Notice: Closure of Cashrewards - 08/09/2025

HCBargain on 08/09/2025 - 12:10
Last edited 08/09/2025 - 16:16 by 2 other users

Loaded up Cashrewards to check offer just now, got this:

Important Notice - Closure of Cashrewards
From 12pm AEST, Monday, 8 September 2025, Cashrewards ceased making offers available on its Website, App and Notifier.

See below key dates and actions following our closure. We have also set out what you need to do to access any remaining rewards in your account.

WTF?? Anyone know what has happened? I think they have been great.

Some important details of which you need to be aware:

Recent transactions will continue to track and be approved or declined in the next 3 days. All transactions that are pending as at Thursday, 11 September 2025 will be approved and then you will be able to withdraw your cashback.

If you have any untracked or queried transactions, please submit your queries by 11:59am AEDT on Friday, 10 October 2025. All queries submitted after this date will not be assessed.

Please withdraw your funds by 11:59am AEDT on Friday, 24 October 2025. To withdraw your funds simply click Withdrawal in My rewards and follow the steps outlined in the FAQ's.

Members who have not withdrawn by this deadline, but have a linked bank or PayPal account, will have their available funds automatically transferred to those accounts. If you have both bank and PayPal details linked, the transfer will be made to your linked bank account.

PayPal withdrawals will cease at 11:59am AEDT on Friday, 24 October 2025. After this date, withdrawals will only be available to your nominated bank account.

After 11:59am AEDT on Friday, 24 October 2025 withdrawals will only be processed manually. You will need to contact our member services team for assistance via our Help Desk Portal or email,
[email protected]

All withdrawal claims must be received by Friday, 12 December 2025.

Important moments in Cashrewards History

2014: Cashrewards was founded in Sydney by Andrew and Lorica Clarke

2018: Cashrewards launched its In-Store Offers platform with Visa (In-store cashback)

2020: Cashrewards successfully listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the ticker ASX:CRW on December 2, 2020, following a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO)

2021: Cashrewards (ASX:CRW) was bought by ANZ Bank’s innovation and investment arm 1835i, receiving a takeover offer at $1.135 per share. Later: Cashrewards and ANZ launched Cashrewards Max, an exclusive program for ANZ credit and debit card users that offered higher cashback rewards.

2022: Cashrewards Max Is Retired on Sept 30, 2022. CRW is delisted from ASX in January 2022

2024: tightarse leaves the company after 8 years of employment. Cashrewards acquired Little Birdie in August. Prior to that, Little Birdie paused their operations in the middle of May.

2025: September 8: Cashrewards announces closure. Little Birdie also confirms closure.

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Comments

  • nekro on 08/09/2025 - 12:42

    Cheers for the heads up op

  • G14Classified on 08/09/2025 - 12:45

    hrm i have ~$163 due 4 Dec…be lucky to see that :(

    • JimB on 08/09/2025 - 13:40

      Ouch!!!

      Hotel booking?

    • jjj123 on 08/09/2025 - 14:29
      +2

      All transactions that are pending as at Thursday, 11 September 2025 will be approved and then you will be able to withdraw your cashback.

  • ethannguyen on 08/09/2025 - 12:46
    -5

    I wonder when TopCashback and ShopBack will follow?

    • I Smell Pennies on 08/09/2025 - 13:11
      +4

      Hopefully never?

      • Neoika on 08/09/2025 - 13:21

        He certainly did not know the ending of StartHere(PricePal), Get Cheddar?!

        • coffeeinmyveins on 08/09/2025 - 14:43
          +3

          Get cheddar was hilarious.

          CommBank thinks their innovation lab where they spend millions on UI designers and user research is so groundbreaking but they essentially just did cash rewards for genz and it failed

  • mrhugo on 08/09/2025 - 12:46
    +2

    This remains to be seen

    • All transactions that are pending as at Thursday, 11 September 2025 will be approved and then you will be able to withdraw your cashback.*

    I have int flights and booking.com accommodation that is usually approved months after the travel completion, which takes me into the end of the year/early next year. It's quite a bit as CR was running a 10% booking.com deal.

    • bohn on 08/09/2025 - 12:49
      -1

      heh,.. ones like that will prob be cancelled

    • FutureTech on 08/09/2025 - 13:01
      +4

      They're owned by ANZ I don't think they'll run away…

    • Squeezy on 08/09/2025 - 14:25

      as do I and am talking of a few hundred $$

    • techdave on 08/09/2025 - 14:30

      Same here, I have $600 worth of 'Pending' booking.com accommodation bookings up to stays in April 2026.
      I doubt they would honour this? If they do, great…

    • UrMumsOnlyFan on 08/09/2025 - 21:58
      +1

      From the email wording presumably ANZ has decided to write off the whole venture and will fork out for all pending cashbacks, even those that could be cancelled later such as hotel bookings.

      Not guaranteed to happen of course, but I wouldn't be concerned about it at this point in time.

  • Yummy on 08/09/2025 - 12:46

    Woohoo extra $2 in bank account. Thanks mucho, sire.

  • HamBoi69 on 08/09/2025 - 12:50
    +8

    They couldn’t manage without TA….

  • swamp potato on 08/09/2025 - 12:56
    +12

    The end of an era. Whilst I am sad, a part of me kind of welcomes the end of these cashback sites…

    They encouraged me to spend much more than I usually would and they’d be more of a hassle chasing up, which happened nearly every single time.

    • bohn on 08/09/2025 - 12:58
      +15

      They encouraged me to spend much more than I usually would

      I am sorry you lack financial discipline.

      • swamp potato on 08/09/2025 - 13:51
        +4

        Thanks for apologising.

        • bohn on 08/09/2025 - 13:54
          +1

          You will grow from this experience (probably).

          Just don't go near the KFC deals, that's not the sort of growth I am referring to.

    • Jolakot on 08/09/2025 - 13:57
      +1

      Honestly same, the FOMO tactics and fragile tracking links makes getting a good deal such a hassle.

    • jazlet on 08/09/2025 - 14:26
      +4

      part of me kind of welcomes the end of these cashback sites
      They encouraged me to spend much more than I usually would

      Right, because you cannot control yourself you welcome the end of these sites.. take responsibility for your actions lol

      • swamp potato on 08/09/2025 - 15:53

        Thanks for ending my quote right before I provide yet another reason why I welcome the end of this site.

        • jazlet on 08/09/2025 - 16:56

          and they’d be more of a hassle chasing up, which happened nearly every single time.

          The following up with CR is neither here nor there, and sounds like user error to be happening so frequently. Perhaps your urges to buy things were so strong, and they 'encouraged' you so much, that you forgot to turn the adblocker off lol

          Anyway, I hope you can take control back of your spending. Don't let TopCashBack be the next one to make you their victim ;)

  • yinyang on 08/09/2025 - 12:58
    -5

    You’d have thought that an email would have gone out to their members, or some kind of banner on the app to give people some sort of warning. But all a bit silent :(

    • MS Paint on 08/09/2025 - 13:01
      +1

      I would expect that in the next 48 hours.

    • tattooedarchivist on 08/09/2025 - 13:55
      +5

      I just received one.

      • MonkDog on 08/09/2025 - 14:11
        +1

        Yeah I got one just before 2pm.

    • Grannular on 08/09/2025 - 14:41
      +2

      Received an email an hour ago. I imagine the queue of emails to go out would be quite large. Also the need to avoid sending too many quickly and being marked as spam

  • mrhugo on 08/09/2025 - 13:03

    Weird its being closed, was it loosing them a ton of money? Why not offload it, it must be worth something with 2M plus users?

    • coffeeinmyveins on 08/09/2025 - 14:34
      +1

      Large user base doesn't mean profitable

    • netjock on 08/09/2025 - 15:38
      +3

      Usually the problem is:

      1. Not actually knowing the trouble ANZ bought themselves
      2. Once they realise the amount of cash required to work it
      3. ANZ senior management wouldn't have the expertise to run a cashback site or want to run a small site (example CBA and that site that cashback site they started)
      4. Considered non core when any kind of cost cutting exercise comes along to boost productivity
      5. Unwillingness to embrace it. At one point you were going to get more cashback if you had an ANZ card but that died out

      Would have been better if ANZ let Cashreward do what it was doing and just put marketing spend toward it for special promotions as engagement / customer benefits, that way they could turn off the tap at any time. Now it is just a pain to wind down.

  • worrierwan on 08/09/2025 - 13:04
    +4

    Was good while it lasted. RIP

  • ATangk on 08/09/2025 - 13:04
    +8

    My lifetime CR balance, including one which hasn't tracked, will just tick over $2500. Been a good run.

    • rompastompa on 08/09/2025 - 13:06

      I'm at just over $1100, cashed out and moved to TopCashBack when TA moved! ;)

      • ATangk on 08/09/2025 - 13:07
        +3

        TCB hasn't been around as long, but on the redder side of things, I'm at 5 digits 🙈

      • bobalot on 08/09/2025 - 14:59

        Who is TA everyone keeps referring to?

        • dowhatuwant2 on 08/09/2025 - 15:33
          +5

          Ozbargain user tightarse. He's was a rep for cashrewards in the past and more recently became a rep for TopCashBack. He gets ozbargain good deals and we love a good deal here.

    • kingsville on 08/09/2025 - 13:20

      Yep - it has been a very good run ($1,127.91 all up for me)

    • JimB on 08/09/2025 - 13:45
      +1

      $1,753 for me.

      Although $500 of it was not really 'free'.

      I choose a more expensive merchant but factored in the cashback. Still worked out in my favour.

    • FLICKIT on 08/09/2025 - 14:33
      +1

      Mines basically the same ~$2500… I haven't used them much in recent times though, other than for the odd bonuses but even that has been soured by them burying "ex GST" in the fine print and the likes, or the bonuses not registering and then I have to chase them up, lol…

      This news doesn't really shock me…

    • qvinto on 08/09/2025 - 15:13

      $5k for me

    • BadGiraffe on 08/09/2025 - 16:46

      Mine's $26. Cost of a meal. Better than nothing.

    • downhillmtbr on 08/09/2025 - 18:24
      +1

      Just checked and my lifetime is $1,234.50

      A very satisfying number indeed!

      • SomeGuyOnOzB on 08/09/2025 - 23:35

        Is there time to get 6c more cashback?

    • Smallman on 08/09/2025 - 19:47

      $8400 for me

    • SomeGuyOnOzB on 08/09/2025 - 23:34

      $1,535.57 here.

  • psqpower on 08/09/2025 - 13:09
    -1

    Have 2k+ from Trip.com offer and the iconic offer. Feel not good and duno whether I can finally got my money since it will pend so long. Now, SB is the only way to get shopback, I worried they don't need to offer any good deal now to keep competitive. Missed those days CR and SB competed with each other during holidays like BF.

    • idalla on 08/09/2025 - 13:11

      there's topcashback

      • psqpower on 08/09/2025 - 13:15
        -1

        Never try it before. Is there any good rate for the iconic or trip.com like 20%. Also Patagonia was just listed on Cashrewrds. Hope to see it will show on SB or Topcashback.

        • Iggemo on 08/09/2025 - 17:33
          +2

          Topcashback in my experience always has the best rates of the 3. In fact i barely used CR any more except for BWS deals when they popped up.

  • thisusernameistaken on 08/09/2025 - 13:09
    +6

    The best part of Cashrewards shutting down is now I won't get their email spam…

  • I Smell Pennies on 08/09/2025 - 13:09
    +4

    Crying!

  • humperdoo on 08/09/2025 - 13:18

    mmm. I requested a withdrawl on the 1/9 midday and it still hasn't hit my bank account. It is sitting as 'pending' under transaction history.

  • Mingenibbler on 08/09/2025 - 13:22
    +1

    This is so annoying. I just went to click on their 100% cashback for TEMU today and then the entire app broke :(

  • BigTed on 08/09/2025 - 13:28
    +13

    Its been a good ride - about $3.5k lifetime that I have gotten back.
    I don't understand how a business that simply splits referral commission could fail - especially given how widely it is known and used.
    It also basically holds tons of money for people until they draw it down. Again, how does that fail?

    • Hellfire on 08/09/2025 - 13:38
      +15

      CR turned corporate with the ANZ acquisition and just bloated.

      • JimB on 08/09/2025 - 13:46
        +1

        Not worth the ROI and effort.

        Plus ANZ got a new CEO who has been slashing everything, including jobs.

        • No Client List on 08/09/2025 - 14:39
          +6

          CEO must be looking for an Alan Joyce size bonus.

    • tightm8 on 08/09/2025 - 14:49
      +4

      How all startups that 'change the world' evolve. They become corporatised and add crazy overheads (usually a few ex consulting losers who never ran a business as a CEO/Director) then the pressure to profit more and more and more, then bye bye.

  • xdivino on 08/09/2025 - 13:33
    +1

    $8 remaining with them and can't get sms to withdraw.. boo urns..

    • AdrianW on 08/09/2025 - 14:28
      +1

      I got the SMS code but the webpage still gave a "An unexpected error occurred while sending the verification SMS" error.

      Tried a few times - three different SMS codes from three different numbers: AUTHMSG, TWVerify & Cashrewards.

    • FLICKIT on 08/09/2025 - 14:45

      I just did a withdrawal ok… My first try the SMS was delayed, the second try is came through ok and everything worked…

    • McFly on 08/09/2025 - 15:28

      I was saying boo urns.

  • HCBargain on 08/09/2025 - 13:47
    +5

    My lifetime is at $5,066.91. I was a pretty early signup, and took advantage of many of the offers. Will be sad to see it go. I haven't ever signed up to another service, might look in to that now.

    • drhip on 08/09/2025 - 14:21

      Jeez Geez, That's hell of money la. Good job HCB

    • nismo on 08/09/2025 - 14:48

      I was on pretty early too: $3,478.56

      • rbimdxe on 08/09/2025 - 16:56

        Also early, and just a hair over 3k.

        Stopped really using CR once the DM/FCL 20% deals stopped.

        Had s golden run stocking the bar for a few years there

    • Squeezy on 08/09/2025 - 16:51

      My lifetime : $5,905.87 going back to 2020 it seems when I did my first cashback transaction

      but quite a few of those were camera/lens purchases that combined with the Sony offers and Amex meant some super cheap gear

  • DrScavenger on 08/09/2025 - 13:48
    +1

    This is pretty disappointing. Now SB and top cashback are the only ones and SB is significantly larger afaik, at least in Australia.

  • superforever on 08/09/2025 - 13:53
    +1

    Wondering what will happen with those Aliexpress activated pending bonus but not showing in rewards list.

    • blehgg on 08/09/2025 - 14:12

      is ANZ the owners of CR?

  • Uncle Roger on 08/09/2025 - 13:56
    -1

    Is this why my gas provider change didn't track last week wtfff

  • follow on 08/09/2025 - 13:59
    -8

    😭 only shopback left (🖕🏾 tcb)

  • MaxiPower on 08/09/2025 - 14:00
    +1

    And so it begins : 504 Gateway Time-out

  • Looking4Bargians on 08/09/2025 - 14:01

    Can't even load the page. Too Busy. Must be a big withdrawal going on by everyone.

  • 17731773 on 08/09/2025 - 14:03

    I have $300 pending from a large accommodation booking. Damn.

  • payless69 on 08/09/2025 - 14:08
    -1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqsJWH_Y3Tc

    payless69 on 08/09/2025 - 14:08 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
  • Usemame on 08/09/2025 - 14:10
    +1

    Will miss their $5 off $20 spend deals though. It was straight up 25% off for stuffs I was buying anyway.

  • DingoBilly on 08/09/2025 - 14:14
    +2

    RIP. Although not too surprising - Shopback seems to have eaten the market, although there are doubts about how profitable it is.

    Will be interesting to see if TCB can survive and keep burning money as they have been.

    • JSONBourne on 08/09/2025 - 14:23
      +2

      Shopback seemed to have good deals, but also the communication and tracking was so much better.

      Cashrewards was a hope for the best scenario. Shopback at least has some semblance of traceability.

  • A female dog on 08/09/2025 - 14:15

    If only they had offered a Cashrewards Pro Premium Plus model - that would've kept the business afloat 😪

    /s

  • gezza90 on 08/09/2025 - 14:17
    +3

    I hope SB and TCB continue to offer the 25% /30% cashback on BWS/Liquorland. Got a some good whisky deals out of them.

    • McFly on 08/09/2025 - 15:31

      gezza90 whisky bottles per year…

      • gezza90 on 08/09/2025 - 16:19

        That's the KPI per yr

  • gadgetguy on 08/09/2025 - 14:20

    I take the wording to mean approvals due now-ish will be declined or approved (as normal) and that everything else that's pending will be left and approved within the next 3 days.

    I hope they are just not going to auto-decline any future transactions.

  • kid-vhee on 08/09/2025 - 14:22
    +1

    Had a good run - 1500 lifetime. Hoping this puts my existing pending ExpressVPN CR to approved.

    Loved it for my aliexpress purchases.

    • kid-vhee on 08/09/2025 - 14:25

      Silver lining - Finally will decide to use TopCashback or Shopback - can probably take up those 100%VPN offers again.

  • Far Cough on 08/09/2025 - 14:22
    -3

    omg ozb is being spammed by newbies about the closure.

  • browser on 08/09/2025 - 14:24
    +1

    Best to take a screenshot of all pending transactions, to ensure that they don't just disappear.

  • RocketToSpace on 08/09/2025 - 14:25
    +3

    This F-ing sucks.

    More and more Australian Businesses being closed down almost monthly at this rate (And soon less if this trend continues). First we lost Catch back in April > Reject shop being replaced with some canadian store and now Cashrewards is going…

    We can't have anything anymore…

    • ceebee on 10/09/2025 - 03:50

      Looking at the articles, they sold Reject because it was actually doing well. They were about to open 7 new stores before the takeover. So this is more about corporate greed and the fact they are letting successful Australian businesses be taken over by foreign players.

      Catch and I assume Cashrewards are different and were not proifitable/sustainable after their buyouts and folded.

      Sad about Cashrewards though, it was way better than Shopback and less competition means worse rates.

  • Brightland on 08/09/2025 - 14:25
    +1

    I noticed my AliExpress purchase yesterday didn't track, and my purchases from a week or two ago were payable already which I thought was odd. I had another payout from a week ago that hasn't come through… I use TopCashback most of the time now anyway as the rates were usually better for where I shop so now I just hope my payouts come through.

  • SmallBigCat on 08/09/2025 - 14:26
    +2

    How about those showing "Pending approval" under "For You" offers? I found they all gone and nothing showing tracking …

    • rith on 08/09/2025 - 17:47
      +1

      I'm wondering the same.. hopefully they also get approved. I have $3 sitting there. It's not much but it's something! And it's better than the 16c I otherwise have pending 😂

  • bundyoz on 08/09/2025 - 14:26
    -1

    Rip….such a bummer! Scored the email and wondered whether it was a scam or not! Unfortunately, not to be. So true about all the newbies. Couldn't even get onto Cashrewards or Ozbargain…..Bad Gateway, Timed out, etc…….. Gonna miss it :-(

  • simontadaa on 08/09/2025 - 14:26
    +1

    May as well take this time to confess that years ago a cashback was given to me even after I refunded the order. Can sleep easy now knowing they ain't coming for me in my sleep

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