How to fund your wallet and make your first purchase

A deposit in your local currency lands in your wallet as a balance.

You cannot transact with an empty wallet. Obvious written down, and still the step people skip, so it goes first.

Before anything else happens on Zeroa, money has to actually arrive. That first deposit is ordinary money out of your bank account — nothing exotic, nothing crypto about it yet.

The order matters. Verification comes first, because an unverified wallet cannot be funded. Then you deposit in your local currency and it lands in your wallet as a balance. From there, Quick Trade turns that balance into the crypto asset you have chosen, in a few clicks.

Quick Trade exists for a simple reason. The full exchange screen is a lot for a first purchase — charts, order types, and a good number of buttons you do not need yet. Quick Trade shows you what you are paying and what you are getting, and it is finished in one step.

Two things to sit with before you buy rather than after, because after is always the worse time. Crypto is volatile: your investment value is not guaranteed and moves with the market. And buying is a conversion, not a transfer. Your balance stops being currency and becomes an asset with a price of its own, and prices go both ways.

Invest responsibly, and consult a financial advisor before investing.

Deposits and purchases both happen in your browser at www.zeroa.io.

Chembridge Capital (Pty) Ltd t/a Zeroa, registration number 2014/064942/07, is an authorised Financial Services Provider, FSP No 36012. Investing in crypto assets may result in a loss of capital.