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title: How to Save a Payment Card
description: In this guide we will cover how to save a new payment method to a customer’s profile.
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# How to Save a Payment Card
## In this guide we will cover how to save a new payment method to a customer’s profile.
First click into CRM, Customers then open the profile of the customer.
Then click Payment Cards
### Credit Cards
To save a credit card, click Add Card.
You will be able to either manually enter or swipe a new card to be saved to their profile.
It is important to know that you always want to have a card saved to their profile so any recurring membership can be billed successfully to their account.
**Remember to click save.**
### External Payment Card
To add an external payment method that **is not a chargeable card** click Add External Card.
This method is for someone, for example is paying by means of a check.
**Warning:** If this payment method is used and saved to their profile, their membership will continue to remain in active status continually in future billing periods.
Next, assign a nickname for this payment method and assign 4 digits for your own personal record keeping.
Finally, click Save.
**Important Note:** When selling recurring memberships in person, Apple & Google Pay can NOT be used as a saved payment method for recurring payments. However, If a physical credit card is used via tap to pay on the credit card device, it can be stored and used for recurring memebrship billing.
All merchants associated with Approach do support digital wallets for regular, one time/non-recurring payments. For those clients that use digital wallets for a payment, know that the cards last 4 digits will appear differently in your app. This is a security feature of those payment methods that will make for searching by using the last 4 digits impossible. The choice is up to those clients whether to allow those for making one time payments.
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