Financial Services Guide
Issuer: Hello Clever Pty Ltd ACN 637 950 497 AFSL No. 564985
Date: 4 August 2026
This Financial Services Guide (FSG) is dated 4 August 2026 and is issued by Hello Clever Pty Ltd ABN 69 637 950 497 AFSL No. 564985 (Hello Clever, we, our or us).
1. Purpose of this Financial Services Guide
This FSG sets out key information about the financial services we may provide to you. It is designed to assist you to make an informed decision about the financial services we provide and contains important information about:
- who we are and how to contact us;
- the financial services we are authorised to provide;
- how we are paid in relation to the financial services we provide; and
- how to make a complaint.
We strongly recommend that you read and understand this FSG before you engage us to provide you with any financial services. Please contact us if you have any questions.
2. Who we are
We are the issuer of a merchant payment platform. The platform comprises payment gateway technology (Hello Clever Solution) and an associated online account (Hello Clever Account). The Hello Clever Account is issued to merchants and allows a merchant to receive funds for payments made by its customers. Once those funds are received into the Hello Clever Account, the merchant can then use the transfer, holding, multi-currency and conversion services described in this document.
The Hello Clever Account is made up of two sub-accounts:
- a Payments Sub-Account, which enables you to collect payments from third parties in supported currencies; and
- a Treasury Sub-Account, which is a multi-currency wallet that enables you to hold, convert, withdraw and disburse funds in supported currencies.
The Hello Clever Account is a non-cash payment facility and has the following features. In each case, the merchant first receives funds for payments made by its customers, and can then use the following services in respect of the funds received:
- the ability to receive payments from the merchant's customers in supported currencies through the Hello Clever Solution;
- once funds are received, the ability to hold balances in multiple supported currencies;
- once funds are received, the ability to undertake foreign currency conversions on supported currencies; and
- once funds are received, the ability to transfer, withdraw and make non-cash payments to third-parties.
We only act on our own behalf with respect to the financial services we provide.
3. Documents you may receive
We may provide you with general financial product advice. General advice is financial advice that does not take your personal needs, objectives or financial situation into account. General advice may be provided to you individually, or as part of broader communications we may distribute through our social media channels or through written collateral such as brochures or other information sheets.
If you open an account with us, you will receive a Product Disclosure Statement (PDS). The PDS contains important information about the Hello Clever Account and Hello Clever Solution, including features, benefits, risks, costs, fees and charges. The PDS is intended to help you to make an informed decision about whether to acquire the Hello Clever Account. We encourage you to read it carefully.
The Hello Clever Account and Hello Clever Solution are governed by our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, which can be accessed from our website (www.helloclever.co).
4. Financial services we are authorised to provide
We hold an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL No. 564985) and are authorised to provide the following financial services to retail and wholesale clients:
- provide general financial product advice in relation to non-cash payment products and foreign exchange contracts;
- deal in a financial product by issuing non-cash payment products and foreign exchange contracts; and
- deal in a financial product by applying for, acquiring, varying or disposing of non-cash payment products and foreign exchange contracts on behalf of another person.
5. General advice warning
We only provide factual information or general advice about our services, which does not take your personal circumstances into account. As a result, before acting on any information or advice we provide, you should consider the appropriateness of it having regard to your personal objectives, financial situation and needs. You should carefully consider the PDS of a financial product before making a decision about whether to acquire it.
6. How we are paid for our services
Any general financial product advice we provide is free of charge.
We will charge you fees in connection with the Hello Clever Solution and Hello Clever Account. These include fees for processing and collecting payments, for converting funds from one supported currency to another, and for holding funds in supported currencies. We may charge a percentage based fee or a fixed fee for these activities. Our current fee rates are available on the Hello Clever Account, the Hello Clever Solution interface, or our website, or you can contact us to request this information without charge. Our fees are updated from time to time.
Where we convert one currency to another, the exchange rate we quote includes a spread. The spread is a mark-up built into the rate and is not disclosed to you separately. It is different from any transaction fee we charge, which is disclosed separately in the quote. The total conversion rate and the fees applicable to a conversion are set out in the quote we email to you, as described in the PDS.
Hello Clever may introduce new fees and charges or increase its existing fees and charges at any time by giving notice via the website, the Hello Clever Solution or the Hello Clever Account.
7. How to give us instructions
If you wish to use our services, you may give us your instructions via the Hello Clever Solution or your Hello Clever Account.
8. How we and our staff are remunerated
Our directors and employees are remunerated by salary.
Our employees may also be eligible to receive bonuses. Bonuses are determined on a balanced scorecard basis, which assesses a range of individual and team metrics. These metrics are both financial and non-financial. It is not possible to determine in advance what, if any, bonus an employee will receive, as bonuses are not attributed to any particular product or service that an employee provides.
You may request more details about the way our directors and employees are remunerated within a reasonable time after receiving this FSG and before any financial services are given to you.
9. Disclosure of any conflicts of interest
We do not have any relationships or associations which might influence us in providing you with our financial products and services.
10. Compensation arrangements in place
Hello Clever maintains professional indemnity insurance to cover its advice and any recommendations provided. This policy complies with the requirements imposed under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
11. Contact
If you have any further questions about the financial products and services we provide, please contact us:
Email: support@helloclever.co
Website: www.helloclever.co
12. Complaints
If you have a complaint or concern about the products and services provided to you, we encourage you to contact us about your concern. When your complaint is received by us it will be investigated. If your concern is not resolved, or if you are not satisfied with the decision, you may contact the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA), which is an external dispute resolution scheme. AFCA's details are:
Phone: 1800 931 678
Email: info@afca.org.au
Address: GPO Box 3, Melbourne VIC 3001
Website: www.afca.org.au