Per-entity surcharge for franchise and multi-office groups

People search “AML per entity fee” when a franchise group with eight licensee companies is quoted a platform fee that climbs once per company. Checked against AUSTRAC's page on understanding reporting groups on 4 October 2026. This is general information, not legal advice. This page does not reproduce that guidance. How many enrolments those companies need is a different question, on AUSTRAC reporting groups. What agencies pay for checks is AML fees for estate agents. The sector map is /tranche-2.

A surcharge is a login price, not a regulator price

Eight licensee companies under one sign can look, to a software quote, like eight times the plan. The quote adds an amount per entity so the group pays for access eight times, even when some offices verify only a handful of people a month. That number is the vendor's. It is not on an AUSTRAC invoice, and it does not change how many times the group must enrol.

Keep the two counts apart, and enrolment follows which legal entities provide the designated service, and the reporting-group page is where that organising question lives. A per-entity surcharge follows which companies the vendor has decided to bill. FreeAML does not bill the suite per company or per shopfront. Each firm uses the suite at A$0, and the client pays A$20 or A$40 when a check runs.

• Call it a vendor fee. If it climbs per company, it is the platform's price list. Do not file it as an AUSTRAC charge.
• Do not confuse it with enrolment. More companies can mean more enrolments. That is not the same as a monthly surcharge.
• Quiet licensees still get billed on that model. An office with two sales a year pays the entity fee anyway.
• The suite here does not multiply. A$0 per firm. The check price does not become A$20 times the number of offices.

What a group is actually being charged for

Where the surcharge page stops

This page is the per-entity platform surcharge. It is not how many times the group enrols, and it is not the general estate-agent fee page. Those are AUSTRAC reporting groups and AML fees for estate agents.

What the client pays

On FreeAML the firm suite is A$0. The firm emails the client a link. Verification is client-pays. On the public list a personal KYC check is A$20 and a company or trust KYB check is A$40. Use KYB when the customer is a company or a trust. FreeAML does not add a platform amount per licensee or per office, so the only price on a file is the client-pays check. Confirm the live amounts on FreeAML pricing. FreeAML does not set a per-entity platform fee or quote another vendor's surcharge.

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