Entity Monitoring API

Our Entity Monitoring API is part of the Business Collection. Watch Australian companies and ABN holders and get a webhook when something changes on the public registers.

Entity Monitoring API

General Overview

The Entity Monitoring API watches Australian companies and businesses by ACN or ABN. Active entities are checked daily against ASIC and the ABR. Deregistered companies and cancelled ABNs are checked weekly, so a reinstatement is still picked up. You get a webhook when a change is detected, for example a lodged document, a name, address or status change, a GST registration change, or a business name added or removed.

For companies, insolvency notices are delivered once found, and PPSR registration alerts are included where available. Insolvency notices and PPSR alerts apply to companies (ACN) only.

Monitoring is a prepaid 12-month term per entity, charged to your card when you order. You can stop an entity at any time, resume it for free while its term is still running, and renew it before it ends. A renewal starts from the current expiry date, so no days are lost.

This is a notification tool. It is not part of an AML/CTF program and is not compliance advice.

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Data Sources
ASIC, ABR, insolvency notices, PPSR (companies)

Form
Monitoring

Cost
$18.00 per entity per year, less your plan's volume discount (Pro and Enterprise from 15% off).

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What's Included

Daily Checks

Active entities are checked daily against ASIC and the ABR. Deregistered companies and cancelled ABNs are checked weekly, so a reinstatement is still picked up. Changes are sent to you once detected, including newly lodged ASIC documents.

Change Types

Document lodged, name change, address change, status change, entity type change, GST change, business name added or removed, insolvency notice, PPSR registration, trade mark filing, status, ownership and renewal, and licence or registration added, status changed, ended or conditions changed.

Insolvency Notices & PPSR

For companies, insolvency notices are delivered once found and PPSR registration alerts are included where available. Both apply to companies (ACN) only.

Trade Marks

Trade marks IP Australia records against an entity's ABN or ACN, with renewal reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days. Included in the entity price, for companies and ABN holders. It does not watch for look-alike marks filed by others.

Licences and Registrations

An entity's ASIC AFS and credit licences, authorised and credit representative status, and ACNC charity registration, matched by ABN or ACN. Included in the entity price. These registers are refreshed about weekly and show what is listed, not conduct or enforcement.

Snapshot and PDF Report

Fetch an entity's whole current record in one call, or download it as a dated PDF report (generated in Sydney time, with the as-at time of each source) to keep on file or send to a client. Included in the entity price.

Webhooks

monitoring.change_detected for each change, monitoring.expiring 30 and 7 days before a term ends, and monitoring.expired when it ends.

Event History

List the events for one entity or across all of them, and fetch any event in full. Pick up from a given time or event id to catch up after a webhook outage.

12-Month Terms

Add entities by ACN or ABN, up to 25 per request and up to 1,000 active entities per account by default (contact us for more). Monitoring does not renew automatically: you renew through the API, and we send reminders 30 and 7 days before expiry (not for deregistered companies, cancelled ABNs or locked accounts). Renewals start from the current expiry date. Stop an entity at any time, and resume it for free while its term is still running.

Pricing

$18.00 per entity per year, prepaid, less your plan's volume discount (Pro and Enterprise from 15% off). One card charge per order. Card billing only.

Sandbox Environment

Test keys are free. Use /api/test/v2/monitoring/entities with your test API key, and fire simulated change and expiry webhooks to test your integration.

Trade Mark Monitoring API for Australia

Track a company's or ABN holder's trade marks on IP Australia's register through the same API. Every monitored entity includes its trade marks at no extra charge, and every change arrives as a webhook your system can act on.

  • New trademark filings recorded against the entity's ABN or ACN (trade_mark_filed)
  • Status changes, for example accepted, registered, opposed, lapsed or removed (trade_mark_status_change)
  • Ownership changes, when a mark is assigned to or away from the entity (trade_mark_owner_change)
  • Renewal reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days before a registered mark falls due, and an event when it is renewed (trade_mark_renewal_due, trade_mark_renewed)
  • Mark details in every event: number, words, status, classes, renewal date and a link to the mark on IP Australia's search

Built for IP and brand-protection firms, law firms, accountants and software products that want trade mark renewal and ownership tracking inside their own system. Marks are matched to the entity by the owner's ABN or ACN, not by name. This is not a trade mark search API and does not watch for look-alike marks filed by others.

Entity monitoring is a notification tool. It is not part of an AML/CTF program and is not compliance advice.

Entity Monitoring API FAQs

  • Monitoring costs $18.00 per entity for a 12-month term, paid upfront. Your plan's volume discounts apply the same way they do to other services: Pro starts at 15% off, and Standard discounts start once your lodgements reach the next band. Enterprise pays the same as Pro, with Pro's discount bands based on your own lodgement count. Monitoring orders do not count toward your lodgement total. Each order can include up to 25 entities and is charged to your card as a single payment. Your account can monitor up to 1,000 active entities by default. Contact us if you need more.

    Monitoring is available on card billing only. It is not available on invoice billing.

  • Active entities are checked daily against ASIC and the ABR. Deregistered companies and cancelled ABNs are checked weekly, so a reinstatement is still picked up. When a change is found, including a newly lodged ASIC document, it is sent to you as a webhook once detected.

    For companies with an ACN, insolvency notices are delivered once found, and PPSR registration alerts are included where available. Insolvency notices and PPSR alerts do not apply to ABN-only entities such as sole traders.

    Trade marks IP Australia records against the entity's ABN or ACN are included for every entity: new filings, status and ownership changes, renewals, and renewal reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days. It does not watch for look-alike marks filed by others.

    Licences and registrations are included too: an entity's ASIC AFS and credit licence, its status as an authorised or credit representative, and ACNC charity registration, matched by ABN or ACN. You hear when one is added, suspended, reinstated or ends. These registers are refreshed about weekly and show what is listed, not conduct or enforcement.

    We do not promise a delivery window. A webhook tells you what kind of change happened (for example that a form was lodged), not the full content of the change.

  • Registered companies, including those with strike-off action in progress or under external administration, and active ABNs of any entity type, including sole traders. Add them by ACN or ABN, up to 25 per request and up to 1,000 active entities per account by default. Contact us if you need more.

  • Each entity is monitored for a prepaid 12-month term. There is no auto-renewal: you renew explicitly through the API.

    If you renew an entity while it is still active, the new 12 months start from its current expiry date, so you never lose days by renewing early. Renewals can stack up to 2 years ahead. If the term has already ended, the new term starts on the day you renew.

  • Yes. You can stop an entity at any time and webhooks for it stop straight away. While its paid term is still running you can resume it for free.

    There is no refund for change of mind when you stop early. This does not limit your rights under the Australian Consumer Law.

  • monitoring.change_detected when a change is found, monitoring.expiring 30 days and 7 days before an entity's term ends, and monitoring.expired when it ends. The account owner also gets an email before a term ends.

    Missed a webhook? Every event is also available through the API, so you can catch up after an outage on your side.

  • Yes. Requests made with a test API key are free, and test entities are kept separate from live ones. In test mode you can fire a simulated change or expiry webhook for an entity to check your integration.

  • Yes. Add a company or ABN holder and we watch the trade marks IP Australia records against it. You get a webhook when a mark is filed, changes status, changes owner or is renewed, plus renewal reminders at 90, 30 and 7 days. Trade mark monitoring is included in the entity price.

  • No. This tracks the trade marks owned by an entity you add, matched by ABN or ACN. It is not a name search and does not watch for look-alike marks filed by other people.

  • No. Entity monitoring is a notification tool. It is not part of an AML/CTF program and is not compliance advice.

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