Qiwi wallet is a Russian payment system founded in 2007, which includes QIWI Bank, licensed by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Currently, the service unites more than 47 million users in the Russian Federation and CIS countries. It includes more than 20 million virtual wallets, which in turn allows you to make transactions of more than 79 billion rubles through various payment channels.

The network has 149 thousand payment terminals and points for accepting payments.

How do I create a qiwi wallet?
 

On the website of the electronic payment system, select create a wallet.

Enter your phone number to which we want to link the wallet, note that you are not a robot and click continue After that, you will receive an SMS with the code to your phone number that you specified during registration, enter it and click confirm. In the next step, create a password to log in to your personal account and click register. After that, a window will appear with an offer to pass identification, click "remind me later". Congratulations, you have just created a free qiwi wallet.

How do I complete identification?

In the upper-right corner, click on the phone number. After that, select “change status”.  To get the main status, just fill out the online form. To do this, enter your full name, date of birth, and passport series and number. 

Click confirm and wait a couple of minutes for your full name and passport to be checked. If the passport data is correct, the system will ask you to confirm your INN or SNILS, which it found in the state database. After that, you get the" main " status of the wallet.

To get a professional level, you need to show up with your passport at one of the identification points indicated on the service's website.