Instarem Reviews

No matter the size, a business always has its fair share of costs. Employees and business partners need to be paid, and tax officials may be knocking at the door because they haven’t received the VAT for your latest invoice. Many transactions happen overseas, where it makes a difference if the sender is transferring money in one currency and the receiver is receiving the amount in another. This is where Instarem comes in – with minimal fees and low foreign exchange (FX) rates, the user will quickly realize that the age of time-consuming and money-draining transfers is dead and gone.

Not only is the service user-friendly and cost-effective, but transferring money is fast and reliable as well, where the transferred money typically arrives instantaneously. The process is safe, too, as the company maintains complete transparency – transfers can be tracked and easily checked that they arrived at the right account.

Instarem specializes in sending money overseas. As such, the service supports a plethora of currencies, allowing to send money to almost anywhere in the world. Imagine you’re sending $1,000 from the U.S. to Nigeria. The app shows you the money conversion instantly, along with the associated fee. If the exchange rate is USD 1 to NGN 402.55, the amount the Nigerian partner receives is NGN 390,473.50, resulting into a $30 fee. This can be paid to the receiver’s bank through ACH/Direct Debit or wire transfer (the same way bank transfers work). Alternatively, Instarem can be set up as the payee, meaning that the fee goes through Instarem first, and they’ll take care of everything. Note that this method may slow down your first transfer, but the process becomes smooth after that.

Transfer costs can be reduced with InstaPoints. The company is extremely generous with these, offering them on the completion of your Instarem Profile. This requires the user to verify their identity either by uploading the relevant documents or through e-verification. The process yields 300 InstaPoints, which combined with the 75 welcome credits, are worth $9. Using the previous example, these InstaPoints would reduce the fee for sending USD 1,000 to Nigeria from $30 to $21. Additional InstaPoints can be acquired through the referral program, where both the referral and the referee receive credits. Finally, large transactions yield InstaPoints too.

Sending money overseas is indeed crucial when an entrepreneur works internationally. But since inflation and interest rates are always changing, the numbers are anything but constant. In other words, you need to keep an eye on them at all times. This is where Instarem and its two rate alerts come in, both able to monitor exchange rate fluctuations.

Small and medium-sized businesses are likely to have a limited number of partners abroad, meaning that most overseas money transfers are only in a handful of currencies. As such, monitoring a currency pair like the relationship between USD and NGN, may be extremely handy. For this, Instarem offers its FX Rate Watch, designed specifically for monitoring changes in one chosen currency pair. If you’re based in the U.S. and plan to regularly send money to Nigeria, you can set it to notify you when the FX rate for that pair is below a certain threshold.

Instarem’s Daily Rate Alert works similarly, but instead of focusing on just one currency pair, it sends you daily emails concerning several preselected currency pairs. This comes in handy when your company starts growing and the number of foreign partners grows along with it.

Instarem doesn’t have a dedicated desktop app but using the service online is simple enough. If sitting down to handle money transfers is not an option, the good news is that the service is designed for those who mostly make transfers on their mobile device. The dedicated Android and iOS apps are extremely convenient, as it’s essential to be able to send money on the go – and an entrepreneur is always on the go. But it’s not necessary to download the mobile app, as Instarem’s website is mobile optimized as well.