Muscat: Within its efforts to encourage customers to conduct their transactions through mobile banking app, Maisarah launched its mobile banking app competition, where customers using the app will get chances to win monthly cash prizes worth OMR 150 for two winners per month.
Commenting on the competition, Milad Abdul Redha Al Ajmi- Head of Maisarah Product Segments and Channels at Maisarah Islamic Banking Services said, "Maisarah's mobile banking app is one of the best apps in the banking sector with exclusive user-friendly features. Customers may conduct their transactions 24/7 at their convenience, and with this competition, we aim to encourage customers to benefit from the services we provide them through our mobile banking app including; instant transfer, bill payments, mobile top-up, cheque book request and cardless cash among other services. The more they use these services the more chance they will get to win monthly cash prizes, worth OMR 100 for one customer with the highest number of monthly transactions and OMR 50 for a customer with the second-highest number of monthly transactions."
The competition started on May 1 will continue until November 30, and it is open for all Maisarah Retail customers including minor and joint accounts. Winners will be selected based on highest utilisation of services including; Instant transfer to any bank in the Sultanate anytime, anywhere, transfer to any bank in the Sultanate, bill payments, mobile top-up, cheque book request and cardless cash. Maisarah will select two winners monthly; where a customer with a highest monthly number of transactions will receive a cash prize of OMR 100 and customer with a second highest monthly number of transactions will receive a cash prize of OMR 50. In case there is more than one winner in the same month (more than one customer having the same number of transactions) then, a draw will be conducted to select one winner.
Offering smart banking at the fingertips, customers can benefit from our cardless cash feature where they can withdraw cash from an ATM without their card. Customers have to simply place a request through their mobile banking app and creating a four-digit cash code. A unique reference of six digits will be generated and sent to the customer to collect the money. The customer can then visit the nearest Maisarah ATM and enter the created four-digit code in the application along with the reference received through SMS in two different steps. The ATM will then automatically dispense the requested amount. In case the customer doesn’t collect the cash from ATM, the amount will be refunded to customer account after six hours from the time when the transaction was initiated.
The innovative mobile app provides a host of other services including; mobile top-up (OmanTel, Ooreedoo, Friendi and Renna), pay utility bills (water and electricity, Mobile, Landline, Internet (Omantel/ Ooredoo), apply for a new cheque book, get prayer timings, Qibla direction, exchange rate, deposit rate, mudarabah weightages, offers and other information and services. Additionally, customers may look for near Branch/ATM/CDM through the locator feature.