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Fee Schedule and Billing Terms

Fees, billing, GST, pass-through costs, managed settlement fees, transaction caps and subscription terms.

Effective date: 26 July 2026 (first issued 30 May 2026). These are the current published terms for Carbon Trader® website and platform use.

Part 19 - Fee Schedule and Billing Terms

1. Fee schedule administration

Carbon Trader may maintain an admin-managed fee schedule. Fees may vary by credit type, transaction type, corridor, service level, subscription, enterprise plan, listing type, due diligence level, settlement pathway, evidence pack and claim review.

2. Fees for standard brokered NZU sales

For standard domestic brokered NZU sales (broker-desk mandates that are not forestry managed-sale programmes):

  • brokered sale success fee: 0.65% of gross sale value;
  • minimum brokered sale fee: NZD $350 per completed sale or tranche;
  • fee cap: NZD $12,500 per completed sale or tranche;
  • managed settlement fee: NZD $450 per completed sale or tranche where Carbon Trader manages settlement;
  • GST: additional where applicable;
  • external costs: charged at cost where applicable and agreed.

2A. Fees for forestry managed-sale programmes

For forestry managed-sale programmes (a managed programme to sell a forestry participant's own NZUs on their instructions):

  • programme setup fee: NZD $1,500 per programme;
  • managed sale success fee: 0.65% of gross sale value, minimum NZD $1,500 and capped at NZD $20,000 per programme;
  • forestry managed settlement fee: NZD $450 per completed sale or tranche where Carbon Trader manages settlement;
  • GST: additional where applicable;
  • external costs: charged at cost where applicable and agreed.

2B. Fees for managed NZU sales (selling on your behalf)

For a managed NZU sale (an agency sale under a written mandate, where the seller transfers NZUs to Carbon Trader’s registry account, Carbon Trader holds them on trust for the seller and sells them on the seller’s behalf at or above a floor price the seller sets):

  • managed sale fee: 0.85% of the gross proceeds of units actually sold, and 0.60% on any portion of gross proceeds above NZD $250,000 under the same mandate;
  • minimum managed sale fee: NZD $250 per mandate;
  • trading venue costs: included in the managed sale fee; no separate venue charge is made;
  • no fee is charged on units that do not sell; unsold units are returned to the seller;
  • GST: additional on the Carbon Trader fee where applicable;
  • other external costs: charged at cost where applicable and agreed.

3. Fee examples

If 3,142 NZUs are sold at NZD $50 per NZU:

  • gross sale value: NZD $157,100.00;
  • 0.65% success fee: NZD $1,021.15;
  • managed settlement fee: NZD $450.00;
  • Carbon Trader fees excluding GST: NZD $1,471.15;
  • GST at 15%: NZD $220.67;
  • total Carbon Trader fee invoice including GST: NZD $1,691.82.

This example is illustrative only and is not a price indication.

4. Tranches

If a holding is sold in tranches, the success fee, minimum fee, fee cap and managed settlement fee apply per completed sale or tranche unless Carbon Trader agrees in writing to aggregate multiple fills as one coordinated transaction.

5. Subscriptions and data plans

Subscription fees may be charged monthly, annually or as otherwise agreed. Carbon Trader may suspend access for non-payment.

6. API overages

API overages, webhook overages, export overages and data overages may be charged according to the active fee schedule.

7. Pass-through costs

Pass-through costs may include bank charges, registry fees, foreign exchange costs, legal costs, tax adviser costs, specialist adviser costs, third-party due diligence costs and external data provider charges.

Card payment is not available. Settlements and buy requests are funded by bank transfer against a Carbon Trader invoice, which carries no payment surcharge, so no card processing surcharge applies.

8. GST

Unless stated otherwise, fees are exclusive of GST and Carbon Trader platform fees attract GST at 15%, added at invoicing. Transfers of New Zealand Units themselves are zero-rated for GST under sections 11A(1)(s)–(w) of the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985 (see Inland Revenue interpretation statement IS 25/13); Carbon Trader charges no GST on the NZU consideration.

8A. Service fees introduced July 2026

The following service fees were added to the published schedule and are invoiced through Carbon Trader's standard service-invoice process (GST at 15% added at invoicing):

  • Surrender delivery support: NZD $150 plus $0.01 per unit, capped at NZD $750 per delivery, plus registry pass-through charges. Execution and logistics only; not advice.
  • My Forest Pro subscription: NZD $39 per month.
  • Consultant client seat: NZD $15 per active client link per month.
  • My Obligations compliance pack: NZD $99 per month.
  • Staged sale tranche: NZD $25 per executed tranche, in addition to the normal marketplace success fee.

9. Change history

  • 17 August 2026 — non-circumvention added at clause 26A of the Standard Terms. No published price changed. A fee may now also become payable where parties introduced through Carbon Trader trade with each other off the platform within twelve months; the amount is the fee that would have applied on the platform, and never more. Listing remains free and nothing is charged if a lot does not sell.
  • 26 July 2026 (second update) — section 8A added: surrender delivery support, My Forest Pro, consultant client seats, My Obligations compliance pack and staged-sale tranche fees introduced.
  • 19 August 2026 — card payment withdrawn; the 2.9% + $0.30 card processing surcharge no longer applies and is removed from the published schedule. Funding is by bank transfer against an invoice, which carries no surcharge.
  • 26 July 2026 — card payment surcharge disclosed (2.9% + $0.30); forestry managed-sale programme fees stated in section 2A; GST zero-rating of NZU transfers clarified.
  • 30 May 2026 — first issue.