How To Register A Business Name?

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Steps to register your business name

Y'all tin can register a business organisation name using the Australian Regime'due south Business organisation Registration Service. BRS combines several business and tax registrations in one place, making it even easier to kickoff a business concern.

How to annals a business name using ASIC Connect
Video tutorials
What to practice if you have not received your tape of registration or invoice
One time registered, what do I need to do?

How to register a business proper noun using ASIC Connect

You can also annals a business name directly with ASIC by using ASIC Connect. For a visual guide, read our 'How to register a business proper name' user guides.

Step 1 - Log in to ASIC Connect and select the 'Licences and Registrations' tab at the summit of the page

If you don't take an ASIC Connect business relationship, yous tin can register online.
If you lot're logging in for the first time, brand sure yous say 'No', you don't have a current business. Y'all don't need an ASIC cardinal to register.

Footstep 2 - Select 'Business name' from the drop-down box

Select 'business proper noun' from the drop-downwardly box and select 'Get'. Read the information and brand sure you lot tick the boxes. Select 'Get started'.

Step three - Enter your Australian Business Number (ABN)

You must have an Australian Business Number (ABN) or have applied for an ABN to register a business proper noun. Select the relevant option, enter your ABN, and select 'Next'. You must enter your ABN without whatsoever spaces.

Stride 4 - Enter the proposed business proper name

Enter the proposed concern name exactly every bit yous would like information technology to appear on our annals. Business names are case sensitive.

Footstep 5 - Select the registration period

Y'all tin can annals a concern for ane year or three years. Later on this menstruum, it must be renewed.

Step 6 - Enter the business name holder'southward details.

Enter the proposed business name holder details (e.thou. the holder's appointment of nativity)

Step 7 - Enter the proposed concern proper name'southward addresses

Enter the addresses of the proposed business name.

Step 8 - Ostend the eligibility to concur the business organisation name.

To hold a business name, the holder cannot be disqualified or convicted of criminal offences outlined in the Business Names Registration Act 2011.

Step 9 - Review your awarding

Review your awarding; brand sure your business organization name is spelt correctly. Complete the declarations and confirm you're authorised to submit the application.

Step 10 - Make payment and ostend your transaction.

You can pay by credit card, BPAY, or request an invoice. If y'all don't pay within x days, your application volition be cancelled and yous volition need to reapply.

Once you've fabricated payment, you'll run into a confirmation screen. Once payment has been fabricated, your business name should exist registered within 48 hours.

Video tutorials

You can watch our video tutorial to learn more about registering a business organisation proper name for the first fourth dimension using ASIC Connect.

You can as well watch our video tutorial on how to register a business name using ASIC Connect.

What to practise if you accept non received your tape of registration or invoice

Once your concern proper noun is registered, you will receive a tape of registration.

If y'all choose to pay for your business proper name registration via invoice, we volition email information technology to you lot within 48 hours. You must pay within ten business days.

Find out what to do if you haven't received your record of registration, invoice, or renewal discover.

Once I've registered, what do I demand to do?

Once the business name has been registered, we'll email you a re-create of your record of registration. You tin then trade using the name.

If your details modify, yous must update your details with the states. (for instance, if yous've moved addresses).

You must prominently display your business name wherever you're open up to the public, like at your storefront. You must also update your business correspondence, such as invoices or buy orders, to include your registered business proper noun and ABN.