Five things to read on every preview
- Step 1
The asset and the network
Confirm both. Assets with similar names, and the same asset on different networks, have different transfer requirements.
- Step 2
The crypto amount leaving
Check the exact amount you are selling, including decimal places. This is the side you control.
- Step 3
The naira amount arriving
Read the payout figure rather than the rate. The pair of numbers is what tells you the deal you are accepting.
- Step 4
The bank destination
Check the account number, the bank, and the name. The payout goes where the order says it goes.
- Step 5
Fees and timing notes
Anything displayed beside the amounts is part of the transaction. Read it in the same pass rather than afterwards.
The preview is the cheap place to be wrong
Before you confirm, changing your mind costs nothing. After a transfer is sent, the same correction can take days and may not be possible at all.
That asymmetry is the whole argument for reading the preview slowly. It is the only moment in the process where care is free.
Read the two amounts as a pair
The crypto amount and the naira amount only mean something together. A rate quoted alone hides how much you are actually selling; a payout quoted alone hides what it cost you.
Reading them as a pair also makes errors obvious. A decimal place in the wrong position stops looking plausible as soon as you compare the two sides.
The destination deserves its own pass
The bank destination is the part with the least forgiving failure mode. Everything else can be right and the money will still go elsewhere if a digit is wrong.
Check it against your bank's own record rather than from memory, and check the bank name as well as the number.
Nothing on the preview is decoration
Fee lines and timing notes are easy to skim past because they are usually smaller on screen. They still change what you receive and when you receive it.
If something in the preview is not clear, that is a reason to stop and ask through signed-in Support, not a reason to continue and find out afterwards.