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Your transaction PIN is the last check before money leaves your wallet. Your password gets you into the account; your PIN authorises the spending. They are deliberately separate.

Why the two are separate

If someone picks up your unlocked phone, a password-only system would let them drain your balance in seconds. With a separate PIN, they get as far as looking at your dashboard and no further.

That is the entire purpose. It costs you two seconds per purchase and removes the most common way people lose money on any wallet platform.

Setting it up

You are prompted to set a PIN during signup. Choose something that is not:

your date of birth, or any part of it
the last four digits of your phone number
a sequence like 1234 or 0000
the same PIN as your bank card

That last one matters more than people think. If a card PIN leaks in a skimming incident, you do not want it to also unlock your wallet.

If you forget it

Go to Settings and choose to reset your transaction PIN. You will confirm your identity first, then set a new one. You do not need to contact support and your balance is never at risk during the process.

If you are locked out after several wrong attempts, that is the protection working. Wait for the cooldown rather than continuing to guess.

The one rule that matters

Nobody legitimate will ever ask for your PIN. Not support, not an agent, not someone claiming to fix a failed transaction, not a caller who knows your name and your last order.

We do not need it. Our staff can see your transaction history without it, and no genuine troubleshooting step requires it. The same applies to your password and to any code sent to your phone.

The most convincing scams are the ones where the caller already knows real details about you — your name, your last purchase, the amount. Knowing those things does not make someone staff. Asking for your PIN proves they are not.

If you think your PIN has leaked

Reset it immediately from Settings.
Change your account password too.
Check your transaction history for anything you did not authorise.
Message us with the details of anything suspicious.

Acting in the first few minutes matters far more than the report afterwards.

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