RemitCompare — Live Remittance Rate Comparison

A side-by-side comparison of what different money-transfer providers would give a recipient, built on top of the live mid-market exchange rate — not just a spot converter, but the tool an OFW or diaspora sender would actually want before choosing where to send money.

Live demo →

Features

• Live mid-market exchange rate for any supported currency pair
• Side-by-side provider comparison, sorted by best net amount received
• Common corridors pre-loaded (PHP, USD, AED, SGD, SAR, HKD) for OFW/diaspora remittance use cases
• Clear "best value" badge and transparent fee breakdown per provider
• No backend, no login, no API key required

Why the provider numbers are modeled

Remittance providers don't expose free, CORS-open rate APIs, so a browser-only app can't call them directly the way it can call a public exchange-rate API. This demo applies a set of illustrative, clearly-labeled margins and fees on top of the live mid-market rate to approximate each provider's likely offer — it does not call the providers directly, and the app discloses this in the UI itself, not just here.

Turning this into a production tool means replacing PROVIDER_PROFILES in script.js with real partner-API integrations or a licensed rate-aggregation feed. The mid-market rate everything is built on, however, is live and real.

Run it locally

Clone the repo and open index.html in a browser. No build step, no npm install.

git clone https://github.com/arjayb/RemitCompare.git
cd RemitCompare
open index.html # or just double-click it

If your browser blocks fetch on the file:// protocol, serve it with any static server instead:

python3 -m http.server 8000
# then visit http://localhost:8000

Deploy to GitHub Pages

1. Push this repo to GitHub.
2. Go to Settings → Pages.
3. Under Build and deployment, set Source to Deploy from a branch, pick main and / (root).
4. Save — your app will be live at https://<your-username>.github.io/RemitCompare/ within a minute or two.

Project structure

RemitCompare/
├── index.html # markup
├── style.css # comparison layout, best-value badge, fee breakdown
├── script.js # live mid-market rate call, provider margin modeling, ranking
└── README.md

Data source

The mid-market exchange rate comes from open.er-api.com, a free, keyless exchange-rate API. Provider figures are computed client-side from that rate using modeled margins in PROVIDER_PROFILES — see "Why the provider numbers are modeled" above. No authentication, no API key, no user data is stored.

License

MIT — use this however you'd like.