Living in the Kenyan villages can sometimes, be inconvenient, especially in finding money transfer services. On this Sunday night, I was in home, and my brother called me, asking me for emergency money, and one thousand Kenyan Shillings to be specific. In my wallet, I had only one thousand Kenyan Shillings. I tried to sending the money to my brother using my mobile money transfer services, but it kept failing due to lack of enough transaction fees, to transaction the full amount.
I stepped out of home, and went looking for money transfer services shop, so as I can deposit more money, so that it can be enough to transact, to him, but to my utter shock, it was too late, and all shops were closed, given the fact that it is a village, and hence there is no huge flow of customers, leaving services providers with no option, except from closing their businesses early in the night. I went back home feeling sorry for my brother, who I was about to let down, just for the high transaction fees charged by other money transfer services.
After one hour, of thinking the next course of action, I remembered, of a friend, who we used to stay together with, and had talked about the zero transaction fee charged by MiniPay, when transferring money to a friend, or a family member, and so I decided to give it a shot. To my utter shock, the one thousand Kenyan Shillings, was transferred with Zero transfer charge. From that day, I use MiniPay, to do most of transactions, especially to friends, and family members.