AML for conveyancers: what assisting a transfer captures

A search for “aml conveyancing” often stops at the job title. The designated service is narrower, and it is not the real estate agent’s service. Checked against AUSTRAC’s professional designated services on 2 October 2026. This is general information, not legal advice. This page does not reproduce that table. The public map of sectors is /tranche-2. Who the customer is, when the other side of the contract is an agent’s problem, is who is the customer on a real estate sale.

What assisting a transfer captures

In ordinary language, assisting a transfer is the work that moves a sale, purchase, or other transfer of real estate forward for a client. AUSTRAC’s item covers planning and execution, and acting for the person in that transaction. The customer named on their page is that person, not automatically both parties to the contract. An agency that brokers the sale is in a different table, which is why the agent’s starter kit speaks to both sides. Do not paste the agent’s customer list into a conveyancing costs agreement.

The order of questions, including the court-order fork, is designated services: the decision tree. A solicitor assisting one client with the same transfer uses the same item. The job title does not choose the table. If you engage a town agent for settlement, AUSTRAC treats that person as your agent and you remain the reporting entity. The conditions are on their page. This article does not restate them.

The bill the practice absorbs, and the bill the client pays

Conveyancer economics is a quiet-month question. A subscription AML seat is still there when the practice settles nothing. Customer due diligence on FreeAML is client-pays, so the check sits on the matter that needs it. The firm suite is A$0. There is no monthly seat to absorb. On the public list a personal KYC check is A$20 and a company or trust KYB check is A$40. Confirm the live amounts on FreeAML pricing before you quote a file.

Subscription products publish a different shape. easyAML pricing records monthly plans, a per-check meter, and a term described in that vendor’s FAQ. ClearAML pricing records monthly plans plus a wallet meter. AML Guard pricing records a seat fee and a customer-pays credit capped at that licence. InfoTrack’s Compliance Centre is described as no software subscription, with use sitting beside the searches a conveyancer already orders. Use those notes for their figures. This page does not restate their rate cards, and it does not rank one check price against another.

• A month with no new matters. A seat you cannot drop is a cost with no file to attach it to. An A$0 suite does not multiply by the number of quiet weeks.
• Who pays the check. Firm-absorbed verification comes out of the professional fee. Client-pays sends the request to the client by email.
• What the software still does not decide. None of these products decides that a file is assisting a transfer, approves the program, or becomes the reporting entity. The conveyancer enrols, names the officer, and lodges what the firm must lodge.

Where FreeAML fits

When the program says the person you assist must be checked, the firm emails the request and the client completes it. FreeAML stores that evidence. It does not decide the designated service, it does not replace AUSTRAC’s conveyancing program starter kit, and it does not copy that kit. A pointer to the kits, without the documents pasted in, is AML program starter kits.

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