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Using VoguePay.com Online Payment Solutions

VoguePay is a secure, dynamic and flexible platform for consumers and businesses to carry out online transactions. It focuses on providing its users with all the features they want without making it complicated. Users are not required to have any programming experience and they can easily integrate payment solutions into their websites using ready-made code templates. Below is a quick overview of how things work on VougePay, making it easy to send and receive payments:

Receiving payments

Users can receive payments through their existing business website or even without one. Ready to use modules are available for popular Content Management Systems, including WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. If a site does not use a CMS, a user can still get an HTML code to accept payments, but only one item at a time. Developers can even start from the scratch and build their own code for better customization of their sites. VoguePay Merchant ID is required in any of these on-site options.

Users can also receive payments if they do not have their business website. All they need to do is to register and sign in with their VP account and generate an Email Invoice by going to VP Menu, My Account. The invoice, then, needs to be filled and submitted and the recipient will receive that invoice via email. The emailed invoice can then be used to pay directly into the VoguePay wallet.

Withdrawing payments

Withdrawing payments is even easier and all a user needs to do is to login, go to menu, my account and click withdraw funds to your bank account and make the withdrawal request. You thereafter enter the amount you want to withdraw, the bank account details and then, insert the password. The amount a user selects to withdraw will be deducted from the VP wallet and transferred into the specified bank account. Although the transfers are often visible immediately, they may take up to 48 hours to be visible.

Adding Bank Accounts

To add a bank account, simply login and click Add Bank Accounts for withdrawals. Click on add the new account and enter a short and easy to-recognize name for that account, e.g., My GTB Current Account. Enter an account name, but it should be the same as the name on the VP account.

Finally, enter the 10 digit account number (nuban) and click on submit to finalize the process. The process will not work with third party accounts as the name of an account should be the same as the name used in the VP account.