Cambodia eVisa Fees Explained for Australians: 2026 What's Included (No Hidden Charges)

Why Aussies expect hidden fees (and why Cambodia is different)

Most Australian travellers who have applied for a visa to India, Vietnam, or Indonesia in the last few years have been trained to expect the price they see on the homepage to bear almost no relation to the price that lands on their card statement. A $25 USD (~$38 AUD) eVisa banner becomes a $58 USD (~$89 AUD) checkout once the "processing fee", "convenience fee", "document handling charge", and 4% currency surcharge are added. Then the bank tacks on its own international transaction fee. By the time the email confirmation arrives, the actual cost is double the advertised figure.

That experience shapes how Aussies read every visa price now — including the Cambodia one. The most common question into our Sydney support inbox is some version of "is the $80 USD (~$122 AUD) actually $80 USD, or is it $80 USD plus a stack of extras at the final step?" Fair question. The honest answer is that Cambodia, and specifically how we have priced the Australian funnel, is genuinely different on this. The number on the order summary is the number on your card statement. There is no second screen.

This article exists because "all-in" is a phrase every reseller uses, including the ones that absolutely do bolt on a card surcharge at the final step. Below is the line-by-line breakdown of what the $80 USD (~$122 AUD) Tourist and $90 USD (~$137 AUD) Business eVisa fees actually cover, what they do not cover, and the only legitimate extra charge in the Cambodia entry stack — the $20 USD (~$31 AUD) verified e-Arrival, which is a separate mandatory product rather than a hidden fee.

If you have not yet decided which visa product you need, the Australian eligibility primer covers it cleanly. If you are already deep in the booking window and want to skip ahead, the application walkthrough is the field-by-field version.

What the $80 USD (~$122 AUD) and $90 USD (~$137 AUD) actually include

The Tourist eVisa at $80 USD (~$122 AUD) is processed end-to-end inside that single fee. Form lodgement with the Cambodian eVisa portal, photo checked against the current Immigration spec before submission, passport scan reviewed for edge crop and machine-readable zone clarity, status tracked on your behalf for the full 3-business-day window, and the approved PDF delivered to the inbox you applied with. The Business eVisa at $90 USD (~$137 AUD) does the same with a slightly more involved review of the stated purpose of travel — and unlocks the in-country extension pathway once you arrive.

Two pieces of the bundle are worth pulling out because they are where competitors most often charge separately. The free resubmission: if Cambodian Immigration responds with a flagged correction — almost always a photo retake or a passport scan reshoot — we handle the rework inside the existing fee. There is no second processing charge and no "amendment" line item. The Aussie-timezone support: questions answered in English during Australian business hours by email and live chat, not a generic overseas help desk operating on Phnom Penh time.

What you don't pay extra for

No card surcharge. Some Australian merchants pass on a 1.5–3% credit-card processing fee at the final checkout screen — we do not. The price quoted is the price charged regardless of whether you pay with Visa debit, AmEx, PayPal, Apple Pay, or Google Pay. No FX margin from us. The USD→AUD conversion you see at checkout uses the live mid-market rate plus standard card-network costs. We do not add a transparent or hidden margin on top.

No postage. The Cambodia eVisa is delivered as a PDF to your inbox — there is nothing to courier, nothing to post, no tracked envelope from Phnom Penh. No document copies. We do not charge for sending you a duplicate of the approval letter if you delete the original email three weeks later. No support emails. Every reply from our Sydney desk is inside the fee. No resubmission. Already mentioned, but worth saying twice — if Immigration sends the file back for a corrected photo, the second attempt is free.

On resubmissions specifically — competitors that quote a lower headline price almost always charge a second processing fee at the point of correction. A $50 USD (~$76 AUD) eVisa banner often becomes $75 USD (~$114 AUD) once the photo retake is processed under a separate "amendment" SKU. Our resubmission guide walks through what Cambodian Immigration actually asks for when it kicks an application back, so you can see how often this comes up — usually a photo that did not meet the white-background spec, occasionally a passport scan with a cropped edge.

Verified e-Arrival is the only legitimate add-on

The one separate transaction in the Cambodia entry stack is the e-Arrival Card. This is a different mandatory product — fourteen fields covering passport, flight, accommodation, customs, and health, submitted in the 7-day window before your flight departs Australia. The Cambodian government runs it as its own form on its own portal. Our verified e-Arrival is $20 USD (~$31 AUD) and includes the same pre-submission spec check we apply to the visa. It is not a hidden fee on the visa — it is a separate product that some travellers buy and some prepare themselves. The Australia country pillar has the full breakdown if you want the longer note.

Worked example — a single Aussie applying for the Tourist eVisa

Concrete numbers are easier than abstract pricing. Take a single Australian traveller — call her Maddy, flying Sydney to Phnom Penh in mid-July 2026 for two weeks of leisure travel. She applies for the Tourist eVisa from a Sydney desk on a Tuesday evening, paying with a Westpac Visa debit card.

The order summary shows $80.00 USD. Next to it: $122 AUD. She taps confirm. Her card is charged $122.40 AUD — the exact figure depends on the live mid-market USD→AUD rate at the moment of transaction, so it lands somewhere in the $121–$124 AUD band day-to-day. There is no second line item, no "processing fee", no card surcharge appearing at the final step. The confirmation email lands in her inbox 90 seconds later showing the single $80 USD / $122.40 AUD charge.

Three days later her bank statement settles. The line item reads $122.40 AUD against our merchant name. Westpac, like most Australian banks, applies a 3% international transaction fee on USD-denominated charges — so $3.67 AUD shows up as a separate line below the main transaction. That fee is paid to Westpac, not to us. It is the only "extra" Maddy will see, and it is between her and her bank. A debit card on Wise, Up Bank, or Revolut would avoid it entirely.

Total cost to Maddy for the Cambodia eVisa: $122.40 AUD to us, plus $3.67 AUD to her bank, equals $126.07 AUD landed cost. If she also buys the verified e-Arrival, add $20 USD (~$31 AUD) and the matching bank surcharge. The AUD conversion mechanics are covered in more depth in the dedicated AUD conversion guide. The headline number to keep in mind is that the figure on the checkout page and the figure on the card statement always match — the bank's own surcharge sits on a separate line and is its own conversation.

If Maddy decides at the last minute that she also wants to book through us rather than DIY the e-Arrival, the second checkout takes about ninety seconds and lands as its own line on her statement. From a pricing-transparency angle, two products means two charges — never one inflated total dressed up as a bundle discount. That separation is deliberate, so the cancellation, refund, and resubmission rules for each product stay clean rather than getting tangled together. The Cambodia eVisa application is the single entry point either way.

Group and family applications — no discount, but no surprises either

Australian families travelling together to Cambodia almost always ask whether the per-application price drops for two, three, or four people on the same booking. The honest answer is no. Each application is a separately processed file with its own Cambodian government tariff underneath, and there is no volume discount built into the eVisa scheme. A family of four applying together pays four times the Tourist fee — $320 USD (~$488 AUD) all-in for four travellers — and gets four PDFs back inside the same 3-business-day window.

Where families do get a small operational win is the pay-for-others mechanic. One Australian cardholder can pay for all four applications in a single checkout, with each traveller's passport and photo uploaded as a separate sub-application inside the order. The card statement shows a single $488 AUD charge against our merchant name rather than four separate charges, which keeps the household reconciliation tidy. Each family member still gets their own individual approval letter at the end.

Children get the same fee as adults — Cambodian Immigration does not run a discounted child or infant tariff under the eVisa scheme. Every passport holder, regardless of age, gets a $80 USD (~$122 AUD) Tourist (or $90 USD / ~$137 AUD Business) application processed against the same flat tariff. This is the part Aussie parents are most often surprised by, because most other countries in the region (Vietnam, Thailand-when-it-runs, Indonesia) have a reduced rate or zero fee for children. Cambodia does not.

For the standard family-of-four worked example and the per-person AUD breakdown including the e-Arrival, the full Cambodia visa cost for Australians guide has the figures laid out cleanly.

What to do if you see an unexpected charge

The fastest way to read a Cambodia eVisa transaction on an Australian card statement is to expect exactly two line items if you bought both products: one for the visa and one for the verified e-Arrival. The visa charge appears against our merchant name, in the AUD amount shown at checkout. The e-Arrival, if purchased, appears as its own separate $20 USD (~$31 AUD) line. That is the full picture from us.

If you see a third charge, work through three explanations in order before anything else. First, the bank's international transaction fee — usually 2.5–3% of the main charge, sometimes listed as "intl txn fee" or "overseas processing". This is the most common cause and it is between you and your bank, not a charge from us. Second, a dynamic currency conversion fee if the checkout was ever loaded through an aggressive third-party FX layer, though our direct checkout does not apply this. Third, an unrelated transaction that happens to have settled the same day.

If after working through those three you genuinely cannot match a line item to a product you bought from us, the path is straightforward. Email the Sydney support desk with the date, AUD amount, and last four digits of the card. We can match the transaction inside an hour during Australian business hours and either confirm what it relates to or process a refund immediately if it is a duplicate. Cardholder chargebacks are always available as a fallback, but in practice almost every "second charge" question resolves cleanly inside the support thread before that step is needed.

The wider Cambodia eVisa payment troubleshooting playbook covers card declines, 3D Secure prompts, PayPal currency settings, and the small handful of Australian banks that have flagged Cambodian merchant codes for review. For applications that have been declined outright rather than a payment query, the rejected-eVisa playbook is the right next read. Aussies who want a sanity-check on the wider Cambodia travel picture before tapping confirm can also cross-reference the Smartraveller advisory — it does not list visa fees but it is the canonical Australian government source on entry rules.

Next steps and related reading for Australians: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, bookmark our Cambodia visa hub for Australian citizens as the single canonical reference, skim the FAQ on Cambodia visa cost for quick answers, and use our glossary of Cambodia visa terms to decode any acronym in this guide.