JonDo Help: Payment

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## Payment

To get to this settings panel click `Settings` in JonDo's main window and then choose `Payment` from the list to the left.

In this dialog you can create new accounts for use with the premium services. You can administer your existing accounts also.

### Accounts

In this list you can see all the accounts that you have created. When you access this dialog for the first time the list will be empty for no accounts have been created yet.

Next to the list of accounts you will see the following information about your account:

- Creation date
  The date on which you have created the account.

- Valid until
  The date on which the account expires.

- Payment instance
  The payment instance where you have registered your account. Below will be a link to the general terms and conditions of trade of the payment instance. Please remember that the GTCTs of the mix operators are valid self-supportingly.

If a message "no backup copy yet" is displayed next to the list then you have not yet made a backup of the selected account. We recommend that you make a backup of every account to an external drive. This will protect your credit from data loss. By clicking either the message itself or the button `Export` you can save the selected account.

You can take the following actions:

- Create account
  Lets you create a new account. The process of creating a new account may take a while because a complex cryptographic process has to be started. This is necessary for the process to be confidential and to ensure information integrity. During the creation process you may be asked a security question. The actual creation process depends on the method of payment that you have chosen. Please follow the instructions on-screen. When your account has been successfully created it will appear in the account list.

  IMPORTANT
  Please save your account to an external drive after creation, e.g. an USB stick. It will protect you from data loss.

- Transactions
  Here you can view a list of the transactions for all the accounts. There can only be one transaction per account. You can delete an empty account that you have not paid for or that you have depleted anytime. You may also create one or more new accounts whenever you want.

- Changing password
  By clicking this button you can provide a new password for encrypting your account data. The password is valid for all of your accounts.
  If you want to erase your password, click `Change password` and enter nothing as your new password.

- Import
  Here you can import a previously exported account.

### Information about the account balance

In this section you can see all information available about the currently selected account, and you can apply some actions too. You will be shown in particular

- the remaining volume on your selected account,
- the previous overall consumption and
- the amount that you have paid in.

You can take the following actions:

- Activate
  With this button you can activate the selected account for connection to a premium service. The active account is emphasized. Password protected accounts can be unlocked by clicking this button and entering your password.

- Reload
  Fetches the current account balance from the payment instance.

- Delete
  Deletes your account.

  ATTENTION: If there is any positive balance left on your account it will be irretrievably lost if you did not make a backup copy.

- Backup
  This button saves the selected account data to a file. This is useful when you need to regain access to your account after a complete data loss or you have reinstalled JonDo or the whole OS. This is why you should copy the exported file to an external media (e.g. an USB stick).

### Advanced Settings

To get to this settings panel click `Settings` at the JonDo main window, select the entry `Payment` from the list to the left and then open the tab `Advanced Settings`. This panel is only available in Extended View.

- Anonymous payment connections

  Only if direct connection is not possible makes JonDo transfer information about your current account balance and account creation data through the currently active JonDonym service if the respective payment instance is not available through a direct connection. This could for example be the case if your ISP blocks access to the payment instance.

  Always (deny non-anonymous connection) will result in payment instances being contacted only through JonDonym services. By setting this, you may under circumstances no longer be able to create new accounts or receive updated information about your account balance.

  Never (allow direct connection only) can make sense if you want to cut cost. For payment data transmitted through premium JonDonym services will for compelling technical reasons be accounted for just like any other user data. This setting blocks any requests of payment data through the anonymous connection.

- Show error messages from payment instance (deactivate for debugging only!)
  If activated, error messages from the payment instance of the relevant service will be shown. It is recommended to do so. This setting is only available in the beta version.

- Automatically update account balance
  If activated, JonDo will try to update your account balance at fixed intervals. If you do not allow this, JonDo will not automatically show your current account balance. Your account will still be maintained correctly by the payment instance though.

- Warning when closing JonDo while not all accounts have been saved
  To prevent data loss, you may order JonDo to warn you if one or more of your accounts have not been backed up and JonDo is closing.

- Connection timeout
  Sets the timeout for connections to the payment instance. If you experience problems creating or paying accounts, increasing the timeout may solve them.

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