PPSR guides

What the register is, what a clause on your invoice does and doesn't do, and the four deadlines that decide whether a registration is worth anything.

• PPSR registration: what it is, what it costs and how to do it

  A PPSR registration records your interest in goods you've supplied on credit or hired out. It costs $6 for seven years, has to be made within strict windows, and is what puts you ahead of unsecured creditors if the customer goes under. Here's how it works and how to register.

• What is a PPS lease?

  A PPS lease is a hire or lease of goods for more than two years, or with no end date. If you hire out equipment on open-ended terms, you must register on the PPSR or risk losing it.

• Retention of title clauses in Australia: why the clause alone does nothing

  A retention-of-title clause keeps ownership of goods with the supplier until the customer pays. Since 2012 it only works if registered on the PPSR. Here is what the clause needs and what registration adds.

• What is a purchase money security interest (PMSI)?

  A purchase money security interest secures the price of goods a supplier sold on credit or a lessor hired out. Registered in time, it beats the customer's bank for those goods. Here are the rules.

• PPSR registration timing: the windows that decide whether you're protected

  Four deadlines decide whether a PPSR registration gives you priority and survives a customer's insolvency. Here they are, with what happens when each is missed.

• Glossary

  Every term the register, the Act and the administrators use, in one line each.