Get paid on your terms.
Automatically.
Pay My Business turns your terms of trade, invoicing and payment collection into one system that runs itself — so you chase fewer invoices and know exactly who owes what.
Everything between “sent the quote” and “got paid”.
From knowing who you’re dealing with to money in the bank — one flow, no spreadsheets, no chasing.
Identify
Know exactly who you’re dealing with. Every business is verified against the Australian Business Register — with beneficial-ownership and sanctions checks on the Compliance plan.
Agree
Lock in legally sound terms of trade, signed on the spot on any device — by everyone who needs to sign.
Secure
Take a deposit on acceptance and — for business customers — register a security interest on the PPSR, so you’re protected before the work starts.
Collect
The balance collects itself, and retries a backup card if one fails. You just get paid.
Credit control that runs itself.
The paperwork, the payments and the compliance in one place — so the admin between winning work and banking the money mostly disappears. And if the form you need doesn’t exist yet, you can build it.
Automagic Payments
Card and direct-debit collection that runs on its own. Deposits on acceptance, balances on completion and automatic backup-card retry with instant alerts when something needs attention.
- Card & Australian bank direct debit
- Deposit-on-acceptance & balance-on-completion
- Recurring & subscription billing on any schedule
- Failed-payment recovery — Trades & Compliance
Terms of trade & proposals
Legally sound terms and proposals, signed in minutes and kept current when the law changes. Put your terms link on your own website and new customers onboard themselves — details, signature and payment method, no back-and-forth.
Legally binding e-signing
Signed on any device with a real drawn signature — captured with the signatory’s IP address and a timestamp — and as many co-signatories as the agreement needs.
Build any form you need
Not just terms of trade. Credit applications, onboarding packs, safety checklists, authority forms — build any document you need from the same engine and get it back with a legally binding signature on it.
Pre-authorise up to $20,000
Put a hold on the customer’s card before you start — the money is held, not charged. Complete the job, capture the amount and you never carried the risk.
Approve variations on the spot
The job changed? Record the variation, have the customer approve it on your phone and the extra is charged automatically — every change signed and kept in order.
Overdue-debt escalation
When an invoice goes overdue, itemise the principal, your fees and interest at the rate in your own terms — worked out day by day, ready for a letter of demand.
PPSR / security registration
Register an all-present-and-after-acquired-property security interest over a business customer and keep the verification statement on file — a flat $22, scheduled if you like. Commercial customers only.
Bring your customers in from Xero
Connect your Xero organisation to import your contacts, or bring customers in from your Xero invoices. No re-typing, and everyone lands ready to sign your terms.
Connect it to your own systems
Webhooks send signed events to your software the moment something happens, Mailchimp stays current and signed paperwork files itself into your Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox. API access is on its way.
See integrations →A client file that stands up to scrutiny.
Engagement terms, identity, ownership and the money — captured in one place, in order, with a record of who did what and when. Built by an accounting practice that has to satisfy the same obligations you do.
- Onboard a client properly, first timeEngagement terms signed, identity verified, ethical clearance sent to the previous accountant — as one flow, not four separate jobs on someone’s list.
- Moving off Ignition? Bring your whole book with youDrop in your Ignition exports and we rebuild your client book automatically — services and pricing exactly as they were, ready for each client to re-sign, with no manual re-keying.
- Know who you’re really acting forResolve beneficial ownership through companies and trusts down to the actual people and screen them against the DFAT sanctions list before you take them on.
- Every decision is on the recordEscalations, overrides and determinations are written to an append-only log with the reason attached — so the file explains itself long after everyone’s forgotten the detail.
- Get paid like a business, not a favourFees on direct debit or card from the day the engagement is signed, with your terms of trade doing the work behind them.
- Engagement letters that never go staleRe-issue every engagement automatically — on each client’s anniversary, or on a fixed date like 1 July so the whole book renews with the financial year. No annual chase.
The money’s secured before the van leaves.
Hold up to $20,000 on the customer’s card before you start, charge it the moment you’re done and run the whole thing off the job you’ve already booked in ServiceM8 or Fergus — without typing it twice.
- Your job-management software, wired inSend a quote from ServiceM8 or Fergus and the terms, deposit and balance ride along with it — the job stays where your team already works.
- Hold the money before you leave the depotPre-authorise up to $20,000 on the customer’s card when they accept — the funds are held, not taken. Finish the job, capture the payment, done. No invoice, no chasing, no credit risk.
- Never start a job unsecuredDeposit on acceptance, balance locked in for completion and — if you’re working for another business — a security interest registered over them on the PPSR for a flat $22.
- Buy now, pay later — on your invoiceLet a homeowner spread the cost through Afterpay or Klarna while you’re paid in full, up front — at the provider’s own rate, passed straight through with nothing added. We don’t know of anyone else offering this on a trade invoice out of the box.
- A card that fails doesn’t become your problemFailed payments retry against a backup card automatically, and you and the customer both get told — no discovering it three weeks later.
Four things that put you in the best position.
Plenty of tools will send a document, and plenty will take a payment. Who else does the agreement, gets you the money and handles the compliance as a single chain of evidence?
Proof, not just a signature
Every signature is captured with the signatory’s IP address, a timestamp and — if you want it — a photo of the person as they sign, taken on their own phone. If an agreement is ever questioned, you’re holding evidence rather than an assertion.
Sign by selfieThe agreement collects the money
Your customer adds a card or bank account at the moment they accept your terms — so the deposit is taken on acceptance and the balance is already scheduled. Getting paid stops being a separate chase.
Deposit on acceptanceA forms engine, not a fixed product
Terms of trade, credit applications, onboarding packs, safety checklists, ownership declarations — build whatever document your business actually needs and send it for a legally binding signature the same way.
Build anythingSecured before you start the work
Hold up to $20,000 on a card before the job begins and capture it when you finish — so you carry no credit risk at all. Trading with another business instead? Register an AllPAP security interest over them on the PPSR for a flat $22 and get told if their ABN is cancelled.
Pre-auth + PPSRPriced by who you bill — not just how much.
Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial — no credit card required. Terms of trade, signing, payments and Xero contact import are included on all of them, and PPSR registration is a flat $22 whichever you pick (commercial customers only).
- Terms of trade, proposals & e-signing
- Card & direct-debit collection
- Customer portal & invoice auto-read
- Xero contact import & PPSR registration
- Everything in Business
- Automatic failed-payment recovery
- Buy-now-pay-later at checkout (Afterpay, Klarna)
- Everything in Trades
- Beneficial-ownership resolution
- Sanctions screening, PEP & TPB tools
- Priority support
All prices GST inclusive. A one-off $1,100 setup fee applies on every plan. PPSR/security registration $22 flat on every plan, available against commercial entities. Processing rate applies to card and direct-debit payments through Automagic Payments. Buy-now-pay-later is charged at the provider’s rate, passed through at cost with no margin added.
Fits the tools you already run on.
Live with Xero, ServiceM8 and Fergus today, plus your Google or Microsoft contacts, Mailchimp, cloud storage and webhooks for everything else.
See how each integration works →
Payments run on bank-grade, PCI-certified payment infrastructure, and every business is verified against the Australian Business Register behind the scenes.
AML & KYC tools built in
Beneficial-ownership resolution, sanctions screening and identity checks — the compliance work in the same place you get paid.
Evidence you can stand behind
Signatures captured with IP and timestamp, an append-only audit trail and verification statements stored against every record.
Australian by design
Built in Australia for Australian businesses — BECS direct debit, PPSR, ABR checks and the DFAT sanctions list, natively.
The things people ask before they start.
Most people arrive here because someone told them to. If there’s one thing you want to know before you try it, it’s probably here — and if it isn’t, just ask us.
Do I have to change my accounting software?
How long does it take to set up?
Do I need a merchant account or payment gateway already?
What happens when the 7-day trial ends?
When do I actually get paid?
Can I use my own terms of trade?
Is there a lock-in contract?
Do my customers need an account or an app?
How safe is my data and my customers’ card details?
Can I bring my existing customers across?
I’m not a tradie or an accountant. Is this for me?
What if a customer disputes a payment?
What if a customer just doesn’t pay?
Can I connect it to my other software?
Still got that one question?Give us a ring and we’ll answer it straight — no sales pitch, no obligation.
Put getting paid on autopilot.
Set yourself up in minutes — your terms, your Xero, your rates. The money then arrives on the terms you agreed, without you asking twice.
No credit card required. Nothing to cancel if it’s not for you.