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SMSF Cockpit

Terms and Conditions

Version 2026-10-05

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Effective 5 October 2026

⚠️ Important notice — please read before use. By using this app, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to the following terms and conditions, including the Pricing and Payment Schedule that follows them.

This app is provided by Warwick Aubin, trading as SMSF Cockpit (a registered business name, ABN 64 799 581 029). In these terms, "the creator" means Warwick Aubin trading as SMSF Cockpit, and includes a related company that takes over the business under section 10.

1. No financial or legal advice

This app is an information-management and educational tool designed to assist SMSF trustees with compliance tracking and record-keeping: deadlines, nominations, contributions, pensions, trustee decisions and audit preparation. It is an administrative record-keeping aid, not a substitute for professional accounting, legal, or ATO compliance monitoring. It does not constitute financial, investment, legal, or tax advice.

The creator is not a licensed financial adviser, accountant, or registered tax agent under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (Cth). Nothing in this app, including its status flags, warnings, readiness checks, reminders, or any calculated outputs, constitutes financial product advice, tax advice, legal advice, or a recommendation to acquire, hold, or dispose of any financial product.

Before making any decision about superannuation, pensions, investments, or asset allocation, you should seek advice from a licensed financial adviser and/or a qualified accountant, tax agent, or SMSF specialist who can consider your personal circumstances.

2. "As-is" and no warranties

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the calculations within this app, the service is provided on an "AS-IS" and "AS-AVAILABLE" basis, with all faults.

Subject to section 5, the creator makes NO WARRANTIES, express or implied, regarding:

  • The accuracy, completeness, or reliability of any calculations or data generated
  • The fitness for a particular purpose of the app or its outputs
  • The absence of errors, bugs, or defects in the calculations or logic
  • The continuous availability of the service

All figures, statuses, and outputs depend entirely on the assumptions and data you input. Accuracy is not guaranteed, and you should independently verify all figures before relying on them. Deadlines and thresholds shown are typical ATO timeframes and may change.

Nothing in this section removes your remedies if the service fails altogether or is not provided with due care and skill. Section 5 explains your rights.

3. Trustee responsibility and verification

Under Australian law, SMSF trustees bear ultimate legal and financial responsibility for:

  • The compliance of their fund with the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 (SIS Act)
  • The fund's investment strategy and its implementation
  • The accuracy of all reporting to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO)
  • Meeting all contribution caps, pension minimum drawdown requirements, and other regulatory obligations

This responsibility CANNOT be delegated or outsourced to any software tool, including this app.

Users MUST independently verify all calculations, compliance statuses, and outputs against:

  • Original source data (bank statements, broker reports, bond confirmations)
  • Official ATO guidelines and current legislative thresholds
  • Advice from qualified professionals (accountants, auditors, financial advisers)

before making any investment decisions, executing transactions, or lodging official returns.

4. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the creator is not liable for any:

  • DIRECT DAMAGES, including but not limited to investment losses resulting from reliance on calculations
  • INDIRECT DAMAGES, including consequential losses, loss of opportunity, or economic loss
  • TAX PENALTIES, including ATO administrative penalties, shortfall interest charges, or audit costs
  • COMPLIANCE FAILURES, including breaches of contribution caps, pension minimums, or other SIS Act requirements
  • LOST PROFITS, whether arising from investment decisions or operational disruptions
  • DATA LOSS, resulting from service interruption, errors, or software incompatibility

arising out of the use, misuse, or inability to use this app.

LIABILITY CAP: To the maximum extent permitted by law, and subject to section 5, the creator's total liability to you for all claims arising out of or in connection with this app is limited to the greater of:

(a) the fees you have paid or are payable for access to the app in the 12 months before the event that gave rise to the claim; and

(b) $100.

Where the law allows the creator to limit liability for a failure to comply with a consumer guarantee, the creator's liability is limited, at the creator's choice, to resupplying the service or paying the cost of having the service supplied again.

5. Your rights under Australian law

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, warranty, right or remedy implied or imposed by the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified.

If the Australian Consumer Law applies to your use of the app, you may have rights if the service is not provided with due care and skill, is not reasonably fit for its purpose, or fails to match its description. Where the law allows, the creator may limit liability for failing to meet a consumer guarantee as set out in section 4.

6. Your data and entries

The app's outputs depend on what you enter. The user acknowledges that:

  • Incorrect, incomplete, or out-of-date entries (including the reference date, dates of birth, balances, and contribution and pension figures) will produce incorrect statuses and warnings
  • Editing or deleting entries changes the results
  • The creator is not responsible for errors that result from the data you enter, to the extent the law allows
  • You are responsible for keeping your own copies of records that matter to you (the Succession Plan and Annual Audit Checklist can be exported)

If you suspect an error or unexpected behaviour, compare outputs against your original source documents before taking any action based on the app's results.

7. Intellectual property and licence

This app and all its contents, including software, structure, documentation, and design, are protected by copyright and intellectual property laws.

Access is granted personally to the individual named as "Licensed to" above. It is non-transferable: your account cannot be sold, gifted, sub-licensed, or passed on to another person or organisation, whether for payment or free of charge. Each person should use their own login.

Your licence permits:

  • Personal use for managing your SMSF, including granting account access to co-trustees of the fund, or view-only access to a qualified accountant or financial professional authorised by the trustee
  • Use on devices you own or control

Your licence does NOT permit:

  • Redistribution, resale, or sharing with third parties, including sharing your login (a co-trustee or accountant you invite through the app uses their own login)
  • Commercial use, as described below
  • Reverse engineering, decompiling, or extracting the software or its logic for use in other products
  • Removing or altering copyright notices, disclaimers, or licence information

You must not use the tool to provide paid professional administration or advice services to third parties, save that qualified accountants and financial professionals may access the app on a view-only basis for the sole purpose of assisting an authorised fund trustee.

Unauthorised copying, distribution, or commercial exploitation is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action.

8. Fees, payment and what happens if you don't pay

The app is paid for per fund. The price, the founding rate, how and when you are invoiced, what happens if an invoice is not paid, how the creator gives notice of price changes, and cancellation and refunds are set out in the Pricing and Payment Schedule below, which forms part of these terms. By accepting these terms you also accept the Schedule.

9. Ending this agreement

Either party may terminate this agreement at any time. You may terminate by deleting your fund or account within the app. The creator may terminate by providing you with at least 30 days' written notice.

If the creator terminates for convenience (and not due to your breach or non-payment under section 4 of the Pricing and Payment Schedule), you will receive a pro-rata refund for any prepaid, unused portion of your current billing period, and you will have 30 days to export your fund records before account closure. Non-payment of fees is governed separately by section 4 of the Pricing and Payment Schedule.

10. Who the creator is, and transfer of the business

The creator may transfer these terms, and the agreement between you and the creator, to a related company that takes over the business, if that company agrees to be bound by them. The creator will give you at least 30 days' written notice before a transfer takes effect, and will tell you which company then provides the app. The Schedule's price and notice commitments continue to apply after a transfer.

11. Governing law

This agreement is governed by the laws of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia. The parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales (or, where applicable, the relevant consumer protection tribunal in your state or territory).

If any provision of these terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that these terms shall otherwise remain in full force and effect.

Pricing and Payment Schedule

This Schedule forms part of the Terms and Conditions.

1. Price

The price is per fund, per year. It covers every trustee of that fund, and view-only access for the fund's accountant. It is not charged per person, and the accountant does not pay. Prices are in Australian dollars and are the total amount payable. SMSF Cockpit is not currently registered for GST. If GST becomes applicable, prices will include GST.

2. Founding rate

The first 50 funds to join pay a founding rate of $49 a year for every billing period up to and including 30 June 2028, whenever in that period they joined. From 1 July 2028 the rate for those funds becomes the standard rate of $99 a year, or the standard rate that applies then if it has changed under section 7.

Whether a fund is one of the first 50 is decided by the creator when the fund is set up, and the creator will tell you in writing. The creator may offer more founding places, but will not reduce the number already given.

3. Invoices and how to pay

The creator invoices each fund's owner by email. Founding funds are invoiced by hand, and payment is by bank transfer to the account on the invoice. Each invoice shows the fund, the amount, the period it covers, and the due date. Payment is due within 14 days of the invoice date.

When online payment is introduced, the creator will tell you before starting to use it. The creator does not hold or store card details itself.

4. If an invoice is not paid

  1. If an invoice is not paid by its due date, the creator will email the fund's owner a reminder.
  2. If it is still not paid 14 days after the due date, the fund becomes read-only. You can still sign in, view everything and download everything, including the complete export pack. You cannot add or change records.
  3. The fund stays read-only for 6 months. During that time paying the overdue invoice restores full access.
  4. If the invoice is still not paid at the end of the 6 months, the fund and its backups are permanently deleted. The creator will email the owner at least 30 days and again 7 days before this happens.

For founding funds, the first invoice at the standard rate is due before 1 July 2028. The creator will email you 90, 60 and 30 days before the founding rate ends.

5. Cancelling

You can stop using the app, and delete your fund or your account, at any time in the app. If you cancel, you keep access until the end of your current paid billing period, and no further fees will be charged.

6. Refunds

Except as required by the Australian Consumer Law or other applicable legislation, or as set out in section 9 of the Terms (if the creator ends the agreement for convenience), fees paid are non-refundable.

7. Changes to the price

The creator may change the standard price. The creator will give you at least 60 days' written notice before the start of the billing period the new price applies to. A change never applies to a period you have already paid for. The founding rate is not changed before 30 June 2028.

8. Records of payment

The creator keeps a record of what each fund has paid. This is separate from your fund data.