How we rank

A business has to pass a licence or registration check before it can rank at all. After that, its position comes from three things taken from public records.

The licence check

We match every business to the public register that licenses its trade or profession: the state licensing body for trades, property and automotive, and AHPRA for health practitioners. Businesses we can’t match are counted on each page but not named or ranked.

The score

Part	Where it comes from	Points
Licence fit	Whether the licence or registration covers the whole job. Full scope earns full points; partial scope earns half.	Up to 35
Licence history	Years since the licence was first issued, counted up to 15 years.	Up to 35
Business history	Years the ABN has been active on the Australian Business Register, counted up to 20 years.	Up to 30
Total		100

When businesses have exactly the same verified record, they share a rank and are listed alphabetically. We don’t break ties with data we can’t check.

When a page goes live

A category goes live in a city once at least 12 businesses there pass the licence check. Until then it shows as “coming soon”. Where a state has no public register for a category, we don’t rank that category there.

What we leave out

We don’t copy or store star ratings, review counts or review text from Google or any other site, and none of it feeds the score. Each listing links to the business’s Google reviews so you can read them where they were written.

Updates and corrections

Every list is rebuilt monthly. This version was rebuilt on 11 November 2026. If something about a business is wrong, email hello@digiwolf.au and we’ll recheck it.

Money

No business can pay to appear, to rank higher or to be removed. We don’t take payment from any listed business. If that changes, we’ll say so here and on every ranking page.

Sources

Registers we check against: