TransferWise

Last week I made two transfers to TransferWise, these were to their borderless account service. This was a to a friends TransferWise Account. The transfers were going through review when it was decided to cancel the transfer and return the funds. The funds are still missing and every communication with the support team is not getting any results. Today we find my friend's account is deactivated leaving us with no way to trace the money. I would avoid this service if you can.

I am Kim, I made a transfer using TransferWise platform, my recipient was due to receive the money on tomorrow. I tried logging in to check the status only to find out my account was deactivated. Please what will happen to my money now? I need an answer please. This is a very poor service.

They deactivated my account - no explanation - I had £700 due to be transferred. The person I spoke to told me he can't tell me why my account was deactivated because he doesn't have that information but that it 'happens from time to time' - he told me he doesn't know anything about my £700 and wasn't remotely helpful only telling me I'd have to 'email them about that'. I have emailed - to multiple email addresses for them - no reply - I suspect I'm going to have to take them to court if I want my money because they seem totally unconcerned that they have my money. Don't trust these people - there's plenty other money transfer apps. Don't risk it with these people. I've since read from other people of similar experiences.

Hi. I am not able to understand this company. They asked me for documents to proof I am a genuine company, I provided all kind of proof, including screenshot of bank accounts where they have deducted from my card, but yet they deactivated my account. Why they should take money in first place to deactivate later? It's like they play games of holding money, very weird company, they miss genuine customers on stupid check strictness on profile. They could have asked me any proof, including video calling to show them I'm genuine user, but deactivated my account... So irritating, anyone had this experience?

TransferWise is an inexpensive online wire service, but it comes with a bag of administrative regulations that make sending money from point A to point B unnecessary complicated. Strongly suggested to use a different wiring service even if it's a little bit more expensive. Sometimes the cheapest is not the best option. Not recommended.

These people suck. They will, without warning, freeze your account and hold all of your money. They won't tell you why. They won't give you any warning. They will just lock you out and the only way you know you have a problem is when you can't log in. Then, they will tell you it takes up to two months to get your funds. Your property. Your liquidity. Your vital operational cash. They don't care. Do not do business with these scumbags. Do not trust them with your money. With your receivables. With anything. Transferwise is owned and operated by ex-Paypal employees. Paypal is also a horrible operation that has a long history of suspending accounts and holding funds. Just google "Paypal sucks". Transferwise sucks. Avoid them completely. Do business with a real, legitimate payment service like WorldFirst instead.

I don't know who writes all these negative reviews. Two days ago I sent TransferWise 78,000 USD, and the money arrived the next morning. Then I converted the whole amount to Canadian dollars at the rate of XE.com minus about 0.5% and this morning the money arrived back. The transfer fee for Canadian dollars was $0.95 (ninety five cents total), but I believe that it is zero for smaller amounts.

As a Norwegian working in the United States I had to find a cheaper way to pay down my student loans. I now pay between $3.5 and $5 on every transfer made back to my home country. Before that I'd get charged anywhere between $25 and $40 per transfer depending on which bank it was routed through. I estimate that I've saved anywhere between 600 - 700 USD so far. Really couldn't be happier with their service. One small improvement would be the ability to request a change of address after you've signed up. Besides that it runs super smooth.

I used Transferwise to receive CHF on my EUR account. Turns out they are far (at least 3 times) as expensive as my normal bank, which I also consider expensive. Great marketing story but I will stay away in the future.

After two years of safe transfers - TransferWise has screwed up. The sender sends the money (originally in Euros - changed to S$). TransferWise asks me for my bank account details. I give my London Bank account (not my Singapore S$ account). The money does not arrive. The website indicates "PENDING" transaction - but in fact the transaction is cancelled - but as the recipient - all I see is "PENDING". I try to check with TransferWise - they say - "Check with the sender." But the transaction looks like "PENDING". The jokers at TransferWise are just sitting on the money. This is not good!

This is supposed to be cheaper than bank rates for transfers. My US bank would have charged me $50 to make a wire transfer to another country. Transferwise fees were $262 to make the same transfer. I cancelled when it showed the fees, but this is a terrible rate. I don't think this very high fee would have made up for any claimed better exchange rate. Charging $262 for a wire transfer is ridiculous.

I started using TransferWise 3 years ago and it's always been great service. But in the last 2 months I have had the same issue over and over. When I try to send money or someone tried to send me money I get the message "We cannot currently accept payments to this recipient". When I get in touch with them they tell me that it's the sender having the bank problems and they cannot do anything and they cannot disclose the issues. Fair enough.

I started using TW upon recommendation of a friend, and went full on using it. Opened a USD, a EUR account, and ordered a debit card. Getting money into the accounts and converting was obviously no issue and yes cheaper than any bank. Then the problems started. 80 euro transfer from my EUR TW account to a Eur account. One week later wasn't there. No notifications whatsoever from TW. I go in the app and hit cancel transfer. "Your transfer will be canceled and money returned to your account."

The transfer of money from my bank in Australia to my bank in Kenya all looked good with good communication. However, I realised there was a problem after checking my balance and no funds. After going to my bank in Kenya I learned that the account number was incorrect. The number had an extra digit, so no possibility of someone else receiving the funds. After contacting TransferWise a week after the initial process, the answer was that they could not reverse the deposit but should the funds return they will "reach out to co-ordinate bank details again."

What started out as a great product is now failing. I tried to log in with my computer and was told I needed to go to my phone to verify my computer. I went to my phone to log in and was told I needed to go to my computer to verify my phone. This APP used to be great but now it is horrible. Codes never come, and now I can't send money because it tells me I tried too many times to request a code. What the heck is going on???

Warning: DO NOT USE TRANSFERWISE. They will take the money out of your account and keep it no matter what. In my situation they said that in order to process my transfer they needed from another ID because it did not match my date of birth they have in the system. So I believed they would not make the transfer since they could not verify me. GUESS WHAT? They took the money out of my account and now I am paying fees to the bank and they will do absolutely nothing!

We have used TransferWise quite a few times before for substantial amounts without problems and been pleased with the service. However, a week ago we transferred 10,000 GBP to our TransferWise Thai Baht account and although the funds left our bank account within 2 minutes, we are still waiting to receive the funds into our TransferWise account. We have contacted them so many times and now we do not even get a reply except 3 days ago we were sent an email to ask if we were related to a GB House of Commons Peer! How bizarre! Only writing this openly to try and get a response from TransferWise. Not good service!!

I've used TW twice now and I've just loved it. First time I tried TW, I was apprehensive. When I created the first transfer to Thailand, I didn't get any confirmation so I was concerned. I called TW and spoke with a person who assured me that the transfer was initiated. On the exact date (a couple of days later) I got email confirmation that the money was deposited in the recipient account. Great! I tried again a few days ago and immediately after initiating the transaction I got an email confirmation that the money went into TW's account. Next, I got an email saying the money was sent. Today (2 days later) I got confirmation from my relative that the money showed up in their account. Just fabulous. I've been using Paypal for a few years but just realized Paypal's exchange rate is not at all good -- particularly compared with TW. And the fee is higher with Paypal. I won't go back to Paypal again; it's TW for me now every time.

As an international student I have used TransferWise to send money from Brazil to US where I'm studying. I created my last transfer on 13 Sep because I'm in living in North Carolina and need to money fast due to risk caused by the arrival of the Florence hurricane. I was requested this time to attach additional documentation for verification. I did it as requested (otherwise system does not complete the transaction) and also made deposit on same day. The information received was that they would review my documents by 14 Sep and I should receive money on that date.

I opened account with TransferWise under due process. I also made the attached transfer on Sep 14, 2018. Initially, I thought the beneficiary would receive this payment within few hours as earlier stated by TransferWise. On tracking my transfer, it showed the fund would get to the beneficiary on Sunday being Sep 16, 2018. Today, beneficiary complained that he has not received this fund. I tried to track this payment few minutes ago, I am surprised to find out that my TransferWise account has been deactivated. My money already left my account since Sep 14, 2018, and an e-mail they sent on Sep 14, 2018 already with my money. Kindly help contact TransferWise to release this payment to the beneficiary immediately.

I wish now that I had read all of these recent reviews before trusting in TransferWise to send urgently needed money to myself via my partner. Similar to many others complaining here, I used TransferWise previously and the experience was great, I had the money within just a few hours for minimal fees and good rates. However my experience this time is that it is now 2 weeks since my partner sent the transfer, and not only have I not received it, but I now believe there's a possibility the money may be lost completely.

This is my first experience using TW and surely will be the last. The money left my international account on the 7th of September and I still haven't received my money in the account I sent it to, and even worse, nobody called/emailed to let me know what was happening. I got hold of someone from CS on the 11th, a lovely person, who advised that I would receive the money today. Well, today is gone and haven't got it yet. TW Folks, if you do read it, look into my issue ASAP as I'm going on holidays on Friday and if the money is not in my account it will really ruin my holidays and I will let everybody know how terrible your service is. That is a promise!

I sent a substantial sum of HK dollars through TransferWise to be paid in CHF to a recipient in Switzerland. My Hong Kong bank can demonstrate that the transfer went through and that TransferWise received my funds into their local Hong Kong account. But TransferWise claims they didn't receive it in their "system". Their "customer service" consists of blaming the customer. Although the phone representative acknowledged, based on bank statements that I supplied, that I made no error, the accounting department insists that whatever glitch occurred must necessarily be my fault, not theirs.

Do not sign up with TransferWise... I used to be happy with the service until lately the experience has been worse... I should have been getting my salary on the 24th August in TransferWise borderless account. However I did not receive any credit on Friday. I called customer service who did not know how a BACS transfer works. Upon several calls I got hold of a guy who actually knew it, however I was told to get documents like company bank statement showing money debited which is insane. I send all confirmation from my employer that all was fine from their end. However TW responded me with saying they never received the money. Suddenly on Monday I get the credit. I get a call from Customer service saying there was a Human error on TransferWise which caused the delay.

TransferWise, through sheer incompetence, has turned what should have been a most simple of transactions -- sending $30 to India -- into a nightmare. The only thing they successfully did was debit the money from my account. After that, they told me the transfer was being reviewed. This begs the question of why they wouldn't review it before debiting money like Western Union does... 3 days later, I try to log into my account only to be told my account has been deactivated. No one at customer service could or would help.

When trying to send funds to clients in USA the transactions were refused on both occasions. Customer service will simply read you a canned response saying they don't know why the recipients are not allowed to be added and it very rarely happens. I'm on 100% declined so obviously not that rare. The latest recipient they will not allow me to pay is my Lawyer in California. I don't see anything in the contract that says they can block payments to certain banks or companies when they want to. No point in having the account and holding US$ if I can't pay my US clients. I'll now have to use HSBC and get hit for charges which I'll then claim back from Transfer(UN)Wise.

My first clue something was wrong should have been when they required my bank login for an ACH transfer... that has never been necessary for ACH, just a routing and account number. You don't even need an online account to do ACH! But I didn't listen to the little voice, and now my money is in limbo somewhere, with no communication and their website stuck on a single screen with an endless spinning logo. I hope I can get my money back and transfer it through a more reliable method and I hope this review helps someone else avoid experiencing the same difficulties! Now it's time to go change the account credentials I foolishly gave them and find out from my bank how to protect against any future withdrawals.

I have dealt with them over a dozen times and everything was not always fast but at least was always without complication. However, my last transaction was a disaster! 3 DAYS after they received my money, a first request "Please provide your bank statements". I did right away. 3 MORE DAYS after sending them my bank statements "please provide your payslips" then another 3 DAYS after that, "Please provide bank statements of the investment account the money was transferred from"... I did, and finally 2 days after, "sorry we can't accept the transfer to that recipient"!

I mistakenly bank in cash HKD5823 to their designated DBS account in Hong Kong without noticed that they do not accept cash. Within hours after the deposit there were no one response to my mails (1 online 2 via gmail), chat request and they don’t take call to Singapore. DBS bank kept calling them. No response. I emailed the bank in slip to their support personnel. Up till last night Aug 8, they still saying they are waiting to see if 'money reached'. This is ridiculous. Cash bank their account with solid proof. They didn’t reach out DBS to approve refunding money to bank in person. There is NO PROTECTION of customers' money. They seems having people in London to answer call but their reply is not helping and taking a delay approach. DON'T TRUST THEM. PARTICULARLY ANYONE FROM HONG KONG.

After 6 days and no payment - I recently used TransferWise to send money from US to Brazil. I send the money by wire transfer on Aug 1. Received an email that the funds were received and that they would pay in 15 hours. Since then there is no money and in their app it is mentioned that the transfer were complete!!!