Monitoring for accountants and bookkeepers, and the clients you look after
We watch the five things that most often go wrong for a practice: BAS and payday super dates, Xero outages, spoofed invoices, cancelled supplier ABNs and staff email breaches. Then you can watch your clients too.
Your clients ring you first. Know before they do.
When a client's domain lapses or their email gets spoofed, the call usually lands with their bookkeeper. Alert My Business lets you watch client businesses as well as your own.
Picture a client whose domain renewal notice goes to an old inbox. The week their BAS is due, their email stops working and nobody can say why.
Or an invoice arrives with new bank details, sent from an address that looks exactly like the real supplier. The first sign of trouble is a supplier asking where their money went.
Every alert we send says what happened, why it matters and what to do next. It is written in plain English, so you can pass it straight to the client.
Start with one client. Run the free tools on their domain expiry, SSL certificate and email security. It takes a minute and shows you exactly where they stand.
Five things monitoring for accountants and bookkeepers should catch
Each risk has its own alert and its own page with the detail. Start with the ones that would hurt your practice most this month.
BAS and payday super dates
The free plan includes the national due-date calendar with a feed for your own calendar. The Compliance Calendar add-on sends reminders for BAS, payday super and other due dates.
Xero outages
Watch Xero, Microsoft 365 and your bank by email on the free plan. Fast Tool Alerts tells you sooner, so you stop troubleshooting your own internet when the problem is elsewhere.
Spoofed invoices
The free email security checker tests your SPF, DKIM and DMARC records. It shows whether scammers could send invoices that look like they came from your practice.
Supplier ABN or GST cancelled
Supplier Watch alerts you when a supplier's ABN or GST registration is cancelled or changes, so you can check before you pay the invoice.
Staff email breaches
Breach Watch alerts you when staff email addresses at your domain appear in a newly reported data breach, then lists the steps to take next.
Set up alerts for your practice in ten minutes
Work down this list with a coffee. Everything here runs on the free plan, so you can see how the alerts read before you add anything.
Check your email security
Run the free email security checker on your practice domain. If SPF, DKIM or DMARC is missing, the result tells you what to fix.
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Add your practice website
The free plan checks uptime every 5 minutes and watches your SSL certificate and domain expiry, including .com.au names.
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Pick the tools you rely on
Choose up to 10 business tools to watch by email. Most practices start with Xero, Microsoft 365, their bank and their telco.
Subscribe to the due-date feed
Add the national due-date calendar to the calendar you already use, so BAS and payday super dates sit beside your client meetings.
See Subscribe to the due-date feed
Turn on scam alerts
Set your country, bank and industry. You then hear about scams aimed at businesses like yours and your clients.
Questions practices ask before they start
Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I watch my clients' businesses as well as my own?
- Yes. Alert My Business lets you watch client businesses too. A good first step is to run the free tools on a client's domain, SSL certificate and email security, then choose which of their sites and tools to watch.
- Does Alert My Business lodge BAS for me?
- No. We send reminders, we do not lodge anything. The free plan gives you the national due-date calendar with a calendar feed, and the Compliance Calendar add-on sends reminders for BAS, payday super and other due dates. You still lodge the way you do now.
- How will I know if Xero is down and it is not just our office?
- Add Xero to the business tools you watch. When it has an outage, the alert says what happened, why it matters and what to do next, so you are not restarting routers while the real problem sits with the provider.
- How does Supplier Watch help with invoice fraud?
- It alerts you when a supplier's ABN or GST registration is cancelled or changes. That gives you a reason to pause and check before you pay, especially if the same invoice also asks you to update bank details.
- What is free and what costs extra?
- The free plan covers up to 10 business tools by email, 1 website with uptime, SSL and domain checks, scam alerts, the due-date calendar, a weekly digest, a monthly health report and 90 days of alert history. Add-ons are a few dollars a month each, or come in the Business Essentials and Everything bundles.
- Does the data breach check keep the email addresses I enter?
- No. The free data breach check stores nothing. Run it on your own address or a staff member's, then turn on Breach Watch if you want an alert the next time an address at your domain shows up in a new breach.
Where to next
Website down
Website down alerts for small business: checks every 5 minutes on the free plan, plain-English emails, and Uptime Pro when you need more.
SSL expiry
SSL certificate expiry monitoring for small business. Check your certificate free now, then get a plain-English alert before it expires.
Domain expiry
Domain name expiry reminder alerts for .com.au and .com domains. Check your expiry date free and get warned before your website and email go offline.
Email spoofing
Check SPF, DKIM and DMARC for your business domain free, find out whether scammers could spoof your email, and get alerted if your records change.
Lookalike domains
Someone copied your business domain? Run a free brand impersonation check, see lookalike domains, and get alerts with Brand Guard.
Staff breaches
Check if staff emails were in a data breach with a free lookup (nothing stored), then get Breach Watch alerts for new breaches at your domain.
Find out before your clients do.
Free plan first. Add-ons from a few dollars a month each.