Payoneer is terrible. Google auto-created an account for me there several years ago as part of paying me a $250 open source peer bonus (opensource.google/documentation/). They gave me another $1000 and Payoneer won't let me withdraw without giving them a photo of my passport. Ridiculous.
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Payoneer wants to verify my identity in order to add a bank account. They think it makes sense to do that by asking for someone's birth date. Their software errors out because the account was auto-created for me and I never provided a birth date. It might be set to a placeholder.
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Google sends bug bounties via wire transfers to my USD bank account at a Canadian bank. That's not perfect since it burns money from wire transfers fees but it's a lot better than this. GitHub Sponsors uses Stripe which deposits directly via ACH since my bank has US ACH support.
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End result of Stripe using ACH is a lot nicer but it was a complete disaster getting it working. I went several months without getting money from GitHub Sponsors because Stripe had trouble dealing with sending USD to a Canadian bank instead of converting. Financial services suck.
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PayPal is a similar mess. PayPal doesn't want to allow Canadians to withdraw USD. They want you to convert and pay their 2.5% fee. I figured out I could enter the Royal Bank of Canada's virtual US branch information and they think it's an American bank and let me withdraw...
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there are plenty of great alternatives to payoneer out there, especially alternatives that don't come from auto-creation events...
...like us 😎
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Is it transferable (Ie could you sell the right to someone who will send you cash without obnoxious kyc)?
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No, it's not transferrable. The only option is having the funds indefinitely frozen while complying with all of their ridiculous demands. They already demanded a picture of my passport as proof of identity, a bank account statement as proof of residence and a bunch of other info.
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