Fees
CacaoCash fees: 2.5% per payment, up to 10% more pesos than your card
CacaoCash charges 2.5% on each QR payment and each peso transfer, shown before you confirm. Loading money by bank transfer or crypto is free on our side. Even after the fee, you get about 6% to 10% more pesos than paying with a foreign card, because the conversion happens at the crypto dollar rate (October 2026).
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- Loading money by bank transfer (ACH, SEPA, SWIFT and local transfers) or crypto: no CacaoCash fee. Your bank or exchange may charge its own
- Sending dollars to another CacaoCash user
- Receiving: the person you pay or send pesos to pays nothing
- No monthly or account fee
Fees and rate
- QR payments
- 2.5% per payment, shown before you confirm
- Peso transfers
- 2.5% per transfer to an alias, CVU or CBU, shown before you confirm. The recipient pays nothing
- Exchange rate
- Crypto dollar rate, shown before every payment. The 2.5% fee is shown separately from the rate
- Deposits
- Bank transfer and crypto: no CacaoCash fee. Card top-ups: a card processing fee applies
Example: a US$50 payment in Buenos Aires (October 2026)
CacaoCash: ≈77,900 pesos
US$50 converted at the crypto dollar rate, with the 2.5% fee already included. This is what the merchant receives.
Foreign card with no foreign-transaction fee: ≈73,250 pesos
A Visa or Mastercard issued abroad, charged at the non-resident card rate. CacaoCash gives about 6% more.
Foreign card with a 3% foreign-transaction fee: ≈71,100 pesos
The same card when your bank adds a typical 3% fee on purchases abroad. CacaoCash gives about 10% more.
Assumptions: October 2026 rates. CacaoCash ≈1,598 ARS per US$ before the fee (average of real QR payments, 12 to 18 October 2026), ≈1,559 per dollar charged after the 2.5% fee. Foreign cards get the non-resident card rate, ≈1,465 ARS per US$ (Fiserv/Posnet). Rates change every day; the app shows the exact amount before you pay.
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