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MartinGZ
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  #3368762 29-Apr-2025 14:35
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dafman:

 

Thanks, but not quite what I am looking for. 

 

 

Not in the app, but this gives the final results including bank fees as well as exchange rate: Money transfer comparison | Compare best exchange rates - Wise




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  #3368814 29-Apr-2025 15:37
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Another thing I do is make a $1 transfer back and forth to your Wise account by a family member who you can rely on to top up your account should something serious happen and you need urgent funds. Think accident, stolen device or a dozen other glitches. It makes it easier once you’ve done it and the payee sits in the other persons list of payees and in yours.

 

When you are in a panic and stressed it’s easy to mess up. 


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  #3369119 30-Apr-2025 11:16
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Set it up for my wife last night using my own referral link. Figured we’ll have an account each and using Eva’s suggestion put the joint money onto mine and use the physical card for that, and the virtual card for my own then just use the filtering by card to keep track. I have the virtual card on my phone and Samsung watch. I've never really paid that way here other than the odd time to test it works (it still just feels the most "normal" to take the card out of the wallet) so will have to get used to doing that. I assume the places we're going (UK, Ireland, France, Switzerland) will be mostly card based like here. The other big trip we did a few years ago in USA we just did everything with cash as found that easier with the tipping culture. 

 

Weirdly, it made her deposit 20CHF (around $40NZD) to start with after it made me do $30AUD. Both were registered on wifi in NZ with NZ address so weird that it wasn’t setup with NZD but whatever.




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  #3369169 30-Apr-2025 14:30
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invisibleman18:

 

Weirdly, it made her deposit 20CHF (around $40NZD) to start with after it made me do $30AUD. Both were registered on wifi in NZ with NZ address so weird that it wasn’t setup with NZD but whatever.

 

 

 

 

That does sound weird. I just set one up, mine was $30NZD and went through in under 1.5hrs. Thank you for starting this topic, it has helped me a lot.


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  #3369395 1-May-2025 08:08
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Looks like the spend with others feature solves this after all. Set it up last night and added my wife and it creates a separate group (scrolling along to the right of all your other currencies in the app). I transferred a few dollars from my initial deposit to it to test it and my wife could see it in her app with just that amount and not my full balance, and you can create virtual cards for the group. So it looks like this can be a separate balance of money, essentially acting as the joint account instead of having it all in one pot and having to filter by the physical or virtual card. Next is to test buying something with the virtual card from the group to confirm it comes from that balance.

 

Difference to a typical "joint" account with a bank is that the person who sets it up is the only "owner" and the other members can add money to it and spend from it but can't add or remove other people and can't withdraw the money. Looks like this is exactly the feature we were looking for in just being able to use a separate joint pot of money.

 

 

 

Screenshot of what it looks like in the app:

 

 

 


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  #3369553 1-May-2025 14:58
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And just tested adding $2 by bank transfer to make sure the account number works and how long it would take and it showed up (from ASB) in just over 2 hours. Happy so far.  Obviously need to test actually spending with the card next. 


 
 
 
 

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  #3369566 1-May-2025 15:33
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invisibleman18:

 

And just tested adding $2 by bank transfer to make sure the account number works and how long it would take and it showed up (from ASB) in just over 2 hours. Happy so far.  Obviously need to test actually spending with the card next. 

 

 

Spoiler alert.  It works.


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  #3369588 1-May-2025 16:14
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Don't have any doubts but will just make sure all is working as it should before leaving NZ.


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  #3371608 9-May-2025 09:19
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Wife's card arrived in the mail yesterday which was pretty quick although weirdly not mine yet when I set mine up a day before hers. Hopefully it comes in the next mail. Tested it in an ATM and it worked and displayed a balance so all seems good, except it hasn't asked for ID yet which mine did an hour after initial set up.


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  #3373001 14-May-2025 11:48
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And my card arrived yesterday so we're all set. 


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  #3373050 14-May-2025 15:00
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Good to hear, just remember to ‘activate’ your card too before going overseas.


 
 
 

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  #3373101 14-May-2025 15:28
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Thanks, yeah I've activated it in the app using the instructions in the letter that came with it, and I've tested it in an atm today and it displayed the balance. Anything else worth doing before we go?


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  #3374958 20-May-2025 16:11
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I’m currently in Istanbul, so did a test using Wise and my Kiwibank visa.

 

Bought two coffees, paid for one with each card.

 

NZ cost:

 

Wise $10.43

 

Visa $10.71 (including transaction/conversion fees).

 

You have to pre-fund Wise versus free credit for Visa, so should expect to be marginally cheaper all things being equal).


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  #3375009 20-May-2025 16:22
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dafman:

 

I’m currently in Istanbul, so did a test using Wise and my Kiwibank visa.

 

Bought two coffees, paid for one with each card.

 

NZ cost:

 

Wise $10.43

 

Visa $10.71 (including transaction/conversion fees).

 

You have to pre-fund Wise versus free credit for Visa, so should expect to be marginally cheaper all things being equal).

 

 

28 cents difference on a $10 purchase is a fairly healthy wedge of 2.8%- shows where bank's margins are....

 

Also probably explains why I've seen Wise advertising on TV  in NZ,  its a market worth targeting....


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  #3375011 20-May-2025 16:45
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$10 per coffee!!


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