If you want to make purchasing courses faster and easier, you can securely save your credit or debit card information in your Udemy account. This way you will not need to re-enter the card information each time you purchase a course.
Credit Card Security
Udemy never stores your full credit or debit card information on our systems. Instead, we work with credit card payment processors who are certified under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
When you enter your credit or debit card details on Udemy, that information is sent directly to secure databases maintained by these payment processors, who then complete the transaction. That partner will then provide us with a portion of the stored information (such as the last four digits of your card number) to help do things like document your purchases and label your saved cards.
During this process, our partner will also provide us with a randomly generated alphanumeric ID called a "token". This token allows us to reference a saved card during future transactions, even though we don’t have the full card number on file ourselves. Because we store a token instead of the full credit card number you originally provided, there is no way for anyone who is logged in to your Udemy account to obtain your full credit card information from within your account. In addition, there is no way for a third party to reverse-engineer a token ID to obtain the credit card information.
Adjusting Your Transaction Information Settings
You can have the system automatically select your saved card for a purchase, by turning on the Use my transaction information for further purchases option. If this option is turned off, however, then no card’s information will be entered, and the payment page will not select the Remember this card box.
To either activate or disable this option, please follow the steps below:
- Move the cursor to your profile picture at the top right of the page
- Click on your name
- Next, click on Credit Cards on the left hand side
- Toggle on or off the Use my transaction information option
How to Save Your Credit Card Information
If you wish to save your credit card information, so that you don’t need to re-enter it next time you purchase a course, please follow these steps:
- Click Take This Course
- Enter the credit card information (under Add new card)
- Make sure the Remember this card box is selected
- Hit Pay and the card’s information will be saved in your account
Purchasing a Course With a Saved Card
If you saved your card information during a previous purchase, you can quickly use that card again to purchase another course without re-entering it.
If the Use my transaction information for further purchases option is turned on in your account, then the card’s information will automatically appear. If you have more than one credit card saved, however, then you can select which one you would like to use for the purchase.
If you’ve saved your cards and would like to edit or delete the information in your account, please follow these steps:
- Move the cursor to your profile picture at the top right of the page
- Click on your name
- Next, click on Credit Cards on the left hand side
- You can edit the credit card information by clicking on Update (once you've finished click Update again), or remove it from your account by clicking Delete
If you have any other questions regarding how to add, edit or delete cards in your account, please contact our support team.