Buy tokens

This page walks you through buying tokens: choosing an amount on the Wallet tab, paying with Stripe, and then moving the tokens into a team so your servers can use them. It takes about a minute. The smallest purchase is 800 tokens for $8, and tokens never expire. If you play regularly, a refill tops your wallet up for you every 1, 3 or 6 months.

Before you start

• A SLASHPLAY account. Tokens go into your wallet, so you need to be signed in. See Create your account.
• A way to pay. Payment happens on Stripe’s secure checkout page. SLASHPLAY never sees your card details.

Steps

Step 1: Open your wallet

Open your dashboard and click Wallet in the top bar. At the top you see your wallet balance in tokens and dollars, with the reminder your own tokens, before they go to a team.

Click Buy tokens.

Step 2: Pick an amount

The Buy tokens screen is one choice. Every token costs $0.01.

One time or Repeat. The switch at the top decides whether you pay once or on a schedule. It starts on One time. For Repeat, see Refill on a schedule below.

Quick amounts. Three cards, with 1,600 picked to start:

Tokens	Price	Roughly
800	$8.00	266 hours on a small server
1,600	$16.00	533 hours on a small server
3,200	$32.00	1,066 hours on a small server

Or any amount. Type any whole number of tokens into the field labelled Or any amount · 800 to 100,000. The minimum is 800 ($8.00); below that, the page shows Minimum 800 tokens ($8.00). and the pay button stays off. The maximum for one purchase is 100,000 tokens ($1,000).

Under the field, the page confirms what you’ll get: +1,600 tokens ($16.00) go to your wallet. Move them into a team on the Team tab to spend them.

You can link straight to this screen: /dashboard/wallet/buy.

Step 3: Pay with Stripe

Click Pay $16.00 (the price matches the amount you picked). You’re taken to Stripe Checkout, a secure payment page run by Stripe. It shows the number of tokens and the total.

• Pay with a card or any other method Stripe offers you there.
• Have a promotion code? Enter it on the Stripe page, in the promotion code field, before you pay. The discount is applied to the total. (Promotion codes are different from redeem codes, which you enter under Account → Redeem and which give you free tokens.)

Changed your mind? Use the back link on the Stripe page. You return to your dashboard and nothing is charged.

Step 4: Check your wallet

After paying, Stripe sends you back to your dashboard. The tokens arrive in your wallet within a few seconds. Open the Wallet tab to see the new balance.

Step 5: Move tokens into a team

Tokens in your wallet can’t run a server yet. Move them into the team whose servers you want to run:

1. Open the Team tab and enter the team.
2. Under Fund this team, type an amount or click Max.
3. Click Deposit.

See Fund a team for the details. If you try to deploy on an empty team, the Fund & deploy button does this step for you.

Refill on a schedule

A refill is a subscription that adds the same tokens to your wallet on a schedule, so you don’t have to remember to top up. It costs the same per token as buying the amount.

1. On the Buy tokens screen, switch to Repeat (or open /dashboard/wallet/buy/repeat).
2. Pick an amount: a card or any amount from 800 tokens.
3. Under How often, pick Every month, Every 3 months or Every 6 months.
4. Click Subscribe, for example Subscribe · $16 every 3 months. Stripe Checkout opens; pay as usual.

The first tokens land in your wallet right away. After that they arrive on the same date each period, when Stripe charges your card.

Manage your refill

While a refill runs, the Wallet tab shows it next to the billing portal, with Manage subscription (without a refill the same button reads Billing and history). It takes you to Account → Billing (/dashboard/account/billing), which shows:

• The refill: how much, how often, and the date of the next one.
• Change refill: opens Buy tokens on Repeat with your refill filled in. Pick a new amount or schedule and click Change refill. Nothing is charged that day: a new amount applies from the next refill, and a new schedule counts from the start of the period you’ve paid for (switching from every month to every 3 months moves the next refill to three months after your last payment).
• Buy more tokens: a one-time top-up on the side, on the Buy tokens screen.
• Cancel refill: it stops at the end of the period you’ve paid for, and the tokens you have stay yours. Changed your mind before then? Click Keep refill.
• Purchase history: every one-time top-up and refill payment, with the date, tokens and amount.

You can have one refill at a time. If a payment fails, the refill says so: update your card in the billing portal and Stripe tries again.

Invoices and the billing portal

Every purchase and every refill payment gets an invoice from Stripe. Your purchases are also listed under Account → Billing. To see the invoices and receipts, and to manage saved cards and your refill:

1. Open Account → Billing (/dashboard/account/billing). From the Wallet tab, Billing and history (or Manage subscription) takes you there.
2. Under Billing portal (Manage your payments and subscriptions with Stripe), click Open billing portal.

The portal opens in a new tab, run by Stripe. It only works after your first purchase: before that there’s no billing account to show.

How it works

• One price. Tokens always cost $0.01 each, whether you buy once or on a refill. There are no bulk discounts.
• Your wallet, not a team. Purchases always land in the buyer’s personal wallet, whichever team you have open. That way you decide which team gets them.
• Nothing expires. Unused tokens stay in your wallet until you move them.
• A receipt for everything. Each purchase and each refill payment is a separate Stripe payment with its own invoice in the portal.

Troubleshooting

I paid but my wallet didn’t go up. Give it a few seconds and refresh the Wallet tab. The payment confirmation from Stripe can take a moment to arrive. If the tokens still aren’t there after a few minutes, ask for help in the SLASHPLAY Discord with the time of the payment.

I bought tokens but my server says the team has none. Purchases land in your wallet, not the team. Deposit them into the team. See Fund a team.

The pay button stays grey. The amount is below the 800-token minimum, or empty.

Open billing portal gives an error. You haven’t made a purchase yet, so there’s no billing account. It works after your first purchase.

Related

• How tokens work
• Fund a team
• Redeem a code
• Pricing