Does easyAML submit SMRs to AUSTRAC via API?
No, because AUSTRAC does not expose a public API for third-party software to submit SMRs, TTRs or IFTIs; all reports must be lodged through AUSTRAC Online.
Not directly — and that's a regulator constraint, not an easyAML one. AUSTRAC doesn't currently expose a public API for third-party software to submit SMRs, TTRs or IVTSs on behalf of reporting entities. All reports must be submitted through AUSTRAC Online.
In practice, this matters less than it might sound for most Tranche 2 firms. SMR volumes for legal, accounting, conveyancing and real estate practices are typically low — measured in single digits per year, not per day — so the bottleneck isn't submission throughput, it's having the right information assembled, in the right format, within AUSTRAC's deadlines (within 24 hours for terrorism financing suspicions, within 3 business days for all other suspicions).
That's where easyAML carries the load. When a user raises an SMR in easyAML, the platform captures all the required fields in the structured format AUSTRAC expects — customer identification details, the designated service involved, the grounds for suspicion in clear, plain-English narrative form, any related transaction data, and cross-references to prior SMRs on the same customer.
The Compliance Officer reviews and signs off the report inside easyAML, and the platform then guides them through submission to AUSTRAC Online with the prepared content ready to transcribe or paste field-by-field. No re-keying customer data you've already verified, no scrambling for transaction details, no wondering whether you've covered everything AUSTRAC requires.
The submitted SMR is then retained in easyAML alongside the rest of the customer file as a permanent record — including the submission timestamp, the AUSTRAC receipt number, and the Compliance Officer who signed off. This feeds directly into your Annual Compliance Report (due 31 March each year), so reporting on SMR activity over the year is a query rather than a manual reconstruction.
When AUSTRAC publishes API access for reporting submissions, easyAML will build native integration so the final transcription step disappears entirely. In the interim, we're also evaluating workflow improvements to compress the AUSTRAC Online submission step further. If you'd like to be notified when that's available, the customer success team can flag your account.