Guidance

Price transparency: CMA209

Complying with the law on unfair commercial practices relating to price transparency.

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Price transparency

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This guidance explains how businesses and traders must be transparent when displaying pricing information.

It covers:

  • what to include in your pricing information (including mandatory fees, taxes and charges)
  • ‘drip pricing’ (this is when prices are added as consumers proceed with a transaction)
  • ‘partitioned pricing’ (this is when component parts of a price are given, but the overall price a customer would pay is not)

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Published 18 November 2025

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