A formal business valuation, delivered entirely online, anywhere in Australia.

An online business valuation from Prismi is a formal, signed valuation report — not a free calculator — delivered entirely by secure document upload and video call, Australia-wide, from $1,495 + GST. Defensibility rests on methodology, evidence and the signer's qualifications rather than on a site visit, and for most service or online businesses none of that evidence depends on being physically present. Reports take 10–45 business days depending on tier.

"Online business valuation" means two different things

The phrase covers two products that should not be confused. The first is a free or low-cost calculator: enter your revenue or earnings, apply an industry multiple, get an instant number on screen. It is useful for a rough sense of scale and nothing more — no methodology disclosure, no evidence file, no qualified signature, and many operators say so in their own fine print. The second is what this page offers: a formal valuation engagement conducted remotely, end to end, by a qualified valuer, producing a signed report suitable for tax, legal or commercial reliance. Prismi's fixed fees for the formal engagement start at $1,495 + GST for the Essential tier. If you are still deciding which of the two you actually need, we have set out the honest comparison at /insights/business-valuation-calculator-vs-formal-valuation — including the situations where the free calculator is genuinely the right tool.

The remote process, step by step

• ·Secure document upload — you upload financial statements, management accounts and supporting records through an encrypted portal. Typically same-day to 2 business days, depending on how quickly documents are gathered.
• ·Video call with the valuer — a structured call to walk through the business, ownership, add-backs and the purpose of the valuation. Usually 30–45 minutes, scheduled within the first week.
• ·Financial analysis and methodology selection — normalisation of earnings, add-back schedule, and testing of the methodology or methodologies the tier and facts support. This is the bulk of the elapsed time.
• ·Draft report and review — a senior reviewer checks the methodology, evidence and conclusion before the draft is released. A short query round is common at this stage.
• ·Signed report delivered — the final report, independence statement and senior-reviewer signature are issued as a PDF. Total elapsed time is 10–14 business days for Essential, up to 25–35 for the Defensible Valuation File, and 30–45 for the Valuation Range & Scenario Review.

Why a site visit is not the deciding factor in defensibility

A valuation's defensibility generally turns on three things: the methodology applied, the evidence relied on to apply it, and the qualifications and independence of the person who signed it. Whether any particular report is ultimately accepted by the ATO, a court or another reviewing party depends on the specific facts of that matter, and no valuer can guarantee that outcome in advance. What can be said generally is that for a service business, an online retailer, a professional practice or most SME trading entities, the evidence that typically matters — financial statements, management accounts, customer and contract data, the asset register — arrives just as reliably by secure upload as it would by courier, and the analysis and methodology selection happen the same way regardless of whether the valuer has been on site. Prismi reports document the evidence relied upon, the methodologies tested and the reasoning for the concluded position, consistent with IVS 104 and ATO market valuation guidance, and every report carries an independence statement and a senior reviewer's signature. Those are the elements a reviewing party would typically weigh, alongside the specific facts of the matter — a site visit is rarely among them for businesses of this kind.

When a physical inspection is actually warranted

Remote delivery is the right default, not a universal rule. A site visit or physical inspection can matter where plant, equipment or property assets are a material part of the value and their condition cannot be verified from documents and photographs alone, where inventory quantity or condition is contested or hard to substantiate remotely, or where a matter is already contested and a reviewing party may expect on-site verification as part of the evidence trail. In those cases we say so before the engagement proceeds, and we can arrange or coordinate a physical inspection as part of a bespoke scope. For the great majority of service, professional and online businesses, none of these conditions apply and the fully remote process produces the same standard of report.

National coverage: the same fee and process everywhere

Because the entire engagement runs through secure upload and video call, location does not change the fee, the process or the turnaround. A business in the Sydney CBD, a farm business in regional WA, and a trading company in Hobart go through the identical document request, the same video call format, the same methodology testing and the same senior review — and pay the same published fixed fee, wherever they are. Prismi's fee does not vary by location because the engagement involves no travel: the published price is the price, for a Sydney CBD business and a regional WA business alike.

The honest trade-off: what a remote Essential engagement does not cover

Remote delivery removes travel and office overhead from the fee — it does not remove the limits that come with the Essential tier itself. Essential (from $1,495 + GST) tests a single methodology and is built for straightforward, uncontested matters: a clean single entity, a current valuation date, low review risk. It is not the right purchase for family law property settlements, shareholder disputes, matters already under ATO review or objection, or positions sitting close to a threshold like the $6m maximum net asset value test — those need a second or third methodology as a cross-check, which is what the Comprehensive and Defensible Valuation File tiers add. If your matter has any of those features, we will say so at enquiry rather than deliver a report that cannot do the job, remote or otherwise.

Which tier suits a remote engagement

All four fixed-fee tiers run on the same remote process described above; only the depth of methodology testing and documentation changes, not the fee for your location or the delivery method.