Paying for a VPS With Monero (XMR) — Step by Step

Create the invoice, scan the monero: URI, send the exact XMR once. A server-side watcher catches the payment; no ID enters the flow.

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The short version

Configure the box → pick Monero (XMR) on the payment step → the invoice prints an exact XMR figure with a monero: URI and QR → your wallet sends one transfer → a server-side watcher spots the payment on the chain and provisioning starts alone. There is no tx-hash form to fill, no screenshot to upload, and no human who needs to recognize your deposit.

Step by step

1. Configure plan, term, datacenter and OS at /deploy/. Any location takes XMR at the same USD math — Iceland and Switzerland carry their published premiums on the USD side only.
2. Pick Monero. The invoice locks an exact XMR amount from the live rate for the payment window; the stored figure, not the ticker, is what must arrive.
3. Open any wallet — Official GUI, Monerujo, Cake, Feather — and either scan the QR or paste the address and amount. Send the exact figure in a single transaction from a wallet whose keys you hold.
4. Wait out the confirmations: the catalog lists 10 blocks for XMR with a 2–20 minute ETA. The status page updates itself; if you close the tab, reopening it restores the same invoice state.

Why Monero instead of BTC

XMR is private by construction: RingCT hides amounts and one-time addresses break the link between sender history and this invoice, so an observer learns that a payment landed — not your wallet's biography. Bitcoin publishes both, permanently, to anyone who types the address into an explorer. That is why the privacy-leaning default here is XMR; BTC and the four USDT networks ride the same invoice engine if your treasury prefers them, and the sixteen-coin picker never hides Monero behind a support ticket.

Common mistakes

• Withdrawing from a custodial exchange with a pooled outflow queue — the delay is the exchange's withdrawal batching, not Monero or the watcher.
• Letting the wallet subtract its fee from the invoice amount. The printed figure must arrive intact; the fee belongs on top.
• Slicing one invoice into several transfers to be safe. Detection waits for the full exact amount on the one-time address, so partial sends just stretch the wait.
• Reusing a previous invoice address for a second order. Addresses are single-use; create a new invoice each time.