In Germany, this payment system is in second place in terms of the number of processed transactions per month. The multi-million client base also does not allow GiroPay to be considered an outsider in the online payments market. The payment system was created in order to facilitate the work with a bank account and speed up the payment for goods and services.
Casinos are willing to cooperate with the payment system, so GiroPay is also suitable for depositing an account. The payment system was founded in 2005, but the first transactions began to be processed already in 2006. Volksbanken RaitFeisenbanken and Postbank stood at the origins of GiroPay. The target audience is Germany and Austria, the number of registered clients in both countries exceeds 17 million people.
Since 2014, GiroPay has been compatible with the Austrian payment system Online-Überweisung. The total number of clients of both systems exceeds 40 million people. By and large, every person who has a bank account with a partner bank can use the services of GiroPay.
More than 1,500 banks have become partners of the payment system, so paying for a purchase online will not be a problem in the EU. Outside the EU, GiroPay is rarely used, you need to have an account in a European bank for this, so outside the EU they prefer to use other options.
As for the work itself, GiroPay provides comfortable management of your own bank account. You can transfer money online for goods and services, while the money goes to the seller instantly. As a result, you get the reliability, security of the bank and the speed of the electronic payment system.
Of the inconveniences, we note only the limit of € 5000, but for most this will be enough. It is unlikely that you deposit such amounts in a casino.
GiroPay has many strengths:
There are few disadvantages:
If you have a European bank account, then GiroPay is for you. In other cases, its use will have to be abandoned.
Replenishment of the casino account is as follows:
So GiroPay acts as an intermediary between you and your bank account.
As for the popularity of this method, GiroPay supports several dozen online casinos. You can see for yourself - on the right side of the page, in the section of filters by the method of replenishment of the account, select the GiroPay option. In the results we see 41 casinos. If there is no such method on the site, check with technical support, in some casinos, for some reason, it simply does not appear in the list of available methods.
GiroPay is an excellent system for working with your bank account, if you open an account with a European bank, then working with it is really convenient. You can buy goods, pay for services online, there are no restrictions on working with the casino. Unless the bank does not allow customers to send money to the casino account, but these subtleties need to be clarified in technical support. If there is no account in a European bank, then you will not be able to use this system. Collapse