Welcome to Payswif’s Usage Terms and Conditions .

This document serves as a binding agreement between Payswif and you; referred to as the “user, customer, you” henceforth who is registered or is in use of the Payswif Services; “Payment Processing, Money Transfers, API Access and Payswif enabled devices & mediums (Payswif Prepaid Cards)” referred to as “Services” henceforth, you agree to comply to this agreement and all of its uses, terms and conditions in order to use any aspect of the services provided.

Overview

Payswif provides the services which includes but not limited to, accepting payments for products or services or to receive donations to your charity/NGO from your (“Customers”).

Our services are extensible covered through additional descriptions on our website, we may provide you with software libraries or application programming interfaces (API)  that can be used to access the services or additional resources that are available to you from our website.

Upon registering a Payswif account you are agreeing to adhere to the terms and conditions of this agreement in it’s full entirety and may not subject any one particular to indemnify any others through claims of legal action.

In conjunction with, you are required to agree to the additional:

Privacy Policy

Acceptable Use Policy

You also agree to adhere to the electronic consent clause of this agreement, which you acknowledge is a legal form of consenting or signing into this and other accompanying policies. We reserve the right to amend this agreement and any of the other policies list from time to time and will take immediate effect after notifying of its publication. If you disapprove of the changes you are allowed to terminate your agreement in accordance of this agreement and the applicable guidelines, clauses and effects of termination will take effect.

Section 1: Payswif Account

Overview

Payswif operates as a Pay as you use service with a semi-unbanked framework. You are not required to have a banking or financial account linked to your Payswif Account beit (Personal or Business). Payswif offers two main account types. Personal and Business, both accounts only differ in the limits applied for the services offered by Payswif in accordance to compliance and laws in the country of Payswif’s operations.

Opening a Payswif Account

Upon registration of your account, you will be asked to provide information that identifies you or the company that will be using either of the account types accordingly. Please ensure to check our AUP. You will then agree that the information you provide is truthful and unaltered for the sole purpose of your account creation.

Business Registration

Business accounts will require additional documentation and verification, you may be asked to provide but not limited to; business account registrations, bank statements, receipts or invoices,identification of authorized personnels associated with or owners of the business. we reserve the right to accept, approve, disapprove, ban, lock or terminate existing accounts that violate or terms and conditions or any other policies of Payswif.

Personal Registration

Personal accounts can be upgraded at anytime but must require the same steps as outlined above. Personal accounts are means for consumer usage with low volume transactions.

Information Integrity

The information provided to Payswif for both account types must be valid and match the Payswif account ID which uses a mobile phone number as it’s secondary system ID which ensures easy account management. Both accounts require phone number verifications before registration and are used as a second level authentication within Payswif.

Account Termination, Suspension

We have the right to cancel, disapprove, block for any reason your registration should it be in breach or not in the best faith of Payswif. Your account will remain under supervision for activities within an undisclosed period of time known only to the department responsible.

Registration Verification

Your account registration verification must be completed through sms, a code verification to ensure that your Account ID (“Mobile/Landline Number”) is of your possession.

Account Data

Using our services, your name (or the name used to identify you or your business) and URL may appear on your Customers’ bank or other statements and within the Payswif System. You are responsible to clearly outline your business activity or conduct to your Customers.

Account Usage

You must only use our services to facilitate transactions as described;  You may use our services to send money to others of the Payswif Network in accordance to the limits imposed by your account type and compliances of Payswif operations within the recipients country, to conduct any personal or business transactions for business services such as; Bill Payments, Food & Beverage Purchases, Hotel & Car Hire Booking services, Medical & Educational Services, Arts. Please inquire with us directly if your intended use of our services are in compliance before proceeding to conduct such transactions.

Both accounts allows Users to;

• Send and receive money
• Buy or Sell products and services, physically or digitally, Online or In-store.
• Receive “card payments” of debit-credit card transactions from buyers hence for referred to as “customers”, Cash deposits “topups or recharge”, Bank account Transfers.
• Use Smart Kiosk Devices and Point of sale equipment with, Payswif Prepaid cards, Credit/debit cards or Direct Payswif Account access.
• Resale digital currency for percentage profit gain to other Users of the Payswif Network
• Use of Application Programming Integration to website, mobile apps and systems that are within our AUP “Accepted Use Policy”

Closing your Account

You are allowed to close your account at anytime and terminate this agreement with us. You will however remain obligated to fulfill any requirements prior to the termination. You affirm that your balance must be withdrawn before your account can be closed, negative balances as result of fines or fees must be paid in full.

You may not be allowed to close your account in cases where you are under investigation by the authorizes that govern you or Payswif based of operations., for opened or pending disputes and negative account balances.

Dormant Accounts

Dormant Accounts are to be closed after 48 months of no activities, with remaining balances passed over the the appropriate authorizes. Payswif will not pass any balances to family members or associates without explicit instructions by the account holder. Should death or unfortunate event proceeds that renders the account holder incapable of providing such instructions, the balances will go to any appropriate authorizes which handles as such. Notifications and reach for communication will be made public, using existing contact information store within a dormant account will also be used. After 60 days of no response, the process of dormant account termination and transfers will begin.

Account Validation

At any time during the terms of this agreement and your use of the services, we may require additional information from you to verify beneficial ownership or control of the business or account being used to validate information you provided, verify you or your Representative’s identity, and assess the risk associated with your business or personal account usage.

Changes to Your  Payswif Account

You agree to keeping your Payswif  Account information current and must promptly update with any changes affecting you, the nature of your business activities, your representatives, beneficial owners, principals, or any other pertinent information.  We may suspend your Payswif Account or terminate this Agreement if you fail to keep this information current.

Electronic Consent

By registering for a Payswif  Account, you agree that the registration constitutes your electronic signature, and you consent to electronic provision of all disclosures and notices from Payswif ,  including those required by Law. You also agree that your electronic consent will have the same legal effect as a physical signature.

Available Payment methods

The nature of Payswif’s semi-unbanked design allows Non Payswif registered customers the ability initiated payments via credit or debit cards, in the main currency of USD from Visa or MasterCard options. Registered customers or users of Payswif can still enable direct debit or credit payments within the system or use their Payswif Account Balance with our digital currency “Swifcash” to complete payments.

Supported Currencies include; USD & Eastern Caribbean Dollars (EC). You are responsible for any loss in conversion between both currencies at any given time.

Credit/Debit Card

Issuing card payments by visa or mastercard. Payswif does not store a  customer’s credit card information within our servers.

Payswif Balance “swifcash”

Payswif Account Balance that is either topped up or recharge by using credit/debit card, bank transfer, local Agent, amount added by result of sales.

Payswif Prepaid Card

Our custom development payment card system, which uses NFC technology linked to a user’s Payswif account can also be used to facilitate payments, through Point of Sale systems and Smart Kiosk machines.

To unlink a Prepaid card, please enter into your account dashboard and select unlink permanently or temporary disabling of your Prepaid card.

Withdrawing your Balance

You affirm that transactions  that sum your Payswif Accounts balance can be withdrawn only in cash in the sum less than or equal to $2000 EC at our base of operations in the countries listed or by any of our approved Agents. Amounts of greater value must be Direct-Deposited to a financial institution supported by Payswif. Wire transfers are also possible with regards to additionals fees being processed by you and or the receiving entity.

You affirm that Direct-Deposits or wire transfers can be withdrawn and reflected  between 12-72 business hours for local and regional territories and 3-5 business days for USA, Canada & United Kingdom.

Payswif does not automate the transfer process of funds from your account balance to any Payout accounts that might be linked within your Account dashboard.

You affirm that Payswif provides a pooled environment of funds with our various banking providers to enable the services we deliver. These amounts are accounted for every account within the system and does not go towards risk investments neither cooperate expenses.

Delays

At any time, Payswif may delay withdrawals from accounts if we suspect incorrect information or fraudulent pampering within a user’s account or misuse of our service in accordance to our AUP.

Account activity Statements

You are provided Full activity statements from within your Payswif Account Activity Page, you affirm that Payswif does not allow modifications or alterations to existing transaction that will result in a completely new transaction.  Non-affecting balance amending transaction records can be added to your transaction activity based on the discretion of Payswif.

Your account activity can be downloaded in a CSV file formation from within the activity page.

Account Representative

You an authorized account representative must affirm to Payswif that both parties are aware of the actions and has permissions to conduct further representation. Your representative also becomes a legal binding party to the terms of this agreement and you are liable to the actions of him/her and vice versa.

We may require you or your Representative to provide additional information or documentation demonstrating your Representative’s authority.

Without the express written consent of Payswif , neither you nor your Representative may register or attempt to register for a Payswif  Account on behalf of a user Payswif previously terminated from use of the services.

Fees

Your Payswif account is subjected to a monthly subscription fee. Please read more about our pricing on the pricing page.

Section 2: Money Transfers and Buying

Money Transfers

Payswif allows you to send money to other users within the network, Peer-to-peer “P2P”, based on your account type you will have transfer limits applied in the total amount being sent within a span of 30 days.

You cannot use money transfers  as a subtitle for payments and if found in violation to this your account terminated with a fine may be applicable. There is a fee applicable for each transfer made, please view our pricing page.

Buying from Sellers, using Smart Kiosk Machines

You can buy or pay for products and services offered by businesses or personal account holders using Payswif.

• Online retail website/Mobile Apps
• Sending payment to a seller for goods or service
• Visiting a physical store location to make a purchase or using  one of our Smart Kiosk machines.

You are required to read the seller’s policies before you conduct any purchase or payments, you accept that Payswif is not directly liable for any loss through the negotiations of refunds with these sellers. Please read the refund section for more information.

Sellers that do not have a payswif account would not be able to accept any of our Payment methods. Ask your seller to register a Payswif account on our website.

Fees

When making a purchase from  a seller, using our smart kiosk systems  or POS systems that accept Payswif as a payment option you do not pay a fee.  Debit-credit card providers may charge their own separate fees outside of Payswif. Currency conversions may be applied in some transactions using USD.

Refunds

Payments may be refunded directly to your Account Balance or to the card payment provided option used. Refunds must first be queried with the seller and if unresolved , it will be escalated to us. You are required to read the sellers policies before you conduct any purchase or payments, you accept that Payswif is not directly liable for any loss through the negotiations of refunds with the sellers. We do however monitor and apply appropriate fines and actions to repeated offenses.

Preferred Payment Method

As stated above, you have the choice of using your Payswif Account Balance, Payswif Prepaid Card or Card Processing for Credit and Debit Card Payments.

Using your Payswif account or Prepaid card to make payments allows you to track payments and manage features that is not available for card processing payments.

Topping Up Your Account

As a result of design, Payswif’s semi-unbanked system allows you to transfer funds to your account on a day to day basis, enhancing your security .

Topping up your account via a local agents always the most cost effective option when compared to topping up your account via credit-debit card or making direct credit or debit payments.

Payswif Prepaid Cards

Your Payswif prepaid card maybe obtained from a business partner of the Payswif Network and branded with their images, text and logos. You can still make purchases to any Payswif accepted entity or Smart Kiosk Machines, look for the powered by Payswif Logo on your Prepaid Card.

Some branded business Payswif Prepaid cards may make use of our rewards or accounts APIs which will allow them to offer more convenience to their services.  

You affirm that Payswif has no liability to how these companies execute or manage these API endpoints, we advise that you read their usage policies that every company must provide for their custom branded Payswif Prepaid card.

Some businesses may choose to share rewards or link accounts across multiple businesses of the same or different affiliates and or departments.

Claims or disputes

When products or services were not delivered , arrived damaged, or not as described within the sellers description your first course of action is to contact the seller or service provider. Payswif ensures that these sellers state or issue a terms of service, refund policy and delivery policy publicly to all potential customers.  It is your sole responsibility to review a sellers policies before making a purchase, Payswif will not be held accountable for any losses if you failed to read the mentioned policies.

Opening a Case

We strive to protect our buyers and service users on both ends of the transactions and will further investigate any claims or disputes. Holding the seller or buyer accountable is the final verdict after an opened case is closed. Sellers and buyers may face penalties or fines for fraudulent or abuse of the Payswif System and or bad ecommerce practices which can result in account termination or suspension without notice.

Cases more that 45 days old, without response from either party will be assessed by Payswif and a final verdict will be made on the information provided.

Providing Proof

Additionally, upon opening a case; please provide to Payswif any and all evidence of the completed purchase with example; screenshots, receipts  and photos of the product or service received. These can better help us determine the outcome of the case.

Items that may not be covered by our protection;

Payswif does not encourage or advocate these types of transactions due to the nature of their construct in regards to legalities or technical anomalies. We will not cover or open cases for these purchases and are at your sole discretion to proceed knowingly the risk of purchasing. Payswif will not be accountable for any loss or held to legal action thereof.

Real estate or properties

Financial products or investment schemes ( business, venture funding)

Automobiles ( cars, trucks vans, motorcycles. etc)

Custom-made Items or constructs (Machinery,parts)

Crowdfunding or cash options

Prohibited Items within our Acceptable Use Policy

Section 3: Selling and Receiving Payment

Receiving Payments for products or Services

Accepting Payments

Payswif accounts both Personal and Business holders are required to pay the transaction fee forthwith upon receiving a payment. You must not ask buyers to use vouchers, local agents or money transfers to negate payment fees, this can result in account termination or suspension.

• Payswif Prepaid Cards Payments

• • • Accepting our prepaid cards require that you have a payswif enabled Point of Sale System.

• In-store Payments

• Payswif employs that you use our POS system to accept Payswif Prepaid Card Payments as it is the fastest and most secured solution or direct users to an in store Smart Kiosk Machine.  You affirm that you are not allowed to develop any systems that will ask users for login details or use our API to aid in your own automated process of completing face-to-face payments

• Online Payments

• Accepting online payments can be accomplished via our web checkout Portal through use of Payment Links or use of our APIs and plugins, please  request our integration options.

• Users can link our chrome extension to optimize faster checkouts with just one(1) click using our XPressPay construct.

Obtaining your Custom Branded Payswif Prepaid Cards

As a business account holder you are allowed to create custom branded Prepaid Cards that will be linked to a user’s  Payswif account. These prepaid cards can enable your business to use faster face-to-face and Point-of-Sale payments or enable use of your Kiosk App through our Smart Kiosk Machines.

You can also take advantage of using our Accounts API  which allows your customers to link your business to their payswif account directly, which enables faster use of the Smart Kiosk Machine with your Kiosk App. You can also offer loyalty, or your custom points to users accounts via our Rewards API.

You affirm that you must provide policies to illustrate your clear usage of the APIs linked to your Business Branded Prepaid Cards.

There is a cost associated with each printed card, this cost must be covered by you or the user receiving it. Please contact us for more information.

Taxes

Payswif fees do not include taxes of any kind. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that if taxes are applicable to you or your business you must retrieve and report them within the transactional process and provide accountability to the necessary authorities.

Payswif will routinely make reports to the necessary tax authorities regarding transactions we process to ensure compliance with the authorities of country or state of operations.

Your Policies

You are required to create and publicly make available; a delivery & refund policy, privacy policy and terms and conditions where applicable. Failure to provide such documents can result in account suspension,termination, fines or penalties.

Listing Products & Services

When selling products or services, you are required to be very descriptive, truthful and faithful to completing the purchase to the customer. You must provide policies in compliance with our delivery & refund

Fees

You will pay the transaction fees forthwith upon receiving a completed payment, refunding a transaction will return the full amount received to your Account balance for that transaction. Payswif reserves the right to amend and or implement new fee structures at anytime. The standard fee rate can be subject to reduction at Payswif’s discretion. Please contact us for more details, you can view fees via our website’s pricing page.

Refunds

You are responsible for issuing refunds for goods and services bought from you or your business. The full amount must be returned with any fees applicable, should the customer request a refund or a chargeback dispute is made, you are responsible for the chargeback fees associated.

Payment are subjected to automatic reversal or refunds should;

• You lose a case that was opened by a customer, or failing to respond to the opened case in a time bound manner.
• A Customer initiates a chargeback for a card processing payment, the card processor determines the successfulness of the chargeback
• You fail to provide proof of delivery or evidence of shipment
• An unauthorized payment occur
• Payswif sent an erroneous payment to you
• You receive a payment for a non-compliant clause within our AUP

You affirm that Payswif reserves the right to engage in actions, legal or not to recover amounts owed to the company by you or your business for transactions within the system.

Smart Kiosk Apps

As a business account holder, you can request a custom developed App for use on your Smart Kiosk Machines in various locations. You are required to meet compliances that secure the communication and processing of data with your Application Flow/Code implementation.

You must provide policies that outlines the usage, privacy, refund and delivery of goods or services purchased through your KAPP.  Please visit our pricing page to find out more details.

Smart Kiosk Machines

As a business account holder you can host one of our smart kiosk Machines within your location of operations and obtain revenue for doing so per each transaction along with a fixed hosting payout to your account monthly.

You are required to meet compliances with security measures, liability for damages of unauthorized use or accidents.

You may be eligible for fee reductions or other applicable reductions determined by Payswif.

API Integration

Payswif provides its developed API and technologies that can be used to access the services it provides as outlined via its website and documentations most of which is manageable from your Payswif Account dashboard or through direct partnership communication with Payswif.

You are not allowed to use our API for any other function or feature not described in the documentation or outline via the website. API documentation and technologies are subjected to updates to ensure security, functionality and growth of the Payswif Services in the form of removal, additions or depreciations. Payswif will provide notices in accordance with this agreement where applicable.

Available to you may be Live & testing environments, demo or protype enabled devices upon request for your development needs.