FAQ About Sending Money to Mauritius

• What's the cheapest way to send money to Mauritius?

  The cheapest way to send money to Mauritius is through an online provider. Among the 18 available, XE Money Transfer was most often the cheapest provider (in 38.5% of the searches on Monito.com in the past 3 months).

• What are the best providers to send money to Mauritius?

  Here are the providers that were the most often the cheapest in the comparisons of the past 3 months on Monito.com:

  • XE Money Transfer (cheapest in 38.5% of the searches)
  • TransferGo (cheapest in 28.2% of the searches)
  • Remitly (cheapest in 13.7% of the searches)
• How much does it cost to send money to Mauritius?

  If you send money with the cheapest available provider, the total cost of a transfer to MUR was 1.3% of the transfer amount (including all fees and exchange rates) over the past month. Of course, this figure will vary based on the sending country, the pay-in and pay-out options

  In contrast, the cost of the most expensive option was 9.9% on average.

• What is the cost of making an international transfer to Mauritius using my bank?

  The average total cost (including hidden exchange rate markups) of making a transfer to Mauritius with banks compared by Monito.com during the past months was 12.0% of the transfer amount. This is 9.5x more expensive than sending money with the cheapest online provider alternative.

• Is Western Union good for sending money to Mauritius?

  Western Union is a popular provider with the biggest agent location network. The average cost of online money transfers to Mauritius with Western Union* is 4.2% of the amount you send, whereas the cheapest online services have an average cost of 1.3%. Remitly is the provider that is most often the cheapest for money transfers to a cash pick-up location in Mauritius.
  
  *Sending money from physical agent locations with Western Union is usually much more expensive than using their online service.

• What's the cheapest cash pick-up provider in Mauritius?

  Over the past three months, the provider that was most often the cheapest for cash pick-up transfers in Mauritius was Remitly, with an average cost of 3.0% of the amount you send (which includes fees and exchange rate margins).
  
  The average total cost to send to a bank account rather than a pick-up location during the same period was 2.1%. XE Money Transfer was the provider most often the cheapest for transfers to bank accounts in Mauritius.

• What is the fastest option to send money to Mauritius?

  The provider that was most often the fastest on Monito's comparisons over the last three3 months was TransferGo (average fastest transfer time: Same day)