🇳🇿 Monzo in New Zealand [Wiki]

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Currency

New Zealand Dollar, $, NZD

Card usage

POS acceptance, including contactless, is great.

If you are prompted to select Credit, Checking or Savings, while making a payment, select Credit.

Some merchants charge a credit card surcharge for foreign debit cards.

ATMs

https://community.monzo.com/t/using-atms-while-travelling-with-monzo/9685?u=alexs

You will need to enable Magstripe withdrawals in order to use BNZ ATMs.

Withdrawal Charges

Banking is a lot different in NZ in that if you use another banks ATM you get charged a fee, even for kiwi’s e.g. using a BNZ visa in an ANZ ATM will yield a fee.

ANZ $3
BNZ free
Westpac free
ASB free

Payment and withdrawal limits

https://community.monzo.com/t/checking-spending-top-up-limits/9691

The contactless limit is NZD $80 (approx 40GBP).

Crowdsourced merchant data

For those visiting Hobbiton, they didn’t seem to accept the pre-paid Monzo card so we would recommend carrying cash for all of your souvenirs

Miscellaneous


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