Know what’s changed. Act sooner and do more for your clients.
The public record changed 81,250 times last week for Australian businesses. Who at your practice will monitor them all for your clients.
We do. Every day, so you get them, as soon as we see them.
Is one of them about a client of yours?
The gap
Your clients don’t tell you everything. They often don’t even know. The public record does.
A client’s ABN is cancelled. Their builder’s licence drops a category. They win a government contract that changes their year. A regulator names them in a notice.
Every one of those is published. Almost none of it is sent to you. The tax office writes to the client, and the client files the letter.
So you find out at year end. Or at BAS time. Or when the client rings in a panic. By then the advice that would have mattered is advice about the damage.
Without Catchwind
- 4 OctThe register shows the GST registration cancelled
- Late OctBAS prepared with GST on every sale
- At lodgmentYou find out
With Catchwind All in the same week
- 4 OctThe register shows the GST registration cancelled
- As soon as we see itWe see it, you know
- That weekOne call. Fixed before the BAS.
The public record, last week
We read all 81,250. You read four.
Nothing changed for your other 136 clients.
As an alert when it can’t wait, in Monday’s digest for the rest, and in your account for good.
Add your clients and your first digest shows what the registers hold on each of them, today.
Three moments
Illustrative scenarios
Tuesday, 9:42am.
An alert: Sample Joinery’s GST registration has been cancelled. You ring them before lunch. They hadn’t noticed. You fix it before the next BAS goes in wrong.
Monday, with your coffee.
The digest: Sample Civil has been awarded a $412,000 federal contract. You call to say well done, and to talk about cash flow, PAYG instalments and hiring while the work is still new.
The one you’d never have heard about.
A business name, Sample Fitouts, registered to a client’s ABN. A new venture, and nobody mentioned it. You ask about structure while it’s still simple to get right.
That’s the difference between an accountant who reacts and one who already knows.
Good for the client. Good for the practice.
Every client event is a reason to call. Most of those calls are work.
Fix the BAS before it goes in wrong. Get the lodgments up to date before the restructuring plan needs them. Set the new entity up properly in week one. The client needs that advice at that moment, whether or not they knew to ask for it.
That’s the service they already pay you for, delivered when it’s worth the most. Some of those calls save the client money. Some save them a frozen bank account. All of them are advice, and advice is billable work.
For the client.
The problem is fixed while it’s small, or the opportunity is set up while it’s new.
For the practice.
The engagement you’d otherwise have missed, started by you, with a dated reason.
For the relationship.
“How did you know?” is a very good thing to hear.
Your clients never hear from us. Ever.
We never contact your clients. We never sell your client list or use it to market to anyone. It is handled only by the service providers that run Catchwind, listed in our privacy policy.
They don’t need an account. They’re never told you use Catchwind. As far as they can tell, you’re just very well informed.
How we handle your client listWe report facts. You give the advice.
Every client event is something a public register, regulator or other public source actually published, with the source, the date and a link. We match by ABN or ACN wherever the source gives one, so it’s your client and not a business with a similar name. No scores. No ratings. No guesses.
The price
Less than a coffee a day. For your whole client book.
From $39 a month, every source included. One conversation it starts can pay for a year of it.
Five minutes to set up. Names are enough.