Using digital identity with AFSA’s Online Services

If you have a digital identity linked to an ABN in Relationship Authorisation Manager (RAM), then you can use your digital identity to access the online services below on behalf of your organisation.

• Creditor bankruptcy notices
• Bankruptcy Register Search (BRS)
• Debt agreement
• Practitioner Annual Administration Returns (AAR)
• Official Receiver (OR) notices
• Creditor meeting advertising
• Proof of Debt (POD)

Digital Identity

Digital Identity is a safe, secure and convenient way of proving who you are when you want to access services online. Set it up once, and then reuse it whenever you are asked to prove who you are. One of the benefits is that you don’t need to remember passwords. myGovID is the Australian Government’s Digital Identity app.

Once you’ve created your digital identity, you need to link it to an ABN using Relationship Authorisation Manager (RAM). RAM is an authorisation service that allows you to act on behalf of a business online when linked with your Digital Identity, like myGovID.

How you link will depends on your role:

• principal authority – person responsible for the organisation
• authorised administrator or user - is someone who acts on behalf of an entity

To learn more about the Australian Government Digital Identity System, refer to the Digital Identity website.

Creditor bankruptcy notices

To access the creditor bankruptcy notices service using your digital identity on behalf of your organisation:

• Select Login
• Select Continue with digital identity
• Select myGovID as your Identity app. You will need a standard strength digital identity
• Enter your myGovID email address. You can select ‘Remember me’ to login faster when using the same device and browser in future. You won’t need to enter your email and the 4-digit code will be pre-filled in your app
• A four-digit code will appear on the login screen
• Log into your myGovID app using your 10-character password, fingerprint or face. Tip: to login faster, you can enable fingerprint or face in Settings in your myGovID app
• Enter or accept the 4-digit code in your myGovID app
• Go back to your browser to provide consent to sharing the information outlined on screen. Only a small amount of your information is passed to the service you want to access. Usually this is limited to your name, date of birth and contact details
• Enter your user/organisation details

Once you complete these steps, you will have successfully created and be logged in to your creditor bankruptcy notices Online Services account.

Note: the first person in your organisation who logs on to creditor bankruptcy notices using digital identity will be assigned to the administrator and manager roles. Any subsequent person who logs on after the administrator will be assigned to the manager role. As an administrator, you can execute restricted activities such as update your organisation details and manage other user accounts within creditor bankruptcy notices. As a manager, you can submit and maintain bankruptcy notice applications.

Other online services

If you have digital identity and it linked to an ABN, then you can use your digital identity to access Bankruptcy Register Search (BRS), Debt agreement, Practitioner Annual Administration Returns (AAR), Official Receiver (OR) notices, Proof of Debt (POD), and creditor meeting advertising Online Services.

This is an alternative option provided to you in addition to the username and password sign in option.

To access these online services using your Digital Identity:

• Select Login
• Select continue with digital identity
• Select myGovID as your identity app. You will need a standard strength digital identity
• Enter your myGovID email address. You can select ‘remember me’ to login faster when using the same device and browser in future. You won’t need to enter your email and the 4-digit code will be pre-filled in your app
• A four-digit code will appear on the login screen
• Log into your myGovID app using your 10-character password, fingerprint or face. Tip: to login faster, you can enable fingerprint or face in settings in your myGovID app
• Enter or accept the 4-digit code in your myGovID app
• Go back to your browser to provide consent to sharing the information outlined on screen. Only a small amount of your information is passed to the service you want to access. Usually this is limited to your name, date of birth and contact details

Once you complete these steps, you will have successfully created and be logged in to your AFSA’s online services account.

Note: all digital identity users will be provided with an administrator user account. As an administrator, you can execute restricted activities such as create additional username and password employee accounts and manage these accounts.