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Payments & billing
Pinch Payments
Automated payment solutions for businesses.
Listed on the Xero App Store · Updated 16 Sep 2026
For bookkeepers · small business clients · Compiled by The Firm from the vendor's site, not reviewed by the vendor.
What it does for a practice
Pinch Payments is a payment orchestration platform that automates invoice payments and simplifies the payment experience for businesses. It integrates with popular accounting software like Xero, QuickBooks, and MYOB, allowing users to accept various payment methods including direct debit and credit cards.
The platform is designed for service-based businesses, offering features such as flexible payment plans, automatic reconciliation, and a secure customer portal. Pinch Payments aims to enhance cash flow certainty and reduce administrative burdens for its users.
- Automated invoice payments
- Flexible payment plans
- Direct debit and card payments
- Real-time reconciliation
Quick answers
- What is Pinch Payments?
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Pinch Payments is payments and billing software for accounting firms and their clients. Pinch Payments is a payment orchestration platform that simplifies invoice collections and payment processing. It integrates with Xero, QuickBooks Online, MYOB. Pricing: No monthly fee; per-transaction fees of 1% + 30c for BECS direct debit (capped at A$5) and 1.95% + 30c for Visa and Mastercard, AUD, passable to the customer (as at September 2026). Available in Australia, New Zealand.
- Who is it for?
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Pinch Payments is for accounting firms and their clients, and the vendor names service-based businesses, bookkeepers and accounting professionals.
- What does it cost?
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Pricing: No monthly fee; per-transaction fees of 1% + 30c for BECS direct debit (capped at A$5 ) and 1.95% + 30c for Visa and Mastercard, AUD, passable to the customer (as at September 2026).
- What's the catch?
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Pinch Payments states availability in Australia, New Zealand; firms elsewhere should check with the vendor rather than assume it is unavailable.
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Pinch Payments integrations: 3 mapped.
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Details
- Category
- Payments & billing
- Pricing model
- Custom pricing
- Price
- No monthly fee; per-transaction fees of 1% + 30c for BECS direct debit (capped at A$5 ) and 1.95% + 30c for Visa and Mastercard, AUD, passable to the customer (as at September 2026)
- Works with
- Xero, QuickBooks Online, MYOB
- Available in
- Australia, New Zealand
- Who runs it
- Service-based businesses, Bookkeepers and accounting professionals
- Headquarters
- Australia
- Xero App Store
- Listed
- Listing
- Compiled by The Firm from the vendor's own site
- Last checked
- 16 Sep 2026
Pinch Payments, answered
What does Pinch Payments cost?
No monthly fee; per-transaction fees of 1% + 30c for BECS direct debit (capped at A$5) and 1.95% + 30c for Visa and Mastercard, AUD, passable to the customer (as at September 2026). That is the vendor's published pricing at the time The Firm checked it; confirm current plans on the vendor's pricing page before deciding.
Where is Pinch Payments available?
Pinch Payments is listed as available in Australia, New Zealand. Availability is as stated by the vendor; a tool with no stated restriction is listed for every region.
Who makes Pinch Payments?
Pinch Payments is made by a company based in Australia, as stated on the vendor's own site (checked 16 September 2026).
Can a firm see Pinch Payments before buying?
Yes. Pinch Payments offers a demo or trial page, linked from the Book a demo button on this listing. Terms of any trial are the vendor's.
What are the alternatives to Pinch Payments?
Other payments and billing tools in The Firm's directory include Rechargly, Statey, Buildern and Lessn. Listing is not a ranking: each profile states what the tool does, what it integrates with and how it charges, and up to four can be compared side by side.
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What changed on this listing
Every edit, dated, with who made it- Sept 2026 Checked by The Firm
price published: No monthly fee; per-transaction fees of 1% + 30c for BECS direct debit (capped at A$5) and 1.95% + 30c for Visa and Mastercard, AUD, passable to the customer; pricing model set to custom pricing; description updated; added integrations: Xero, QuickBooks Online, MYOB; added features: Automated invoice payments, Flexible payment plans, Direct debit and card payments, Real-time reconciliation.
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