Hello, friends! How have we been? This is bringing to you yet another interesting task from oracle-d - a review of cryptovoucher.io! I bet this name/term is rather alien to your ears, so let's throw on a bit of light...
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Cryptovoucher is the latest happening in blockchain town! It is the fastest means you can buy your crypto without having to undergo strenuous procedures of involved in exchanges. Cryptovoucher offers you options to acquire your favorite coins directly with PayPal, credit cards, bancontact, giftcards, etc.
This review is both to create awareness and give some insight on how this new purchase system works.
GETTING STARTED
Using cryptovoucher entails signing up on https://cryptovoucher.io with your email and password. Purchasing your first crypto with cryptovoucher might seem somewhat tricky as it offers numerous payment options. You'd find it a lot easier however if you're savvy in diverse online payment methods or are in a 'favoured region'
Make your puchase by selecting buy now from the main menu and decide what buy option suits you - online, locally, or with gift cards.
For this review, I initially chose the online purchase method partly because of my location and also because i do not know how use gift cards (yet)
So going with online purchase, choose from the available packages the amount of crypto vouchers you wish to purchase (10 - 1000EUR) and select the crypto you wish to buy. You'll be shown the current value of the crypto depending on the package you chose in the previous page. Agree with cryptovoucher's T&C then select your preferred online payment method - again depending on your region and convenience. My choice here was card payment because I'm in neither of the countries the other payment systems operate.
You are then prompted in the next page to proceed to a distributor's website for the purchase. Register at the distributor's site firstly, then make your purchase with your preferred card. Things being on equal scale, you should receive a code in your email address on successful completion of your payment.
REDEEMING YOUR CRYPTOVOUCHER
Head to your cryptovoucher.io account with your code and select Redeem from the main menu. Input the code and submit. Provide the address and memo you wish your coins delivered to and confirm the exchange rate of your coins. After all has been done and submitted, wait for your account to be credited with your coins.
MY TAKE ON CRYPTO VOUCHER
Needless to say, crypto voucher is yet another milestone in the history of blockchain/cryptocurrency revolution, a system that is poised to create huge impact in the adoption of cryptocurrency than has been known. Gone are the days getting crypto was a hazzle. We now have them in our credit cards, PayPal, gift cards, you name them! With such feat, mass adoption of blockchain/cryptocurrency is only at the horizon...
ISSUES (Big and Small)
My short tour of cryptovoucher.io unveiled some aspects/fetures in want of further developments which is understandable given that the platform is yet new. For instance, the kyc mention on the user profile page might be misleading especially as there's no detailed information on it nor link to upload the kyc documents.
Also the process of having to register on two websites (as with the online payment method) is rather stressful especially on first time. Furthermore, distributors of cryptovoucher do not accept mastercards from some regions which compounds the problem. (I had to go from distributor site to distributor site, but none would process my order with my naira MasterCards, and so I was unable to make my purchase for this review. A friend similarly complained of same issue and this obviouly accounts for the low participation in this particular oracle-d task).
Finally, the support service on cryptovoucher.io is uncomfortably slow. It came to a point I opened a support ticket for clarification on kyc details and it took over six hours to get a feedback aside the initial auto acknowledgment of receipt of my ticket.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the aforementioned lags, my recommendations for cryptovoucher.io are as follows:
A fully developed user profile page (My Account) and Settings with more detailed information -- detailed user profile and detailed Kyc requirements with link to upload the documents (if users have to undergo the procedure)
Obviously, it might be impossible for cryptovoucher.io to handle all payments/purchases on its site (although this would save one the stress and inflation by the middlemen). So I suggest the team should at least send out a note to its distributors to lift their regional ban on payments. The goal here is a wide adoption of crytocurrency, but when distributors reject a payment means as widely recognized as MasterCard , it posses serious problems.
The support service needs a boost to keep users at ease and happy. A support team working in the day and night time would help achieve this.
MY RATING
For the ease and convenience this system has brought into cryptoshpere, it deserves 4.5 stars until further updates are made to the site and improved support service perceived.
@otemzi @thehive @princeola @geetasnani @dorth, I recommend you try out cryptovoucher, and I hope your chosen payment methods work for you...