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Australian Payment Times Reporting Scheme

The official source used to explain what reported payment-times information Australian small businesses can inspect without treating historical reports as promised receipt dates or mandated terms. This Australia source reference supports 1 Margin101 public page.

Official sourceReferencecash flow and payment times

Current monitored claims

ValueScopeLabel
Reporting entities report every six months on payment terms and actual payment times for small-business suppliers, and reports are published to the public register.Reported historical information for entities covered by the Scheme. It is not a promised receipt date, forecast, market benchmark or coverage of every customer.Reporting and public-register scope
The Scheme does not set or mandate payment terms for large businesses.This source does not determine contractual terms, collection rights, credit risk, solvency or legal remedies.No mandated payment terms

Source status

Official source
Payment Times Reporting Regulator
Status
verified
Cadence
quarterly
Last checked
2026-07-17
Effective
No separate effective date recorded
Version
2026-07-17

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Why Margin101 tracks this source

The official source used to explain what reported payment-times information Australian small businesses can inspect without treating historical reports as promised receipt dates or mandated terms. It is kept within the australia small-business data layer so linked Margin101 pages can state their market assumptions and evidence scope clearly.

Page fit

  • Market: Australia
  • Category: cash flow and payment times
  • Authority: Payment Times Reporting Regulator

Reader note

  • Margin101 uses this source only for the pages listed below.
  • Market-wide background lives on the hub, not repeated on every source page.

Source monitoring history

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  1. Initial publication

    Initial reviewed source record for the public Payment Times Reports Register and the Scheme non-mandation boundary.

    Source
    Payment Times Reporting Regulator — Australian Payment Times Reporting Scheme
    No change
    Margin101 checked archived Payment Times Reporting Regulator evidence for six-month reporting, public-register publication and the Scheme non-mandation boundary.
    Change type
    published

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Source notes

Payment Times Reporting Regulator, About the Payment Times Reporting Scheme. The monitored claims are educational reference context; the scope shown in the table controls how Margin101 uses each claim.