Paying in crypto is not one thing. Monero, USDT on Tron and Bitcoin behave differently on the chain, settle at different speeds, and leave behind different amounts of information about different people. This guide goes through all three honestly, including the parts that are inconvenient, and finishes with the thing most checkout pages never tell you: what is still sitting in an order record after the payment clears.
Everything here applies to any product on this site bought with the same checkout, so the same guide covers the private VPN, the UK Number at $25 today, and travel data from $1.99. Twelve coins are accepted: USDT on TRC20, BEP20 and ERC20, USDC, TRX, BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XMR, DOGE and GRAM on the TON network.
What each path reveals, and to whom
The useful question is not "is this private" but "who learns what". Three separate parties can learn something: the public chain, the place you got the coins from, and us.
| Path | What the public chain shows | What an exchange can link | What we hold |
|---|---|---|---|
| XMR (Monero) | That a transaction happened. Sender, receiver and amount are hidden by the protocol itself. | That your verified account bought and withdrew XMR, and when. | The order, and the payment as the gateway reported it. |
| USDT (TRC20) | Sending address, receiving address, exact amount, timestamp. Permanently, publicly, searchable. | Your withdrawal address, which links your identity to everything that address ever does. | The order, and the payment as the gateway reported it. |
| BTC | The same, plus a long history of address clustering that makes wallet analysis routine. | Your withdrawal address, and every input it was ever combined with. | The order, and the payment as the gateway reported it. |
Read that table as a spectrum rather than a verdict. Monero hides sender, receiver and amount at the protocol level, which is a real and substantial difference from a transparent chain. It does not make anyone anonymous. If you bought the XMR on an exchange that verified your identity, that exchange knows you bought it and when you withdrew it. Your internet connection also shows that you talked to something. Anyone telling you a coin makes you untraceable is selling a feeling, and the honest version is simply that different chains publish different amounts by default.
The transparent chains are not disqualified by any of this. A one-off purchase from a wallet with no reused address and no exchange history behind it is a very different object from a payment out of a verified account. Understand the shape of what you are doing and pick accordingly.
Before you pay: the two things that go wrong
Almost every stuck payment is one of these two, and both are avoidable in ten seconds.
- The wrong network. USDT exists on Tron, BNB Chain and Ethereum, and those are three different addresses on three different chains. If checkout says USDT TRC20 and your wallet sends USDT BEP20, the funds do not arrive where the gateway is watching. Choose the coin at checkout first, then set your wallet to that exact network, then send. Never copy an address from an old invoice.
- The invoice timer. Every invoice has a window. Send a low-fee Bitcoin transaction near the end of it and the money can land after the order has expired. Late payments are never auto-delivered: an expired order that gets paid raises a flag internally and needs a human to look at it. It is recoverable, and it costs you a wait, so start the transfer early.
If either happens, contact support with your eight character magic code. It is the only thing that identifies an order, because there is no account and no email on file unless you chose to enter one.
Step by step: XMR (Monero)
- On the product page, pick your plan and choose XMR as the payment method.
- The invoice shows a receiving address and an exact amount. Send that amount, not a rounded number. Fees are paid by you on top, so do not send the invoice amount minus the fee.
- Send from your wallet. Monero blocks arrive roughly every two minutes, and the gateway waits for a small number of confirmations before it releases the order, so expect a short wait rather than an instant one.
- Keep the order page open, or save the magic code. The page updates itself when the payment confirms, and the delivery appears on it.
- If you are buying an eSIM as well, turn any existing VPN off before installing the eSIM profile.
Monero is the option that publishes least by default. That is exactly why it is on our list, and it is also why we say plainly what it does not do: it does not hide that you have an internet connection, it does not change what your wallet software or your exchange knows, and it does not make a purchase untraceable.
Step by step: USDT on TRC20
- Pick your plan and choose USDT (TRC20) at checkout.
- In your wallet, select USDT and set the network to Tron (TRC20). This is the step people skip.
- Make sure the wallet holds a little TRX. On Tron the sender pays the network fee in TRX, and a wallet with USDT but no TRX cannot send at all.
- Paste the invoice address, enter the exact amount, and send. Tron blocks are seconds apart, so this is the fastest of the three by a wide margin, usually confirmed in about a minute.
- The order page flips to delivered on its own. Save the magic code before you close it.
TRC20 is the practical default for most people: fast, cheap and predictable. The trade is that it is completely public. The sending address, the amount and the time are visible to anyone forever, and if that address came from a verified exchange account it is attached to a name.
Step by step: BTC
- Pick your plan and choose BTC.
- Send the exact invoice amount to the address shown. Set a normal fee, not the minimum. A cheap fee is the single most common reason a Bitcoin payment misses its invoice window.
- Bitcoin blocks arrive roughly every ten minutes and the gateway waits for confirmations, so plan for a wait measured in tens of minutes rather than seconds.
- Do not close the tab without saving the magic code. Delivery lands on the order page whether or not you are watching.
| Coin | Network to pick | Typical wait | The usual mistake |
|---|---|---|---|
| XMR | Monero | Minutes | Sending a rounded amount instead of the exact invoice amount. |
| USDT | TRC20, BEP20 or ERC20, whichever you selected | About a minute on TRC20 | Selecting one network at checkout and sending on another. |
| BTC | Bitcoin | Tens of minutes | A fee so low the transaction outlives the invoice window. |
| TRX, SOL, DOGE, GRAM | Their own native chain | Minutes | Sending a wrapped version of the coin from another chain. |
Why there is no invoice and no billing address
There is no billing form because there is nothing that needs one. Crypto settles directly between wallets, so there is no card network asking for an address to match, no bank in the middle, and no chargeback process that a name would be needed for.
So checkout does not ask for your name, your address, your date of birth or an identity document, and it never will. Email is optional, and it exists only so a receipt and a copy of your magic code can be sent somewhere. Skip it and nothing breaks: the order page and the magic code are the whole system. That is the same design behind our no-KYC eSIM and it is described end to end on how it works.
The consequence is worth stating plainly. Because there is no account to log into, the magic code is not a convenience, it is the key. Lose it with no email on file and there is no password reset, no identity check and no support path that can recover access from a phone number. Save it.
What an order still contains after payment
Being honest about this is more useful than a slogan. After a payment settles, an order record holds:
- The lookup code, which is what you use to open the order page.
- The product and plan you bought, and its period.
- The payment as the gateway reported it: the coin, the amount and the transaction reference.
- The delivery payload: the configuration files, links and credentials being handed to you.
- Timestamps for creation and delivery.
- The country the request came from, which is what shows up in our own order view.
- An email address, only if you typed one in.
What is not in there: your name, your address, any identity document, a card number, or a phone number. And separately from the order record, the VPN network itself keeps no logs. Source IP addresses and connection timestamps are never stored, and the servers run from RAM so a reboot wipes the machine. That is a description of how the thing is built, not a claim about what any observer anywhere could ever determine.
After payment
Delivery appears on the order page within seconds of the payment confirming on chain. If it feels slow, the wait is the blockchain confirming, not somebody preparing something by hand. From that same page you can extend the plan later: nothing renews automatically, there is no card on file, and a new period is added on top of the current expiry rather than replacing it. Bring the magic code and the status page opens the order again.
On refunds, the policy is short and it is worth reading before rather than after: the VPN is refunded if it will not connect on any server after troubleshooting with support. It is not refunded for changing your mind, or for one slow server, because the fix for a slow server is to switch to another. The full text is on the refund page.
What to do next
If you are about to pay, do the two-second version of this whole guide: pick the coin at checkout first, set your wallet to that exact network, send the exact amount with a normal fee, and save the magic code before you close the tab.
If you are still weighing it up, the VPN page shows the plan lengths from 7 to 365 days with live pricing, and the VPN can be added to a UK Number or travel data order so one payment produces one magic code covering both. Once it is delivered, the WireGuard setup guide gets the tunnel running, and if the network you are on blocks it, the VLESS guide covers what to try instead.
