Send Money from the USA to Bahamas

Revolut and Western Union advertise no transfer fee on this corridor. That is not the same as cheapest: a provider with no fee recovers it through the exchange-rate margin, which is usually the larger of the two costs. Compare the final amount that arrives in Bahamian dollars across two or three services before you send, because the cheapest option changes with the amount and the payout method you choose.

Delivery ranges from minutes to a few business days depending on the provider and payout method. Remitly can deliver within minutes when you pay by debit card. Bank-funded and economy transfers typically take one to three business days but usually cost less. Transfers sent outside banking hours or over a weekend may not settle until the next working day.

Across the providers we compare, the available payout methods are bank deposit and cash pickup. The most widely used options in the Bahamas are bank deposit and cash pickup. The Bahamian dollar is pegged 1:1 to the US dollar, so USD transfers carry no meaningful conversion spread. Not every provider supports every method, so check the table above before you commit.

No. Remitly, Revolut and Western Union offer cash pickup in the Bahamas, so your recipient can collect the funds with valid photo ID and the transfer reference number. That said, bank deposit and cash pickup generally cost less than cash collection.

Providers rarely give you the mid-market rate — the reference rate you see on Google or Reuters. Instead they add a margin, typically between 0.4% and 4%, and keep the difference. That margin is often larger than the visible transfer fee, which is why a "no fee" service can still be more expensive overall. For USD to BSD, compare the quoted rate against the mid-market rate to see the real spread you are paying.

Yes, provided you use a licensed provider. Every service listed on this page is regulated in the USA under FinCEN and state money-transmitter licences, which requires safeguarding of customer funds and identity verification. Send only to people you know personally, keep your transfer reference private, and be sceptical of anyone pressuring you to send money urgently to someone you have not met.

Yes. Each provider sets its own transfer limits, which vary by how much identity verification you have completed and how you pay. Larger transfers may require additional documentation such as proof of source of funds. For transfers above roughly $10,000, a specialist foreign-exchange broker will often beat an app on rate.

Ria publishes no the Bahamas corridor page. The address matching every other Ria corridor on this site returns the provider's own page-not-found screen, so no fee, rate, rail or limit can be sourced from the provider. This records what the provider publishes, not a finding that the service does not exist — Ria's agent network may still reach the Bahamas. If you already use that service, you will need an alternative from the comparison table above for this corridor.

Treat the Wise row on this page with care. Wise's support centre does not list this destination among the countries it can send to, and answers that gap directly: a recipient in a country off the list can be reached "if their account is denominated in USD, EUR or GBP". Wise's marketing page for this same corridor says the opposite — that the recipient is paid in local currency from a Wise local bank account — but that sentence is templated and appears word for word on destinations that are on the list and destinations that are not. The pricing points the same way as the support centre: across the corridors on this site the median Wise fee is about 1 percent of the amount sent where the currency is on its supported list, against about 4.5 percent where it is missing. The figure shown here is real; what is not settled is whether the money can arrive as local currency. Confirm that with Wise before relying on it. The Bahamian dollar is pegged 1:1 to the US dollar and has held that peg since 1966, so this corridor carries no exchange-rate risk in the way most others do — the number your recipient gets is fixed by policy, not by a market rate that moves day to day. Because the peg removes currency risk from the comparison, the fee and the payout method are the entire decision here — there is no rate to shop for, only a fee and a delivery speed.