I'm still new to crypto, been learning about it for a couple months now and have a pretty solid understanding of "how to do it" for my soon-to-be first buy. I'm almost ready for my first crypto purchase, I think my time has been well-spent learning about it before jumping in.
My understanding is DO NOT, DO NOT send directly from where you purchase crypto even though they apparently offer the ability to do that. DON'T DO IT. Idk why exactly, it's what the pros have said in my readings, so good 'nuff for me. Get a separate wallet of your choice (Exodus for me).
Here's what I did first. In my online banking account I set up a second checking account and got a debit card with it (this will only be used to fund crypto, easy to keep track of and separate from the banking stuff). Then I got Exodus wallet and set it up (write down the 12 word secret key), you don't need to know anything/do anything crypto-esque to simply set up a wallet.
I was using my old PayPal account to buy PayPal's stablecoin PYUSD and sent that to Exodus, which required converting it to UDST, etc., once in Exodus. Moving forward, I'm just gonna use Coinbase, seems more straightforward. I'm not investing in, nor holding crypto, just making purchases and moving less than $150-200 at a time, so that works for me.
IMO the easiest way to move forward would be to open a free Coinbase account and fund it with the debit card. Then send that to Exodus. There are other "moving parts" to learn about, but it turns out to be fairly straightforward once you get a feel for the moving parts.
