Stop crippling card fees adding further cost to your business!
On behalf of MGA TMA members, MGA TMA has advocated for several years for lower merchant fees, access to LCR (Least Cost routing), transparency of exorbitant card fees and retention of eftpos as choice on all debit cards.
The Reserve bank of Australia has not been sympathetic to the cause of small businesses and is proposing to allow banks to remove the eftpos facility from debit cards allowing a single network debit card. This will be very costly for Small Businesses!
This will hugely impact the viability of MGA TMA members businesses as well as impact your customers too, as they won’t be able to take cash out at the register!
MGA TMA stated this critical matter in a recent submission to the Reserve Bank - that Grocery, Supermarket, Bottleshop and Timber and Hardware sector members card transaction costs will further increase if the RBA does not step in to help reduce this impact to family and private businesses.
MGA TMA encourages members to request from every customer coming into your store that they help keep card fees down by signing the petition to the Reserve Bank and Federal Government – to help save your business from crippling debit card fees.
Members and your customers please show your support by signing this petition to demand the Reserve Bank and Federal Government make low-cost card payments the default for small and local businesses and keep Australia’s local payment network, eftpos, as a choice on all debit cards.
How can you help?
We urge you to ACT NOW to involve your customers and help STOP this unjust and detrimental decision being made. Join the fight by following the links and actions below, to play your part to save YOUR business!
Petition: Every signature counts
Click on the link to change.org to sign the petition today
Facebook: share the post with your network
Click on the link to share and like with other small businesses in the local area and with your customers, to encourage them to also sign the petition. Make sure you ask your followers to share too!
Point of sale: Download the posters and display in-store
- Download the A3 posters and A5 counter cards and place the A3 poster near the entrance to your store and the counter cards at your register area to educate your customers.
- Encourage your customers to scan the QR code to sign the petition.
- Don’t forget to encourage your staff to sign it too!
Write to your local MP’s and ask them to act now:
- Please download the letter we have prepared for you to customize with your own store's details and send it to your local MP, to show the impact of these decisions affecting your business.
- A well-crafted, passionate, and personal message will have the most impact on your local MP.