On those cards, nearly 10 million transactions are made every day, with a daily value of around one billion dollars. To put this in some sort of perspective, the value of spending on personal cards is about half the size of household consumption.
Card payments are a big proportion of the number of non-cash payments in the economy, but only a small proportion of their value. More card payments are made in Australia than the other main means of non-cash payments – that is, direct debits and credits, BPAY and cheques – combined.