The new portal will provide complainants and their representatives with a modern, intuitive way to submit and track their complaint throughout the AFCA process. This includes:
- User-friendly and secure complaint form
- Streamlined accessibility to the complaint/s and ability to make and receive updates
- Fast and efficient communication between parties
- Complete visibility of all complaints and access to up-to-date information
- Automated notifications about upcoming milestones and tasks
- Automated notifications when documents are exchanged between parties
- Visibility of complaint stage and status, with helpful information
- Access to complaint information up to six months after case closing.
The portal will be available to existing and new complainants at launch.
What’s changing?
- Referral will be automated
- Timeframes align with ASIC RG271
- Live notifications of activity on a complaint
- New methods to upload and exchange documents
- Complaint documents automatically shared with all parties (opt out available in limited circumstances).
What does it mean for consumers and consumer representatives?
- AFCA's case management system to automatically generate a reference number for any enquiry so that you can easily track and refer to enquiry
- A case reference number will be generated upon lodgement, giving the confidence that your case is being looked after
- With live notification upon lodgement, financial firms will be able to cease collection activity/legal proceedings without delay.
What’s changing?
- Functionality available in the portal to raise requests as well as view, manage and track open and closed requests
- The portal will become the main communication channel
- Communications automatically associated with specific complaints.
What does it mean for consumers and consumer representatives?
- New portal functionality will reduce administration for all parties
- Consumer representatives will correspond with AFCA through the portal – significantly reducing email communication
- Exchange of all parties' information and documents instantly through the portal
- Improved information security.
What’s changing?
- Accounts required for each individual representative within an organisation
- New ways of allocating, tracking, and reporting complaints within the portal
- Representatives can access, review and upload documents and information to a complaint.
What does it mean for consumers and consumer representatives?
- Individual representatives that are part of an organisation will be required to set up their own portal accounts
- Each representative will need to use their individual account to manage their cases directly
- An individual representative with multiple complaints will be able to log in and access each complaint they are the dealing with.