GoRemitHK is a leading cross border payment service provider based in Hongkong that is founded by Simon Lim. GoRemitHK is registered and licensed as a Money Service Operator (MSO) in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It provides a money transfer platform focusing in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Greater China.

The company's goal is simple: to make international sending and receiving remittance payments more efficient at a cheaper rate to boost your business performance. Banks could charge you up to 8% in hidden costs when sending money abroad.

GoRemitHK is up to 8x cheaper compared to conventional way of money transfer. GoRemitHK offers competitive and transparent Foreign Exchange Rate following mid-market/real time exchange rate.

Basically, GoRemitHK does an end to end payment network that makes the process of international money transfer a lot easier. It is able to manage collection and delivery, and does not rely on any third party company or any delivery party. To date, GoRemitHK focuses on Southeast Asia including Hong Kong, Greater China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore and supports 7 currencies (HKD, USD, SGD, MYR, CNY, IDR, PHP).

1. Sign up: Signing up is easy, it’ll only require you basic details like name, email address, and an active phone number where a verification code shall be sent.
2. Log on to your GoRemitHK account and deposit the funds you wish to send to GoRemitHK’s bank account to pre-fund your account.
3. Make a Transfer: GoRemitHK’s dashboard is pretty simple and almost self-explanatory. Basically, you’ll have 3 options on sending money: Bank Transfer, TopUp Alipay and TopUp Wechat.

On this page you’ll need to indicate how much and what currency you are sending and you’ll be able to quickly see how much your recipient will actually get.

Click Next to proceed. On the second page, you’ll simply provide your recipient’s details such as: Name, bank name, account type, Swift Code, contact number, bank account number, and recipient’s national ID or Business Registration Number.

Click Next to continue. Review your transfer and then submit. GoRemitHK will then process your request and send your money to your beneficiary or recipient’s bank account in 1-2 days depending on the location and cut-off.

To be able to send funds to an Alipay/WeChat account, you have to ensure your account has enough funds to send money. You can do this by making a deposit to GoRemitHK’s bank account.Once funded, you can topup by just keying in details like the recipient’s WeChat username and phone number. For Alipay, you’ll have to key in the recipient’s name and phone number or email. The topup process looks like this:

Where you can use GoRemitHK

• Personal: Send money to your relatives and friends from abroad.
• Business: Paying a supplier from China? Or paying contractors and freelancers from various parts of China and Asia? GoRemitHK can do that for you hassle-free and worry-free
• Mass Payout: No matter to whom, partners, suppliers or merchants, rest assured that your transactions are safe and secure

GoRemitHK Advantages

1. No hidden fees
2. Signing up is easy
3. Same Business Day Payout
4. Wechat/Alipay Topup

GoRemitHK Disadvantages

1. Few currencies supported
2. Only focused on Asian countries

Bottomline

Let's face it, currency conversion is a pain - and companies like Western Union, Paypal and the banks take relatively higher margins when it comes to foreign exchange hence making it more costly. Today, many companies are emerging online offering the same service as WU and Paypal such as GoRemitHK.

It's a company we have personally tried and GoRemitHK has been the answer to our struggle to find a fast, easy and safe way to transfer funds around Southeast Asia.

In our GFA Member’s community we get a lot of interaction and questions - here is some to note:

• HK company without HK bank account can use Currenxie or Payoneer to send money to GoRemit HK?

  Yes that is correct. they can signup Currenxie or Payoneer under that HK company to accept fund and withdraw to GoRemit HK

• Non-HK company can't use Cross Border Payment Service to send money to GoRemitHK

  Unfortunately, we can’t accept due to compliance reason. We are looking for a workaround to support non HK company as i know that is a huge market to serve. We will update you once is available.

There have been a bunch of changes in the payment industry with China. Our guess (again it is a guess) is that it is about the building trade war between USA and China.

Maybe other currency control policies coming into place. But whatever the reason, some payment companies are cutting off their connection for payments into China.

Here's a response from Simon Lim, CEO of GoRemitHK: