FAQs

Online Super Fund is for people who are actively involved in managing their personal wealth and investments through a Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF). We offer an affordable and easy accounting service for your SMSF. You should be prepared to play an active role in the management and investment decisions of your SMSF – of course you can always engage a professional financial, legal or other adviser to assist you with this.

If you are thinking of establishing a new SMSF and have not already done so, we recommend you seek financial advice to ensure a SMSF is suitable and appropriate for your circumstances.

No, we do not send any work overseas for processing. All our work is performed in Australia by qualified and experienced SMSF professionals, ensuring the quality and confidentiality of your SMSF accounting.

No. We do not offer financial advice, are not affiliated with any financial advisory companies and do not receive any hidden fees or commissions by making you use certain financial products. We handle the accounting and annual tax requirements for your SMSF. The investment decisions and the management your SMSF are completely up to the trustee of the SMSF.

Some restrictions exist on the type of investments that can be held within the SMSF under our service. Our standard SMSF accounting fee covers SMSFs which hold investments within the following:

  • Cash and Term Deposits (with any bank) (up to 10 accounts in total)
  • ASX Listed Securities (held through one broker platform)
  • Public Unit Trusts or Managed Funds (up to 5 holdings)

An additional annual fee of $220 will apply where the SMSF holds the following investments during the financial year:
  • Cash and Term Deposits (with any bank) (more than 10 accounts)
  • ASX Listed Securities, including ETFs (held through multiple broker platforms)
  • Public Unit Trusts or Managed Funds (more than 5 holdings)
  • Precious metals (held through an approved Australian based trading platform)
  • Mortgage or fixed interest investments


The following investment holdings are not covered under our service:

  • Collectables and personal use assets
  • Unlisted private companies or trusts
  • Options, CFDs, Forex trading
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Commercial Property


We try to be flexible with our service and can sometimes make exceptions for investments outside of the above restrictions. Please get in touch if you have any queries in this regard.

Before choosing Online Super Fund as your SMSF accountant it is important that you carefully consider these investment restrictions. You should ensure that these investment restrictions do not prevent you from complying with the investment strategy of your SMSF. Should you ever want to expand your SMSF investments beyond our service offering we will supply all information required to ensure you can have a smooth transition to a new SMSF accountant.

No. We will setup data feeds where possible – but we will not have any direct access to trade or process transactions on your SMSF accounts. Each year we will ask you to provide us with information from all of the SMSF’s the bank and trading accounts to enable us to attend to the annual accounting of your SMSF.

We have spent a lot of time and money implementing the latest technology and creating process efficiencies that result in a significant reduction in the time required to complete the annual SMSF accounting obligations. We pass these cost savings directly onto our clients, which enables us to provide our low cost SMSF accounting service.

Our annual SMSF accounting fees are payable in advance in two instalments in January and July of each year. Upon receipt of the January instalment we will begin our interim work on your SMSF’s annual accounts. Upon payment of the July instalment we will start to finalise the annual financial statements, arrange for the independent audit of the financial statements and lodge the SMSF tax return.

No, you are free to cancel our service at any time. If you choose to cancel we will refund any fees you have paid in advance and transfer all of the accounting and legal records we hold for your SMSF to you.

We understand that because of the limited investment options under our service offering, you may eventually want to go to another service provider so that you can do other things with your SMSF (for example limited recourse borrowing arrangements or cryptocurrency investments). We are more than happy to help you with this to ensure your transition is as smooth as possible.

Yes you can. If you already have a SMSF and want Online Super Fund to handle all the accounting requirements, please complete our application form and we will assist further with the next steps.