Working together on practical help for small business.

How it works

• Sharing what helps. Partners share our practical information with the businesses they work with, and we point readers to theirs where it genuinely helps. Some partners occasionally write a guest guide.
• No money either way. No fees, no revenue share, no commissions or referral fees, and no payment for guest guides.
• Not a sponsor. Community partners never appear in sponsor spots, on our home page or beside our guides and calculators. Paid sponsorship is separate and is explained in our sponsor ground rules.
• Never for sale. Our directory entries are chosen on what helps readers. A partnership does not buy a listing, a ranking or a mention inside our advice.
• Either side can end it. If a partnership ends, we remove the listing within a reasonable time.

Our community partners

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  Community partner · Founder community

  Australian Business Startup

  A community for Australian founders since 2015, with plain-English guides to starting a business and a newsletter for new and established owners.

  Run by Enviga Pty Ltd. australianbusinessstartup.com.au

Listing is not endorsement. Partners are independent organisations, and links go to their own sites.

Who can become a partner

We work with industry and community bodies, associations, chambers of commerce, government authorities and recognised subject matter experts who help Australian small businesses.

Commercial firms in our 5 sponsor categories (invoice finance and business lending, accounting and bookkeeping, legal, debt collection and AR software) cannot be community partners; they can only take part as clearly labelled paid sponsors. Nor can anyone who wants to use a partnership to sell to our readers, or who asks for payment or a commission.

Guest guides

Partners can write an occasional guest guide for Paid On Time. Guest guides are practical, Australian, free of any selling and checked against official sources. Each one is tagged Community partner contribution: partner name on its card on our Guides page and at the top of the guide, has an author box with one link back to the partner, and carries no sponsor spots. Paid On Time has the editorial final say: we edit for accuracy, clarity and house style, and can decline or remove a guide.

Linking to us

Partners may use the Paid On Time logo with the line "Community partner: Paid On Time", linking to https://paidontime.org/. It must not suggest that we endorse their services or that we sponsor them.

Get in touch

Are you an industry or community body, an authority or a subject matter expert helping Australian small businesses? Email hello@paidontime.org and tell us what you share and who you help.