Send Money from Australia to Fiji

Measured on the full cost — the transfer fee plus the exchange-rate margin — Western Union is cheapest on this corridor at A$1,000, across the 3 providers we hold checked figures for. The cheapest provider also changes with the amount you send, so compare the final sum that arrives in Fijian dollars rather than the headline fee.

At A$1,000, Western Union is the cheapest of the 3 providers priced at that amount on this corridor: about A$7.99 all in, or 0.80% of the amount sent. Remitly is next at about A$26.29. That is the fee plus the exchange-rate margin that applied to a transfer of that size — priced at A$1,000 specifically, not worked out from a measurement taken at some other amount. It covers a bank transfer; cash pickup and mobile wallet payouts are priced separately. The margins were measured by Wise's comparison service rather than published by the providers themselves, and other providers here may be cheaper and are not priced this way.

Delivery ranges from minutes to a few business days depending on the provider and payout method. Western Union can deliver within minutes when you pay by debit card. Bank-funded and economy transfers typically take one to three business days but usually cost less. Transfers sent outside banking hours or over a weekend may not settle until the next working day.

Across the providers we compare, the available payout methods are bank deposit, cash pickup and mobile wallet. The most widely used options in Fiji are mobile money (M-PAiSA, Digicel MyCash), plus bank deposit and cash pickup. Wise is unusually expensive and slow on this corridor by its own published quote, while Taptap Send charges no transfer fee at all — so compare the exchange rate rather than the fee line. Not every provider supports every method, so check the table above before you commit.

No. Remitly and Western Union offer cash pickup in Fiji, so your recipient can collect the funds with valid photo ID and the transfer reference number. That said, mobile money (M-PAiSA, Digicel MyCash), plus bank deposit and cash pickup generally cost less than cash collection.

Providers rarely give you the mid-market rate — the reference rate you see on Google or Reuters. Instead they add a margin, typically between 0.4% and 4%, and keep the difference. That margin is often larger than the visible transfer fee, which is why a "no fee" service can still be more expensive overall. For AUD to FJD, compare the quoted rate against the mid-market rate to see the real spread you are paying.

Yes, provided you use a licensed provider. Every service listed on this page is regulated in Australia under AUSTRAC, which requires safeguarding of customer funds and identity verification. Send only to people you know personally, keep your transfer reference private, and be sceptical of anyone pressuring you to send money urgently to someone you have not met.

Yes. Each provider sets its own transfer limits, which vary by how much identity verification you have completed and how you pay. Larger transfers may require additional documentation such as proof of source of funds. For transfers above roughly A$10,000, a specialist foreign-exchange broker will often beat an app on rate.

Treat the Wise row on this page with care. Wise's support centre does not list this destination among the countries it can send to, and answers that gap directly: a recipient in a country off the list can be reached "if their account is denominated in USD, EUR or GBP". Wise's marketing page for this same corridor says the opposite — that the recipient is paid in local currency from a Wise local bank account — but that sentence is templated and appears word for word on destinations that are on the list and destinations that are not. The pricing points the same way as the support centre: across the corridors on this site the median Wise fee is about 1 percent of the amount sent where the currency is on its supported list, against about 4.5 percent where it is missing. The figure shown here is real; what is not settled is whether the money can arrive as local currency. Confirm that with Wise before relying on it. Pacific corridors are among the most expensive in the world to send on, and this one is no exception: Wise's cheapest published method costs roughly four percent of a 1,000 AUD transfer, against well under one percent on its Australia to Nigeria route. That is the corridor, not the provider — but it is a reason to compare what arrives rather than assume any service is cheap here. Read Wise's own table rather than its own advice here. The page states the cheapest way to send is from a Wise account at about 43.62 AUD, while the same table shows Osko and bank transfer at 42.87. It is a small gap, but the provider's summary contradicts its own figures, and we read the table twice to be sure. The same thing happens on Canada to Peru. M-PAiSA is the wallet most Fijians use and both Remitly and Western Union reach it — Western Union names Vodafone M-PAiSA directly. Wise offers mobile money without naming a partner. Unusually for this site, card funding is barely penalised here: about 45.47 AUD by debit against 42.87 by bank transfer. On a corridor this expensive the funding method is not where the money goes.