Binance Auto-Invest (Now Convert Recurring): How to Set It Up

Placing the order yourself every week or month has two problems: it's easy to forget, and every time you open the exchange and see the price you start wondering whether today is “a bit high.” Handing the buying to the system, so that you set it once and it buys on schedule from then on, removes both. On Binance this feature used to be called Auto-Invest; it now sits inside Convert, where it is called Recurring.

What Auto-Invest is, and where it lives now

Auto-Invest was Binance's original recurring-buy tool. According to the Help Center's Migration: Auto-Invest to Convert Recurring FAQ, published in February 2025, the Auto-Invest service was retired and its Single Token and Portfolio plans were migrated to the Recurring feature in Convert, with the functionality unchanged. What it does is still dollar-cost averaging (DCA): you set which coin, how much per round and how often, and at each interval it buys at the Binance Convert quote of the moment, whether that day is up or down.

As for where the coins go: per the migration FAQ, the purchased assets are delivered directly to your selected account after each transaction, and what you do with them after that is up to you. The Index-Linked Plan was not migrated to Convert Recurring and isn't covered by the steps on this page.

What you need before you start

Just three things:

• A Binance account with identity verification done. How to photograph your ID, and which security settings an account you'll leave running should have, are covered in Binance signup, verification and security settings.
• Funds available in the account. Top up what you'll pay with (USDT, for example) in advance, so the money is there at each scheduled buy.
• Three decisions made. Which coin (just bitcoin, for a beginner), how much per round, and how often. You can try the last two in the DCA calculator first to see how much that schedule puts in overall.

Setting it up (6 steps)

The names below follow Binance's Help Center page Frequently Asked Questions on Binance Convert “Recurring”, last updated in May 2026:

1. Find the entry. Open Convert and choose Recurring. The Single Token and Portfolio plans that used to sit under Auto-Invest now live here.
2. Pick a plan type. The two that were moved over are Single Token (one coin, e.g. BTC) and Portfolio (several at once). For a beginner, Single Token · Bitcoin is simplest.
3. Choose what you pay with, and set the amount. The page calls the coin you pay with the “From” token. Enter the figure you worked out. The FAQ gives no number for the minimum per purchase, so check the page.
4. Choose the frequency. You can buy on an hourly, daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis, and hourly plans come in 1-, 4-, 8- and 12-hour versions. Weekly or monthly is enough for a beginner; for how to choose between the two, see Should you DCA weekly or monthly? Daily, weekly and monthly buys compared.
5. Check the accounts. Confirm which account the money comes from and which account the coins are delivered to. If the paying account is short on the due date, that round's purchase fails and the system tries again on the next cycle; the plan is cancelled only after six months of continuous failures.
6. Confirm, and note the minute. The exact execution minute is the same as the minute you created the plan: in Binance's example, a daily 8:00 plan created at 14:17 executes at 8:17 each day. After that you can view, pause, cancel or edit the plan on the Recurring homepage. Ongoing and paused plans together are capped at 20.

A buy that didn't go through on time, a balance that fell short, a minute that doesn't match what you set: each of these is checked against Binance's own examples in When does Binance Recurring Buy execute? Low-balance rules.

How fees work

Per the migration FAQ, Auto-Invest used to add a fee on top of the quoted price; in Convert Recurring there are no additional fees, and trades execute at the Binance Convert quoted price. So don't budget with the old Auto-Invest fee. That doesn't make it free, though: the Recurring FAQ states that recurring prices may be different from market prices on Binance Spot, so the cost sits inside the quote. The price of each fill is recorded under [Orders] - [Convert History] - [Recurring History]; once you have a few rounds, the way to work out your average price and return is in how to calculate your DCA return.

Three things to do once it's running

A recurring plan is meant to be set and left alone, but three things are worth doing:

• Turn off price-alert push notifications. The surest way to wreck a DCA plan is letting the daily price set your mood. You don't need to know bitcoin's price daily; you only need to confirm each round went through.
• Keep the DCA money separate from living expenses. Set aside a dedicated pot for it so a tight month doesn't tempt you to stop that round.
• Move the exchange app off your home screen. Don't delete it, just make it harder to open. Less checking means fewer impulsive moves.

A few traps to avoid

• No funds on the due date, so that round doesn't buy. One failed round leaves the plan in place, but that round's purchase is gone. Set a reminder or simply keep a larger buffer; the rule in Binance's own words is under Balance too low: that round is skipped, the plan stays.
• Fiddling with the frequency or pausing after setup. Pausing when the price dips and raising the amount when it climbs is market timing. A paused plan also still takes up one of your 20 slots. Whether to stop during a fall is worked through on one stretch of real prices in Should you pause DCA in a bear market? Stop, skip or keep buying.
• DCA-ing with living expenses or borrowed money. A paper loss then puts you under pressure twice over, and you're most likely to give up just when holding on matters most. The precondition never changes: this is money you could lose entirely without it affecting your life.
• Starting with a basket of altcoins. It gets called diversification, but you won't have researched any of them properly, and when they fall you won't know which ones are worth sitting through. Do bitcoin well first, and understand what you own.