Cebuanos can expect new and exciting digital services to come to a Smart Padala center near you as the Philippines’ largest mobile remittance brand now with a 26,000-strong agent network nationwide transforms its partners into community digital hubs around the country.

Smart Padala enables partner agents in Cebu with digital services

Long trusted by Filipinos as most reliable due to its ubiquitous presence down to neighborhood communities and because of its quick and efficient remittance service that’s as fast as a text message, Smart Padala now serves customers with a growing suite of digital services that includes bills payment, Add Money to PayMaya accounts, loans disbursement, and QR payments.

“Smart Padala is a critical ingredient in building a ‘cashless’ Philippines. Our more than 26,000 agents around the country act as community hubs for financial and digital services,” said Paolo Azzola, COO and Managing Director at PayMaya Philippines. “We are grateful for the trust that our customers in Cebu have given to us and to our partner agents all these years, which drives our determination to continue improving our services.”

According to the Inclusive Digital Finance Report released by FINTQ in 2017, more than 70% of provinces have medium to low access to formal financial services, effectively leaving them out of the growing digital economy.

Spreading the reach of digital financial services

With the majority of its 26,000 centers nationwide being sari-sari stores, the service is able to reach even far-flung communities and barangays located outside the usual city centers–enabling convenience of financial transactions for the majority of Filipinos around the country.

In the case of conflict and disaster-stricken areas such as Marawi and Tacloban, Smart Padala centers have served as crucial backbones in reviving the local financial ecosystem, which helps affected individuals and families rebuild their lives after such calamities.

“Through our agent partners, Smart Padala continues to deliver crucial digital financial services that are accessible to Filipinos up to the grassroots community level,” Azzola added. “At the same time, we are proud to be able to help micro-entrepreneurs grow their businesses and improve their lives, as highlighted by the various stories shared by our partners in our ‘Milyun-Milyong Tiwala’ campaign.”

Aspiring entrepreneurs can quickly and easily start a Smart Padala business because there is no franchise fee required. Once complete business requirements have been submitted, the Smart Padala store can be built and operated in less than a week.

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Smart Padala is the country’s leading mobile remittance service under PayMaya Philippines, the digital financial services arm of Voyager Innovations backed by KKR, Tencent, and PLDT. To know more about this service or to sign up as an agent, visit www.smartpadala.ph or follow on Facebook.