Convenience Setup How-Tos
One-time setup steps that make every future Manifold service interaction faster. Set these up once on a calm afternoon; benefit every time you sign in, register for a chess tournament, donate, or pay a fee on impulse.
These guides are vendor- and service-agnostic. They cover settings on your phone, your browser, and your bank — not anything Manifold-specific. The tools you configure here will work across Manifold Chess, accounts, payments, and any future service that asks you to sign in or pay.
Start here
Set up Apple Pay
Add a card to Apple Wallet on iPhone. Pay any web checkout with Face ID or Touch ID in about 5 seconds.
Set up Google Wallet
Add a card to Google Wallet on Android. Pay any web checkout with fingerprint or face unlock.
Passkeys & autofill
Replace passwords with biometric sign-in. Let your browser autofill payment cards securely.
Saving cards for one-tap
What the "save card for future" checkbox means at checkout, when to use it, and how to manage saved cards.
Interac auto-deposit
For Canadian bank accounts. Receive Interac e-Transfers (refunds, payouts) without clicking deposit links.
Why front-load the friction
Most online purchases fail at the impulse moment because there's too much work between "I want to do this" and "it's done." Card numbers to type, addresses to confirm, passwords to remember, two-factor codes to fetch. Each step is a chance to abandon the cart.
You can't shrink that work at the moment of impulse — but you can do most of it ahead of time, on a relaxed day, once. The same checkout that takes 90 seconds with manual card entry takes about 5 seconds with Apple Pay or Google Wallet plus a biometric tap. Multiply that across every tournament registration, donation, or service signup over the next few years, and the upfront 15 minutes pays back many times over.
What these guides do not cover
- Anything Manifold-specific. Sign-in flows, tournament booking, payment details for individual services live on each service's own help pages.
- Setting up new bank accounts, credit cards, or digital wallets from scratch. We assume you already have the underlying account; these guides configure the convenience layer on top.
- Subscription management, dispute resolution, or refund policies. Those are also service-specific.
Privacy & security
Apple Pay, Google Wallet, browser passkeys, and Stripe Link (which Manifold services use for saved cards) all share a useful property: your real card number is never sent to the merchant. Each transaction uses a one-time token or device-specific identifier. This is materially safer than typing your full card number into a web form.
Manifold services don't see, store, or have access to your card data — that's by design and is enforced by the payment processor (Stripe). The same is true for Apple Pay / Google Wallet transactions even on non-Manifold sites.