What is Smart Pay?
SmartPay is our online payment solution, giving you access to pay local currency invoices by bank transfer at your own convenience 24/7.
Benefits of Smart Pay are
- Instant Freight Release which enables faster cargo release (all invoices are paid for shipment)
- No fees Eliminate wire transfer and other transaction fees. SmartPay is free to use
- Convenience Pay your invoices online, anytime, anywhere, 24/7
- Simplicity Paid in one click means no more remittance advice or following up
- No limits Pay multiple invoices and unlimited sums in a single transaction
Getting started
1. If you have not registered on Maersk website
- Sign up for free registration here.
- Once you’ve registered on Maersk website you will have access to MyFinance, which is where you’ll find the Smart Pay payment option.
2. Set up bank details
- Your country requires physical mandate forms to be submitted to banks, which will then be approved or rejected by the bank.
- Once your mandate form request has been approved by bank, then your bank details will be updated in our systems. Post which you can start making payments online
- Please reach out to your local office contact to know more about how the mandate form needs to be filled and submitted.
3. Making payments
- Navigate to the ‘ePayment’ tab in MyFinance.
- select the invoice(s) you wish to pay, (If you have multiple invoices you wish to pay, you can select and pay them in one transaction (all the invoices are same currency).
- select the bank account you wish to pay from.
- agree to the terms and conditions and then click ‘Continue’.
- After reviewing your submission and approving payment, your payment will be instantly applied to the concerned shipments/invoices.
- Receipts can be downloaded from the ‘Paid Invoices’ tab. Please note it may take up to 24 hours for receipts to be available.
The rate of exchange applied to invoices reflects Maersk’s cost of sourcing foreign currency from the FX markets.
The rate of exchange can be found on the invoice itself, we can look up in our MyFinance tool.
Maersk uses the rate of exchange from 7 days prior to departure for export invoices and 7 days prior to arrival for import invoices.
For further questions or concerns, please refer to Maersk’s standard Terms and Conditions.