The DIY NDIS Registration Guide is live - register yourself, free

Quick update, and a good one: the DIY NDIS Registration Guide is now live, and it's completely free.

It walks you through registering as an NDIS provider yourself, start to finish, with no consultant. Setting up your myID and PRODA, choosing your registration groups, the self-assessment against the Practice Standards, getting your documents and evidence together, applying through the NDIS Commission portal, engaging an auditor, the audit itself, the decision, and keeping your registration in good standing afterwards.

It's been reviewed by a real auditor

I didn't want to put my name to a guide that was just my own read of the rules. So before publishing it, I had it reviewed by a lead NDIS approved quality auditor - someone who actually sits these audits. What you're following has been checked against how registration really works, not how I imagine it works.

There are two versions - pick the one that matches your audit

Which audit you need depends on the supports you deliver, so there are two versions of the guide. One for the verification pathway (the lighter, document-based audit for lower-risk supports) and one for the certification pathway (the more detailed audit for higher-risk supports). Not sure which one is yours? The verification vs certification guide breaks it down by registration group.

Where the document pack fits

A big chunk of registration is simply having the right policies, procedures, registers and forms ready for your audit. That's what the document pack is for: documents pre-filled with your business details, free to preview every page, $50 once to unlock the editable Word files. If you want to understand the document side first, I've written up the policies a provider needs, by category, and what registration actually costs.

To be straight about it: the guide and the pack help you prepare and do this yourself. They don't register you, and they're not a guarantee you'll pass - the NDIS Commission registers you once you apply and pass your audit. What they do is take the fog and the fear out of it, so you're not paying someone thousands just to explain a process you can learn.

If this helps even one person register without handing over $3,000 they didn't need to spend, it was worth building. More soon. - James