westernunion.com fact sheet
Westernunion.com offers country-specific Web sites for nearly all of the 200 countries and territories in which Western Union operates. Using the web site for their home country, consumers can quickly and conveniently access information on more than 400,000 Western Union Agent locations and the services offered from the comfort of their own homes.
Services available on westernunion.com include:
information
Westernunion.com’s convenient Agent locator tool allows consumers worldwide to locate a nearby Agent location. Western Union Agents are located in grocery stores, drugstores, banks and post offices – the same places consumers do business every day.
money transfer
Consumers in 13 countries can send money virtually anywhere in the world in just minutes with their credit or debit card. Countries with transactional websites include:
- Australia
- Netherlands
- Austria
- New Zealand
- Canada
- Norway
- France
- Sweden
- Germanyv
- United Kingdom
- Ireland
- United States
- Italy
the western union gold card
Consumers in select countries can sign up online for a Western Union® Gold Card, a rewards program for frequent Western Union users.
prepaid MasterCard®
U.S. consumers can sign up online for a prepaid Mastercard® and load funds onto the card at more than 45,000 U.S. Agent locations.
other online services
U.S. consumers can:
- Quickly send mortgage, utility and car payments.
- Fund the account of an inmate at participating correctional facilities nationwide.
- Send funds directly to a receiver’s bank account in the U.S., Mexico and the Philippines.
key facts
- Services on westernunion.com are available in 9 languages.
- In early 2007, westernunion.com launched online transactional service to two new countries: Germany and New Zealand.