The deadline is 1 October. The audit queue is months.
Lodging your application is the fast part. What comes after it is what decides whether you make the date — and most providers find that out too late.
Time left to lodge
The 1 October checklist
Nine steps, in order, with the real lead time against each. Opens instantly — no waiting on an email.
- Every step that has to happen before the deadline, in order
- Real timeframes against each one, not marketing numbers
- The four questions auditors put to directors
- What it actually costs, end to end
Three things that have to be true — in this order
Scope confirmed, registration groups selected, submitted to the Commission. Free to lodge. Takes days.
Policies, procedures and registers that describe how you actually operate. Takes weeks.
An approved quality auditor with capacity, booked into their queue. Takes months — and it's the one you don't control.
Median registration in 2024–25 ran to 154 days for certification and 70 days for verification — measured from a complete application with an auditor already engaged, not from the day you decide to start. The queue does not get shorter as the deadline gets closer.
Where providers actually get caught
Not on missing documents. On documents that exist but don't describe the business — and on directors who can't explain their own system when an auditor asks them to walk through it. The Commission has published its own warning about applications built from purchased documents: an application that is a direct copy of a bought pack can be refused.
What we control, and what we don't
We control
- Whether your scope and registration groups are right
- Whether your documents describe your actual operation
- Whether your director can answer an auditor's questions
- How fast we turn work around
We don't control
- Auditor availability or queue length
- The Commission's assessment timeframes
- The outcome of your audit
- Whether the deadline moves
If you already know what you need
SIL sits on the certification pathway, so the Core Module alone isn't enough — you'll need the high intensity supports module with it. Every document is tailored to your organisation before delivery, which is the point: a pack that describes someone else's business is the thing auditors catch.
SIL & High Intensity Provider Package
Certification base plus the high intensity supports module — the combination SIL providers are actually assessed against.
$1,890
View packageCertCore: Certification Base Package
The Core Module documentation set. Add supplementary modules to match the registration groups you applied for.
$1,290
View packageAuditCoach: Audit Preparation Coaching
Coaching on what the auditor will ask your director and how to answer it. The gap most documentation doesn't close.
$390
View add-onRegistering across several groups? Veyora Prime bundles every supplementary module at $2,990. Already registered and thinking about the mid-term audit? Veyora+ is $99 a month. Not sure which applies — start with the checklist above.
Get the checklist before the queue gets longer
The full 1 October list, with real timeframes and real costs against every step.
Veyora — NDIS registration documentation, training and audit support. ABN 53 674 030 105. Veyora provides documentation and support services, is not affiliated with the NDIS Commission, and is not an approved quality auditor. We do not guarantee registration; registration decisions are made by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
Registration timeframes cited are medians for 2024–25 and are set out with their sources on our registration statistics page. Confirm deadline requirements against the Commission's own transition guidance.