Appointment Scheduling for Australian Businesses
Schedly helps Australian service businesses from Sydney to Perth book clients around the clock, collect AUD payments at booking, and stay compliant with the Australian Privacy Act — without any manual timezone or currency management.
Built for Australia businesses
Schedly handles the local nuances that matter to your clients and your compliance requirements.
Australian timezone automation
Schedly handles AEST, AEDT, ACST, ACDT, and AWST automatically — including daylight saving differences between states.
AUD payment collection
Accept payment in Australian dollars via Stripe. Funds settle directly to your Australian bank account on Stripe's standard payout schedule.
Privacy Act compliance tools
Schedly provides privacy policy link integration, consent capture, and data deletion tools aligned with Australia's Privacy Act 1988 requirements.
Business scheduling for key sectors
Used by Australian healthcare practices, legal firms, financial advisors, fitness businesses, and real estate agents across all major cities and regions.
Everything your business needs
The complete scheduling toolkit for Australia service businesses.
Real-time availability
Clients see your live calendar and book the first slot that works for them — no back-and-forth.
Built-in payment collection
Collect deposits or full payment at booking via Stripe. Works with local payment preferences.
Automated SMS & email reminders
Reduce no-shows with automated reminders that fire 24h and 1h before every appointment.
HIPAA & local compliance
Schedly is HIPAA-eligible, SOC 2 Type II certified, and built for the compliance requirements of service businesses.
Intake forms & custom questions
Collect everything you need before the appointment — health history, project briefs, preferences — via smart intake forms.
Analytics & reporting
See booking trends, peak hours, no-show rates, and revenue data at a glance from your Schedly dashboard.
Industries we serve in Australia
Schedly works for every service-based business that schedules client appointments.
"Schedly handles everything I need for my Australia clients — the local timezone, AUD payments, and compliance requirements. Setup took under 30 minutes."
Scheduling Software for Australian Businesses: Timezone Complexity and Privacy Act Compliance
Australia's scheduling complexity comes primarily from its multiple timezone regions and the daylight saving inconsistency between states. New South Wales, Victoria, and the ACT observe Eastern Daylight Time in summer; Queensland does not. South Australia and the Northern Territory observe their own timezone with a 30-minute offset from the eastern states. Western Australia operates 2 hours behind the eastern states on a fixed schedule. For businesses serving clients across multiple Australian states — or Australian businesses with international clients — this timezone complexity creates scheduling errors that Schedly's automatic timezone detection eliminates by reading each client's browser timezone and displaying availability in their local time.
Australian Privacy Act and Scheduling Data: The 2022 Reform Context
Australia's Privacy Act 1988 is undergoing its most significant reform in decades, with proposals from the 2022 Privacy Act Review including: a direct right of action for serious privacy breaches (allowing individuals to take businesses directly to court), expanded definition of sensitive information to include additional health-related data, stronger data minimization requirements, and potentially higher penalties for serious breaches. For Australian businesses collecting client scheduling data, these reforms reinforce the importance of collecting only necessary information, securing data appropriately, and having clear processes for responding to privacy requests. Schedly's configurable intake forms support the data minimization principle; the SOC 2 Type II certification provides the security evidence that Australian Privacy Act compliance reviews increasingly require.
GST and Payment Collection for Australian Service Businesses
Australian businesses collecting the Goods and Services Tax (GST) need payment systems that can calculate and collect GST at the point of sale. Stripe Australia supports GST-compliant invoicing and receipt generation — businesses configure their GST status in Stripe, and all receipts automatically reflect the GST component of each charge. Schedly's Stripe integration passes all payment processing through the business's own Stripe Australia account, ensuring that GST obligations are handled by the business's own payment infrastructure rather than by Schedly acting as an intermediary. This merchant-of-record clarity is important for Australian tax compliance: the business is always the party responsible for GST collection and remittance.
Questions from Australia businesses
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