Patent ID: 8051003

Claim:
A method for electronically transferring money from a sender to a recipient, the method comprising: receiving, at a money transfer station, money from the sender in the form of cash or negotiable instrument; crediting the money to a stored value account associated with the sender; receiving, at a money transfer system, information from the sender on the recipient that is to receive money; determining a plurality of options for transferring the money based on the received information about the recipient receiving, at the money transfer system, a request from the sender to transfer at least a portion of money in the stored value account to the recipient; transmitting at least one recommended option for selection in completing the transfer, wherein the recommended option is based on the received information about the recipient such that recommended option is tailored to the recipient; electronically processing, the recommended option, the request by the money transfer system; debiting the stored value account for the money transferred; and maintaining the balance in the stored value account of money not transferred to the recipient, so that the balance may be used for one or more subsequent transactions by the sender using the stored value account.