Verse users have a large number of different methods of payment for games and replenish the account. If earlier everything was limited to buying with a credit or debit card, today you can use almost any payment system that supports work with both cards and virtual wallets. Speaking of the latter, it should be noted that you can use such popular electronic calculations such as Webmoney, Qiwi, PayPal to buy games in Steam, and not only.
And yet bank cards, as such, do not lose their relevance - they continue to enjoy a large number of active and not very users with steam. At the same time, newcomers arise questions about connecting such a payment method to Steam. One of the most frequent is the following: "What is the estimated address in Steam?" It occurs directly in the process of adding and / or updating the payment method, and the term "settlement address" itself is the least obvious and most incomprehensible of all presented in the following form:
Estimated address in Steam
The estimated address in Steam is, in fact, an analogue of the home address, the place for which you, if necessary, can be sent physical (paper) statements on the purchase accounts performed in the game store. It can be an actual place of residence or a passport. Information about it must be specified in the corresponding field along with the number of the bank card, the period of its action, the owner's name, the city of living (or issuing a map), the postal index and other information (for example, a mobile phone number) in cases where you add a payment method For the first time or change the already existing on another.
Unlike the number of the map, phone, name and last name of the user, the information in the "Settlement Address" field does not have to be reliable (at least if you do not plan to receive physical statements from steam). And yet, it is better to introduce a real address or at least part of it, that is, it is not necessary to specify the settlement, the street, its number and apartment number - as you can see on the first screenshot, it is enough to specify the first one, especially since this information can always be change.
How to specify / change the settlement address in Steam
Being one of those users who are with the concept of "settlement address" in Steam faced in fact, that is, filling information about the payment method, you and without our help already know how to "get" to this section in the application-client and / or on the official website. For all others, tell me where and how this information is specified and how it can be changed if or when it is necessary.
- Being on any of the STEAM application pages, click on the downward miniature triangle, located between the name of your profile and the amount of money on the wallet (or 0.00 in the absence of such), which are located in the upper right corner of the main window.
- Select "About Account".
- Once on the information page about your account, click on the link "Change payment method attached to this account".
- You will be redirected to the appropriate page providing the ability to change payment information. By the way, it is possible to get on it according to the link below (you will first need to enter your account by specifying the login and password from it).
Page Changes Fashion Payment in Steam
In the Card Selection field, specify the payment system to which it belongs - Visa, MasterCard, American Express (or another depends on the country in which Steam account is registered) or a virtual wallet, and then click "Continue".
- Fill in all the fields you need to change and / or bind a new payment method, that is, specify the following information:
- Payment system;
- Map number (or electronic wallet);
- Validity and security code (for a bank card);
- The name and surname of the account holder;
- City of residence;
- Estimated address;
- Postcode;
- Country;
- Telephone.
After completing all these fields or only those that are required, click on the "Continue" button.
Conclusion
In this small article, we talked about what is the estimated address in Steam, for which it is necessary to specify it (and whether it is necessary to do it completely), as well as how to change it, if such a need arises.