Enrol with us

Learn how to enrol with us or update your existing details.

If you provide a designated service with a geographical link to Australia you must enrol. If you’re a remittance or virtual asset service provider, you must enrol and register.

Enrol or update your details in AUSTRAC Online

You must create a user account with us to enrol.

After creating an account, log in and complete the enrol a new business form.

You can save your progress and return to the form for up to 14 days.

Key dates

You can now enrol and update your enrolment details in AUSTRAC Online.

You must apply to enrol no later than 28 days after the day you start providing a designated service.

Newly regulated businesses

You must apply to enrol by 29 July 2026 if you provide any of the new designated services that commence on 1 July 2026.

Learn about designated services for newly regulated entities.

Generally you won’t need to register if you are a lawyer, accountant, real estate agent, conveyancer or dealer in precious metals and stones. Registration is an extra process that typically only applies to money remitters and people providing specialised virtual asset services. If you send or receive money or virtual assets incidentally to your other services, you generally don’t need to register.

Learn more about remittance service providers and virtual asset service providers.

Remittance or virtual asset service providers

If you’re a remittance or virtual asset service provider, you’ll also need to register once you’ve enrolled.

Providers of the new virtual asset services must apply to enrol and register by 29 July 2026. Learn how to register with us.

If you’re already a digital currency exchange provider, you have until 29 July 2026 to update your enrolment information as a virtual asset service provider.

Current reporting entities

You’ll need to update your enrolment details on AUSTRAC Online between 31 March and 30 May 2026.

This is to provide the new information you must report under changes to the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) laws.

Reporting groups

If you’re a member of a reporting group, you must enrol with us, or update your existing enrolment details, if you’re:

a reporting entity
the lead entity.

Learn more about reporting groups.

Information you must provide

When you enrol, you’ll provide information about the designated services you provide and your business.

Current reporting entities will need to provide some new information under changes to the AML/CTF laws. This may include:

expanded or amended designated services
beneficial owners of your business
details of your AML/CTF compliance officer
updated organisational profile information
reporting group details.

Learn more about the:

How to sign up for a user account

For help signing up for a user account, you can view:

If you get a new user invitation email, follow the instructions to sign up for a user account.

How to complete the form

For help completing the form, you can:

view how to enrol a business
contact us if you’re having trouble using or completing the form, or if you get an error message when you try to submit it.

Once you submit the form, you’ll get a submission confirmation message and email with your receipt number and AUSTRAC Account Number (AAN).

We’ll send you a confirmation email to let you know when you’re enrolled, registered or have an online account. We may contact you to ask for more information.

Existing and additional accounts

If your business has been providing a designated service for some time, you likely already have an AUSTRAC Online account.

Try to log in to AUSTRAC Online. Your username is usually your email address. You can reset your password through the login screen.

If you think your business has an account but you can’t login or reset your password, contact us. We’ll ask you for information about your identity and your organisation.

Adding a new business

If you have a new business with a different ABN to your existing business, you’ll need to add a new business to your account.

Updating your details

You must keep your enrolment details up to date.

If details about your business or designated services change, you must update your enrolment details within 14 days of the change occurring.

Requesting removal from the Reporting Entities Roll

This section refers to the Act section 51G and the Rules section 3–8.

When you enrol, you’ll be added to the Reporting Entities Roll (the Roll). You may apply in writing to be removed from the Roll when you no longer need to be enrolled with us.

You can apply to be removed from the Roll by submitting a request on AUSTRAC Online.

Learn more about requesting removal from the Roll.

You’ll continue to have obligations while you remain on the Roll. For example, you must continue to submit an annual compliance report.

This guidance sets out how we interpret certain Australian legislation, along with associated Rules and regulations. Australian courts are ultimately responsible for interpreting these laws and determining if any provisions of these laws are contravened.

The examples and scenarios in this guidance are meant to help explain our interpretation of these laws. They’re not exhaustive or meant to cover every possible scenario.

This guidance provides general information and isn't a substitute for legal advice. This guidance avoids legal language wherever possible and it might include generalisations about the application of the law. Some provisions of the law referred to have exceptions or important qualifications. In most cases your particular circumstances must be taken into account when determining how the law applies to you.

Last updated: 1 Apr 2026