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Payoneer

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Payoneer is the financial technology company empowering the world’s small and medium-sized businesses to transact, do business, and grow globally. Payoneer was founded in 2005 with the belief that talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. It is our mission to enable any entrepreneur and business anywhere to participate and succeed in an increasingly digital global economy. Since our founding, we have built a global financial stack that removes barriers and simplifies cross-border commerce. We make it easier for millions of SMBs, particularly in emerging markets, to connect to the global economy, pay and get paid, manage their funds across multiple currencies, and grow their businesses.


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Payoneer Reviews Summary

The company enjoys a generally positive reputation, particularly for its customer service, which is frequently described as responsive, knowledgeable, and supportive. Many customers appreciate the efficiency and clarity of the representatives, highlighting their commitment to resolving issues effectively. However, some reviews indicate frustrations with initial service experiences, particularly regarding account access and verification processes, which can lead to significant delays and dissatisfaction. Overall, while the company excels in providing a user-friendly platform and reliable support, there remains a need for improvement in training and consistency across all customer interactions to enhance the overall experience.

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shipping
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quality
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Japan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They are really trustworthy at saving your money really save that they not really like to give it back. As a money investing customer there few point that you would question payoneer about.
- Firstly why are they review my bank account for weeks? It's my money that i want to transfer to my bank account.

- Second thing is they have monthly, daily and worst of all minimum withdrawal limit.
Honestly why? Why there is minimum limit that's wierd isn't it. It's not like i borrowing their money or free using.

Date of experience: September 27, 2022
Germany
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Hello, i was using payoneer for a while and so far service was okay. Its not awesome but as long you dont require any support its working at least.

A few weeks ago i received following mail:

Thank you for contacting Payoneer Customer Care. We regret to inform you that, due to a violation of Payoneer's Terms & Conditions, you can no longer receive or make payments using your Payoneer account.

We have closed your account and deactivated any Payoneer cards you may have. As such, Payoneer Customer Care can no longer provide assistance for your account.

Due to regulatory reasons we are unable to share the exact reasons for closing your account, however account closures are typically due to:

potential risk associated with an account
complaints filed to Payoneer about an account holder's activities
company websites with questionable content
fraudulent activity detected in an account

Now i cant login to my account anymore, i also cant contact and speak to the support, i am a music producer and just received my regular music payments. I'm a real person and the only potential risk or fraudulent activity is provided by payoneer behaviour.

So what can i do to get my 3500€ back?

Date of experience: September 9, 2022
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Rip off - DO NOT USE
September 25, 2022

Unability to withdraw money from account under a minimum amount; high fees; can't believe I was asked by a partner to create an account to get paid; should have gone with the other option

Date of experience: August 26, 2022
Jamaica
1 review
1 helpful vote
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HORRIBLE Customer Service
September 24, 2022

My experience with Payoneer has been HORRIBLE to say the least. Their customer service is extremely hard to locate on their website. When the contact info is located, the wait times for customer service are very long (within 2-3 hours) and when you do get a representative they always seem clue-less about your problem. Their English is very bad and they are quite unpolite. This is the only customer service I have contacted and they DO NOT HAVE A Supervisor/Escalation Representative to speak to. They don't have an option to transfer to the USA. They never give sound explanations.
I am stuck with a verification problem for about 5 entire weeks going back and forth with these people and yet to get it resolved. Payoneer is a very shady company with poor customer service. Please do a google search on how BAD they treat their customers (locking accounts for no reason, stealing people's money) they even have been sued by governmental authorities for violations and had to pay out large sums. This is a shady company I wouldn't recommend them to my worse enemy.

Date of experience: August 25, 2022
Spain
1 review
1 helpful vote
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If you forget your phone number, you get locked out forever and there is no human being available to ever answer you to solve your issue. Ridiculous.

Date of experience: August 22, 2022
Turkiye
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Account frozen with 2k usd.
September 18, 2022

Im a forced moved Ukranian (due to war), living in foreign country so freelance is the only possibility to get some money. I got a salary to Payoneer (old account with tons of transactions) and they blocked it. Without any reasons, any notifications, etc.
1. First time i contacted them via live chat i got such answer: "your account is under review and it can take up to 7 business days".
2. On my second attempt i got such info from the support team: "you will get an answer by email within 48 hours" ofcource the lied.
3. On my third request i got such answer: Julia: This case is in high priority now and escalated with our Account Security Department in the incident **************. Kindly wait for an update via email within the day. Of course i havent got any email.
4. Fourth attempt via live chat was a disaster - they said that all 3 support workers i spoke before made a mistake.
Facebook support - doesnt response for ages.
Twitter support - doesnt response for ages.
Conclusion: if you can avoid Payoneer - AVOID it, as its a scam. Now or later they will scam you.
The last thing i will try is a courtyard. Hopefully im working for a huge company and boss agreed to make a suite.

Date of experience: August 19, 2022
Ireland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Thieves.
September 17, 2022

I am a freelancer, I received payment from my work, immediately my balance was blocked without warning, and no reason was given.
I tried for 2 weeks to contact someone for some help to fix any issues, received only chat bots and auo responses, then yesterday I was informed my account was closed.
No reason given for this. My money is still there, I need it to pay my rent and to pay for food for my children. I get no answer from anyone. They are total scum in payoneer. Heartless souless scum and trash.
They will be repaid in kind for their actions, rest assured of that.
I am one of thousands online who have suffered from these thieves and scammers. If only I had seen the reviews before I signed up to them!

Date of experience: August 17, 2022
Arizona
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Nice platform
September 13, 2022

I like it thats all. They make banking easy even for those rejected by the system. Please keep it up

Date of experience: August 14, 2022
Guatemala
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Payoneer is terrible
September 8, 2022

I have been trying for over 2 months to open an account. They blocked my old account, provided incorrect instructions (Customer Care) and then banned me. Now I cannot get paid. The Customer Care agents do not even read the emails nor it is within their scope of work to do anything to help. Customer Care just deals with complaints. No care at all. Paynoeer is terrible, please read all the reviews before using it. Chose another method! DO NOT USE PAYONEER

Date of experience: August 9, 2022
Ukraine
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Awful service
September 8, 2022

I've used Payoneer for 4 years and it hasn't become a user-friendly service. Very helpless support, overall, the support center is slow and unqualified, My account was blocked, after that, I unblocked it and then it was blocked again due to my another account which I asked to delete and unlink from me because I didn't use it. Also, they can send an email to you and even don't track whether it arrives. One time I called support and they said we sent an email 2 weeks ago, but I didn't receive this letter, and nobody controlled l it. You can get absolutely different feedback for the same issue from different support workers. Payoneer takes 2% for transactions, but even can't spend some time and money for better user support. I definitely do not recommend you to use this service and I recommend for Payoneer to integrate a good CX/CS system, you will be surprised by responses from your customers.

Date of experience: August 9, 2022
Bangladesh
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Blocked my account
September 4, 2022

Payoneer blocked my account without any reason. I only withdraw funds from the freelance website and spend my money on Facebook ads. This is all I did with payoneer. Now they blocked my account. I asked them to send back my funds or give me a reason why they hold my funds. But they didn't reply. My only question is why they hold clients' funds. Even Payoneer didn't allow a personal transaction for my account. I asked why they don't allow personal transactions they didn't give any answer. Then a few days later they disable my account and take all my funds. Can they use my funds as their own?

Date of experience: August 4, 2022
New York
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They are a total scam. I got ripped off and it was very obvious they would do absolutely nothing to help. All transactions are final. What a joke.

Date of experience: July 21, 2022
Payoneer T. Payoneer Rep
over a year old

Hi Douglas!

Thank you very much for sharing your review. We are sorry to hear that you have encountered a situation like this.

We are constantly working to improve our customer support. Please kindly provide us your customer ID and the email address associated with your account. We will gladly look into it for you.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

We wish you a lovely day!
Shelly from the Payoneer team

South Africa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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! Don't use payoner anymore, this is a scam, I transfer money 1 month ago still the destination cannot receive the money even if its showing completed, Share the news! Its a scam

Date of experience: July 15, 2022
Payoneer T. Payoneer Rep
over a year old

Hi there!

Thank you very much for taking the time to leave a review. We are so sorry to hear that you have encountered a situation like this.

We are constantly working to improve our customer support. Please kindly provide us your customer ID and the email address associated with your account. This will help us check why this happened and see what can be done to fix this for you.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding!

We wish you a great day!
Shelly from the Payoneer team

South Africa
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I have been a client of this company for more than four years. The way my issue has been handled with having settings changed on my account has been absolutely disappointing. I used to be able to send USD funds to another Payoneer account holder but the function was removed for no reason, leaving me with the GBP and EUR functions only. That means I have to convert my USD currency before sending it out and I am charged for that. When I asked for this feature to be reactivated, Payoneer gave me all sorts of stories and I still haven't gotten any assistance or a satisfactory answer. I also can't lodge a formal complaint with them as they don't fulfill things they say they will or just ignore emails altogether. A colleague who queried the same issue was able to get immediate assistance and the feature was reinstated immediately after a brief conversation on Twitter, however, my problem has been ignored.

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Date of experience: June 29, 2022
Payoneer T. Payoneer Rep
over a year old

Hi Junie!

Thank you very much for sharing your review. We are sorry to hear that you have encountered a situation like this.

We have sent you an email regarding your matter, please feel free to respond to it if you need further assistance. We are always there to help.

We appreciate your feedback and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience!

We wish you a wonderful day!
Shelly from the Payoneer team

Ukraine
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Payoneer does not care about people in Ukraine at all! That's why my account was blocked. My account was blocked for NO reason. And now, when I sent all my documents (as was requested) - the customer support team (which seems to be drunk since they don't speak clearly), promises 24-48 hours for unblocking my account when already a month passed by already! I am totally frustrated!

Date of experience: June 21, 2022
Payoneer T. Payoneer Rep
over a year old

Hi Katerina!

Thank you very much for sharing your review. We are sorry to hear that your account has been blocked. We will do our best to help.

Please be advised that Payoneer operates in compliance with the international financial business regulations and under no circumstances would we close a customer's account without a valid reason.

We are constantly working to improve our customer support. Please kindly provide us your customer ID and the email address associated with your account. We will gladly look into it for you.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding!

We wish you a great day!
Shelly from the Payoneer team

NL
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Last July I had some serious issues with payoneer. I began calling every day as they had thousands of dollars of mine... they resolved the issue however after many reviews and probably 3 weeks of my making international calls I put 2 stars because I am hopeful. Please I implore with you Payoneer to not make me go through this again. I will as last time post on all of my social media (******* followers) I did this last time and I worked. This time please take your opportunity to make things right an

Date of experience: June 14, 2022
Payoneer T. Payoneer Rep
over a year old

Hi Sabrina!

Thank you very much for sharing your review. We are sorry to hear about your experience. We will do our best to help.

Please be advised that your case was already transferred to the relevant department on high priority. They will get back to you with further information via email very shortly.

We are doing our best to resolve this matter for you as soon as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

We wish you a lovely day!
Shelly from the Payoneer team

South Africa
1 review
1 helpful vote
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It's been 4 day's trying to get approved as a buyer for Ebay, when contacting Payoneer get same story please wait 1-2 days. This morning i get email my doc's are wrong, but initially a agent (Lester) checked the doc's and confirmed on chat its correct and he submitted it for approval. Today it's not correct so need to wait 48 hours before a outcome, a bank account is easier to open. They running a circus not a business and ebay is allowing this!

Date of experience: June 8, 2022
Payoneer T. Payoneer Rep
over a year old

Hi Jody!

Thank you for sharing your review. We are sorry to hear that you have encountered these difficulties with our verification process and trying to link your account with eBay.

Please note that Payoneer operates in compliance with international financial business regulations. Reviewing our customers' accounts is essential to prevent any type of illegal activity on the platform, it is required by law and is done for your safety. We understand that sometimes this process might take time to be completed.

We deeply appreciate our customers' understanding in this regard. And of course we are doing our best to shorten handling time for such cases, as we strive to provide all of our customers with top-quality customer service.

We also understand that sometimes it can be challenging to provide the requested documents but unfortunately we can't adjust verification requirements for legal reasons.

We are constantly working to improve and truly value your feedback. Thank you for helping us grow!

We wish you a lovely day!
Shelly from the Payoneer team

Nigeria
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I am new to payoneer and my experience has been disappointing. I wanted to edit my name arrangement, but support didn't reply, I was not given any receiving accounts, Global Payment Service was not functioning. Sent several tickets, but it gets closed and no response. Live chat cancels chats before 1 minute.

Date of experience: June 7, 2022
Payoneer T. Payoneer Rep
over a year old

Hi Yesimi!

Thank you very much for sharing your review. We are sorry to hear you have
Encountered difficulties trying to reach us.

We understand that you would like Global Payment Service to be enabled on your Payoneer account. Please rest assured we will do our best to help.

We have sent you an email regarding your matter, please feel free to respond to it if you need further assistance.

We appreciate your feedback and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

We wish you a lovely day!
Shelly from the Payoneer team

NL
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Global payments service
July 3, 2022

Hello, my Global payments service questionnaire has been under review since 2. 12. 2021. Activate it already, please. I urgently need for a billing job. ID-*******. What problem?

Date of experience: June 3, 2022
Payoneer T. Payoneer Rep
over a year old

Hi Maria!

Thank you very much for sharing your review. We are glad to inform you that the Global Payment service is already enabled in your Payoneer account.

We appreciate that you provided the questionnaire, it will be reviewed when the system detects a certain amount of funds arriving into your Global Payment Service account because you have already provided the information you should have a quicker review time.

We are constantly working to improve our customer service. Thank you for your feedback that helps us grow!

We wish you a lovely day!
Shelly from the Payoneer team

Bangladesh
1 review
3 helpful votes
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My account has been blocked since I made a bank transfer of $ 1019. 91 USD.
Now please tell me how I can use the Payoneer account. Should I open a new Payoneer account?
There is no benefit in calling support, there is no reply if you send mail to support.
Using a Payoneer account is not so difficult, tell us how we can make a good transaction.

SUMIYA SUFIA
Customer ID: *******

Amount $1019. 91
Reference Number *******

Date of experience: June 1, 2022
Payoneer T. Payoneer Rep
over a year old

Hi Sumiya!

Thank you for your review. We regret to hear that your account has been closed.

Please note that at Payoneer we regularly review customer activity in order to keep our payment platform safe for everyone. When we notice some of the activity that has gone against our Terms and Conditions, as a regulated financial business we are required to stop offering our services.

We have sent you an email regarding your issue, please feel free to respond to it if you need further clarifications.

We will be happy to help.

We wish you a lovely day!
Shelly from the Payoneer team