Where POLi stands in 2026
POLi was, for a decade, the way Australians paid online straight from their bank account without a card. It worked by opening a window into your internet banking, pre-filling a transfer and confirming it for the merchant in real time. Offshore pokies sites liked it because it gave instant confirmation; players liked it because there was no card statement.
That model relied on screen-scraping your banking session, and Australian banks have progressively withdrawn support for it in favour of the New Payments Platform. The result is that POLi has been retired as a practical deposit method for pokies sites. None of the 18 sites we track listed it when we read their cashiers, which is why the list at the top of this page is empty.
What to use instead
PayID is the direct replacement. It runs on the New Payments Platform, is supported by every major Australian bank, settles in seconds around the clock and shows you the payee’s name before you confirm. The PayID pokies sites page lists every operator that takes it.
Osko and bank transfer cover every site on our list. If both banks are Osko-enabled the transfer is near-instant; if not, it settles in batches. The Osko and bank transfer page explains the difference.
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If you see a POLi logo on a pokies site
Treat it as a stale asset. Try it if you like, but expect the transaction to fail or to be redirected. Do not enter your internet-banking credentials into any third-party window you cannot verify; a working POLi session used to look exactly like a phishing page, and now that the genuine service has shrunk, a “POLi” window on an offshore site is more likely to be the latter.
Why we keep this page
Players still search for POLi pokies sites, and an honest answer is more useful than a list padded with sites that no longer take it. If a tracked operator adds POLi back, its card will appear above automatically because the list is generated from the deposit methods in our data rather than written by hand.
