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Enhance and add value to your Small Business relationships

Join over 95% of banks and financial institutions in Australasia going the extra mile to assist their small business customers.

BankLink have an established reputation for trusted and secure data management. For 25 years, The BankLink Service has helped improve key interactions between small businesses, banks, and accountants, by streamlining the delivery of transaction account data for taxation and financial reporting.

Every month, over 14 million customer transactions are delivered to accounting practices by more than 100 banks and financial institutions through The BankLink Service.

BankLink is used by over 4,500 accounting practices and more than 250,000 small business customers. It provides significant benefits by virtually eliminating manual paper work and streamlining the accounting process.

BankLink benefits

The BankLink Service provides compelling advantages to banks and financial institutions, including:

  • Enhancing and adding value to relationships with small businesses
  • Building stronger relationships with accountants – the key influencers in the decision-making process of most small businesses
  • Helping small business customers stay aware of their current financial position as part of their cash-flow management
  • Providing commercial value to transaction data, which may otherwise be of little value

Leverage BankLink to market your products

BankLink has a long track record of delivering competitive advantage to financial institutions who supply transaction data through our service. Valuable marketing opportunities include:

  • BankLink becomes a direct channel to the accounting profession – we regularly engage with individual practices and professional bodies, conduct seminars, events, and various other marketing initiatives
  • The accounting profession becomes a channel to the small business customer – practices using BankLink recommend their small business clients use financial institutions available through BankLink
  • Value is added to your products – BankLink is an additional feature to your small business products and services

Is BankLink secure?

BankLink is completely secure and has achieved PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliancy — a security standard set by the major credit card companies. Customers do not disclose their bank passwords at any time and the service does not provide any banking or transaction capabilities.

Electronic copies of your customers’ transactions are sent to their accountant under strict international security measures and in accordance with the requirements of all the major banks and financial institutions. Transaction data is supplied in encrypted format and cannot be accessed by anyone other than the accountant.

Your customer must provide a signed authority form to their accountant to be registered with The BankLink Service.