Send money to Sierra Leone from Canada

Sign up online or through the RemitBee app. Your account keeps recipients, previous transfers, transaction updates, and future payments together in one place.

Enter the information requested for the way they will receive the money. A bank transfer may need account details, while a wallet transfer may rely on the mobile number registered to the wallet.

Verify your identity before sending. Your RemitBee verification level determines your personal sending limits and helps meet Canadian requirements for international money transfers.

Fund the transfer using an available option such as Interac e-Transfer, EFT, bill payment, RemitBee Balance, or an eligible Visa Debit or Mastercard Debit card.

Review the live CAD to SLE rate, RemitBee fee, receiving method, and final recipient amount. Make sure the quote uses SLE, the current Leone, rather than an old SLL figure from before Sierra Leone’s 2022 currency redenomination.

Confirm your transfer and track its progress from your RemitBee account. Real-time updates let you see what is happening without asking your recipient to keep checking.

Use an eligible Visa Debit or Mastercard Debit card when you want to fund the transfer immediately. Debit fees can be higher than bank-based methods, so compare the complete cost before choosing.

Use Interac e-Transfer from your Canadian bank account to fund your RemitBee transaction. It is a familiar Canadian payment method and has no RemitBee transfer fee on qualifying transfers of $500 CAD or more.

Add RemitBee as a payee through Canadian online banking and fund the transfer as a bill payment. It is useful when you can plan the transfer rather than needing to fund it immediately.

Connect your Canadian bank account and move the funds electronically. EFT takes longer than debit or e-Transfer but gives you another bank-based way to fund the transfer.

Mobile-money ownership rose from about 4% of adults in 2014 to roughly 31-32% in 2024, while traditional financial-institution account ownership was around 15%. That makes the recipient’s preferred wallet or account an important part of the transfer decision.

Sierra Leone launched its National Payment Switch instant-payment service in 2025, connecting participating banks with mobile-money services including Orange Money and Afrimoney. The wider financial system is becoming easier to move across, even though a RemitBee transfer does not necessarily use that switch directly.

The 2022 redenomination means older exchange-rate pages can be misleading at a glance. RemitBee quotes the transfer in current SLE, helping you compare the amount your recipient is actually set to receive.

Use Interac e-Transfer, EFT, bill payment, RemitBee Balance, or an eligible debit card instead of arranging an international bank wire every time you need to send money.

Track transfer updates from Canada rather than asking your recipient to keep checking a bank, wallet, or pickup location. RemitBee supports more than 200,000 Canadians and is registered with FINTRAC as a Canadian Money Services Business.