No. A check at tender only tells you a contractor's status on that one day. Licences lapse, renewal deadlines get missed, and a company's financial standing can change well after the contract is signed. QX Checker treats licence and compliance status as a running condition, not a one-off tick, and keeps checking for the life of the project.

QX Checker reconciles four sources into one record: QBCC licensing data, the Australian Business Register, ASIC company and officer data, and CreditorWatch financial data. A QBCC-only search tells you if a licence is current. It won't tell you if the ABN's active, if a director's been disqualified, or if the company's already showing signs of financial distress. QX Checker brings all four together so nothing falls through the gap between registers.

No, that's the point of the platform. Add a contractor once through Universal Search and QX Checker runs the checks and keeps re-running them automatically, licensing, ABN, ASIC and financial standing, without you logging into separate registers by hand.

Performing unlicensed building work is an offence under section 42 of the QBCC Act, with penalties that escalate on repeat contravention. QBCC audits increasingly look at the head contractor as well as the unlicensed subcontractor, and where the builder operates as a company, an executive officer can be personally liable unless reasonable steps to prevent it can be shown. Queensland Home Warranty Insurance also requires every contractor to hold the correct licence, so cover doesn't apply to work carried out by someone who isn't licensed.

It's automatic. Once a contractor is added to your Contractor Register, QX Checker monitors their licence, ABN, ASIC and financial standing on an ongoing basis and flags any change through the watchdog notification system. No manual re-searching required.

Yes. The Employee Register monitors your directly employed, individually licensed staff, site supervisors, builders and other licensed roles, with the same ongoing checks applied to your Contractor Register. It's often the blind spot builders miss, checking subbies closely while assuming internal staff are fine because they were checked once at hiring.

CORE covers unlimited users, up to 5 projects and 50 monitored contractors, with automatic notifications and a compliance score, but no CreditorWatch access and no reports. PRO steps up to 25 projects and 100 contractors, adds 25 CreditorWatch updates a month plus per-project, per-contractor and per-licence reports. ULTRA removes the project and contractor ceilings entirely (unlimited projects, 200 contractors), adds 50 CreditorWatch updates a month, and is the only tier with the whole-of-business Portfolio, Contractor Register and Licence Register reports. Most builders running an active job book fit PRO; ULTRA suits builders who want one consolidated compliance view across their entire operation rather than one job at a time.

Yes. Every plan, including the free tier, includes ABR and ASIC checks alongside QBCC licence verification. It's part of the core reconciliation the platform is built around, not an add-on.

Yes. The free tier includes one user, mobile apps for iPhone and Android, and covers company, individual, plumbing and drainage, builder certifier and pool safety licences with ABR checks included. It's a genuine starting point, not a time-limited trial, upgrade to CORE, PRO or ULTRA when you need compliance score, project and licence monitoring and CreditorWatch.

No. QX Checker and QBCC Express are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Queensland Building and Construction Commission. QX Checker draws on publicly available QBCC licensing data to help builders monitor compliance, it's an independent platform.