing happens through the payment gateway’s own dashboard — StartMyVPN records the refund for accounting purposes but does not initiate refunds via the gateway API automatically.

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Currency

All prices are stored and charged in the currency you configure. Currently a single currency is supported per installation. Set it via the payment gateway settings and ensure it matches across all gateways you enable.