Before you pay
Check beneficiary details, invoice currency, value date, payment purpose, and any document context that may be needed by a partner or receiving bank.
Import payments
Import payments need proof after the money leaves.
Import payments need more than a sent confirmation because supplier release depends on credit, proof, amount received, and bank review. The next step is to know whether the payment is moving, held for documents, short-paid, waiting at the beneficiary bank, or ready for trace or escalation.
Your supplier does not care that a transfer was instructed. They care whether funds were released, credited, applied to the invoice, and received in the expected amount.
What matters in an import payment
When you are paying overseas suppliers, the operational risk is usually after the instruction: beneficiary details, invoice purpose, bank review, intermediary deductions, release timing, proof, and reconciliation. Unicorn Currencies is built to keep those points visible instead of leaving your team to chase a generic payment confirmation.
After you send
Track whether the payment is instructed, released, routed, credited, or held. A sent status is useful, but it is not the whole answer.
If the supplier pushes back
Use proof, trace information, beneficiary-bank checks, or recall logic depending on what has actually happened to the payment.
Typical import-payment pressure
Your supplier says funds have not arrived even though the payment was sent.
The receiving bank asks for invoice, purpose, or sender information before release.
The amount received is lower than expected because of deductions or charges.
You need proof that is stronger than a screenshot before goods are released.
Your team needs a person who can help decide whether this is a hold, trace, investigation, or recall.
Paying an overseas supplier?
If the payment is live, use WhatsApp from the bar below. If you are reviewing the full import payment flow, talk to treasury from the same bar.