{"id":39408,"date":"2019-01-31T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=39408"},"modified":"2019-01-31T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T06:07:20","slug":"gcash-partners-with-qwikwire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/gcash-partners-with-qwikwire\/","title":{"rendered":"GCash Partners with Qwikwire for Real Estate Payment Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GCash<\/strong>, the leading mobile wallet provider in the Philippines, signed the deal with <strong>Qwikwire<\/strong>&#8212;Philippines\u2019 largest cross-border payments platform, to innovate the local real estate payment transactions in the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/12\/19\/aqwire-for-property-developers-qwikwires-biggest-project-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\">AQwire for property developers: Qwikwire\u2019s biggest project yet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39409\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Gcash-and-Qwikwire-Team-signing-the-partnership-contract-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Gcash-and-Qwikwire-Team-signing-the-partnership-contract-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Gcash-and-Qwikwire-Team-signing-the-partnership-contract-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Gcash-and-Qwikwire-Team-signing-the-partnership-contract-2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Qwikwire CEO Mr. Ray Refundo and Mynt CEO Mr. Anthony Thomas at the signing of Qwikwire and GCash partnership last December 2018<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Local Real Estate Payments<\/h4>\n<p>In the Philippines, people still pay their real estate dues through traditional post-dated checks, bank deposits, over the counter payments directly to property developers, or some, to their brokers. This manual process is time-consuming and open to fraud risks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/2016\/07\/24\/notable-real-estates-developers-in-the-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\">Notable Real Estates Developers in the Philippines<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Qwikwire and GCash Facility<\/h4>\n<p>GCash is a BSP-regulated mobile money service that facilitates transactions using your smartphones. It\u2019s like having your wallet inside your phone, giving you a safe and hassle-free way to go cashless.<\/p>\n<p>With GCash and Qwikwire\u2019s partnership, clients of property developers including DMCI, Century Properties, Double Dragon, Revolution Pre-crafted, among others, can now pay their association dues through GCash\u2019s mobile app.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/2018\/01\/11\/trusted-mobile-payment-apps-in-the-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trusted Mobile Payment Apps in the Philippines<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/2016\/07\/24\/notable-real-estates-developers-in-the-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39411\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Gcash-and-Qwikwire-Team-signing-the-partnership-contract-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Gcash-and-Qwikwire-Team-signing-the-partnership-contract-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Gcash-and-Qwikwire-Team-signing-the-partnership-contract-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Gcash-and-Qwikwire-Team-signing-the-partnership-contract-1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>GCash and Qwikwire Team finalizing the partnership. (from left to right) &#8211; Mr. JP Bayang, Director of Growth Strategy (Qwikwire), Mr. Elross Pangue, Head of Business Development (Qwikwire), Mr. Ray Refundo, Founder\/CEO (Qwikwire), Mr. JM Aujero, VP for Merchant Solutions (Mynt), Mr. Ferdie Perez, Head of Online Acquisition (Mynt), Mr. Inno Maog, Chief Marketing Officer (Qwikwire)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This will be available for real estate payors based in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Through this partnership, users can now easily pay their property dues in just a few clicks. Transactions from Qwikwire\u2019s clients will be handled and processed by GCash.<\/p>\n<p>For the first month, the facility is available only for association dues but is also set to handle reservation fees and payments for monthly amortization.<\/p>\n<p><em>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/business\/2018\/08\/14\/business-talk-with-ray-refundo-of-qwikwire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Business Talk with Ray Refundo of Qwikwire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This is a press release. Minor edits were made prior to publishing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCash, the leading mobile wallet provider in the Philippines, signed the deal with Qwikwire&#8212;Philippines\u2019 largest cross-border payments platform, to innovate the local real estate payment transactions in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[4782,6843,8032,8031,4783,8033,91],"class_list":["post-39408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-aqwire","tag-gcash","tag-gcash-philippines","tag-gcash-qwikwire","tag-qwikwire","tag-qwikwire-philippines","tag-real-estate"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/01\/Qwikwire-GCash-thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39425,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39408\/revisions\/39425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}