Enabling Businesses and Serving Customers Through LBC Paycollect

The Philippines is a cash-based society. Majority of the Philippine population does not own credit or debit cards, and many Filipinos are still unbanked. Most Filipinos even prefer to use cash to settle financial obligations and pay for purchases. A business that can provide customers more cash payment options and make paying in cash easier for buyers, will most certainly enjoy the patronage of more Filipinos than a business which offers limited and tedious cash payment programs.

LBC offers businesses the opportunity to make paying more convenient for clients and collecting remittances a lot easier through LBC Paycollect.  LBC Paycollect allows enterprises and corporations to use all of LBC’s more that 1400 branches nationwide as payment centers for buyers. Apart from gaining access to LBC’s wide network, LBC provides businesses with a full consolidated report of all the payments collected and LBC will remit these payments in a manner and lead time most acceptable to them.

            Partner with LBC and join a growing roster of satisfied and successful LBC Paycollect clients like Unionbank, Metrobank, and their corporate account holders. New Paycollect partners who have signed up are Mary Kay, Kimstore, Rykom, Rain and ELN.  After enrolling with Paycollect, a merchant needs to simply follow the five-step Paycollect process: First, LBC creates a seller ID/Account number for the business. Second, customers are advised of the business’ account name with LBC. Third, customers pay at any LBC branch via LBC Paycollect. Fourth, the business is notified by LBC about the crediting of collections. And Lastly, merchants receive money from LBC.

To learn more about LBC Paycollect and other LBC services that you may require, visit LBC’s website at www.payment-solutions.lbcexpress.com. Expand and grow your business by partnering with LBC today.

PH Barista Champion Builds a Coffee School for the Filipinos

Michael Harris Lim, the 2019 Philippine National Barista Champion and the first Filipino to make it to the semi-finals of the World Barista Championship in Boston, USA, opens the Institute for Coffee Excellence, an educational institution committed to developing a variety of educational initiatives that focuses on instilling positive values that will help grow and excel as coffee professionals.

After successfully sharing his advocacies in the international stage, Harris continues to carry out his life’s work of creating a fully-sustainable coffee economy and takes another step towards realizing this vision—by officially opening the Institute for Coffee Excellence.

Since he first ventured in the coffee business in 2001, he has been committed in providing solutions to elevate the quality of local crops and equip the Filipino farmers with tools and knowledge to help them keep up with the evolving industry. But through the competitions, Harris was able to see the industry in the perspective of a barista which made him realize that they also needed training in delivering the best coffee experience. As he stated, “This journey has inspired me to create a space to nurture the baristas and our Filipino coffee farmers.” Thus, he built the Institute for Coffee Excellence to have its thrust work at both ends of the spectrum: for farmers and baristas.

Harris envisions the institute as an instrument in fostering a community that works together for total sustainability to achieve the ultimate goal of having an increasingly steady food and coffee security for the Philippines and for the future generations to come. “The transformation of a community begins with education. In the case of our coffee community, I believe we would have to start by empowering our farmers and baristas with the knowledge, values and passion to work towards a beautiful coffee future,” he shares.

Prior to his participation in the national and world competitions, Harris makes vigorous effort in extending a helping hand to the thriving coffee industry as a social entrepreneur. While he actively supports coffee-producing communities in Benguet through the platforms he built such as the Foundation for Sustainable Coffee Excellence (FSCE) and The Giving Café, his eagerness to create greater initiatives that will benefit the local industry never ceased.

Driving his inspiration from the members of the coffee community, he’s also aiming to make the Foundation for Sustainable Coffee Excellence as the country’s National Body licensed by World Coffee Events to hold the next competitions in 2020.

To know more about the Institute for Coffee Excellence, visit, coffeeexcellence.org.