Glossary

Criptala uses its own vocabulary across the app — some of it obvious, some of it worth a quick explanation. This page spells out every term you'll run into, in alphabetical order, with the exact Spanish label in parentheses where the app has one. Keep it handy as a quick reference alongside the topic pages linked from each entry.

Access link & code (Enlace y código de acceso)

Your default, passwordless way in: Criptala emails you a one-time Sign in button and a 6-digit code, and either one logs you in. Both expire after a while, and each works only once. See Getting started.

Account (Cuenta)

Your login identity — the email, optional password, and two-factor setup you use to sign in. One account can own or belong to several profiles and switch between them anytime. The Account page handles the account itself (email, password, 2FA, language, theme, notifications), not the data inside any one profile. See Profiles and Account & settings.

Agreement code (Código de convenio)

A one-use code, tied to a Category code, that signs your profile up to a corporate or partner agreement. Redeeming it switches your profile's Category — usually to a better commission — and you can only do it once per profile. See Profiles.

Alias account (Alias)

A kind of financial account identified by a CVU, CBU, alias, or similar identifier, plus an address and city, instead of a bank name and account number. See Accounts & beneficiaries.

API token (Clave de API)

A credential for programmatic access, available only to Business profiles. Any member of the profile — not just its owner — can create, edit, or delete tokens, and the plaintext value shows up only once, right after you create it. See Profiles.

Bank account (Cuenta bancaria)

A kind of financial account identified by a bank, a fiat currency, and an account number (plus, for some banks, an extra office/branch field). Sale checkout can auto-preselect one bank account as your default, though there's currently no in-app way to pick which one that is. See Accounts & beneficiaries.

Beneficiary (Beneficiario)

The field on a financial account that says who owns it: Personal ("Yourself", which locks the name field to your own) or Third party ("Another person or business", where you type someone else's name and document number by hand — there's no separate identity check on that person). See Accounts & beneficiaries.

Bond (Bono)

A credit you can put toward a purchase, sale, or investment subscription, shown in your cost summary as its own Bonds line. You usually earn one as a referrer when someone you referred completes their first order — and if you cancel an order that used a bond, you get it back to use again. See Rewards.

Business (Empresa)

One of the two profile types. You can own or belong to as many Business profiles as you like, and only Business profiles come with members, invitations, and API tokens. See Profiles.

Category (Categoría)

The classification on your profile that sets your platform-commission brackets and points rate for each operation. Redeeming an Agreement code is how your Category — and therefore your commission — can change. Criptala Club is just the commercial name for the Category levels. See Fees & limits.

Channel (Canal)

How an order was placed, shown on its detail sheet: Platform, On Site, API, P2P, or WhatsApp. See Orders.

Collection (Cobro)

The side of an order where money comes out to you — crypto to your wallet on a purchase, or fiat to your financial account on a sale. It's the flip side of the payment, which is what you put in. Each order can have one or more collection legs, each with its own status. See Orders.

Costs (Costos)

The total fees on an order: the platform's own ":name's commission" (e.g. "Criptala's commission"), the commission/cost tied to your payment method, and the commission/cost tied to your collection method — with any discount coupon subtracted and any bond credited. See Fees & limits.

Criptala Club

Criptala's rewards program, and the commercial name for your Category levels (Standard, Gold, Platinum, Black, Diamond). Your level is assigned automatically from your annual trading volume and account age, and it sets your commission, points rate, and birthday-discount size. See Criptala Club.

Currency (Moneda)

Either a fiat (Fiat) currency like USD, or a cryptocurrency (Criptomoneda) like USDT or BTC. Which ones you can use comes down to your country (for fiat) and which networks/payment methods are enabled (for crypto). See Buying crypto and Selling crypto.

Discount coupon (Cupón de descuento)

A single-use code that takes a percentage off your platform commission on one order. Some, like birthday coupons, land in your account automatically. See Rewards.

External (product type) (Externo)

A type of investment product that funds an external wallet address instead of one of your own saved wallets. See Investments.

Financial account (Cuenta financiera)

The umbrella term for a saved bank account or alias account where you receive money when you sell crypto — all kept under Accounts and beneficiaries. See Accounts & beneficiaries.

Investment (Inversión)

An optional crypto product you subscribe to instead of creating orders by hand; every order it generates is tracked like any other. Needs a Verified profile. See Investments.

KYC

See Verification.

Metamap

Criptala's identity-verification provider. It's the automated Integration requirement that confirms your identity — you scan a document and take a selfie inside Metamap's own widget — unlike a Data requirement, which you fill in yourself. See Verification.

Network (Red)

The specific blockchain a cryptocurrency travels over — for example, one network for USDT versus another. The network you pick in the app also sets which crypto payment method and fees apply, and your saved wallet address has to match the network it was generated on. See Wallets.

One-off Portfolio (Portafolio de Una Vez)

A type of investment product: a single order that buys a multi-currency mix across several cryptocurrencies at once, with percentages that must add up to 100%. See Investments.

Operation (Operación)

Either a Purchase (Compra) or a Sale (Venta) — the two kinds of transaction that every order is built around. See Buying crypto and Selling crypto.

Order (Orden)

The core unit of activity on Criptala: every purchase, sale, or payment link is an order, followed from creation through payment, collection, and completion. There's no wallet-balance dashboard — your Orders list is your home screen. See Your orders.

Payment (Pago)

The side of an order where money goes in — what you pay when buying, what you send when selling, or what your customer sends when paying a payment link. It's the flip side of collection, which is what comes out. See Orders.

Payment link (Link de pago)

A Sale order you create for someone else to pay: you set an amount and a collection currency, and Criptala hands you a shareable page where anyone — no login required — can scan a QR code and pay in USDT. See Payment links.

Payment method (Método de pago)

The specific channel used to pay or collect funds — a bank transfer, a cryptocurrency network, an online gateway, and so on. Which payment methods you see depends on your country, your profile type, and the currency you picked. See Buying crypto and Selling crypto.

Person (Persona)

One of the two profile types, for operating under your own name and identity document or passport. Across your whole account you can only ever have one Person profile. See Profiles.

Points (Puntos)

The loyalty points an order earns you, at a rate tied to your profile's Category. See Orders and Profiles.

Prepaid ticket (Ticket prepago)

A pre-funded code — say, one you bought at a collection point — that covers a purchase in full. Activating a ticket locks in the amount and stands in for the payment method, so that step gets skipped entirely. Purchases only. See Rewards.

Profile (Perfil)

The identity you actually operate as inside Criptala — the entity that owns your orders, wallets, financial accounts, and verification status. Every profile is either Person or Business, and a single account can own or belong to several. See Profiles.

Purchase (Compra)

See Operation. See Buying crypto.

Rate (Cotización)

The live exchange rate shown during checkout (1 <crypto> = X <fiat>), which refreshes roughly every 10 seconds while you fill out an order. It's calculated one last time and locked in for good the instant you create the order. See Fees & limits.

Receipt (Comprobante)

Proof of payment or collection you attach to an order — either an uploaded file or a URL/transaction hash. On the collection side it's accepted automatically; on the payment side it goes into a queue for review. See Orders and Payment links.

Recovery code (Código de recuperación)

A backup code that gets you in with two-factor authentication if you ever lose access to your authenticator app. See Security.

Recurring DCA (DCA Recurrente)

A type of investment product: a subscription that buys crypto automatically on a schedule, on a billing day you choose (1–28). You can also kick off its first order right away instead of waiting for the schedule. See Investments.

Referral code (Código de referido)

The unique code every profile gets automatically the moment it's created, and that you can share with others. Entering someone else's code when creating your own profile makes that person's profile your referrer. See Rewards and Profiles.

Referrer (Referidor)

The profile whose referral code you entered when creating your own. When the profile you referred completes its first order, the referrer usually earns a bond. See Rewards.

Referrals (page) (Referidos)

The page that lists everyone you've referred, their profile status, and the total benefit (bonds) you've earned from them. See Profiles.

Requirement (Requisito)

Something Criptala still needs from you to verify your profile — either a Data requirement (a form field or document you submit yourself) or an Integration requirement (an automated check, currently Metamap for identity). Each one is either Pending or Completed. See Verification.

Sale (Venta)

See Operation. See Selling crypto.

Status

Where an order, profile, or payment/collection leg stands right now, always shown as a colored badge with an icon and a label (for example, Payment pending, Verified, or Completed). See the status tables on Your orders and Verification.

Subscription (Suscripción)

An active recurring commitment to an investment product (Recurring DCA), with a status of Active, Paused, Auto paused, or Cancelled. Paused covers both a manual pause and missed payments; Auto paused is a separate status that kicks in when the underlying product itself gets deactivated. To reactivate a subscription, you'll need to contact support. See Investments.

Threshold

The volume band, tied to your accumulated trading amount, that decides which verification requirements apply to your profile. Crossing your current threshold with an order won't block that order, but it does mean new documentation will likely be asked for afterward — which is a different thing from your Tier, that governs your daily limits, not your KYC requirements. Keep in mind that every step of checkout needs a Verified profile, not just placing the new order, so if a fresh requirement leaves your profile unverified, you'll be blocked from reopening checkout on an in-progress order too, until you verify again. See Verification.

Tier (Nivel)

The setting on your profile that caps how many orders you can create per day and how much you can operate per day (in USD), for each operation. Every profile sits in exactly one tier, and some tiers have no cap at all. See Fees & limits.

Two-factor authentication (2FA) (Autenticación de dos factores)

An extra sign-in check using an authenticator app (TOTP), backed by recovery codes for when you lose access to your device. Some accounts have to keep it enabled and can't turn it off. See Security.

Verification (KYC) (Verificación)

The identity-check process — what the industry calls "know your customer" — that a profile has to complete to become Verified and unlock buying, selling, and investing. Each profile is tracked on its own, through a list of requirements. See Verification.

Wallet (Billetera)

A saved cryptocurrency address on a specific network where your crypto lands when you buy. Any address you type fresh during checkout is saved here automatically for next time. See Wallets.

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