Learn how to use the interactive register dashboard and register data set to search for payment times information and performance data.
Using the register
The register is an interactive visual tool that lets you:
- search for a payment times report
- see trends in payment terms and times
- compare payment practices across industries and over time
- access compliance notices
- get information about the register and entities that report
- view the fast small business payer list
- compare fast small business payers across industries.
Payment times and terms
The Home page shows a snapshot of key payment terms and payment times measures for all industries in the most recent reporting cycle:
- common payment terms (shortest, average and longest)
- median and average payment time
- 80th and 95th percentile payment time.
You can use more tabs to view terms and times seperately over time since the Payment Times Reporting Scheme began (June 2021). The Terms tab displays the average payment terms since 2021. The Times tab shows average proportion of payments made within specific date ranges of:
- 30 days or less
- 31 to 60 days
- 60 days or more.
You can select an industry and view a previous reporting cycle.
Search for payment times reports
The Entity Search page allows you to search for an entity by:
- business name
- Australian Business Number (ABN)
- Australian Company Number (ACN)
- registered business name.
Once an entity is selected, review their reporting information by navigating through 8 tabs:
- Snapshot – entity’s payment terms and times in their latest report
- Terms – average payment terms for all reports the entity submitted
- Times – proportion of payments the entity made within specific date ranges of 30 days or less, 31 to 60 and over 60 days
- Reports – a snapshot of the entity’s reports, payment terms and payment times. View the full report by selecting the report, then ‘Click here to view report details’ under the reports table
- Lifecycle – a timeline of the entity’s engagement with payment times reporting
- Structure – information about the subsidiary entities the entity controls
- Compliance – any compliance notices published by the Regulator relating to the entity
- Notices – information the entity has given the Regulator about notifiable events or other major changes to their reporting status.
Compare entities and industries
Use the Industry Explorer page to interact with data for specific industries over time.
This feature has quick‑select buttons for all 19 industry divisions under the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classfication. The Chart tab displays the common payment terms and proportion of payments made on time for all reporting entities.
The scatter plot allows you to view prevailing trends for each industry. You can select an industry and use the ‘hover over’ function to identify specific entities plotted in a chart.
To view an animation of changes to reporting over time, select the ‘play’ function. The ‘zoom’ functions narrow in on a specific segment of payment terms or payment times data.
To see the data in a table format, select the Table tab within the explorer. This lets you navigate by industry or search by entity.
Compliance notices
The Compliance Notices page includes records of entities that have been subject to a notice of non‑compliance published by the Regulator.
Search for compliance notices by entity business name, ABN, ACN or registered business name. To view the full details of a compliance notice, select the notice, then ‘Click here to view details’ under the Compliance notices table.
Information about the register
The Register Statistics page includes information about the number of reports on the Register for each reporting cycle.
You can select an industry or reporting cycle to narrow the data displayed.
The Chart tab displays the number of reports across reporting cycles. To view this information as a data table, use the Table tab.
Fast small business payer list
The fast small business payer list lets you check if a large business is a fast small business payer. You can search by business name, ABN, ACN or registered business name.
For more information, see the Fast Small Business Payer List fact sheet.
Using the register data set
The register data set contains all available payment times reports, applications, published records of non‑compliance and notice information at a point in time. You can download the data set for free. Open it in Excel or another data program to view, sort, compare and analyse reported data.
For more detailed information about the data fields entities provided in a payment times report, read the guidance material.