# How to buy SOL on ripr: by card, by UPI or from another wallet > How to buy SOL as a beginner: open a ripr account, deposit by card, Apple Pay or UPI, or receive SOL from another wallet, then check it arrived. - URL: https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-buy-sol - Publisher: ripr (https://ripr.trade) - Author: ripr Editorial Team - Published: 2026-11-03 - Category: Guides On ripr you buy SOL inside the app you'll be trading in. Open your Profile, tap **Deposit**, enter an amount and pay by card, Apple Pay or, in India, UPI. If you already hold SOL somewhere else, tap **Receive** instead and send it over to your new wallet address. Both routes end in the same place: SOL in a Solana wallet that's ready to spend. SOL is [Solana's](https://solana.com/) own coin. You spend a little of it every time you buy another Solana token, and Solana's transaction costs are paid in SOL too, which is why every Solana trader keeps some on hand. Here's the whole thing, step by step. ## Open your ripr account and get a Solana wallet SOL has to arrive somewhere, and that somewhere is a wallet address. You don't set one up separately on ripr. Signing up creates a Solana wallet for your account, so there's no wallet app to install first and no recovery phrase to write down before your first trade. Sign up with Google, email or a passkey. Apple works on iOS and the web, and on the web you can also sign in with a Solana wallet you already use. New wallets here are embedded wallets provided by Privy, ripr's wallet provider, and you can import a wallet you already have instead. Your wallet is tied to that account rather than to a phrase on paper: sign back in with the same method, on a laptop or a phone, and it's there. On iOS and Android the app asks you to add a backup login, a second way to sign in, and it's worth doing straight away rather than later. You can also export your wallet's private key from Settings on web, iOS and Android. One thing to know before you send anything in: ripr is a Solana-only app, so trading and market data both run on Solana, and the address sitting in your account is a Solana address. ## Buy SOL in the app with a card, Apple Pay or UPI This is the short route if you don't own any crypto yet, because it takes you from your own money straight to SOL in your ripr wallet. 1. Open your **Profile** and tap **Deposit**. 2. Enter the amount you want to deposit. 3. Pick a payment method from the ones offered to you. 4. Tap **Deposit** and finish the payment. Card and Apple Pay are the usual options, and in India you can pay by UPI or bank transfer. Which methods appear depends on your region. The payment itself runs through a provider such as MoonPay or Wert. That provider sets its own fees, limits and identity checks and shows them to you at checkout, so read that screen before you confirm. ripr's help centre covers the same flow in [how to deposit SOL into your app wallet](https://ripr.trade/support/how-do-i-deposit-sol-into-my-app-wallet), and [Need help in depositing?](https://ripr.trade/blog/need-help-in-depositing) lists the methods and minimums by country. The SOL lands in the wallet attached to your account, so it's ready the moment it shows up. One thing worth setting once: the display currency you think in. The iOS app offers 12, the web app shows US dollars or Indian rupees (or SOL), and the Android app shows US dollars. ## Or send SOL in from a wallet or an exchange Already hold SOL in another wallet, or bought some on an exchange? Skip the card route. Open your **Profile** and tap **Receive**. ripr gives you a QR code and your wallet address. Scan the code from the sending app, or copy the address across by hand, then send the SOL. Two habits make this painless: - **Send only SOL, on Solana.** That address expects SOL on the Solana network. If you're withdrawing from an exchange, pick Solana as the network before you confirm, because anything sent on a different network won't arrive. - **Paste the address, never retype it.** Copy it in full and check that the first and last few characters match. Nervous? Send a small amount first, watch it arrive, then send the rest. The web app has a third way in. Connect a wallet you own and move funds across from it: SOL, or another supported coin, which arrives as SOL because ripr runs on Solana. ## How much SOL to buy the first time Buy an amount you'd be relaxed about losing in full. Solana coins move quickly, and a first purchase is really about learning the flow rather than making money. Then put a little extra on top for running costs. Every transaction on Solana carries a small network fee, paid in SOL. Your first buy of any given coin also opens a token account for it, with a refundable deposit of about 0.0015 SOL that comes back when that account is closed. ripr can close empty token accounts for you and return their rent in SOL, and selling a position in full can close the coin's account on its own. On iOS and Android, the trade sheet lists the network fee, any ripr router fee and that refundable deposit before you confirm, so the arithmetic is on screen rather than in your head. The practical rule: keep enough SOL in the wallet that a trade and its costs never take the balance to zero. ## Check that your SOL arrived Payments and transfers both need a moment to settle. Give it two or three minutes and refresh the screen before you start worrying. Your holdings then show on your ripr Portfolio, built from the app's own index of your wallet's on-chain activity. The iOS and Android apps also show realised and open profit and loss over the last 7 or 30 days once you've started trading. And because the account is a real Solana wallet, you can paste its address into the public [Solana explorer](https://explorer.solana.com/) and watch the transfer land there as well. Nothing after a few minutes? Check the sending side first: the network you picked and the address you pasted. If it still hasn't landed, ripr's [help centre](https://ripr.trade/support) is the place to go next. ## What to do with your SOL next SOL in your ripr wallet is what everything else in the app runs on. [Explore](https://ripr.trade/explore) lists what's trending and what has just launched, plus upcoming launches and your watchlists, and you can look up any Solana coin by name, ticker or full contract address. Read the coin's page before you spend. ripr shows warnings for known rug patterns, among them a creator holding unlocked liquidity and liquidity that has already been pulled, and it puts the limits of those checks plainly: "These are the risks we can check for. Not seeing one never means a coin is safe." The longer checklist is in [how to spot a risky meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-spot-a-risky-meme-coin). When you do buy, leave Auto slippage on: ripr sets your maximum from how much the coin has moved over the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%, so a beginner isn't guessing at a number. The server prepares each trade, your app then checks it on your device against the amount and slippage you chose, and your own wallet signs it. That's cash to SOL, start to finish. [Open an account on ripr](https://ripr.trade/), add your first SOL, and when you're ready for the step after this one, [how to buy a Solana meme coin](https://ripr.trade/blog/how-to-buy-a-solana-meme-coin) picks up where this leaves off. --- *Last verified 2 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.*