Recently one of my aunty called me up and asked for financial help from me. She wanted that money to set up a small business in the town. My uncle has passed away long ago and she tries hard to educate her two children. She hopes that this business will fetch her some extra money, which she can save in a bank.

I didn’t thought for a second time to give her money, as I knew that she is a hard working lady and is always struggling to make both hands meet.

The very next day I called her up to inform that I have remitted the amount she asked for. But she replied that she doesn’t have a bank account yet. Then how is she going to receive the money.

I then told her about the Cash Pickup facility of Remit2Home. This facility is available at various bank branches across Philippines. Moreover the receiver need not have to get a bank account to receive the remittance. In Cash Pickup facility the only thing the receiver has to do while receiving the money is to provide IDs as proof of identity.

Today I came to know about one unique offer from Remit2Home, the global online money transfer service provider, when I remitted money back home in Philippines. Every time after remitting money, I call up my mother to inform her that I have remitted the money. This phone call gives my mother an opportunity to enquire about my health and job, so she goes on asking me different questions. As a result it has happened often that the phone connection got snapped due to low balance.

But this time I was surprised at a new development. After remitting the money I called my mother. And as usual she started asking me lots of questions without even giving me ample time to complete one answer. I was constantly keeping a tab of the balance, and when the balance was extremely low, I warned by mother that the line may get disconnected any time. But amazingly this time it didn’t happened. Moreover I got 50 minutes of free time to talk.

My mother was so happy to talk with me for 50 minutes more. Later I found in the Remit2Home website that it is a promotional offer from Remit2Home. Every time a registered user transact from Remit2Home he/she receives 50 minutes of free calling card.

You can now call me a pro in online money remitting. At least that’s what my Filipino friends and co workers have started calling me lately. For this, I sincerely attribute my thanks to Remit2Home. This online money transfer service provider is creating wonder among the Filipino workers in US. Its convenience, swift and safe service is creating large number of user’s everyday. And Filipinos like me are trying hard to create more awareness about the service, so that more and more Filipino can reap benefit out of it.

I basically keep myself updated by browsing through the Remit2Home website and inform other OFWs about the special offers that the service provider comes up with. One such unique offer is the Referral policy. Being a registered user I can introduce many of my friends and relatives to Remit2Home.

All I need to do is submit my friends and relatives email ids to Remit2Home. Then Remit2Home sends them a mail asking them to register. And just by referring my friends and relatives to Remit2Home I can earn 5$ from each referral.

Isn’t that a wonderful referral reward?

It was Datu’s birthday last week. He is now only five years old and is learning to speak bit by bit. In the morning of his birthday I called home at Manila to wish him. His voice is so sweet; it is still ringing in my ears.

I had a plan to attend his birthday back home at Manila, but due to too much of work pressure it didn’t finalise. So planned to send some amount by which Datu can buy toys for him. Now he didn’t have a bank account yet. So how am I to send the money?

Then I resorted to Remit2Home. After one minute of browsing through their website I discovered the Cash Delivery facility of Remit2Home. In seconds my problem was answered. As Remit2Home provides cash delivery facility in almost every corner of Philippines. For this even if the receiver doesn’t have a bank account in the country, he can easily receive the remittance on time.

Amazingly I found that almost every major city and town is mentioned in the Remit2Home website where cash delivery facility is available.

I have always believed in the concept of sharing. This is because I was born and brought up in a family where we (brothers and sisters) were taught sharing each others things. So even as a child, even if I had just a small bar of chocolate, I would make it a point to share it with my brother or my sister. Today, as a successful OFW earning quite decently, I make it a point that I’ll help others close to me in need.

I make sure that it is not only my family that benefits from my earnings. I also send out money to my cousins, my alma mater is also an important beneficiary.

There is, but one problem that crops up because of this — that of remembering addresses and bank account numbers of so many beneficiaries. However, Remit2Home, the online money transfer service provider I use to remit money has a solution to this problem.

There is a Power Tool called the Address Book. With Remit2Home’s Address Book, one need not fill in the beneficiary’s details every time one remits money. One can simply fill in the details once in the address book and use it to send money. In fact, this service has made it all the more easier for me to conduct my transactions. Great! Isn’t it?

Last time when I went home taking a week leave from my office I gifted my mother a mobile phone.

The town in which we live in Philippines is not that developed. Still very few homes have television, phone and private car. Even we didn’t have telephone connection at home. So if my mother wishes to call me at Miami then she had to walk for a while to a public telephone booth.

Thinking about her age I considered gifting her a phone. She was so happy that tears rolled down her cheeks. Now whenever she thinks of me, she calls me up.

Recently the mobile phone is serving another purpose for us. I need to remit money every month back home. So the mobile is now also used as a status tracker. As I am a registered user of Remit2Home, therefore I receive alert instantly the money is remitted. Even my beneficiary that is my mother also receives a similar Mobile Alert on her mobile after I remit the amount.

The Mobile Alerts facility of Remit2Home will also keep me informed of the latest offers and new services launched by Remit2Home. And the most interesting part of the facility is that it is absolutely free.

Last Wednesday when I was hurrying to my office my phone started ringing. I was already terribly late for my office and had to make breakfast for myself, at that point of time the continuous ringing tone of the phone made me very irritated. I was not willing to take the phone, but something happened and I picked up the phone.

It was my sister on the other end of the phone sobbing. She managed to say that my father has been hospitalised due to massive cardiac arrest. I was so shocked to hear that news.

She wanted me to send her some money immediately for my father’s treatment. I realised that at this critical moment I have to gather courage. If I become nervous then the whole family will breakdown.

I asked my sister to give her bank account number so that I can transfer the money directly into her account. After getting the account I immediately remitted the money to her account directly from Remit2Home’s Account Credit facility. This is a very unique facility, which will make the remittance sent by me instantly deposited to my sister’s bank account as soon as Remit2Home receives my remittance. After the remittance I checked the status tracker, the money has been remited on time into my sister’s account.

My sister called me up today saying that my father’s condition is stable. He will be released within few days. Thank God! Everything is OK.

Today one of my co-worker, who also happens to be a Filipino came office late and had to bear the anger of the boss. A young chap, he was so depressed by the incident that he broke down after coming out of the boss’s cabin.

Well these are part of a corporate life; there is nothing much we can do to avoid such situations. But we can off course minimize the rate of repetition of such situation happening over and over again.

Later at lunch break I asked him why he was so late. He replied that four days ago he had send money back home at Philippines for his sister’s school fees. But his sister had called him up to say that she had not received the money till date. So the entire day he was busy tracking the money. After finishing his story he asked me that if I know of some alternative method for remitting money, which will be easy and safe.

I then told him about the Status Tracker facility of Remit2Home. This facility is just like a bank passbook by which he can check the history of all past transactions. The Status Tracker facility will help him conveniently track the status of his remittance online, so he could know exactly when the beneficiary had received the funds. All he needs to do is log on to his Remit2Home account and check the status of all transactions.

Every time a Filipino comes to US for a job he faces the similar problem that all his/her predecessors in US have faced before. It is the same old remittance problem. Many OFW simply shudder while doing their first remittance. One of the main reasons for such experience is the formalities that have to be done in any US bank. There are a whole lot of complicated formalities like filling several forms and submitting relevant official documents that every OFW has to undergo while doing remittance through any US bank. All these formalities are complicated and as well as time consuming at the same time.

I clearly remember the first day when I went to a bank in Miami to remit money. Oh my God! What an experience it was. I simply don’t want to recall it anymore.

Then I turned towards Remit2Home for help. And this time I found the Credit Card sending option.

This process solved my problem forever when it comes to remitting. It is easy and I must say it is very easy, and at the same time it saves time. I did the whole transaction just by following the instruction provided in the Remit2Home website. All I did was selected “Credit Card” from the Send Money Options. Then, I entered the dollar amount that I want to send. And lastly, I entered my beneficiary name and also my credit card details. And the process is over within minutes. I was so satisfied that I have done the remittance perfectly all alone.

You might be thinking why on earth I am speaking so philosophically, right?

This is just what has happened with me. Money remittance is often a big deal especially with OFWs like us. In fact, even till a few years back, we had to wait for quite a long time for our US bank account verification so that we could transfer money. However, with exposure to Remit2Home things have changed for us a lot in the recent times.

Now interestingly, whenever I get time I start browsing on the Remit2Home website. And every time I discover some new facility, which surely helps me at times.

My new discovery is the Online Automated Clearing House (ACH) facility provided by Remit2Home.

The Online ACH facility is completely automatic, web based and paperless.  With the help of this facility one does not need to wait long for bank account verification. All one needs to do is provide his/her bank account information and order a money transfer. The moment the account gets verified, money is transferred automatically in minutes. 

The facility is so simple that one can directly debit their existing US bank account and credit the Remit2Home account, which will then send the money to the receiver account specified by the sender. One can send up to $500 or equivalent in his/her currency with online ACH facility. Moreover, there is Status Tracker to know the exact status of the transfer.