AS 3786 + state-by-state rental & sale alarm compliance
AS 3786 photoelectric smoke alarms have a 10-year operational life and a thicket of state-specific landlord, rental and sale rules — QLD Fire and Emergency Services Act 2016 requires interconnected photoelectric alarms in every bedroom, hallway and storey for all dwellings by 1 January 2027; NSW Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2019 requires annual landlord testing and 10-year replacement; VIC Residential Tenancies Amendment Regulations 2021 requires annual rental checks; SA/WA/TAS/ACT/NT each carry parallel rental and sale requirements (mains-powered or 10-year sealed battery, photoelectric AS 3786). This pack adds a per-property alarm register (location: hallway, master bed, kids' room, each storey; alarm type photoelectric/dual-sensor; install date; hush button; interconnect mode hardwired/RF/wireless; battery technology), automatic 10-year replace-by alerts, annual rental-round scheduling, button-test + decibel-reading capture on-site, and a landlord/conveyancer-ready compliance cert summarising every alarm against the state's current rule.
Add the property — register every alarm location, type, install date, AS 3786 status
Annual test round on mobile — button-test + decibel reading + battery check per alarm
10-year approaching: dashboard surfaces replace-due alarms, quote pre-fills
Issue compliance cert for landlord, agent or buyer in one tap
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About OneBookPlus apps
OneBookPlus apps aren't external integrations stitched together with Zapier or n8n — they're native modules installed inside the same platform you already use for invoicing, bookings, CRM, and accounting. That means Smoke Alarm Compliance Pack reads from and writes to the same customer records, financial entries, and calendar events as every other module, with no scheduled sync delays and no risk of data drift between systems.
Because the marketplace runs inside OneBookPlus, billing is consolidated. Smoke Alarm Compliance Pack appears as a single line on the same OneBookPlus invoice as your plan, so you don't end up reconciling separate vendor charges across three or four different SaaS subscriptions. Cancellation is one click and never reaches into your data — uninstalling an app removes the feature from the UI but preserves the underlying customer, invoice, and booking records, so reinstalling later picks up exactly where you left off.
Every app in the marketplace is built specifically for the Australian small and medium business context: GST and ABN handling are first-class concerns, dates render as DD/MM/YYYY, currency defaults to AUD, and the underlying compliance plumbing (BAS summaries, ATO-friendly records, AHPRA / NDIS / Fair Work checkpoints where relevant) is shared across modules. New Zealand businesses are supported with NZ tax and timezone defaults using the same code paths.
For a side-by-side of which features ship as core modules versus which require an installed app, see the features page. For pricing across plans and which apps are bundled at each tier, see the pricing page.
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Bishal has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, web development, and small business consulting across Australia. This app sits inside the OneBookPlus marketplace, designed and maintained for Australian small to medium businesses. Smoke Alarm Compliance Pack is part of a single platform that connects invoicing, bookings, CRM, accounting, and marketing — so installing apps adds capability without adding logins.
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All eight: QLD (Fire and Emergency Services Act 2016 — interconnected photoelectric mandatory in every bedroom, hallway and storey for all dwellings by 1 January 2027); NSW (Residential Tenancies Amendment Act 2019 — annual landlord test, 10-year replacement); VIC (Residential Tenancies Amendment Regulations 2021 — annual rental testing); SA (Housing Improvement Act + Building Code — mains-powered or 10-year sealed battery, photoelectric AS 3786); WA (2010 Building Code amendments — mains + 10-year battery backup at sale/lease); TAS (Building Regulations 2014 — mains or 10-year sealed for new builds; rentals require working alarms); ACT (Residential Tenancies Act — working alarms before tenancy); NT (Residential Tenancies Act — working alarms maintained). The compliance cert for each property is rule-stamped against the property's state.
From 1 January 2027 every QLD dwelling (owner-occupied, rental, or being sold or leased) must have interconnected photoelectric alarms in every bedroom, every hallway connecting bedrooms, and on every storey including living areas. The pack flags QLD properties whose register is short of that floor and pre-builds a quote with the required additional alarms (typically 3–6 extra for a 3-bed house). The 2027 deadline counts down on the property record.
Yes. Ionisation alarms have been progressively phased out across most state rules — replacement and new-install alarms must be AS 3786:2014 photoelectric in QLD, NSW, VIC and most other states. The alarm register stores sensor type per unit; ionisation alarms trigger a replace-with-photoelectric flag at the next test visit, with the quote line auto-built.
Yes — link the property to a 12-month service contract. Each annual test visit auto-generates an invoice on completion at the agreed price, and the next-visit date locks in immediately so the property goes back on the route. Bulk-route view groups properties by suburb so you can hit 8–10 alarm checks in a half-day.
Property address, your business + electrical licence (printed on every cert), every alarm tested in this visit (location, sensor type, install date, AS 3786 cert visible Y/N, button-test result, decibel reading, battery status, replace-by date), the state-specific rule the property is being tested against, summary pass/replace/replace-required count, and the licensed tester's signature. PDF emailable to the landlord or property manager in one tap.
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