Starting a business gets a guided path. Closing one doesn't.
Register a company and half a dozen platforms will walk you through it in an afternoon. Close one, and you're left cross-referencing ASIC forms, ATO guidance and old forum posts, hoping you haven't missed a step that comes back to bite you a year later. WindItDown exists to close that gap.
Closing down isn't a failure. It's admin.
Most businesses that close aren't collapsing — they're finished. A project that ran its course, a pivot, a sole trader gig that became a full-time job somewhere else. The admin of closing properly shouldn't be harder than the admin of starting up was, and it shouldn't require a lecture on insolvency law to get through it.
So we built the guided version: tell us what you're closing, we tell you exactly what to do, in what order, with links to the real government forms — not a summary of them.
Two rules, held pretty strictly.
We only guide what's genuinely simple
Debt-free, dispute-free closures — sole trader ABN cancellation and straightforward Pty Ltd voluntary deregistration. That's the whole product surface, deliberately.
We say so the moment it isn't
Debt, disputes, insolvency risk, director penalty notices — the eligibility check is built to catch these early and route you to a registered tax agent, lawyer or liquidator, before you've spent time or money on the wrong pathway.
Two minutes tells you which one you are.
Run the free eligibility check — there's no signup, and nothing is saved unless you decide to go ahead.
Start the 2-minute check