We’ve partnered with Plaid to make our transfers even easier!
Here at Paysend we want to make it as simple as possible for you to add payment information and send money abroad.
Because let’s face it, nobody likes spending ages entering lots of long card numbers, and entering usernames and passwords when you’re directed to your banking app. We can all agree we’ve got much more interesting things to be getting on with.
Plaid is an open finance platform that helps people connect their bank accounts to digital finance apps and make payments from them. Connecting an account is the first step to using Paysend to credit an account and send money.
Both Paysend and Plaid believe payments should be seamless, and so we decided to join forces!
When adding your bank details in the Paysend app, you’ll be asked to authenticate this in your online banking app. Plaid speeds this up by automatically connecting your bank account to the Paysend app, meaning that you don’t have to enter your username and password to access your account. Once connected, you’ll be able to send money in seconds directly from your account, without searching for card or bank numbers.
Thanks to Plaid, our money transfers are much simpler and faster!
Head to the Paysend app or web platform to experience the power of Plaid and send money now!
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Here's the short answer: yes, you can use a credit card to get money into someone's bank account abroad. "Credit card to bank transfer" means exactly that — you fund the transfer with your credit card, and your recipient receives it in their bank account. Or on their card, in their wallet, or as cash to collect, depending on where they are.
The card and the bank account do different jobs. Your card pays for the transfer. A provider like Paysend then pays the money out through local systems on the other end. It's one flow, and it takes about a minute in the app.
One thing worth knowing before you start: a credit card is usually the most expensive way to fund a transfer. Some issuers treat it as a cash advance, and credit tends to carry higher payment fees than debit. You'll always see the full cost, exchange rate included, before you confirm anything. What follows is: the ways your money can arrive, what each one costs, how fast it gets there, and the cheaper routes worth checking first.
Every month, thousands of people working in the Czech Republic send part of their payday home — many of them Ukrainians supporting family across the border. And the traditional route makes it harder than it should be: bank wires that ask for IBANs and SWIFT codes, fees that only show up after the money's gone, and days of waiting while someone at home is counting on it.
Pavel Štich has spent years helping his readers solve exactly that. He's Co-Founder and Lead Financial Editor at Moneyo.cz, an independent Czech platform that compares money transfer services, stock brokers, and alternative investments — and a Paysend Ambassador, which means he tests what he recommends, explains it plainly, and brings his readers reader-only perks. We asked him how Moneyo started, who reads it, and why he chose Paysend.
