Registering ABN and Business Name for Sole Traders
Business name registration should come before your website domain name as you can easily adapt a domain name to your business name. The website domain name you go by should mirror as much as possible the Business name to avoid confusion but it is flexible. Once you have settled on a Business name and it is available, register it with ASIC in Australia. The process will tell you if a similar name is taken so you can change it before submitting.
Your ABN and Business name are linked back to you as the sole trader. An ABN is optional if your revenue is under $75k per year but you won't be able to register a Business name if you don't have an ABN. So unless you are just flying under your own personal name it is in this order:
Register ABN
Register Business name
Register Domain Name
Here we explore some aspects of web development that may help.
Your Privacy Policy Page
Just having a Privacy Policy page is important even if you don't have a contact form or take any online payments.
It reassures your customers that you are a professional business that cares about their information.
We can help with a default Privacy Policy page that applies to the website.
Basic websites here do not use 'cookies'.
If your site intends to have a form where customers can submit basic contact information it is up to you to take responsibility for keeping that information private.
This may help https://legal123.com.au/how-to-guide/privacy-policy-australia/
Your Terms and Conditions Page
If you are selling on the website itself then absolutely the Terms and Conditions page must exist.
If however the actual transaction or contract is done off the website your Terms and Conditions should still be transparent somewhere in the process.
There is no harm in having them online as well as this helps build trust with your customer.
You will need to create the actual content for your terms and conditions page as this may be unique to your service levels, insurance and liability, refunds etc.
We don't take responsibility for any of your Terms and Conditions.
This may help https://legal123.com.au/how-to-guide/how-to-write-terms-and-conditions/