Best for
Hyperwallet focuses on partnering with enterprise-level clients or marketplaces.
Specializes in
Hyperwallet facilitates businesses in making payouts, the ability to distribute payments to any number of payees globally, such as contractors, employees, freelancers and suppliers. Specific specialties include; Web & Mobile payments, international funds transfers, prepaid cards, bank transfers, and a Cash via Agent.
Pricing Summary
Setup Fee: Variable
Monthly Fee: Variable
Swipe Rate: Variable
Keyed-in Rate: Variable
Early Termination Fee : Variable
Contract Terms:
In facilitating cross-border distributions in multiple currencies, Hyperwallet offers to serve as a one-stop-shop for organizations that are looking to make payouts. The company enables foreign currency transactions, keeps a check on payee registration and support, complying with KYC and AML documentation, establishing relationships with local banks, and offers multiple payment methods to payees.
Established in February 2000, the San Francisco based Hyperwallet allows businesses to quickly and seamlessly transfer payouts worldwide to their contractors, employees, and suppliers. The company uses SaaS and API integration technology to offer its solutions to organizations. Companies like PayPal, Stripe, and Venmo have long offered users ways to transfer funds among each other. Hyperwallet makes this possible globally, without businesses having to deal with the headaches of currency exchange rates, setting up relationships with foreign banks, payee documentation, and compliance with international financial transaction regulations.
The tailwinds for payout platforms have been forming for well over a decade. Innovative technologies and infrastructure such as smartphones and app platforms offered novel ways to address old problems such as prohibitively expensive cross-border payments or quickly and easily splitting a dinner bill and paying your share of it among friends. Technology has also pioneered the rise of global eCommerce, the gig-economy, and lately, "touchless" and "cashless" interactions. Technology has also enabled individuals and companies to have face-to-face conversations to procure goods and services without a hitch. However, businesses were often perplexed on efficiently managing payouts and all the myriad of red-tape involved with it.
Hyperwallet doesn't execute payment processing and has no offering of point of sale terminals or merchant services. The company does offer B2B and B2C payment channels that include local bank transfers, wire transfers, prepaid cards, and loyalty programs. Visa partnered with Hyperlink along with other Fintech platforms in 2016 as a means to integrate itself into the fast-growing payout sector. PayPal bought the company in 2018 for $400 million.
Head Quarters
San Francisco, CA
Year Founded
2000
CEO
Brent Warrington
Employees
200
Merchant Provider Risk Tolerance
Payout method options.
Fast fund delivery.
Local currency payout preferences.
Dedicated customer support.
Targets enterprise level clients or marketplaces.
Does not offer traditional merchant services.
Public pricing is not available.
All important terms are not disclosed.
One year contract.
Variable early termination fee.
Hyperwallet is a payout platform that distributes funds to payees worldwide on behalf of its customers. The company's clientele is mainly large enterprise customers, and marketplaces and Hyperwallet allows them to payout their suppliers, contractors, freelancers, and staff. It will enable transactions to be conducted via a SaaS platform or API integrations. Businesses can complete payout transactions via
Local Bank Wire Transfer – Local bank partnerships allow Hyperwallet to transfer funds directly into payees' bank account in their local currency.
Wire Transfer (SWIFT) – Hyperwallet offers the typical way of transferring funds globally with banks that use the SWIFT banking network.
Paylution – Payers can transfer funds directly into prepaid cards.
Cash Pickup – Payees can pick up cash from either a MoneyGram or Western Union branch worldwide
Check Delivery – a USD check delivered to a US address or a CAD check delivered to a Canadian address.
Discloses All Important Terms
No
Public Pricing Available
No
There is a lack of details available about Hyperwallet's pricing plans and fees. However, based on a bit of research, we were able to find disclosure of pricing and fee options from marketplaces and payers, which have partnered with the company.
Local Bank Transfer Fee – $3.00/ Transfer
Wire Transfer Fee – One marketplace listed the Wire Transfer fee at $20.00/ Wire Transfer, while another listed it as $3.00/ Transfer.
Direct To Card Transfer Fee – $1.75/Credit card $2.50/Debit card
Cash Pickup Fee – This depends on the pickup partner; for Western Union its $20.00/Cash Pickup, while for MoneyGram, it's $8.00/Cash Pickup
Service Fee – You pay $3.00/month if you leave your funds in your Hyperwallet for more than 90 days.
One cost that is not disclosed by Hyperwallet, but it is a cost payees are generally universally cognizant of; the foreign currency exchange rate at which funds are transferred. The exchange rate is lower than the open market exchange rate but better than banks and some other payout platforms based on various online forums.
Pricing Model
Unknown
Swiped Rate
Variable
Keyed-in Rate
Variable
Mobile Payment Rate
Variable
Virtual Terminal Rate
Variable
Monthly Fee
Variable
Payment Gateway Fee
Variable
Batch Fee
Early Termination Fee
Variable
PCI Compliance Fee
Variable
Equipment Lease Terms
Variable
Address Verification Service (AVS)
Application Fee
Account Setup Fee
Variable
Gateway Setup Fee
Annual Fee
Variable
Monthly Minimum
Variable
Statement Fee
Unlike merchant account firms, Hyperwallet does not offer services that carry terms specific to payment processing agreements. Thereby you won't find fees for PCI compliance, gateway fees, or language pertaining to POS terminal costs and leases. There may be termination fees, but we have not seen that this applies to a company like Hyperwallet based on our research. Nonetheless, contracts should be thoroughly reviewed for them.
There was no pricing disclosure or language about costs by Hyperwallet on its website or marketing. In our opinion this could be a result of the company usually working with large corporate clients or marketplaces. Rates for such clients are mostly tailored to specific client needs and often extensively negotiated.
Contract Length
1 Year
Early Termination Fee
Variable
Hyperwallet is not an accredited entity with the Better Business Bureau (BBB), which has given Hyperwallet an A+. The firm has had seven complaints against it in the last three years and two in the last twelve months. All of the complaints were answered by the company on the BBB website.
BBB
A+ (7 Complaints)
N/A
N/A
Yelp
N/A
Total Online Reviews
60+
Total Online Complaints
Lawsuits
None
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