Top 4 Reasons For Using Money Transfer Services Online

Top 4 Reasons For Using Money Transfer Services Online
By Alistair Summers
These days many payment service providers have built up huge networks of banking and accounting contacts allowing them to offer clients the ability to transfer funds instantly into the beneficiary’s bank account. These types of transaction are typically referred to as bank transfers or giro transfers and they provide merchants with the ability to both make and receive fast, convenient, reliable and secure payments.

To demonstrate how utilising money transfer services can be advantageous to your business I have devised the following list of benefits:


1) Money transfers are fast.

Bank transfers are credited directly which can result in a much faster payment process. The money is almost instantly available to the receiver, this cuts down on the time that would traditionally have to be spent waiting for cheques to be posted and then to clear.

2) Balances are instantly updated

As well as the receiver instantly being paid, the merchants account is also debited almost instantly. This allows for far more efficient account reconciliation and cash flow as all of the banking information is kept up to date.

3) Less

manual processing is involved

Money transfer services require far less manual processing than the traditional methods. This means that the transfer is far faster but it also means that there is less scope for human error. While delivery problems or processing errors are rare they do occasionally occur when people are being relied on to process enormous numbers of cheques. These errors are completely avoided by directly transferring the money.

4) Money transfers are secure.

The final advantage money transfers boast over traditional methods of payment is the security that it ensures. Money transfers work by creating a direct link between the merchant and the bank meaning that, unlike cheques which can be lost or stolen, there is nowhere that the payment could be intercepted.

Overall businesses should always consider using money transfer services when making payments to clients or suppliers. As I outlined above they can offer some considerable benefits to both the payer and the payee, and in the exceptionally competitive online marketplace businesses should take every advantage that they can.
If you want to utilise money transfer services regularly for your business it can be worthwhile to employ a payment service provider to help arrange these transactions.