Making GCash relatable to the ordinary Filipino
This post explains the different ways you can convert foreign currencies and send them to your GCash account. Filipinos are known for having connections in other countries — as immigrants, as overseas workers, and as tourists. And understandably, a lot of Filipinos remit money back home to their families. Additionally, through the rise of e-commerce … Read more
Learn how to put money and play in an online casino in GLife, InPlay. Aside from Pitmasters, one of GLife’s secrets is the mini-app, InPlay. InPlay is the first legal online casino in the Philippines and as such, they are regulated by PAGCOR. You can basically play in an online casino from within GCash. During … Read more
Basketball undoubtedly meshes with Filipino culture as we can see with our PBA. The NBA is no stranger to this, we’ve had stars visit us before — Kobe Bryant, Derrick Rose, James Harden, Chris Paul, LeBron James, Kevin Durant, and others. And we also currently have players that see high-level play as imports in Japan. … Read more
GCash Pera Outlets are official GCash-affiliated stores that offer GCash services. This post explains how you can apply as one. GCash has certainly utilized different ways to leverage technology to make payments and money movements easier for everyone. Setting up your own Pera Outlet is one of these. Now you don’t even need to go … Read more
Axie Infinity is quite big for those that do play-to-earn crypto NFT gaming. The game is big enough here in the Philippines that it pushed Coins.ph to support SLP and AXS tokens in their exchange. SLPs, which stands for Smooth Love Potions, is the in-game currency used in Axie Infinity. They are used for mainly … Read more
Insurance is really something that’s overlooked these days. Usually, for the layperson, they don’t really see the usefulness of insurance unless they’ve met the insurable event (like a death in the family or critical illnesses, etc). I’ve talked before about how GInsure makes insurance easy as everything you need is already in the GCash app. … Read more
For a lot of users, especially sellers using their own generated GCash QR, the default transaction limits (Php 100k in and out) may prove to be problematic as buyers increase. Or you may find that your transactions lately have been hitting Php 100k yourself. As a recap, normally to be able to avail of the … Read more
This post explains what GGives is, how it works, and how you can avail of this pay-by-installment scheme in GCash. I was in the drugstore looking to pay for my purchases via GCash when I saw a new QR design. And it mentioned paying via GGives or via GCredit. As GCash is notoriously secretive when … Read more
You can pay your SSS PRNs for contributions and loan payments using GCash easily. One of the ways GCash makes life easier is by integrating with government services such as PAG-IBIG and SSS. You can get disbursements using your GCash account, and you can pay your loans and contributions using the Pay Bills feature. My … Read more
This post explains the different BPI cash-in channels you can tap into in the GCash app. It’s now easy to set up a BPI cash-in channel from within GCash. This is useful for transferring funds easily from your bank account to GCash. Aside from UnionBank and CIMB (GSave), BPI is one of few bank-related cash-in … Read more