Send Money from Australia to France

Measured on the full cost — the transfer fee plus the exchange-rate margin — Remitly is cheapest on this corridor at A$1,000, across the 2 providers we hold checked figures for. The cheapest provider also changes with the amount you send, so compare the final sum that arrives in euros rather than the headline fee.

At A$1,000, Remitly is the cheapest of the 2 providers priced at that amount on this corridor: about A$2.60 all in, or 0.26% of the amount sent. Wise is next at about A$3.90. 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.

Most transfers on this corridor arrive within one to three business days. Paying by debit card is generally faster than a bank transfer, and transfers initiated outside banking hours may not begin processing until the next working day.

Across the providers we compare, the available payout methods are bank deposit and cash pickup. The most widely used options in France are bank deposit to an IBAN over SEPA. France is a fully banked euro market, so bank deposit is effectively the only payout method that matters — cash pickup exists but is rarely used. Not every provider supports every method, so check the table above before you commit.

No. Remitly offer cash pickup in France, so your recipient can collect the funds with valid photo ID and the transfer reference number. That said, bank deposit to an IBAN over SEPA 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 EUR, 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.

Wise prices this by currency pair, not by country: its Australian dollar to euro fees are identical on its France and Ireland pages. For that provider these are one product with several addresses, so there is nothing to gain by comparing between eurozone destinations. At about 3.86 AUD on 1,000 AUD this is the cheapest corridor on the whole site — under four tenths of a percent, and roughly fourteen times cheaper than Australia to Nepal at the same amount from the same country. Card figures are deliberately absent. The provider's France and Ireland pages showed different debit and credit numbers on the same currency route while every other figure matched exactly, so rather than pick one we publish what we could confirm and send you to the live quote for the rest.