Terms of use

Last updated September 2026

Barterie is run by Zigital Automations, a sole trader business in New South Wales, Australia (ABN 15 276 289 300). Using the app means you accept what is on this page. It is written to be read, not to be impressive.

What this is

A noticeboard where people offer things and skills, and swap them directly. We are not a party to your swap. We do not check, hold, insure, value, ship or guarantee anything anybody lists. The agreement is between the two of you.

No money passes through a swap: no payments between you, no credits, no tokens, no valuations, and we never take a cut of what you trade. Anyone asking you to send money for a listing is not using the app as intended, and you can report them. The one thing you can pay for is Barterie Plus, an optional subscription to the app itself, described below.

Your account

  • You need to be 18 or over to use Barterie. Signing in is your confirmation that you are.
  • Use your own Google account or email address, and a name people would recognise.
  • One account per person.
  • You are responsible for what you post and what you agree to.

What you list

  • List only what you actually have, and describe it honestly.
  • Do not list anything on the house rules prohibited list, or anything you are not legally allowed to hand over.
  • Use your own photos. By uploading them you let us show them in the app while your listing is up.
  • You keep ownership of everything you write and photograph.
  • Reviews must be about a swap that happened and honest about it. We can hide a review that is abusive, made up, or about something other than the swap.

Swaps, and what they are worth

A swap is worth whatever the two of you agree it is worth. We do not price anything, and we do not mediate disagreements about value.

Bartering can still have tax consequences, especially if you are trading as a business. In Australia the ATO treats barter transactions like any other income or expense. That is between you and your accountant, not something we track.

Barterie Plus

Everything that makes Barterie work is free: browsing, posting, offering, messaging, swapping and reviewing. Barterie Plus is an optional subscription that lifts the limit on how many listings you can have on the board at once, puts a supporter mark on your profile, and helps pay for the server.

  • It costs AUD 3.99 a month, billed by Zigital Automations (ABN 15 276 289 300). Prices include any GST that applies.
  • New subscriptions start with 7 days free. Cancel inside those 7 days and nothing is charged.
  • After the free week it renews every month on its own, until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your profile, which opens our payment provider's own page.
  • Cancelling stops the next payment. Plus keeps working until the end of the period you have already paid for, and we do not refund part of a month.
  • Card details go to Stripe, our payment provider. We never see or store your card number.
  • If a payment fails, Plus stops at the end of the paid period and the account simply goes back to free. Nothing you have posted or swapped is deleted.
  • Gift codes grant Plus directly, with no card and nothing to cancel. A code can be a fixed number of months or for good, and what a code has already granted is not taken back if we later switch that code off.
  • If we ever change the price, you will be told before it applies to you, and you can cancel instead.
  • Nothing here removes your rights under Australian Consumer Law, including a refund where the service is faulty.

Moderation

We can hide a listing, hide a review, or close an account that breaks these terms or the house rules. Listings are archived rather than deleted so past swaps still make sense. If we close your account you can ask us why.

Liability

We provide the app as it is, and we do our best to keep it running. We are not liable for what people do offline: what they hand over, what condition it is in, whether they turn up, or what happens when you meet. We are not a second-hand dealer: nothing listed here passes through our hands. Nothing on this page removes rights you have under Australian Consumer Law.

Changes and closing your account

These terms will change as the product does, and the date at the top will change with them. You can stop using Barterie at any time and ask us to delete your account.

Contact

info@zigitalautomations.com