Pricing and fees

Surcharging

Adding a fee to a customer's bill to recover the cost of card acceptance. From **1 October 2026** the RBA is removing surcharging on eftpos, Mastercard and Visa payments, so merchants will no longer be able to surcharge those networks.

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