How to protect your business by PPSR in Australia?

Every time you enter into a creditor/debtor transaction or arrangement, there is a potential for risk. But, you can lower that risk for your business if you have the right information at hand. The PPSR search in Australia is one of the best methods to protect your business.

If you don’t want to subject your business to unmanageable risks when leasing or hiring goods, or buying or selling products on consignment, then know what you are getting yourself into. This is important when you consider the issues that could arise.

What if you buy goods that have money owing on them? Will you be able to get your money or the goods back when your customers go broke?

You can’t do business without facing all these common transaction problems, but you can protect your business. And this can be quickly done through a PPRS registration or PPSR check in Australia.

 

How to Protect Your Business with PSSR

The Personal Property Securities Register (PPSR) is the single, national online database that amalgamates all the information on debtors/creditors for easy access, management, and enforcement. It allows you to check if someone is claiming an interest against an asset or good you are interested in.

You can also use it to protect your business or yourself as an individual in the following ways.

Registering Secured Interests:

You can register your property or goods to enable others to know that you have reserved an interest in the goods that someone is buying/leasing from you and still has amounts owing. This gives you the right to get your goods or their value back when your customer defaults or go broke.

If, for example, someone has taken out a loan from you to purchase a car, and the car is the collateral, you should register the loan on the PPSR.

Searching the PPSR to Mitigate Risks

When you have a potential client, you can check to see how well they may be able to handle additional debt. With a PPSR certificate, you have all the details at hand to make an informed decision about your next transaction.  

Getting a PPSR report through Quick Revs helps you to know whether someone you want to do business with has too much debt or an item you want to buy has a security interest registered on it. If you want to know what could happen in this case, read about the benefits of using the PPSR.

For example, if you are buying a car, and you run a PPSR check, it will tell you whether any security interest is identified or one or more PPSR registrations have been found.

What are those properties that can be registered with PPSR?

Now that you know you can protect your interest by making your personal property available on the PPSR register, you need to know that personal property is a legal term that does not include such properties like land, buildings, or fixtures. What it does include are:

  • Stock in trade, equipment, or artworks
  • Crops, cows, and other livestock
  • Cars, aircrafts, or boats
  • Intangible properties, such as copyright, trade secret, patents, debts and bank accounts, and licenses.
  • Financial instruments like shares, debentures, cash, and cheques.
  • Other goods that are not land, buildings or furniture, whether new or second-hand

Register your property with The Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA), get your PPSR certificate and rest assured that you can always recover supposed irrecoverable debts and retain the title on goods whose buyer defaults payment.

You can also do a PPSR check on the personal property you are interested in purchasing, to determine if anyone is claiming an interest on it.

If you want to get the best information at the lowest price, then request a PPSR check through Quick Revs.