Learn how you can send money from Kenya to Ghana and how you can pay any vendor in Ghana from Kenya without leaving your home.
What would it be like to be able to be so connected to a family member all the way in Ghana? Kwame moved to Kenya to work on a project for some months leaving his family behind.
Working in another country doesn’t cut you off from family responsibilities. And for people like Kwame that means looking for a solution that will help them easily send money to their family in Ghana.
But it does not stop there!
What if it’s your dear friend Abena’s birthday and you want to get her a gift? How do you buy her a gift all the way from Kenya?
Imagine being able to pay for a vendor in Ghana who will deliver Abena’s gift to her home wrapped with a special birthday card accompanying it. What if you made that payment to the Ghanaian vendor all the way from Kenya?
In this article, I’ll share with you an easy way you can send money from Kenya to Ghana. You’ll also learn how to use this same solution to pay any vendor in Ghana from Kenya without leaving your home.
Bitnob's transfer feature helps you send money to Ghana and 7 other countries just with a few taps. The person you send the money to receives it in their local currency directly into their mobile money wallet and they receive payment in Ghana cedis.
How to send money from Kenya to Ghana
People send money overseas for different reasons. If you’re in Kenya and you want to send money to someone in Ghana, it’s quite easy to do that with Bitnob.
All you need to carry out this transaction is the recipient’s Mobile Money (MoMo) wallet number and their full name. Once you have those details the next thing you need to do is follow these simple steps:
- Tap on the “Transfer” button on the Quick links section of the homepage
- Tap on “Transfer to Bank or Momo”
- Tap on “Change currency” and select Ghana cedis
- Fill out the amount you’d like to transfer, then tap on “Continue”
- Select the mobile money provider and fill out the details of the mobile money wallet of the recipient. If this person is someone you intend to send money to often, then tap on “Save as beneficiary” to make the person a beneficiary.
- Tap on “Proceed to Transaction Note” to add a note.
- Review the transaction summary and then tap on “Proceed” to initiate payment to the mobile money wallet.
Voila! You’ve successfully made payment. In a few minutes, the recipient will receive the money you sent them. While they wait for the transaction to go through, you can send them a shareable receipt as evidence of payment.
It’s important to note that the lowest amount you can send using the transfer feature at any given time is $2.
Before making any transaction, you need to ensure that you have the amount you want to send in your USD wallet on Bitnob. If the balance in your USD wallet is not enough click here to learn how to fund your USD wallet.
Paying a Vendor in Ghana from Kenya
When paying a vendor the same steps above apply. You should first obtain the full name and the MoMo wallet number of the vendor, then follow the steps above to transfer money from your Bitnob account to the vendor in Ghana.
Make sure that the vendor you’re dealing with is a verified vendor. If they have an online store, check out all their stores and reviews to make sure that they’re a running business and that they have happy customers.
When you ask for payment details confirm that the person you’re about to pay to is the right person to pay to. It helps if the MoMo wallet number bears either the name of the owner of the business or the name of the business.
Why is this feature something worth using?
When you look at cross-border transactions with the current third-party remittance platforms, you’ll experience 3 things:
High fees
With third-party remittance services, before you can make a transaction to another country, the money you want to send is converted to USD at the central bank rate and then sent to the bank of the recipient’s country and then converted to the local currency.
In the process of these conversions, each institution charges a fee for processing this transaction. This is what makes that single transaction an expensive venture.
You have to leave your home to make a transaction
Popular remittance services like Western Union can only be accessed at the banking halls of major banks. In order to make a cross-border transaction you will have to leave your home to make that transaction.
With the Bitnob app you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home to get your cross-border transaction done. Everything is easily handled by the Bitnob app.
Long transaction time
Since there are a lot of processes involved in sending money from Kenya to Ghana with existing remittance platforms, it makes the transaction long and cumbersome.
With the Bitnob app, it takes a couple of minutes before the transaction goes through and is settled in the recipient’s mobile money wallet.
Would you give it a try?
In this article, you learned how to send money from Kenya to Ghana with Bitnob’s transfer feature. Now you can easily send money to your loved ones in Ghana or even pay a vendor for their goods and services in Ghana. Would you use the transfer feature? Click here to get started.